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New comment by twodave in "A Call to Action: Stop the FCC's KYC Regime"

twodave — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 15:58:10 +0000

Telcos make money off of scammer activity.

New comment by twodave in "Anti-social: It's fads, not friends, which now dominate social media feeds"

twodave — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 20:29:37 +0000

There's a perspective by which you aren't wrong, and yet everything about how we interact with the Internet has changed in the last decade or so. Because (to quote School of Rock) the world is run by the man.

New comment by twodave in "Anti-social: It's fads, not friends, which now dominate social media feeds"

twodave — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 14:59:48 +0000

Yes, the game is over, the corps have won. Where the Internet used to be a forum for creativity, it's now a weapon of influence. Where we used to have an anonymous (or at least pseudonymous) playground, we are now monitored more than anywhere else. Where we used to be able to genuinely connect, everything is now artificial and manufactured. And where we once had control, we are now the product.

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

twodave — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 15:19:16 +0000

For sure. I've taken to using a similar method over the last couple of years as I've increased miles and needed to take steps (ha) to take better care of my feet over longer distances. I wouldn't recommend this setup for more active sports with lots of change of direction, but for steady plodding it provides a very consistent and dependable stride for a lot of miles.

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

twodave — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 14:05:31 +0000

I tried writing a similar comment. Yours is much clearer. This 100%. As a runner I used to have to re-tie multiple times per run. I corrected my mistake with this same fix probably a decade ago and haven’t had a loose shoelace since.

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

twodave — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 14:03:19 +0000

Runner here. I found some time ago that starting out the classic shoelace tie right-hand dominant and finishing it left-hand dominant results in a very stable knot. Lacing them high enough to keep the ends short helps too. It has been thousands of miles since my last loose shoelace.

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

twodave — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 19:38:59 +0000

Is there a point to this? Yeah, it's difficult to get it to dissolve completely. For me, it is easier (and faster) to just dump it directly in the mouth and chug water after. So, not sure what you're disputing but it's probably a waste of your time :)

New comment by twodave in "Florida sues OpenAI and Sam Altman over AI risks"

twodave — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 21:52:12 +0000

I was going off of a summary of an outdated report. If I can find a better one I'll post it.

As an aside, it is very clear in reports like this one[0] how tech job growth nationwide has stagnated. Incredible.

[0]: https://www.comptia.org/en-us/resources/research/state-of-th...

New comment by twodave in "Florida sues OpenAI and Sam Altman over AI risks"

twodave — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 20:58:12 +0000

This isn’t really true. FL population has exploded so much with high earners that they’re talking about getting rid of property taxes, and Miami is like #2 behind Houston in terms of tech jobs growth.

New comment by twodave in "Using Git's rerere feature to escape recurring conflict hell"

twodave — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 20:47:04 +0000

I wouldn’t say it serves no purpose. It is useful when rewrites are tolerable and loss of history is not. It’s the default when using tools like jj, because the expected workflow wraps git in a way that force pushes are frequent and expected, but blowing away someone else’s work by mistake is not.

New comment by twodave in "The four programming questions from my 1994 Microsoft internship interview (2023)"

twodave — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 14:09:43 +0000

It's not necessarily a class of people. It's proficiency vs. mastery. Is some set of people more able to master a subject than another? Sure. Each person has different limits to their potential, of course, but for most things achieving mastery is more a matter of putting the work in over time.

New comment by twodave in "NPM packages from RedHat have been compromised"

twodave — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 13:55:17 +0000

For smaller shops (by small I mean <1,000 employees) this isn't even tenable. We (engineering team of about 10 people) mitigate what we can via tooling and cooldown periods/minimum release age. This will work as long as these malicious packages remain reasonably detectable. I think that's the proper balance, because we can adjust the # of days we are willing to risk against the SOTA of detection tooling.

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

twodave — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 13:04:09 +0000

I still drink the water, I just can’t stand the texture with creatine added. So I swallow the creatine with as little water as possible and drink nice fresh water afterwards :)

New comment by twodave in "What if remote working, not AI, is to blame for weak junior hiring?"

twodave — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 02:25:16 +0000

I have said the same for a while. And I also think there is an increasing trend of clueless CEOs trying to replace expensive developers with AI token spend. We are still waiting on the long tail of consequences from those decisions, but I suspect it is going to look like a lot of perfectly financially viable companies turning into dumpster fires. Followed by opportunities as their clients churn.

New comment by twodave in "Creatine raise brain energy levels and slow Alzheimer's cognitive decline by 30%"

twodave — Sun, 31 May 2026 17:47:20 +0000

Others mentioned dissolving it. I find just getting it over with is easier for me. I dump the whole scoop into my mouth and wash it down with a mouthful of water or two. It is flavorless, after all.

New comment by twodave in "To have a moral stance on AI is to be an outcast, and it sucks"

twodave — Sat, 30 May 2026 17:00:50 +0000

TL;DR author confuses anxiety with morals, cuts people out of their life that they can’t cope with being around.

This has played out a million different ways throughout history, nothing special about this case, it just happens to be rooted in anxiety about AI.

New comment by twodave in ".NET (OK, C#) finally gets union types"

twodave — Sun, 24 May 2026 03:33:45 +0000

You can use implicit operators or a library like Vogen to accomplish the same thing in a way that they can be coerced as strings. This isn’t a real issue.

New comment by twodave in "Apparently Google hates us now"

twodave — Wed, 20 May 2026 23:04:18 +0000

No, I think the company has plenty of responsibility. I just think it is more likely as someone who has been part of many engineering orgs that this is a latent bug affecting some people than some intentional change of policy.

New comment by twodave in "Apparently Google hates us now"

twodave — Wed, 20 May 2026 18:23:21 +0000

Personifying Google in this way is not realistic. The search team alone at Google is made of thousands of people who are all working on different things with an over-arching mission of making the web MORE accessible, not less. Any release from any of those people could have created a side effect of this kind. Is there a chance it was an intentional policy implementation? Sure. But the odds are heavily against it.

New comment by twodave in "Google changes its search box"

twodave — Tue, 19 May 2026 23:56:25 +0000

The spend difference for this must be enormous. I wonder how they justify it financially. I guess they don’t have to.