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chomp··on Israeli Minister Threatens Filmmakers' Citizenship over Gaza Documentary
It’s generally a fascist viewpoint to say that dissenters should consider leaving the country.
chomp··on Blizzard Revives 'StarCraft' Franchise with Open-World Sci-Fi Shooter
I rented it at blockbuster, loved it, bought it, and then played many hundreds of hours on it. I don’t know if I agree with your statement as written.

That said, I don’t know if I would even touch a RTS on a console these days. So maybe I agree in spirit.

chomp··on Claude is a Contrarian
part of Claude’s capability is reliant on its verbosity to push its responses into new vector spaces. If you instruct it to be terse, its capability is potentially reduced
chomp··on 'Old Person Smell'
> “It’s just a natural byproduct of skin ageing – not dirt, not poor hygiene,” Javid says.

Did Javid really say this

chomp··on Omarchy: 1Password and 37signals become Distinguished Corporate Patrons
I raised my eyebrows at this statement, but I had forgotten that blog post where he griped about the UK becoming less white.
chomp··on I am no longer letting Claude Code add itself as Co-author in my commits
Okay that was always allowed
chomp··on Hollywood's Video Game Era Is Here. Will It Be Any Good?
These had a lot of blood sweat and tears poured into them.

Most Hollywood game adaptations are the same as the Disney live actions. They have their hands on an IP, they want to flip it into easy money. Those turn out excruciatingly bad, because for an easy flip, you need to target for mass appeal, which waters down the material.

chomp··on Feature Request: Support AGENTS.md
My Claude.md has one line that says to read agents.md, this is a bit of a nothingburger
chomp··on We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility
You are not understanding how the market works. Rarity and value do not always correlate with demand. Otherwise I have some beanie babies to sell.
chomp··on Switching to electric stoves can dramatically cut indoor air pollution (2025)
I mean really, all of my examples involve on-demand flame at a BTU higher than a torch, so I suppose the list doesn’t go on if you exclude things like charring eggplant for baba ganoush.

Induction is super awesome for maintaining temp. But one isn’t superior over the other in all cases. My point was purely, people need high BTU fire sometimes based off how they cook. I mean, you won’t see me cooking tagine, but surely someone in the world cooks tagine?

chomp··on Switching to electric stoves can dramatically cut indoor air pollution (2025)
You absolutely cannot do the same thing with a cast iron, I promise.
chomp··on Switching to electric stoves can dramatically cut indoor air pollution (2025)
Can’t (properly) cook a tortilla on an electric burner, though you can get subpar results in a pan

Can’t char a pepper on an electric burner

Can’t heat a nabe on an electric burner

Also during hurricane season, my gas burner still works when the power goes out.

The list goes on of things that electric simply cannot do. To claim one is superior over the other ignores a lot of the ways people cook. They are just simply different cooking tools.

chomp··on Is Kentucky about to give billions in tax breaks to data centers?
Drop the disdain, it makes your argument look uninformed.

Try talking IRL with what people dislike about datacenters. You might be surprised.

chomp··on Saying 'Google It' Makes You Sound Old
Thank god. Verbing corporate nouns needs to die.
chomp··on YC founder asks desperate job seekers to tattoo themselves for an interview
Tattooing company logos has already been done https://www.huffpost.com/entry/billy-gibby-aka-hostgator_n_2...

So really, they are just boring and derivative. Probably an analog to be drawn here for modern SV.

chomp··on The End of an Era
> Printing presses also write words better than humans.

False equivalence, printing presses do not write.

chomp··on The Strongest El Niño Ever
You don't seem to understand how this works. El Niño is one half of a 2 part cycle. You don’t get permanent hurricane reduction.
chomp··on Python 3.14 compiled to metal – no interpreter
I don’t want to be mean, but try to run a large project and you’ll realize there’s more to it than “can I find some bodies to crank out code”
chomp··on Anthropic has embedded hidden spyware-like code in Claude Code
I don’t understand why this is a problem.
chomp··on How H-E-B became Texas' most beloved brand (2024)
I don’t think that ruling distills down that far. But I will grant you that if you’re leaving enough obvious money on the table, activist investors will come knocking.
chomp··on I Co-Founded Wikipedia. Now I'm Banned for Life
lol of course he’d go to Bari’s rag to complain
chomp··on Prairieland defendants sentenced today to prison terms ranging from 30-100 years
Andy Ngo is an awful person, surely there’s a better source
chomp··on Proton is funding the French far right on YouTube
Yes? Can’t take 10 minutes to speak (or at least redraft) with your own voice?

I’ve written PR copy solo, and in committee. It’s not rocket surgery. It’s a group of people standing around with a thesaurus. But if you leave AI-isms in, just feels like you whipped it out while coffee was brewing.

chomp··on Proton is funding the French far right on YouTube
> You're right to raise this

Is this LLM generated?

chomp··on First U.S. screwworm case confirmed in South Texas
What? Texas Tribune is excellent; it’s a nonprofit here that does investigative journalism. Are you upset they’re quoting the current administration? I can’t help you there, that’s the times we live in.
chomp··on Roughly a quarter of American professionals hit a wall in their careers
Only if that 3 in 4 number is increasing (documenting a trend) But that doesn’t appear to be the case.
chomp··on US healthcare still stupidly expensive, with pathetic outcomes, study finds
This is an obtuse comment because it doesn't mean anything. Yes we all know that every country has for-profit elements. We also all know that every country has social elements in their system. And non-profit elements.
chomp··on Citing Gandalf, Pope Leo says we must "disarm" AI
Not quite. You think he's just a well dressed CCE teacher?
chomp··on TikTok disproportionately served anti-Democratic videos during the 2024 election
I mean, it’s ran by Larry Ellison and the Saudis, so I don’t think this is surprising. But good research nonetheless.
chomp··on Software engineering may no longer be a lifetime career
Easy, I made the switch in my 30s, now I manage software engineers :)
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