calvinmorrison

So why should any function of government be free from politics? The point of our system is so we can give feedback and adjust the system

and those taxes are distributed by our government... which is political. simple as.

Thats OK my county keeps threatening to pickup my dog if i dont get a new license. Maybe they have a special kennel for Urns?

oh no an anecdote! run away!

my dad grew up in a house without running water in a town where everyone worked in a mine and the lead was everywhere. he hitchiked to alaska for seasonal work in a fish cannery. Yeah I don't kno…

well productivity gains are largely met with higher standard of living, quality of life and the upward movement of the lowest classes, for one.

We will not tolerate snus slander here! long live swedish match

something tangentially i am interested in is computing following the 'two person rule' for things like sudo. Yes I am logged into server X at terinal Y, and so is my co-worker and we both si…

whats more embarassing is the shit tier presentation slop. "This time I didnt just install FreeBSD. I create a system for learning and success". Anyone who wrote this has no business with Fr…

yes I say this now very often, that PHP has morphed into runtime Java. Quite nice in some ways. In PHP though the STDlib is not very well thought out, it may be fun(needle,haystack) or fun(haystack,ne…

#1 symptom - fat necks! if you are like me and had a 17" neck at 185 in high school and now boast a 18.5".... you have it!

Blink is a virtual machine. It's like complaining about the Hegemony of Perl

will colorado be issuing arrest warrants for developers ?

Right the functionalism-intentionalism debate is certainly glossed over in middle school history studies, and makes it all a little less Hollywood.

if that's true - and in 6 or 12 months i can get what i have today, it might not be worth paying anthropic.

what value does gitlab provide that some glue scripts dont i am sorry

You can do this with thumbnails using sixels already

Not only that but debian has for example, debsecan so you can see on any system what CVEs exist and if your packages are patched. ex from my system I ran it and got > CVE-2026-32105 xrdp which i se…

Altavista was like the 'free' version of what some libraries had for via paid search subscriptions. At the time where search was a tool that you had to you know.. come up with various terms…

I don't see how it matters we forced people into ipv6 as well. Who cares. It's more about the difference in mental models that prevented adoption especially among those who run the services …

Do you think given how ubiquitous cameras and microphones are now, that we should change the doctrine around right to record in public, or the expectation of privacy? For example, I have no problem wi…

time to get rid of license plates

Or just like, don't work for the government. simple as. Some people have morals, some people want money. It's OK. We get it, AI startup engineer hell bent on destroying thought work. We get …

If only git was a distributed system!

compelled speech, freedom of speech, association, etc all died with Goldwater. It's over bubba, the government is just thinking up new ways to use it.