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twodave

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Dave here, interested in most things tech, work as a software developer/architect on a variety of projects and tech stacks.

I also maintain https://naprun.dev, an HTTP test automation framework.

Contact: my username at gmail

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twodave··on US inflation jumps to 3.8% as energy costs surge from Iran war
It's possible, in the short term, but eventually the only oil flowing thru the Strait of Hormuz will be Iranian oil, and perhaps not even that. Give countries enough time and they'll rather invest in building a way around Iran than giving them money for passage thru international waters.
twodave··on US inflation jumps to 3.8% as energy costs surge from Iran war
I think the idea is that now that it's a public issue, it will have to be addressed more than just bringing us back to pre-war levels.
twodave··on Rumors of my death are slightly exaggerated
Glad to hear you found your way back to the outside portion of the bottle :)
twodave··on How OpenAI delivers low-latency voice AI at scale
Sure, and there's the near-identical pattern where valid specific criticisms are taken as broad criticism even though they aren't, etc., etc..
twodave··on NIST scientists create 'any wavelength' lasers
I used to think heat/exercise was my only trigger. Then I got ahold of some of some HDR-enabled emojis and immediately started seeing auras everywhere haha. Didn’t take long to get rid of those. I didn’t get one from this article, but it felt like I was about to. So maybe not migraine-triggering but definitely anxiety-triggering :)
twodave··on NIST scientists create 'any wavelength' lasers
FYI if you get ocular/retinal migraines like me then the exercise in this article might be a bad idea.
twodave··on Why Japan has such good railways
Rail for the US has always been more about moving goods than people. For overland long-haul freight it is significantly cheaper than trucking. Rail allows us to ship goods to places where we don’t have ports or river access. A place like Japan can make such good use of rail simply because it is so densely populated.
twodave··on The Pentagon Threatened Pope Leo XIV's Ambassador with the Avignon Papacy
Yes, I am aware of this passage. He is not speaking to equality of genders. You can read his other writings to see how he treated actual women who were in leadership roles in the early church. If you believe in Christianity then you believe that God ordained specific and symbolic roles for husbands and wives and the appropriate authority to go along with each.

Paul also wrote the men shouldn’t have long hair and women should keep their heads covered, so there is also an amount of “being at peace means also being at peace with the culture” to be interpreted from his writings.

twodave··on Meta is set to pay its top AI executives almost a billion each in bonuses
This is the answer to whether AI executives actually take their own rhetoric seriously. If they actually believed in things like UBI as a solution they’d be doing something besides this.
twodave··on The Pentagon Threatened Pope Leo XIV's Ambassador with the Avignon Papacy
Having read the Bible several times through, I don't see any disagreement between Jesus and Paul. This is further supported by the fact that the original disciples/apostles accepted Paul's teachings. And if there were a disagreement on the nature of salvation I assume things like circumcision would have taken a back seat to that debate, yet that is not what we find in either Acts or any of the letters of the apostles in the New Testament. So, I think the view that Paul somehow subverted Christianity is a self-deceiving one designed to reinforce previously-held beliefs.
twodave··on The Pentagon Threatened Pope Leo XIV's Ambassador with the Avignon Papacy
This is a rather unbalanced perspective that lacks a shred of evidence. I can't imagine that you've actually read his letters, because if you had you'd know his stance on the role of a husband is not remotely what you've described.
twodave··on The Pentagon Threatened Pope Leo XIV's Ambassador with the Avignon Papacy
He certainly has his critics, but in my view it’s absurd to place him next to the Crusades, Inquisition, et al…
twodave··on The Pentagon Threatened Pope Leo XIV's Ambassador with the Avignon Papacy
I think what's most clear to me about the Papacy and the Pentagon is that neither of them actually believes scripture.
twodave··on The Pentagon Threatened Pope Leo XIV's Ambassador with the Avignon Papacy
Not a Catholic, but a Christian, and I think Christians in general are in a very difficult position in the US, which has not historically been the case. Today any party-line vote is a vote against one Christian core belief or another.
twodave··on The Pentagon Threatened Pope Leo XIV's Ambassador with the Avignon Papacy
As long as you're making fun of people twisting Christianity to suit their goals I guess this is funny. But imagine how frustrating it must be for genuine believers in a Jesus who says, "Blessed are the peacemakers," and, "Bless your enemies and do not curse them," who are now victims of both the original twisting and the future ridicule to come (not to mention those being led astray).
twodave··on How to get better at guitar
Sure, this is a way to get better at learning songs, in particular. Any consistent practice will result in getting better, though. After about 20 years of playing (though less as the years have gone by and life has been busy), I actually find playing live to be the most impactful thing. You have to find a way to make the song work and keep up with the tempo! Often that means improvising. Being able to improvise even a little covers so much that can go wrong while playing.

