calvinmorrison

that and hubchat is where a lot of conversation goes on. #cat-v is a perennial winner of course. There's plenty of ongoing work. the ANTS stuff in particular coming from mycrotiv is pretty intere…

Well basically because of the short duration and risk and small absolute value of the loans. To loan out $5000, often times a minimum from banks for a personal loan, I might have to do the overhead of…

What makes you think the rates are obscene?

Yeah but my job has all three elements. Long term improvements and projects, being on call and making sure all the widgits are spinning, and doing tasks for X time a day If I was making 62 burgers an …

What was the last time anyone real dialed me with the same first 6 digits of my phone number? Probably my elemantry school friend who lived up the block when we had landlines. These days anyone matchi…

Timing lights for engines work this way for clarity: The distributor on an engine has a spinning rotor and a number of points (one for each sparkplug) on the outside the circle the rotor forms while s…

I guess you didn't actually read my comment. I'm gonna blow your mind with this: people have differing opinions on things and that you have to immediately question my 'motivations'…

Honestly, they're providing a service and there are customers. Walter block who is a noted austrian-school economist did a fun set of books called "Defending the Undefendable" where he …

so the entirety of /r/politics?

Wouldn't a simple union mount + cron job solve this problem relatively easy?

Maybe you just nailed it on the head for me what I've been trying to state for a while in regards to FP. Expressing complex things like algorithms in functional programming can be beautiful and a…

Based on playing with my little adafruit cell chip I have, I can talk to it pretty simply by sending it standard modem commands. I don't know how this exactly lines up with a more modern phone b…

Electronic Flight Information System. The flight deck information display, but not mechanical, digital.

You can't typically cannot have two trial accounts on one phone number. But you can have as many paid accounts as you like with or without a phone number. source: I work for fastmail.

Yes, that is true in a certain sense, but for example, a lot of fingerprinting can happen with information gleaned via javascript. Granted, having javascript turned off is also a way to finger print p…

No. 3 months ago I started using NoScript and my life has gotten so much easier on the internet. I hate it less now. Usually you can get away without Javascript, and if not, it only takes a second or …

Interesting, we spent the last few days digging into the old Time Warp OS https://lasr.cs.ucla.edu/reiher/Time_Warp.html …

It's like when NPR has to constantly repeat "we are trustworthy". Not a good look for sure.

They're not building their own OS, they're building a few apps and dealing with hardware specific driver issues - but otherwise a lot of stuff is projects that already existed and needed imp…

2019, the year of an open source phone. I almost can't believe it. I'm super happy they're not reinventing the entire wheel and are using an ecosystem that already exists (GNOME). Much …

Love you guys, I've had a private VM for years, at a good price, with great availability, that does exactly what I need. I also really like the firewall I can adjust through the web interface. Ch…

One thing we ran into while debugging a few weeks ago is lack of support in firefox for debugging open streams. That is a feature I would like to see implemented, because it works beautifully in chro…