calvinmorrison

without regards to the hubbub around "AI". > Epilert contains a monitoring system that enables epileptic patients, their caregivers and doctors to monitor patients’ vital signs, daily lif…

That's because Congress has abdicated its role and we live in a appartjik state where the executive appoints the judicial body and the judicial body legislates from the bench while the admin crea…

Perl is great. Also we're hiring several roles https://www.fastmail.com/about/jobs/ …

My job offered to 'train' me in using salesforce, all paid trip with training etc. I switched jobs. Now I read perl for a living so who knows if I made the right move!

> while the other half is explained by people who still attend church regularly, but avoid formal "membership" in a congregation. I wonder if this can be explained by an increase in peopl…

Glad to see another person here aware of Trinity. I'm an active user. KDE3 just nailed the balance of power user + FOSS. Kmail3, Kdiff3, Kpdf, all these tools work wonderfully, intergrate well wi…

What's with the change over to these '40' style naming schemes? I absolutely detest it if it's not done for a real reason. Firstly, without major versions it does not single anythi…

One can natively mount 9fs on linux and there's also diod which exports 9fs. Works well for my setup of local file share to both plan9 machines and my linux boxes. I use diod because my storage …

I live in a city where I can't count all the council members who have been arrested for corruption in my lifetime on two hands.

Internet is probably least compelling natural monopoly out there. First, running more lines and multiple systems doesn't require the same impact as running two plumbing or gas systems, and second…

(dupe thread, dunno how to delete)

This is exciting because they have re-licensed all of the code to MIT. For other plan9 spin-offs, projects, etc it will clean up a lot of the old license bits - 9front for example A quarter of a cent…

It's due to many reasons, and Americans are cutting back. Our CO2 emissions have steadily been dropping for decades. the US and Europe have been solving environmental problems. Since the US has s…

> Why is it now "well, others are doing bad things, we may as well pollute the shit of the planet too"? Why is the burden on me? That's never been explained by all the climate religi…

So we could all go vegan, skip off our normal diets, a huge change to the world OR china could stop running their very dirty coal plants. Please stop making everything _my_ problem when other countrie…

Only the jester can make fun of the king I guess

VictorOps uses referrers as a "security measure" on login. So I just have a separate profile of firefox without my antireferrer addon

You also should not tell racist jokes, sexist or other off color jokes etc at work. However everyone is able to discuss how they loved the new Chappelle skit. How does that make sense? Context maybe, …

In truth it's closer to this "To get people to switch to X competitor, it needs to not be better, but 10 times better" I am sure I hacked that quote up badly but, the point is, sure pla…

In contrast to FreeCAD I have been using openSCAD. You define basic 3D objects and do transforms, etc on them. It's kind of programming, more like a domain specific language. Here's a tube, …

or that CPAN is a non-profit run by the networks to bring you full realtime video access into the senate, congress etc?

And across all the KPI's we know of - kids in a two parent household are more successful by every measure.

They posted a blog about it. First sentence "The open source Git project just released Git 2.31 with features and bug fixes from 85 contributors, 23 of them new" With a link to the lore.kern…

- having it in PATH is important. - most of us are programmers, spend a few minutes writing scripts! c@host:~$ ls ~/bin | wc- l 97

The longest running one that I've used for a long time is ix.io

Transmission the torrent daemon handles this nicely. Multiple frontends including gtk, cli and web.

You'd be surprised how useful local butchers are at big chains. They really know their stuff and have been able to sort out cuts for me, even are happy to slice up some cheap big beef cuts into s…

This is about as legitimate as a white paper from North Korea or Israel about now their nukes don't exist

Meanwhile people literally google around for small businesses and sue them for operating in historic buildings without ADA access. Congrats, bobs coffee shop is now starbucks!