jf | 24 days ago | on: California's new bill requires DOJ-approved 3D printers that report themselves
It has no cosponsors and hasn’t been presented to a committee yet. It’s like calling a bowl of flour, water, and yeast a “new bread”
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jf | 3 months ago | on: How to Attend Meetings
I think that’s why the document had some suggested pushback to meeting invites (e.g. “what’s the agenda so I can prepare”)
jf | 3 months ago | on: How to Attend Meetings
As somone who vigorously declines meetings, this gave me some extra criteria to use (estimated speaking time per attendee)
What I found the most useful was the focus that was put on having agendas for every meeting, something that I try to do for every meeting that I schedule.
jf | 3 months ago | on: Questions for Cloudflare
jf | 4 months ago | on: Heroku Support for .NET 10
I came here to see if AppHarbor was still running and was pleased to see this post :D
jf | 4 months ago | on: AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1
Interesting. Langley isn’t that far away
jf | 5 months ago | on: America Is Sliding Toward Illiteracy
It’s weird, and a little unnerving, to have a line from Anathem by Neil Stephenson immediately come to mind:
“Can you read? And by that I don’t just mean interpreting Logotype…” “No one uses that any more,” said Quin. “You’re talking about the symbols on your underwear that tell you not to use bleach. That sort of thing.”
jf | 5 months ago | on: Don’t Look Up: Sensitive internal links in the clear on GEO satellites [pdf]
That’s my interpretation
jf | 7 months ago | on: Men paying thousands for leg lengthening surgery
Yes, this was a plot point in GATTACA
jf | 7 months ago | on: DNA tests are uncovering the true prevalence of incest (2024)
I found found this post to be very interesting and am grateful that you wrote it.
jf | 9 months ago | on: What Google Translate can tell us about vibecoding
> The visual real-time image OCR stuff was an app they purchased (Magic Lens?) that I had previously used.
Word Lens, by Quest Visual
jf | 9 months ago | on: The Zach Attack Scratch 'N Solve Puzzle Pack
I've spent many delightful hours playing Zack's games and look forward to trying out this one.
jf | 9 months ago | on: Player Piano Rolls
I love this background information. I hope you’re backing up those MIDI files!
jf | 9 months ago | on: Player Piano Rolls
Sweet! Do you have anything written up yet?
jf | 9 months ago | on: Player Piano Rolls
I clicked on the link guessing, and then hoping, that it would have MIDI files of the piano rolls. Not so, but archive.org has at least 14,233: https://archive.org/details/pianorollmusic.com-midifiles
jf | 10 months ago | on: Náhuatl and Mayan Language Renaissance Occurring in Mexico
I’ve been paying more attention to Náhuatl after reading “The Aztecs: A Very Short Introduction” [0] and seeing the names of my great uncles and great aunts in there (e.g. Xochitl, Nezahualcoyotl) which opened a mystery of sorts. My grandmother and her older brother had very classically Mexican names and the four younger siblings had Náhuatl names, but why? My great aunts didn’t know but I suspect that the answer is related to the “Indigenismo” movement in Mexico [1], which may also be behind the linguistic renaissance that this article describes.
My personal ties to this history aside, it’s fascinating to see how many Náhuatl words made it into Mexican Spanish and into English and beyond! [2]
Footnotes:
0: https://academic.oup.com/book/481
1: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigenismo_in_Mexico
2: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Spanish_words_of_Nah...
jf | 10 months ago | on: I built a free energy engine and show how it works [video]
I enjoyed seeing how these sorts of “magic tricks” work.
jf | 10 months ago | on: Walmart plans EV Charging network which will blanket the US within a few years
Thanks for making that decision, the title you picked is better
jf | 10 months ago | on: ICE Deports 3 U.S. Citizen Children Held Incommunicado Prior to the Deportation
Please note that the 14th Amendment does not “discuss” who is a citizen, a better word would be “establishes” or “determines” - the “discussion” happened during the drafting and ratification processes and all of those records are available for you to read. Post ratification, the court system uses those discussions as part of their decisions on issues related to clarification of questions that arose after ratification. Those court decisions are also available for you to read.
jf | 10 months ago | on: ICE Deports 3 U.S. Citizen Children Held Incommunicado Prior to the Deportation
Your example doesn’t make sense because the 14th amendment only applies to the United States and not the United Kingdom.
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