TimTheTinker

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by TimTheTinker 3mo ago
Ugh, the enterprise authentication is dumb
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by TimTheTinker 3mo ago
Any example bugs that you've encountered in the last week?
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by TimTheTinker 3mo ago
1Password checks all these boxes and hasn't yet had a data breach. Their biggest security hole is probably somewhere in the operational pipeline between 1P browser client developers and the static file servers hosting them.
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by TimTheTinker 4mo ago
Optionality. The power available to any one person to do anything in society is directly proportional to their genuine connections to others, even if brief. Meetups in person with real connections happening (even if brief) create so many ne
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by TimTheTinker 4mo ago
WASM is literally a direct replacement for asm.js. In fact, for a long time emscripten supported both simultaneously - both as outputs from the same tool chain. They have a lot in common. So it's not at all wrong to say WASM fulfills t
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by TimTheTinker 4mo ago
What would you use Haiku for?
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by TimTheTinker 4mo ago
What about food produced in Europe? We have an Italian restaurant in my Tennessee town that imports all of its ingredients from Italy. I know several people who are otherwise gluten-intolerant but can eat anything there with no trouble .
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by TimTheTinker 4mo ago
There's an "ape loader" that speeds up loading the executable on various platforms -- that will guarantee it continues to work, as it can evolve with the platform to continue support for binary format.
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by TimTheTinker 4mo ago
I had no idea they have a free tier. I've been paying for a couple of years and it's been so worth it.
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by TimTheTinker 4mo ago
At some point, lack of security becomes a feature. A fully secure, locked-down, T2 attested macOS is able to be controlled not just by Apple, but by increasingly evil governments, with no recourse available to users.
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by TimTheTinker 4mo ago
OrbStack is great also
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by TimTheTinker 4mo ago
not exactly - I'm referring to scripture as the arbiter
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by TimTheTinker 4mo ago
that's not Christian though (in the sense that their beliefs are not scriptural and not subjected to scriptural review)... it's something else, and it's really ugly.
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by TimTheTinker 4mo ago
Those who would think of such a passage (or any biblical passage) and those who push for a total-control agenda are disjoint sets. Communism and fascism were both fueled by atheism (either explicit or functional), not a Judeo-Christian worl
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by TimTheTinker 4mo ago
Agreed. The ability to learn new things, and what characteristics their ability to learn has -- that's one dimension that strongly differentiates people in nearly any domain. But there are other dimensions as well that differentiate pe
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by TimTheTinker 4mo ago
Why not: (1) directly fund studies and reproductions of studies (promising ahead of time to publish the results, even if negative) targeting the exact issues they're concerned about (2) writing and publishing extensively to show people
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by TimTheTinker 4mo ago
It was sarcasm. I couldn't care less about whatever latest hardware junk Meta is hawking
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by TimTheTinker 4mo ago
> I dread the moment my daughters find out about TikTok... Tell her yourself. Explain why you hate it. And have something better to offer. If your family culture is different (and stronger) than the culture around you, you have a decent
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by TimTheTinker 4mo ago
Old CDs and movies are decently cheap on eBay, but local sales (antique stores, library sales, thrift stores, etc.) can be amazing for stocking up on media in bulk.
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by TimTheTinker 4mo ago
Apple Desktop Bus? That's a really old peripheral standard...
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by TimTheTinker 4mo ago
Another option: buy a real Mac SE (re-capped), then put a scsi2SD in it with whatever cool stuff you'd like your kids to have on the SD card.
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by TimTheTinker 4mo ago
> What should I be looking for with regards to a VoIP box? I just bought the one from Ubiquiti. No fuss, works out of the box: https://store.ui.com/us/en/category/managed-voip/products/ut... , tho
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by TimTheTinker 4mo ago
My oldest just turned 15. Here's what I've done: Gave her a slightly older iPhone and added it to my prepaid plan with AT&T. It's supervised via Apple Configurator, has a password-protected profile created with iMazing Pr
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by TimTheTinker 4mo ago
Some of the things my wife and I have provided for our kids: - lots of bookcases with probably >1500 books (including lots of kids/picture books) - what we've collected over the years - a family laptop (2012 MacBook Pro) with n
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by TimTheTinker 4mo ago
I think there's 2 sides of the company: - (1) Insight scores - (2) ETF management I think the pipeline between (1) and (2) is probably tight within the company (probably a few big Excel spreadsheets) and the (2) side has a lot of brain
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by TimTheTinker 4mo ago
Scores on different exchanges may be due to varying behavior by international subsidiaries -- MSFT in Australia may be doing something objectionable that MSFT US does not do, for example. I'm not sure though. What I think is more likel
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by TimTheTinker 4mo ago
They update ratings every year I think... there's a spreadsheet with before/after values for each company that you can download.
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by TimTheTinker 4mo ago
Oil/Gas/Petroleum is essential for our economy to function, and the line between "ethical" and "not ethical" is a dial (one among many that all need to be tuned together), not a switch. $PTL/Inspire does n
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by TimTheTinker 4mo ago
Sure, or there are faith based ones now - I personally invest in PTL
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by TimTheTinker 4mo ago
Nothing wrong with finding a low-cost large cap ETF that matches your investing preferences.

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