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New comment by calvinmorrison in "New Referendum Would Flip Brexit Result 10 Years On, Poll Finds"

calvinmorrison — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 03:33:51 +0000

I thought it was a good comment. Concise and clear on the realpolitik trade-off without too much directly. Thanks

New comment by calvinmorrison in "New Referendum Would Flip Brexit Result 10 Years On, Poll Finds"

calvinmorrison — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 03:31:27 +0000

What happened after the articles of Confederation?

New comment by calvinmorrison in "What Happens to an Economy When It's Too Hot to Work?"

calvinmorrison — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 22:48:57 +0000

Probably cause we bailed out south Jersey and instead of packing up and heading inland Margate boasts homes over 1.5 million dollars

New comment by calvinmorrison in "I think they are lying to you [video]"

calvinmorrison — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 01:19:21 +0000

> Do you have any publicly available demonstrations of this claim?

Yeah I mean for example I wrote up a new audio mixer application for TDE using basically claude and just saying - hey rewrite the old ALSA one with Pulse/Pipewire.... its awesome. I dont know how it works.,

New comment by calvinmorrison in "A dumpster arrived behind my university's library"

calvinmorrison — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 16:26:53 +0000

And if you're lucky, your library may do frequent book sales!

https://www.bapl.org/book-sales/

New comment by calvinmorrison in "The Future of Email"

calvinmorrison — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 16:24:03 +0000

What does this even possibly mean? Fastmail has employees in the US, Europe and Australia. As far as I can tell with a warrant the government of any of these is likely to get a response from fastmail, just like if the government had a warrant to search my storage unit or review my bank statements. I don't understand the point you make. either there is rule of law or there isnt.

New comment by calvinmorrison in "A Call to Action: Stop the FCC's KYC Regime"

calvinmorrison — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 15:27:42 +0000

I am, more in tune with "just get it over with" than ever. Ipv6? 25 years of this crap? should have just said, Jan 1 2001, all routers must support 64 bit ipv4 addresses. Like the chrome HTTPS switch over, JUST DO IT

New comment by calvinmorrison in "Doing nothing at work"

calvinmorrison — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 20:31:08 +0000

Yes I sincerely doubt that the court of opinion, or the real court, would see the difference between "I use MySQL not MSSQL! you cant make me write this analysis" versus sometihng understandable like, you are a for example, a aging and lovable secretary who is being tasked to clean radioactive material from a jobsite because there are no calls coming in.

As for unions - yeah thats what got them kicked out of the convention center. Only certified electricians are smart enough to plug in laptops into sockets!

New comment by calvinmorrison in "Doing nothing at work"

calvinmorrison — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 19:52:55 +0000

unless you're contracted (fixed bid) working on jobs then you're getting paid hourly, salary, whatever... boss tells you to stand around and shoot the shit, thats what you do. I dont know why people think 'not my job' is a relevant answer... the job is what they tell you to do...

New comment by calvinmorrison in "Core PPI up 9.6% annualized (0.8% MoM) in May"

calvinmorrison — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 15:00:04 +0000

though I am seeing ( work with distributors ) a lot less reluctance to raise prices or adjust. It took a while but many of my customers can now more easily reprice their catalog and customers getting used to it, so maybe its less of a lag as before

New comment by calvinmorrison in "Providers, not insurers, are responsible for excess U.S. health care cost (2024)"

calvinmorrison — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 18:46:47 +0000

hard to take you seriously when you think we have an autocratic system.

New comment by calvinmorrison in "Mercedes‑Benz starts large‑scale production of electric axial flux motor"

calvinmorrison — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 18:11:04 +0000

well you could have really cheap drum brakes that probably would last the lifetime of the vehicle. Maybe not even hydraulic - electro-mechanical with a mechanical (E brake) fallback.

even better a motor brake already is a thing. Its kinda of like air brakes, requires current to disengage and looks liek a little clutch thats slapped on the shaft or housing.

New comment by calvinmorrison in "Mercedes‑Benz starts large‑scale production of electric axial flux motor"

calvinmorrison — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 15:47:14 +0000

do we need disk brakes?

New comment by calvinmorrison in "Building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight"

calvinmorrison — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 15:04:11 +0000

ATM Machine

New comment by calvinmorrison in "RIP software hackathons. Long live the hardware hackathon"

calvinmorrison — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 02:39:42 +0000

it's easy to do as well. most of these printers can be setup to easily work by catting text directly to /dev/lp0.

New comment by calvinmorrison in "Claude Fable 5"

calvinmorrison — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 22:36:11 +0000

claiming you aren't robophobic is the first sign of being a robophobe.

New comment by calvinmorrison in "Where is the AI jobs crisis?"

calvinmorrison — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 22:16:32 +0000

This is the same with ANY depreciating asset or currency? Can I wait a year to buy it? Will I get 10x the return by waiting a year? Will my competition have a moat if I can move 10x faster next year? can I save money now?

New comment by calvinmorrison in "What it feels like to work with Mythos"

calvinmorrison — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 19:32:57 +0000

better than "The JIRA" , or "The Google" or "The Spotify"

New comment by calvinmorrison in "OCaml Onboarding: Introduction to the Dune build system"

calvinmorrison — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 17:56:18 +0000

what is wrong with make why does every language need to re invent packaging, building, etc. I think these people have no useful software to write so they rewrite the development stack.

New comment by calvinmorrison in "LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do"

calvinmorrison — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 02:19:06 +0000

Right so you might see a CTO, a CDO (development?) CAI? I dont know.

basically small and medium business mostly do not invest in having programmers on staff. Maybe you have an IT guy, half the time its someone whos real job is accounting, warehouse, etc and he knows printers and can type without looking

My bet is more software then ever, more dispersed and more lego like than ever.