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New comment by mmanfrin in "Ian's Secure Shoelace Knot"

mmanfrin — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 16:55:45 +0000

Came here to post this one. I intentionally tried to train myself to do this about 10 years ago and the muscle memory came a lot quicker than I expected. It's a very secure knot and the sides hang to the side, not wonky like the ones most of us learned.

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

mmanfrin — Sun, 31 May 2026 21:26:15 +0000

Why would it be? There's no known link at all.

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

mmanfrin — Sun, 31 May 2026 21:24:58 +0000

Powder, from any company that you find reputable. I like the micronized form. I would avoid any of the gummies, as a huge percentage of them have nowhere near the amount of creatine they claim (I believe the cooking process denatures it or something but this is just conjecture).

New comment by mmanfrin in "Kioxia and Dell cram 10 PB into slim 2RU server"

mmanfrin — Sat, 16 May 2026 21:12:05 +0000

Time for my NAS to get an upgrade.

New comment by mmanfrin in "Meta in row after workers who saw smart glasses users having sex lose jobs"

mmanfrin — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 15:59:04 +0000

I got a paywall, first time I've seen that on BBC.

New comment by mmanfrin in "Jumping into cold water can stop your heart"

mmanfrin — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 16:32:08 +0000

Well its just copy to sell an ai-generated minibook.

New comment by mmanfrin in "Turtle WoW classic server announces shutdown after Blizzard wins injunction"

mmanfrin — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 18:11:53 +0000

Their entire company owes its history to mods.

HL's engine GoldDrc was originally a mod for Quake. Team Fortress Classic was based on a quake mod. Counterstrike was a HL mod they bought out. Portal was a student game they bought. Dota 2 was based on a WC3 map. Left 4 Dead was a mod made by Turtle Rock while working on CS:CZ (so, yet again a mod, although a mod based on their own engine this time and build in house). Underlords was based on a Dota 2 mod.

Deadlock is original, but based on characters and lore from the game they made from the WC3 map.

Deadlock and L4D are arguably the only true original creations.

Valve knows their bread is buttered by outside creation using tools and platforms they can provide and then fold in if it catches their attention.

New comment by mmanfrin in "German police name alleged leaders of GandCrab and REvil ransomware groups"

mmanfrin — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 19:28:42 +0000

I feel accepted spelling of the word is 'doxxes'; doxes in my head reads as 'dokeses'.

Also talk about a headline that would mean absolute gibberish just a couple decades ago.

New comment by mmanfrin in "Shall I implement it? No"

mmanfrin — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 21:43:05 +0000

How is this not clear?

New comment by mmanfrin in "OpenAI agrees with Dept. of War to deploy models in their classified network"

mmanfrin — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 07:46:51 +0000

You can make blood money but you have to be aware it's blood money. Don't delude yourself in to thinking you work for an ethical or moral company.

New comment by mmanfrin in "OpenAI agrees with Dept. of War to deploy models in their classified network"

mmanfrin — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 05:02:04 +0000

Absolute disgrace of a person and organization.

New comment by mmanfrin in "Banned in California"

mmanfrin — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 23:38:23 +0000

> At least if they drive everyone productive out of the state, the environment will be pristine.

Most of what you said has been going on for >100 years. That's sure driven people out!

New comment by mmanfrin in "Americans are destroying Flock surveillance cameras"

mmanfrin — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 20:22:35 +0000

Far cry difference between that and the mass dragnet and centralized surveillance of entire communities at tap for agencies/police/fed.

New comment by mmanfrin in "Brex is joining forces with Capital One"

mmanfrin — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 22:23:37 +0000

"Joining forces" is such a lame corpospeak phrase.

New comment by mmanfrin in "OpenAI to test ads in ChatGPT as it burns through billions"

mmanfrin — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 20:49:19 +0000

Every other iteration of a service that introduces a free ad-paid tier then ratchets it to bifurcation of premium in to 'premium' and 'premium with no ads' and then on and on.

New comment by mmanfrin in "Iran Protest Map"

mmanfrin — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 00:19:47 +0000

"The same organization" is missing the context of it being made the 2nd largest military on earth by the current admin.

New comment by mmanfrin in "I failed to recreate the 1996 Space Jam website with Claude"

mmanfrin — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 03:42:41 +0000

I yearn for those days. CSS was a mistake. Tables and DHTML is all one needs.

New comment by mmanfrin in "Fire TV: Amazon to block piracy apps in the future"

mmanfrin — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 18:23:31 +0000

Firefox with ublock and I still get the modal.

New comment by mmanfrin in "What Americans die from vs. what the news reports on"

mmanfrin — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 23:27:08 +0000

And the only institution with a mandate to educate and inform just got defunded.

New comment by mmanfrin in "Valorant's 128-Tick Servers (2020)"

mmanfrin — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 21:38:32 +0000

Great irony of finishing a league game just now where the whole game lagged (for everyone in the game) to find this at the top of HN.