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smugtrain··on The Copilot+ PC brand is dead
My new car came with terrible tires that have little traction, but I just buy a new set. I don’t say it’s a crap car just because they cheap out with the stock tires on it. I love the car. Keychron on that workstation and be done with it.
smugtrain··on What Happens When the Cost of Intelligence Drops 100x
Asymmetric multiprocessing with your mom
smugtrain··on I stopped caring about programming terms
You can be non-autistic, or you can autistic. And if you are autistic, you exist somewhere on the autism spectrum. If you are not autistic, you are nowhere on this spectrum.
smugtrain··on Stop Anthropomorphizing Intermediate Tokens as Reasoning/Thinking Traces (2025)
Strong dislike for papers that tell me what to do in the title, especially when even the paper admits a loose correlation of the intermediate tokens compared to solution correctness. My solutions work and they speak for themselves.
smugtrain··on I stopped caring about programming terms
If “terms are simply created for understanding”, then why is their misuse so unimportant? Isn’t the whole point of a term’s use in understanding only obtained with the proper usage? Isn’t improper usage actually creating confusion and misunderstanding? Shouldn’t you care?
smugtrain··on I stopped caring about programming terms
Autism being a spectrum doesn’t mean it is not a true/false. Both can be true. You can either be autistic (somewhere on the spectrum) or not on the spectrum at all.
smugtrain··on AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read)
AI;R AI did read it for me
smugtrain··on AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read)
Must be an AI generated acronym: that semicolon looks like LLM signature to me
smugtrain··on I'd not buy a LG monitor
I’d not use Windows
smugtrain··on Hold on to Your Hardware
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)
smugtrain··on An industrial piping contractor on Claude Code [video]
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.
smugtrain··on OpenCode – Open source AI coding agent
On the 100% cpu issue, I’m curious to know, what is the processor and was it performing any other cpu intensive work?
smugtrain··on Cannabinoids remove plaque-forming Alzheimer's proteins from brain cells (2016)
Abstaining is not a cure for rude smugness, apparently
smugtrain··on What not to write on your security clearance form (1988)
That is actually an xAI mission statement
smugtrain··on Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android
I’m reading between the lines
smugtrain··on Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android
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
smugtrain··on Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android
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.
smugtrain··on Claude Opus 4.6
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.
smugtrain··on History LLMs: Models trained exclusively on pre-1913 texts
This would actually be a wonderful way to learn physics, before GR and quantum mechanics
smugtrain··on Therapeutic use of cannabis and cannabinoids: A review
Confirmation bias
smugtrain··on Therapeutic use of cannabis and cannabinoids: A review
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.
smugtrain··on Report: Tim Cook could step down as Apple CEO 'as soon as next year'
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.
smugtrain··on AI can code, but it can't build software
Making it absolutely lovely for people who can build software, but can’t code
smugtrain··on I tried OpenAI's new Atlas browser but I still don't know what it's for
Was Chrome browser designed for any other reason?
smugtrain··on Healthy habits add up to 10 disease-free years to your life, study reveals
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