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TimJRobinson

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About TimJRobinson

Coder, Entrepreneur, Impatient Optimist. Developer at Balancer (https://balancer.fi)

Personal blog: http://www.timjrobinson.com.

[ my public key: https://keybase.io/timjrobinson; my proof: https://keybase.io/timjrobinson/sigs/mFOBQTjZnMZWdL_-fqjqY0jgwcxgXOvHoA29Z3efesg ]

Recent public activity

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    Comment #49176742

    It's time for all developers to learn about devcontainers and use them consistently. They're super easy to setup and run and would protect from most of what this worm does. https:/…

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    Comment #48901424

    Devcontainers are a much better solution, super easy to setup with VSCode and ensures the AI can't access your main machine.

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    Comment #48901416

    Devcontainers are so useful when working with AI. Not only for rogue agents but rogue scripts/libraries they may download that try and exfiltrate your credentials.

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    Comment #48888329

    I would love this for magic the gathering

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    Comment #48383778

    Disappointed Topo Chico isn't included. I've tried sparkling water all over the world and it's my favourite.

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    Comment #48267760

    I've had a full shakedown at the airport in Brisbane asking for passwords for phone/laptop and they will confiscate for 2 weeks if you don't comply. I'm an Australian citizen. They…

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    Comment #47812993

    They could give all nearby residents free/subsidized solar + battery for their homes. This empowers people making them feel less beholden to rising energy prices, and gives the dat…

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    Comment #46824211

    Honestly Linux has been so much easier to use since Claude / codex came out. Now I don't need to remember esoteric commands or scroll old forums to fix issues, Claude does it all f…

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    Comment #46397533

    I built something similar a few years ago where the idea was "jackbox but coop games". It was way jankier than this though. Would love to port some of those game ideas to this plat…

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    Comment #45438383

    I use Obsidian with a "daily-planning" template that has a bunch of typical journaling prompts. I customize it over time, adding new ideas and removing boring bits. Current section…

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    Comment #43806939

    Most programmers want to get some final output, they want the application or game rather than some beautiful code. Most artists want to create beautiful art, it's a form of self ex…

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    Comment #43713170

    There's a service called Kleros that does exactly this

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    Comment #43678056

    I wonder if it related to those studies showing couples have more of a shared memory, to manage tasks better. When playing memory games they tend to do much better than two strange…

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    Comment #43421095

    I thought he was going to mention the stupidity of sites like Twitter that when you add SMS as a 2FA option you can now use that to bypass the password and so are vulnerable to sim…

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    Comment #43232260

    This is the same gotcha as "If you like government so much why don't YOU pay more taxes?" Nobody refuses free government help even if they hate the government, just as no one pays …

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    Comment #43152170

    It's not like they have a choice. If they don't they have to declare bankruptcy because they can't honor customer withdrawals.

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    Comment #43152130

    The wallet is a smart contract (specifically a gnosis safe), the malicious message they signed transferred ownership of that smart contract wallet to the attacker so they could the…

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    Comment #43152101

    The contract address will be the same but the transaction address should be different because transactions include the chainid in them. Otherwise you could easily replay transactio…

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    Comment #43062891

    Can you link to some sources / information here because I have no idea what you're talking about

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    Comment #42156031

    Vitaliks intro to ZK snarks article is great: https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2021/01/26/snarks.html

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    Comment #41509783

    We're in a very small window in the battle against climate change where people are even allowed to spend money on space programs. In a few decades at our current rate we're going t…

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    Comment #41452336

    I didn't mention hashes anywhere in this thread, you were the one claiming you can prove someone's age just based on a hash of it (and still haven't shown how other than breaking t…

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    Comment #41452176

    Lol, well yea if you throw away the zero knowledge part or trust the client to tell the truth of course you don't need zero knowledge proofs. Its not zero knowledge though (you jus…

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    Comment #41443290

    - Do you not understand that client side checks are insecure? - As you're still not getting it, how about this: This is a sha256 hash of my birthday, write a function that returns …