But there are lots of ways to get better, and to a degree it depends on what your goals are. I enjoyed the article.

twodave··on German police name alleged leaders of GandCrab and REvil ransomware groups
You are entitled to your own beliefs, no matter how crazy they are. Society doesn’t have to be held hostage by them, though.
twodave··on German police name alleged leaders of GandCrab and REvil ransomware groups
Yes, I almost totally agree with all of this. And I do believe in gray areas, but I don’t expect law enforcement to. I think that leaves room for worse things like corruption/favoritism. I don’t deny that those things happen too, but those are also crimes that should be brought to justice.
twodave··on Peptides: where to begin?
Did you work out during those 10 weeks any? TBH if you went from regular lifting to not for 10 weeks I'd expect a similar decrease in your lifting numbers (though not a .4lb/day weight loss of course)
twodave··on German police name alleged leaders of GandCrab and REvil ransomware groups
Wrong. "No people I agree with were harmed," perhaps. This is no different than cronyism.
twodave··on German police name alleged leaders of GandCrab and REvil ransomware groups
No, it doesn't, at least not to me. I can disagree with a law while also agreeing to obey it and that those who break it should have consequences. I can hold these two opposing ideas because that is the basis by which governments function. If everybody gets to decide for themselves what should be/not be a crime, then we don't have a society. Society is about compromise. What I'm seeing is not compromise. What I'm seeing is people dismissing the whole of law because there's one they don't agree with, or an application or even abuse of the law that offends them. It's an abandonment of balance and a dismissing of rational conversation.
twodave··on German police name alleged leaders of GandCrab and REvil ransomware groups
Some of the comments here (and lately on HN in general) are very concerning to me. Are we really going to pretend that people accused of real crimes shouldn’t be arrested, charged and, if found guilty, have an appropriate sentence? It doesn’t take many more than 2 brain cells rubbing together to see that that won’t end well. Whataboutism, political differences, and even real injustices in my opinion do not make this a reasonable position.
twodave··on Emotion concepts and their function in a large language model
Indeed. It reminds me of Lewis’ That Hideous Strength in a way. If we take the severed head post-brain-death and pump it with blood and oxygen and feed it impulses so that the mouth moves to form the words we tell it, is the person living again? No, it’s just a head, speaking the words it’s been given.
twodave··on Why the US Navy won't blast the Iranians and 'open' Strait of Hormuz
This. Much of the most prevalent messaging on both the extreme left and the extreme right tends to be from other countries posing as Americans. It’s also difficult to even form opinions lately as the amount of lying by all outlets is nearly impossible to sift through. All we really know is that right, left, black, white, gay or straight, nobody is actually on our side anymore.
twodave··on Axios compromised on NPM – Malicious versions drop remote access trojan
You can still have a step that requires a certain user/group to sign off, and you can still enforce that those users have MFA set up. Almost any serious shop that expects to pass audits already does this in some form or fashion before pushing code to prod.
twodave··on Axios compromised on NPM – Malicious versions drop remote access trojan
How is it we've made it this far and we still don't have any kind of independent auditing of basic publish security on NPM? You'd think this would be collectively a trivial and high priority task (to ensure that all publishes for packages over a certain download volume are going through a session that authenticated via MFA, for instance).
twodave··on Axios compromised on NPM – Malicious versions drop remote access trojan
Can we get a non-AI-generated article for this? I think the aikido one might be fine, but if there’s a more official source let’s use that in lieu of this AI nonsense.
twodave··on How Iran is making a mint from the current war
"Enlightenment" is for civilizations with enough might to enforce it.
twodave··on 72% of the dollar's purchasing power was destroyed in just four episodes
The only thing sadder than AI-generated comments on human articles is human comments on AI-generated articles.
twodave··on Apple randomly closes bug reports unless you "verify" the bug remains unfixed
It’s quite possible (likely, even) for there to be more bugs reported than Apple has capacity to investigate. I assume this is just a filter they use to get the queue down to a more reasonable size and remove bug reports that are especially old (trusting that if they’re still issued they’ll be re-reported). This kind of culling happens all the time with low pri stuff and even sometimes medium pri if there’s a clear workaround.
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