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tcfunk··on Thief of $90M in seized U.S.-controlled crypto is gov't contractor's son
Slightly tangential question but what’s with govt seized crypto assets? I had a bit of Litecoin a while back and went to check my wallet one day to find an FBI landing page instead. Is that just theirs now? Feels a bit like the gov seized control of my savings account.
tcfunk··on FedRAMP 20x – One Month in and Moving Fast
Oracle was already on the FedRAMP list I think. AFAIK this is about getting smaller cloud providers approved to host government projects so there’s more options available.
tcfunk··on A look at Firefox forks
I've been using zen lately mostly for the combination of "essentials" + "workspace" tab management scheme. I love having a space for tabs while also having a spot to pin stuff like email and bluesky which doesn't necessarily fit into one category or other.

Admittedly I haven't tried many other options, except sidebery which was good but not quite there for me.

tcfunk··on America Is Missing The New Labor Economy – Robotics Part 1
I always disagree with this moving freely argument. Certainly some live where they do specifically for work, but some are also there to be close to family. They will not be interested in relocating to save a buck.
tcfunk··on My 3D SWE Portfolio - Built with React Three Fiber.
Who hurt you?
tcfunk··on Trump wins presidency for second time
US, stop that polluting! US Looks at China Well they started it!
tcfunk··on Nutrient levels in retail grocery stores
My wife ran a farmer's market for years, it can definitely be true.

Vendors tried to sneak stuff in constantly, and unless you have a market manager who really cares and is constantly vigilant, vendors will resell stuff they have bought in bulk and are reselling at a markup.

Not all vendors of course, but like anything else there's always a handful of bad actors.

tcfunk··on Legalizing sports gambling was a mistake
I think it's pretty easy to define, actually. Were they paid in some way to do those things? If yes, then it was advertising.
tcfunk··on WordPress Drama: From the Sidelines
As someone only familiar with WP at the surface level, I had assumed that WP Engine actually was affiliated with WP, so it seems to me the market confusion is certainly intentional.
tcfunk··on Apple Adopts 6 of OWA's Browser Choice Architecture Recommendations
It's weird that they are implementing "Once chosen, browsers should be immediately set as the default and downloaded in the background" and not "Browsers should be able to trigger a one-click prompt to be set as the default upon being installed (as is standard on most other operating systems)". I think I would prefer the latter. If I know opening a browser is going to automatically set it as my default, I will be less likely to try out new browsers.
tcfunk··on How fast can a human possibly run 100 meters?
I've never seen Usain Bolt's speed in terms of mph before this article. A top speed of 27.8 mph is seriously incredible. Granted I'm no professional sprinter, but when I try to go much beyond 14-15 my balance can't keep up with the cadence and I start to trip over myself.
tcfunk··on Corcel – Use WordPress backend with Laravel or any PHP application
Anyone know of something similar but for interfacing with a Drupal database?
tcfunk··on Apple introduces M4 chip
I'd settle for some version of xcode, or some other way of not requiring a macOS machine to ship iOS apps.
tcfunk··on Making a 3D modeler in C in a week
Plasticity (https://www.plasticity.xyz/) is a new-ish one that looks neat, but I wish it offered a lower-price entry point.
tcfunk··on Why is my Mac trying to force me to enroll with Expedia Group upon installation?
Interesting, I recently got a MPB for a new job that was supposed to have some enrollment pre-configured, but didn't.

Weeks into my new job, the IT folks contacted me and asked "Uh, did you ever get your laptop?"

tcfunk··on WebP is so great except it's not (2021)
I never gave it much thought until I started posting my 3d renders online. Began to find serious issues, especially around posterized backgrounds as the article mentions. A problem which is exacerbated by the vignettes that renderers offer.
tcfunk··on Record low sea ice led to catastrophic breeding failure of emperor penguins
Perfect time to ramp up those generative AI models!
tcfunk··on Switching from Chrome to Firefox
Chrome's font makes me want to squint. Probably I'm just used to FF.
tcfunk··on Dirty downside of 'return to office'; ending WFH could make climate crisis worse
Definitely not. And even less so during winter months I would guess.

Add to that many apartment buildings share utility cost across the unit so there’s even less incentive.

tcfunk··on Dirty downside of 'return to office'; ending WFH could make climate crisis worse
Do people actually stop heating/cooling their homes while at work?
tcfunk··on Things you forgot (or never knew) because of React
> My hobby of doing game dev (driven by automated testing)

I'm kinda curious about this. Do you have any good resources on automated testing for games?

tcfunk··on Lazygit: Simple terminal UI for Git commands
I love this app, use it every day. Very seldom do I need to drop out of it to run a specific command (and even then it’s probably capable of doing it and I’ve just not bothered to figure out how).
tcfunk··on TikTok is now banned in Montana
Federal gov employees also can't use tiktok on any device that is in the general vicinity of gov property.
tcfunk··on Microsoft fixes 5-year-old Defender bug, reducing Firefox-related CPU use by 75%
I wonder if this is why Firefox often gets killed when I have other high-resource apps open?
tcfunk··on ArmorPaint and ArmorLab: open-source alternative to Adobe Substance
I had heard of ArmorPaint, but didn't realize they also had ArmorLab. I'll have to try it out. There's another really good alternative to Substance Designer called Material Maker (https://www.materialmaker.org/)
tcfunk··on Things people blamed on bicycles
I regularly bike my son to school, and I seem to be the only one. Saves me >20 minutes of sitting in a car line.
tcfunk··on Playstation store will remove customer’s purchased movies
Not really, I think? The video would still have to be hosted somewhere by somebody. How would a crypto token be any more valid than the license they grant you now if the video goes away?
tcfunk··on Ask HN: What is your default font for coding and terminal?
I've been using FiraCode for a year or so and like it pretty well https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode
tcfunk··on Update on Hiring Plans
This isn’t poor ethics it’s self care. No one cares if you back out of an offer.

Companies are interviewing multiple candidates for a single spot, it’s insane not to expect reciprocal behavior

tcfunk··on Unreal vs. Unity Opinion
600 work hours give or take the 20,000 that got him the expertise required to sit down and write it in the first place. Do you end up with your own game engine, or a clone of Casey's game engine? That depends on what you already knew going into the series.

Not dismissing the value of the series here, just saying the average would-be game developer likely does not have the same skillset as Casey and, unless creating game engines is the goal, would be better served by Unreal or Unity.

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