Hacker News: smugtrain

New comment by smugtrain in "I'd not buy a LG monitor"

smugtrain — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 18:21:44 +0000

I’d not use Windows

New comment by smugtrain in "Hold on to Your Hardware"

smugtrain — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 14:41:27 +0000

Asahi Linux is NOT an option and may never be one due to: The A18 Pro (and M4) introduced SPTM — Secure Page Table Monitor — which runs at a higher privilege level (GXF EL2) than the OS kernel. Unlike M1/M2/M3 where m1n1 can directly chainload Linux, on A18 Pro/M4 the page table infrastructure is owned by SPTM and must be initialized by XNU before anything else can run. You cannot bypass it. (source: https://github.com/rusch95/asahi_neo)

New comment by smugtrain in "An industrial piping contractor on Claude Code [video]"

smugtrain — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 17:59:32 +0000

More like the inverse. No true Scotsman seeks to remove someone from belonging to a group to keep the group pure, because no true member of that group could act in such a way. This is adding people to a group that they would otherwise be excluded from. It seeks to expand the definition of the group to include the outsiders.

New comment by smugtrain in "OpenCode – Open source AI coding agent"

smugtrain — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 17:51:32 +0000

On the 100% cpu issue, I’m curious to know, what is the processor and was it performing any other cpu intensive work?

New comment by smugtrain in "Cannabinoids remove plaque-forming Alzheimer's proteins from brain cells (2016)"

smugtrain — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 15:02:24 +0000

Abstaining is not a cure for rude smugness, apparently

New comment by smugtrain in "What not to write on your security clearance form (1988)"

smugtrain — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 16:26:14 +0000

That is actually an xAI mission statement

New comment by smugtrain in "Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android"

smugtrain — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 19:43:14 +0000

I’m reading between the lines

New comment by smugtrain in "Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android"

smugtrain — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 00:40:07 +0000

This was not poor design, but a decision to restrict the user from copy pasting entire articles and the like. Most unfair and this iPhone 3G to iPhone 17 Pro user is seriously considering ditching them over select all

New comment by smugtrain in "Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android"

smugtrain — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 00:36:10 +0000

I’m feeling this way about the removal of “Select All” so that I can no longer easily copy/paste articles to my chatbot. Freedom’s not Tim Apple.

New comment by smugtrain in "Claude Opus 4.6"

smugtrain — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 00:56:51 +0000

It will give the user lower quality if it finds them “distressed” however, choosing paternalistic safety over epistemic accuracy. As a user gets more frustrated with the system, it will pick up the distress signal even more so, a kind of feedback loop toward degraded service quality. In my experience.

New comment by smugtrain in "History LLMs: Models trained exclusively on pre-1913 texts"

smugtrain — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 17:18:55 +0000

This would actually be a wonderful way to learn physics, before GR and quantum mechanics

New comment by smugtrain in "Therapeutic use of cannabis and cannabinoids: A review"

smugtrain — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 14:33:24 +0000

Confirmation bias

New comment by smugtrain in "Therapeutic use of cannabis and cannabinoids: A review"

smugtrain — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 14:28:55 +0000

That’s because the goal of these psychiatrists that wrote the study is to scare people, by using technically correct scientific terms that mislead people into thinking that their hesitation to accept “low-quality” studies is the same as their being evidence that cannabis does not work.

New comment by smugtrain in "Report: Tim Cook could step down as Apple CEO 'as soon as next year'"

smugtrain — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 13:15:07 +0000

Technically yes, but most would consider an opt-out some tiny little nearly illegible that confuses the user into allowing it without deselecting. This is a clear choice given to the user. No gimmicky opt-outs.

New comment by smugtrain in "AI can code, but it can't build software"

smugtrain — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 11:43:38 +0000

Making it absolutely lovely for people who can build software, but can’t code

New comment by smugtrain in "I tried OpenAI's new Atlas browser but I still don't know what it's for"

smugtrain — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 11:39:11 +0000

Was Chrome browser designed for any other reason?

New comment by smugtrain in "Healthy habits add up to 10 disease-free years to your life, study reveals"

smugtrain — Tue, 14 Jan 2020 03:14:11 +0000

As an added benefit, being annoyingly healthy and so proud to announce your superiority to the world will make you smarts smell so fine, you will capture them in a sniffing glass, just to savor your good habits