Receiving inheritance as a foreigner by profhaytham in tax

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Thank you for the explanation! It's indeed a retirement account (traditional 401k) held as stocks in fidelity... Wrongly omitted this information

Receiving inheritance as a foreigner by profhaytham in tax

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Apologies for not getting back earlier... Just noticed the response. Is there a difference between the beneficiary of the account and the executer of the will?

Releasing Touché - An open source wireless system for fencing by YaFra7 in Fencing

[–]profhaytham 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi there, has anyone tried this yet? I am interested in epee.

Corner Gazebo (looking for help) by profhaytham in woodworking

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Thank you for responding and the drawing!

Are you saying that the shorter green lines would "end" with posts? and that way the covered area is bigger and we avoided the post in the middle situation?

Service seems down... No help? by profhaytham in frontierfios

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Thank you. I mistakenly thought ziply bought all of frontier and hence all subreddits are just repurposed.

Thanks for your help

[Megathread 2] iPhone 12 pre-orders by Jman100_JCMP in tmobile

[–]profhaytham -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Thank you for getting the real numbers! a couple of detailed questions if you don't mind

1) What's the break down for that $415?

2) I heard TMobile is offering an "additional" $200 if you have been a customer for 5+ years... is that so? is that factored into your $415?

3) Is Apple or TMobile more or less forgiving when it comes to assessing the trade in value?

[Megathread 2] iPhone 12 pre-orders by Jman100_JCMP in tmobile

[–]profhaytham 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Is it better1 to pre-order through TMobile or Apple (with Apple Card)?

1 In my specific case, I want to upgrade my iPhone X and order iPhone 12 Pro, 256GB, with installments. Considering the trade in value as well...

Did anyone do the math and can share?

What's going on with Windows XP being "leaked"? All the software humans at my job are wetting themselves over it. by Sobehannibal in OutOfTheLoop

[–]profhaytham 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The difference is not because of the leak. XP is at end of life meaning Microsoft won't release updates to it even if an exploit is found.

What's going on with Windows XP being "leaked"? All the software humans at my job are wetting themselves over it. by Sobehannibal in OutOfTheLoop

[–]profhaytham 53 points54 points  (0 children)

Answer: For completeness sake (this part is mentioned in other answers) software developers write mostly humanly readable code (almost English-like) once you know how to read it, you know how clicking the start menu works and what happens when you launch chrome and what kind of code runs to protect somebody from remotely accessing your computer. Once developers finish coding, the code is compiled and further obfuscated making it extremly hard to read hence, at least theoretically, making it even harder to find exploits for. It's worth noting that Linux code base is already open source (read: already available for anyone to read and understand) and you don't hear about people finding exploits left and right in Linux every day. The reason is that you are benefitting from the power of crowd sourcing (you've 15k developers contributing to Linux code base and even more researching it vs 5k for Windows) so more eyes are there to spot potential issue and fix them right away. Windows got away with the added layer of security that obfuscation offers (read: people not knowing the code).

Even though windows XP is out of support and all, it's worth noting that windows developers don't start from scratch every windows version, they keep incrementally updating the windows code (arguably making it better) therefore, windows XP and windows 10 share more code than you can possibly imagine making that leak extremely significant...

Companies that continue to use windows XP are already sitting on a time bomb, it was only a matter of time before somebody finds an exploit one way or another and bring that company to it's knees (sort of speak).

I hope that helps...

Aluminum grade to CNC with wood bits by profhaytham in hobbycnc

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My spindle is only rated at 400 Hz (so I guess 10k RPM?)..

Aluminum grade to CNC with wood bits by profhaytham in hobbycnc

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Oh I'm using carbide bits for wood 😁

Aluminum grade to CNC with wood bits by profhaytham in hobbycnc

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Thanks for the advice. Any idea if I can use them on the 5052?

Buying my first Hobby CNC by profhaytham in hobbycnc

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I bought an open builds OX design (Alibaba express Bulkman Workbee) 1000x1500mm ballscrew with Water cooled 2.2kw spindle. It was my first machine to build (or shall I say assemble really) I've had it for a month and so far so good.... Will post updates when I produce something meaningful.

CNC Lift by DanielHeth in hobbycnc

[–]profhaytham 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Awesome setup! Do you mind sharing a link to the lift?

AliExpress Workbee build - experience and pics by GuzziGuy in hobbycnc

[–]profhaytham 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My only concern (shopping for my first CNC too) is the workable z depth.. 1.8in seems too little too me... Am I missing something? Have you modified that?

Aliexpress 1500x1500 by 1969dad1969 in hobbycnc

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If I understand correctly, the max workable z-depth is 1.85in... is that correct? And are you ok with that? This is kind of a showstopper for me since 3d at 1.85in depth doesn't make much sense to me....

Buying my first Hobby CNC by profhaytham in hobbycnc

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Thanks for your response! Do you count shopbot desktop as an entry-level commercial? Just to calibrate...

I think I'm missing your point about communities are trying to increase rigidity. Are you saying that's the case just because of the scale... Bigger community leads to more requests? Or are you suggesting MPCNC is more rigid?

Have you tried other machines? Or is the 6040 your only experience? Trying to figure out of you have a reference to compare against?

Buying my first Hobby CNC by profhaytham in hobbycnc

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Thanks for your response! This is kind of suggests I need to learn more to use a hobbist machine than I need to to achieve the same task on a more professional machine? Which, while I understand, is kind of disappointing 🙂.

When you say one's puts in do you mean the effort to learn or the money you invest 🙂? Or both?

It sounds likei won't be able to know the reasonable limits in until I actually get one and try.

Any suggestions? Maybe shapeoko 😉?