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New comment by schmookeeg in "I went to America's worst national parks so you don't have to"

schmookeeg — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 16:21:03 +0000

The first substack I've actually considered subscribing to. Apparently I am a manchild who enjoys this sorta writing, and few others do. :D

New comment by schmookeeg in "Claude.ai down"

schmookeeg — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 15:55:55 +0000

I got 2 500s and quickly popped over to codex since I was just doing documentation and planning work and didn't neeeeeeed claude. He's already back for me. :)

To another's point, yeah, it's sad that Claude taking a brief hiatus just halts workflow. I imagine my whole team just started packing for a beach trip. Then again, I suppose if the CPA office computers go down, everyone doesn't dust off giant ledgers and quill pens and start working manually.

New comment by schmookeeg in "Tech valuations are back to pre-AI boom levels"

schmookeeg — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 03:43:38 +0000

I keep waiting for LLM chats to "steer" to a specific vendor's solution (in exchange for that vendor's substantial fee of course) -- so when I ask "is my UPS repairable?" i might get tips to fix, replace the battery (with $VENDOR's chinesium nonsense perhaps), or straight lied to and told the UPS is now e-waste, but consider $VENDOR's sale on UPS's right now over at this link. Perhaps an affiliate link? who knows!

I pay for LLMs so I hope they don't leak that crassness into paying clientele -- but... how would I know if they did it subtly? I wouldn't! :/

New comment by schmookeeg in "Anthropic downgraded cache TTL on March 6th"

schmookeeg — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 16:52:55 +0000

This is my take too, although I'm not prepared for a max400 reality to replace the max200, but... I hate all of the whingeing. Piggies at the buffet line seem to be the loudest on this subject.

New comment by schmookeeg in "Anthropic is burning more and more dev goodwill"

schmookeeg — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 17:29:23 +0000

Same for me. I have been max200 for like 10 months, i think my usage is reasonable, and i never seem to get the quality throttling that gets complaints daily. I assume they are targeting certain piggies at the Claude buffet, who then squeal the loudest.

New comment by schmookeeg in "12k AI-generated blog posts added in a single commit"

schmookeeg — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 18:03:01 +0000

We are all quickly becoming allergic to AI writing.

To fool us into thinking writing is not AI generated, we will create "human-ifying" filters to the LLM. This will introduce common keystroke, grammar, and spelling issues that surely no automation would ever create on its own.

Soon the writing most vaunted and trusted will be the writing that appears written by a 4 year old with a crayon.

Sigh.

New comment by schmookeeg in "'Project Hail Mary' Crosses $300M in Sales to Become Amazon/MGM's Highest-Gross"

schmookeeg — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 00:32:14 +0000

Glad to see it. We enjoyed the movie greatly but I am sure 50% of that was just relief that the movie adaptation didn’t F the story up :)

The audiobook is the peak experience still I think. Highly highly recommended

New comment by schmookeeg in "TSA lines are so out of control that travelers are hiring line-sitters"

schmookeeg — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 21:21:12 +0000

A G650 still loses to a motivated U-haul. :)

No argument though, just saying it's a hard problem, and the scaling issue makes it somewhat awkward to deploy security resources in proportion to the threat.

I don't have a solution. I'm not exactly thrilled with the current setup, but I try to stay quiet since I can't think of anything better.

New comment by schmookeeg in "TSA lines are so out of control that travelers are hiring line-sitters"

schmookeeg — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 17:05:37 +0000

In terms of menace potential, any private plane will lose to a van full of fertilizer and a baddie intent on causing destruction. It's a matter of scale.

Little planes, like this one [1] just don't do damage on the same scale as airliners.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Austin_suicide_attack

New comment by schmookeeg in "Ask HN: People who run two Macs – how do you use them?"

schmookeeg — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 04:34:47 +0000

I daily a M1 Max / 64GB / 2TB and have for some time.

My current company bought me an M4 Pro / 24GB / 512GB.

There is a significant amount of dust on it. I use it every once in awhile when I need to access my corporate Apple ID which is tied to the thing. I'll be really sad if they force me to use it on the daily. Luckily nobody seems to be checking usage.

I know it's not what you asked, but I think it's where you're headed -- an adequately specced Mac instead of two half-spec. :) I can't imagine splitting a workload between two physical machines again -- like when I needed a PC and the M1. It's a real PITA to juggle boxes.

New comment by schmookeeg in "Musketeer d'Artagnan's remains believed found under Dutch church"

schmookeeg — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 17:28:08 +0000

One of my favorite books -- I had no idea there was a real-life inspiration for it (Balzampleu!) This will get me to re-read it, it's been too long. :)

New comment by schmookeeg in "OnlyFans owner Leonid Radvinsky dies of cancer at 43"

schmookeeg — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 18:09:55 +0000

Is this the "every sperm is sacred" argument?

New comment by schmookeeg in "Show HN: Will my flight have Starlink?"

schmookeeg — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 18:41:56 +0000

More personal information than you provide them to purchase the ticket to use the free starlink?

New comment by schmookeeg in "Addicted to Claude Code–Help"

schmookeeg — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 18:23:14 +0000

I wish my other addictions were only $200/mo. Honestly. And for some, as satisfying as claude.

We're all in the same boat right now. Except for those who decry LLMs and loudly await the relevance of their artisanal coding skills to re-ascend. :)

New comment by schmookeeg in "macOS Tahoe 26.3 is Broken"

schmookeeg — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 14:19:52 +0000

I just don't like red badges on icons.

New comment by schmookeeg in "The TSA's New $45 Fee to Fly Without ID Is Illegal"

schmookeeg — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 23:52:52 +0000

Especially when the implication in the article is the police tried to delete a video from evidence -- and still ended up getting to hide behind qualified immunity.

Ugh.

New comment by schmookeeg in "Ask HN: What's the Point Anymore?"

schmookeeg — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 17:39:35 +0000

I don't know how you can claim to love technology but hate AI so much -- it's a technological achievement. Yeah it's disruptive and that makes it dangerous if not managed, and I'm not exactly optimistic we'll manage it, but why aren't you curious about how it works? How to make it integrate with society better? How to deal with the myriad issues surrounding IP, rights, likeness stuff... there is a lot of fascinating work being done around AI to figure this all out.

Were you only interested in technology so you could be one of the chosen elders holding a rare and valuable skill? Bummer if so, I think that ship has sailed. If not sunk altogether.

Otherwise? I guess learn plumbing? I think we're still a few years away from Claude telling me "You're absolutely right! Let me unclog that toilet for you" :D

New comment by schmookeeg in "State of the Windows: What is going on with Windows 11?"

schmookeeg — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 22:42:02 +0000

There's a fast-follow "You're absolutely right!" from Claude pending here. :)

New comment by schmookeeg in "Stop using MySQL in 2026, it is not true open source"

schmookeeg — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 20:08:18 +0000

Oracle's icy touch. It was foretold. :D

New comment by schmookeeg in "Ask HN: Claude Opus performance affected by time of day?"

schmookeeg — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 01:16:15 +0000

I do think Claude does jiggery pokery with its model quality but I have had Clod appear any time of day.

What i find IS tied to time of day is my own fatigue, my own ability to detect garbage tier code and footguns, and my patience is short so if I am going to start cussing at Clod, it is almost always after 4 when I am trying to close out my day.