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New comment by twojacobtwo in "Employee commits suicide after MongoDB fired her during mental health leave"

twojacobtwo — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 20:22:29 +0000

I wish someone had sat me down and told me this as a teenager, especially with the addendum that anything about "family" in business descriptions is nothing more than bullshit/marketing.

New comment by twojacobtwo in "The best things and stuff of 2025"

twojacobtwo — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 20:00:32 +0000

I had never even considered gluten, but I've been dealing with those exact issues for years as well. I'm going to give it a try.

Would you say it was actually noticeable in just a few days?

Thank you for posting this, btw. I've been feeling pretty hopeless about it and even if it ultimately doesn't work, at least I have a new avenue to try.

New comment by twojacobtwo in "I ignore the spotlight as a staff engineer"

twojacobtwo — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 19:03:27 +0000

I'm pretty sure no one is going to be hunting down NDA infractions on HN unless the poster is silly enough to give specifics about the workplace and time at which they solved the problem. If it takes some kind of investigative work to piece together the most basic details, I think that's within the terms of most NDAs anyway.

New comment by twojacobtwo in "America is bracing for political violence – and significant portion think its OK"

twojacobtwo — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 19:14:46 +0000

Vurtually anyone saying "left wing Marxists" in the US, in reference to an organized movement, is full of shit and/or fully captured by the American propaganda waves still echoing from the the red scare era of the 1940s and 50s. These people are the type to call literally any social safety net "communist".

America has been pulled so far to the right in the last 70+ years that the average voter now seems to think 'the left' starts at authoritarian communism.

New comment by twojacobtwo in "Move over Dijkstra: New algorithm just rewrote 70 years of computer science"

twojacobtwo — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 21:43:05 +0000

You need to take a break from the internet for a while. You're getting far too worked up over a passing comment. It clearly wasn't dismissive of the content and, as pointed out, OP immediately followed the comment by talking about the content (I.e. saying it's a decent summary).

Some of us think that anything created by an AI should be labeled as such. Is that an inherently evil belief?

It is a little dumbfounding to compare the seeming emotionality/outrage of your posts with that which spurred it.

New comment by twojacobtwo in "Encryption made for police and military radios may be easily cracked"

twojacobtwo — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 17:12:27 +0000

You clearly don't know m/any criminals.

They're not all morons hopped on something. Some are cleverer than you would ever want to know about.

New comment by twojacobtwo in "Encryption made for police and military radios may be easily cracked"

twojacobtwo — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 17:06:44 +0000

I think there may be some confusion. The 30 minute delay is just for the release of the decrypted radio stream.

New comment by twojacobtwo in "GPT-5"

twojacobtwo — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 23:26:18 +0000

If we get that far, I see it happening more like...

"Don't worry Majesty, all of our models show that the peasants will not resort to actual violence until we fully wind down the bread and circuses program some time next year. By then we'll have easily enough suicide drones ready. Even better, if we add a couple million more to our order, just to be safe, we'll get them for only $4.75 per unit, with free rush shipping in case of surprise violence!"

New comment by twojacobtwo in "GPT-5"

twojacobtwo — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 23:13:03 +0000

Basically, they just need to mash the tribalism button until enough people are dead to suit them.

New comment by twojacobtwo in "GPT-5"

twojacobtwo — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 23:06:36 +0000

Maybe because they must remain as the final scapegoat. If the aiCEO screws up, it'll bring too much into question the decision making behind implementing it. If the regular CEO screws up, it'll just be the usual story.

New comment by twojacobtwo in "Lithium compound can reverse Alzheimer’s in mice: study"

twojacobtwo — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 21:25:34 +0000

(for others like myself)

Results

The literature search identified 415 articles; of these, 15 ecological studies were included in the synthesis. The random-effects meta-analysis showed a consistent protective (or inverse) association between lithium levels/concentration in publicly available drinking water and total (pooled β = −0.27, 95% CI −0.47 to −0.08; P = 0.006, I2 = 83.3%), male (pooled β = −0.26, 95% CI −0.56 to 0.03; P = 0.08, I2 = 91.9%) and female (pooled β = −0.13, 95% CI −0.24 to −0.02; P = 0.03, I2 = 28.5%) suicide mortality rates. A similar protective association was observed in the six studies included in the narrative synthesis, and subgroup meta-analyses based on the higher/lower suicide mortality rates and lithium levels/concentration.

New comment by twojacobtwo in "Slow"

twojacobtwo — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 21:29:58 +0000

Thank you for using "turgidly" as such. You've given me a new appreciation for the term.

New comment by twojacobtwo in "Woman says faecal transplant saved her and could help many more like her"

twojacobtwo — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 00:26:05 +0000

Do you know any specific instances of the times it has done great harm? Asking out of genuine curiosity.

New comment by twojacobtwo in "Facts don't change minds, structure does"

twojacobtwo — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 18:15:11 +0000

I know it's overused and incorrectly applied, but I can't get past the thought that the people doing this have a silent, burning mentality of "Rule 1: You don't talk about fight club!"

New comment by twojacobtwo in "Facts don't change minds, structure does"

twojacobtwo — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 18:02:48 +0000

I'm in the same boat. In my case it's especially disturbing because prior to this whole gestures broadly thing, we had nuanced debates on many topics. Now, he just dismisses everything as 'narratives' if he disagrees with it.

Sadly, it seems to be based on the propaganda style I've seen out of authoritarians in general. It doesn't hurt 'their side' to break everything down to narratives, because at the end of the day, you just have to swallow the current one and you don't have to think about it again.

In another way it seems almost like a form of burnout. Like 'fuck this, I'm settling on cognitive ease from now on'.

New comment by twojacobtwo in "The hidden JTAG in a Qualcomm/Snapdragon device’s USB port"

twojacobtwo — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 20:47:13 +0000

What are the effective implications of this?

New comment by twojacobtwo in "Benzene at 200"

twojacobtwo — Mon, 16 Jun 2025 19:50:12 +0000

For members only, apparently.

New comment by twojacobtwo in "O3 beats a master-level GeoGuessr player, even with fake EXIF data"

twojacobtwo — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 18:17:31 +0000

Why was this downvoted? It's a fair question and it wasn't stated as fact.

New comment by twojacobtwo in "It’s not mold, it’s calcium lactate (2018)"

twojacobtwo — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 21:14:53 +0000

Indeed, but that's a different choice than the original. If leaving my house isn't an option for me, the subsequent options entailed are then off the table, so to speak. The OP said "always" and "in every way", and I was pointing out that there are many exceptions, depending on many factors.

New comment by twojacobtwo in "It’s not mold, it’s calcium lactate (2018)"

twojacobtwo — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 21:12:25 +0000

Yeah, if you break it down further into the set of all possible options, but it depends what my criteria/realistic choices are. If I'm not going to or can't leave my house, then the more convenient option is still the better one.

My exception was to the terms "always" and "in every way".