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New comment by damontal in "The Writers Who Wrote the Most in History"

damontal — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 00:50:40 +0000

Except he referred to him as G.J. Chesterton.

New comment by damontal in "Scientists reverse brain aging, with a nasal spray"

damontal — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 02:24:12 +0000

It’s a tell now. I see it I assume AI and disregard.

New comment by damontal in "I used Claude Code to get a second opinion on my MRI"

damontal — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 01:17:43 +0000

Throw a chess board on there. See how it does. It always gets pieces and positions completely wrong because it’s terrible at analyzing images.

New comment by damontal in "U.S. government will decide who gets to use GPT-5.6"

damontal — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 01:42:43 +0000

They will be serfs reliant on US and Chinese models to provide protection for their technological infrastructure from AI exploits.

New comment by damontal in "Creatine raises brain energy levels and slows cognitive decline: study"

damontal — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:53:34 +0000

Read enough posts on LinkedIn and you’ll be a trained expert in spotting that slop.

New comment by damontal in "The people writing AI alignment policy are not whose work is being replaced"

damontal — Fri, 15 May 2026 00:28:46 +0000

Of course I think. I have 20 years of coding experience and knowledge of the codebase and business. That’s why I’m keenly aware of how strange the process is.

What I’d like to know is how you’d train a monkey to read and judge output from an llm on a pull request.

New comment by damontal in "The people writing AI alignment policy are not whose work is being replaced"

damontal — Thu, 14 May 2026 22:58:39 +0000

I feel like it’s changing my brain. A colleague uses AI to make some code change and submits a PR. I use AI to evaluate the PR. It’s like AIs talking to each other with humans serving as conduits or connectors. Sometimes I’ll look up from the screen and realize how strange it is.

New comment by damontal in "Kindle to end store downloads and registering for 1st-5th gen kindles in May"

damontal — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 18:04:41 +0000

I have an old kindle keyboard I keep around for nostalgia that still works. I’m guessing this will be affected. Hoping I can still add books via usb

New comment by damontal in "Switch to Claude without starting over"

damontal — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 17:30:20 +0000

I broke my ankle and have multiple chats related to medicine, physical therapy, pain management, lawyer questions, how to handle messaging to boss and HR

New comment by damontal in "The entire New Yorker archive is now digitized"

damontal — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 15:52:45 +0000

The Atlantic has this. Related articles going back to the 1800s.

New comment by damontal in "Japan sets record of nearly 100k people aged over 100"

damontal — Sat, 13 Sep 2025 16:37:51 +0000

They have vending machines with hot pizza! I’d be in big trouble there.

New comment by damontal in "Serverless Horrors"

damontal — Sun, 07 Sep 2025 21:05:33 +0000

Which cloud service does this?

New comment by damontal in "A criminal enterprise run by monkeys"

damontal — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 22:57:16 +0000

Right! You’re talking shit! PLAY A RECORD!

New comment by damontal in "Reading Neuromancer for the first time in 2025"

damontal — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 14:57:07 +0000

The sequels got really strange and focused on voodoo god personas sort of running things. I probably read Neuromancer once a year just to revisit the place and always try to give the sequels another go but they just don’t grab me like the original did.

New comment by damontal in "Supreme Court's ruling practically wipes out free speech for sex writing online"

damontal — Sat, 12 Jul 2025 19:49:31 +0000

The early web died when everything went behind the walled gardens.

New comment by damontal in "Americans React to UnitedHealthcare CEO's Murder: 'My Empathy Is Out of Network'"

damontal — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 00:36:19 +0000

What difference would it make to anyone if you care when they die? They’re dead.

New comment by damontal in "Netflix buffering issues: Boxing fans complain about Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson"

damontal — Sun, 17 Nov 2024 03:43:01 +0000

Apple TV MLB games look incredible compared to live cable tv.

New comment by damontal in "Cats are (almost) liquid"

damontal — Thu, 17 Oct 2024 15:22:25 +0000

This sounds like something Karl Pilkington would come up with.

New comment by damontal in "How to stop advertisers from tracking your teen across the internet"

damontal — Sun, 06 Oct 2024 22:25:45 +0000

I remember a teacher telling us that parents should not check their kids Google classroom accounts because it would be a violation of the other students’ privacy. I understand what they were saying but there’s no way I’m not checking my kid’s Google classroom account. Ridiculous.

New comment by damontal in "Swiss watchmakers put employees on state-funded leave as luxury demand disappear"

damontal — Fri, 06 Sep 2024 02:23:02 +0000

Which is why I break out my G Shocks every once in a while. I get sick of seeing Apple watches everywhere. The problem is they’re so damned useful so I always come back to it.