Andrew Arnott 🛡️

Principal Software Engineer. This is not my employer's account. I have a wonderful family and faith in a real, bona-fide Heavenly Father. Will work for Zcash.

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@5min__crafts Ya, but can you put it back the way you found it?

[Andrew Arnott 🛡️ @aarnott]

The problem starts with our legislators, who made it legal to pay below minimum wage because of tipping. Fix the law. Pay service workers minimum wage first, then we can shame them into accepting whatever tips they may or may not get.

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@vibeeval Those don't look like mac minis. Those look like Mac Studios.

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At $657, Zcash will overtake USDS by market cap.
At $871, Zcash will overtake DOGE (how DOGE is worth anything is beyond me).
At $980, Zcash will overtake HYPE and take the #10 place by market cap of all cryptocurrencies (including stable coins).

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@dismad8 No offense, but I hope that wasn't a sponsored project.

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We have lots of providers with "a team of AI agents" ready to help you. But what I'd really like is for a voice AI to join a group of humans. When I and 2-3 other people are having an intellectual conversation, I want AI to listen and jump in naturally as a human would, dropping opinions, trivia, etc. that is relevant to the conversation. Maybe even correcting us on occasion.

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@brockpierson XP

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If you exclude stable coins, #Zcash is now in the top 10 cryptocurrencies by market cap.

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@RonDeSantis No! Do away with sales tax, income tax, ... All taxes on trade go away.
Property tax is the only one that doesn't depress trade. And it's fitting that we pay rent to the government because the government provides ongoing services to us like protection.

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@CongoCart I would love to build everything from Linux.
What is this azure signing certificate that you're using? I need an EV code signing cert for my Windows binaries if I can get it.
I'm not aware of any certs that cost 120 or 200 per year.

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I cannot fathom how Apple gets apps written for its platforms when signing the code is so hard.

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Did you read it before you shared it? The post you shared says he did not attend.

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@NobodymrRobert If it scrapes that easily, it won't look good for long.

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@CongoCart How do you manage to sign and notarize from linux?

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@shieldedmark MoneyMan (https://t.co/Xwn5gQmFDj)
Personal finance tracking software ala Quicken.

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@shieldedmark I believe .deb and .rpm require sudo permissions to install. .AppImage on the other hand does not. So overall .AppImage seems like a more secure choice (if you don't yet trust the app, anyway).

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@shieldedmark If ordinary users can't download and run my app without being super-users, that seems like a significant filtering of potential users.
But then, maybe most linux users are the only operators on their computer and quite adept at this point.

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Nope. I feel like a manager of engineers now. If I read every line of code AI produced I'd be micro-managing. Instead, if there is a bug and AI doesn't find it, then when I find it I tell AI to write a regression test, and sometimes to update a skill or instruction file to avoid the mistake later -- similar to how I'd handle an employee.

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@aarnott I've also never really used .rpm so who knows, maybe it's GREAT! I doubt it though 😏

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Linux users: There's an app you want to download and run. Would you rather see it as an executable .AppImage (that updates itself) or a .deb file or an .rpm file?
Why?

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@dismad8 This isn't an OSS app.
What is the advantage of adding .deb/.rpm if I already have a self-updating .appimage file?