Matt Ringel

Former wedding photographer, current fountain pen nerd, occasional poker player. Tweets are my own.

[Matt Ringel @ringel]

Okay. So.

Apple Keynote yesterday.... Craig Federighi mentioning he used Apollo for Reddit... was that some weird coded way of saying "I Will Be Very Annoyed If You Kill Third Party Apps" to Reddit?

Because that's funny.

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A thought on the trillion-dollar coin:

Unlike the rest of 31 USC 5112, subsection k ( the platinum coin one) doesn’t specify the shape/size/inscription or anything else about the coin.

Ergo, it should be forged in the shape of a working firearm.

That should clear things up.

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@DrPeering @subspacepowered Already got one. I’m good. :)

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Yesterday was my last day at @subspacepowered.

It was an 18-month speedrun in working at a tech startup. Learned a ton. No regrets.

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@QuinnyPig So, that would imply that AWS/GCP spending is typically related to profit centers, and Azure spending is typically related to cost centers.

…which would imply that Azure spending will only see a real boost in the best of good times. That’s unfortunate.

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@ryka_aoki Oh, excellent!!!! Thank you for the recs and the amazing novel I’m <checks Kindle> 61% through at the moment.

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Currently reading Light From Uncommon Stars, by Ryka Aoki. It is brilliant and amazing and beautiful.

I’m also, coincidentally, in Hollywood for the next few days.

Anyone have donut shop recommendations?

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@joelfreak I’m pretty sure we’ve talked about that, too.

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@joelfreak Reid, we’ve talked about this.

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@rmd1023 Agreed, it also helps mitigate attempts at lateral movement.

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Practical airgap strategy: Wherever possible, the tea and the computer will be on physically separate surfaces.

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Today is so thoroughly “early autumn in New England” that you can practically hear the cello and acoustic guitar in the background.

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Snow White and the Seven Dwarf-Lords in their halls of stone.

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@bittyboston I suspect they’ve run that math already, and we have our answer.

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Remember, remember, the 1st of September /
The students, their trucks, and their stuff /
I do think it prudent to say that the students /
Have made me scream “ENOUGH!”

The kids, the kids, they did contrive /
To take their belongings on Storrow Drive…

[WCVB-TV Boston @WCVB]

🚚💥 #Storrowing on Soldiers Field Road eastbound in #Boston tore the roof off this moving truck. @MassDOT said the bridge was inspected and no damage was found.

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Tweet editing, but always show the original and make people click through to see the edited version.

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Database vocabulary of the day: “Normalized” (adj.): A database where you’ll have to perform at least four table joins to get anything useful out of it.

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Re: gigantic car payments TikTok

1. It’s probably a lease.

2. A business vehicle’s entire lease payment is tax-deductible.

3. If you’re the sort who lives a tax-optimized lifestyle, everything becomes business-related.

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What book causes people to have immediate hot takes about the role of government in society and why is it “Seeing Like a State”?

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Broke: “They go low, we go high.”
Woke: “They go low, we respond proportionately and appropriately.”
Bespoke: “I’m not locked in here with you, you’re locked in here with me.”

[The White House 46 Archived @WhiteHouse46]

Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene had $183,504 in PPP loans forgiven.

https://t.co/4FoCymt8TB

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@thatwesguy So, that’s the thing. I feel like I must be missing *something*, but I don’t know what… and I’m trying to not just stop at “transparent money grab” because that seems like a very shallow insight.

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If a student loan (in the US) can’t be discharged in bankruptcy, then nearly all of the risk is removed from the loan.

So, why aren’t student loan rates pegged to something like the 10-yr Treasury, i.e. the risk-free rate of return?

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