calvinmorrison

I have been a linux user since about 2006. I didn't really even know anything about the MS stack when I started at LargeCorp a few years ago. I was actually pleasantly surprised how well most thi…

ActivityPub / Mastadon maybe or just a good old RSS feed.

Microsoft is just amazing at 'helping' companies chose software. If you're already on a microsoft stack at work, maybe running some in house servers, exchange, some other things, and yo…

you might enjoy reading n-gate - a weekly satirical review of hacker news. They'll surely have a nice post about GME, AMC and others. I strongly predict it will end with: "And no technology…

Well exactly, if you're holding a single share and you lose $200 dollars in the end, obviously it's not the end of the world.

That's atrocious! How could anyone post something so mean on reddit group!

The extremely positive side of this is that you can be a 'competitor' to Google, or other megaservices and steal enough customers to run a 10M+ user company and they woudln't even regis…

For something you're going to spend your life doing, it's a horrible prospect to not expect to make friends at work. As a child did you spend 12 years not making friends in school, since sch…

This is kind of poorly done. Zoom in on my city (Philadelphia). Look at South Philly. It's half green! shocking until you realize this is the giant I-2 Industrial zoned sectors for shipping, the …

One good example is the SPLC, which has routinely marked conservative groups which they deem to have wrongthink to be grouped in with Neonazi's and other radical racial organizations. https:…

And this is how 'reality' gets a left wing slant.

Yeah. Without pulling up sources it's on his second paragraph of his wikipedia page, which tends to avoid conspiracies etc. "He developed an elite social circle and procured many women and c…

Telsa sorta did down-market by jamming an engine into another car in the beginning. The lotus was the first platform they built for

That's an absolutely feature. Road noise is a big fatigue on bikes and older loud cars.

Might try different pairs. My cans for recording are HD180s, pretty standard and they really squeese your head. My bose quiet comfort are comfortable for maybe an hour or two before i even notice I am…

So at this point it's just a normal Ransom. There's no 'wares' doing it. Someone stealing something does not make it ransomware.

More like - Everyone can be killed by COVID, everyone can be killed by terrorists. However it is unlikely your dunkin donuts in farmville, North Dakota is going to be the target of the latest ISIS att…

Yeah - it's a location of US nukes.

That's probably true but a lot of medical cost is scheduled like follow up or specialist visits, surgery and things of the less urgent nature.

Did you even read the lead paragraph? Now you can! In October, Wisconsin denied Foxconn subsidies because it had failed to build the LCD factory specified in its contract with the state. As The Verge …

Well I think you almost nailed the point - when the police declare a riot, and start rounding everyone up who doesn't disperse, the media gets rolled up with that as well many times - especially …

The 'mainstream' media for lack of a better term has built a nicely sized moat around themselves. Remember, if someone has to run ad campaigns about how 'honest' or 'truthful&…

In Philadelphia, the Inky had a similar footpath as other papers, circling the drain, trading owners, layoffs, a new internet work, the whole shebang. But in 2016 they were bought by a philanthropist …

So I'm reading a book called "Empire of Liberty" which covers the 1790's up unto 1812 I believe (not done yet). Anyway, this is not a new problem. In fact, 'seditious libel&#x…

Somewhere rubber meets the road. At what point are emergency powers "too far" so to speak?

Early keyboards maybe? Hjkl vs jkl;

I have for years been using the reddit compact interface, which to me is almost a pinnacle. Append .compact to any reddit page and enjoy. It's fast and it's not the dimwitted slow loading mo…

Do companies have a right to circulate anti-union material, to have anti-union speakers come to work, etc?

https://www.denverpost.com/2016/09/03/fbi-report-platte-rive... …

Funnily I'm in a different position at a different company and in house is a huge win for us over aws/azure due to very specific hardware requirements. There's a time and a place for ev…