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New comment by jf in "California's new bill requires DOJ-approved 3D printers that report themselves"

jf — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 22:46:39 +0000

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”

New comment by jf in "How to Attend Meetings"

jf — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 21:12:11 +0000

I think that’s why the document had some suggested pushback to meeting invites (e.g. “what’s the agenda so I can prepare”)

New comment by jf in "How to Attend Meetings"

jf — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 21:11:14 +0000

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.

New comment by jf in "Questions for Cloudflare"

jf — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 17:07:29 +0000

https://web.archive.org/web/20251119165814/https://entropict...

New comment by jf in "Heroku Support for .NET 10"

jf — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 05:23:32 +0000

I came here to see if AppHarbor was still running and was pleased to see this post :D

New comment by jf in "AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1"

jf — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 14:08:02 +0000

Interesting. Langley isn’t that far away

New comment by jf in "America Is Sliding Toward Illiteracy"

jf — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 19:38:23 +0000

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.”

New comment by jf in "Don’t Look Up: Sensitive internal links in the clear on GEO satellites [pdf]"

jf — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 03:19:29 +0000

That’s my interpretation

New comment by jf in "Men paying thousands for leg lengthening surgery"

jf — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 02:56:09 +0000

Yes, this was a plot point in GATTACA

New comment by jf in "DNA tests are uncovering the true prevalence of incest (2024)"

jf — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 04:47:15 +0000

I found found this post to be very interesting and am grateful that you wrote it.

New comment by jf in "What Google Translate can tell us about vibecoding"

jf — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 23:52:19 +0000

> The visual real-time image OCR stuff was an app they purchased (Magic Lens?) that I had previously used.

Word Lens, by Quest Visual

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quest_Visual

New comment by jf in "The Zach Attack Scratch 'N Solve Puzzle Pack"

jf — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 06:04:29 +0000

I've spent many delightful hours playing Zack's games and look forward to trying out this one.

New comment by jf in "Player Piano Rolls"

jf — Fri, 30 May 2025 04:14:15 +0000

I love this background information. I hope you’re backing up those MIDI files!

New comment by jf in "Player Piano Rolls"

jf — Fri, 30 May 2025 04:12:55 +0000

Sweet! Do you have anything written up yet?

New comment by jf in "Player Piano Rolls"

jf — Fri, 30 May 2025 03:24:15 +0000

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

New comment by jf in "Náhuatl and Mayan Language Renaissance Occurring in Mexico"

jf — Fri, 16 May 2025 06:10:29 +0000

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...

New comment by jf in "I built a free energy engine and show how it works [video]"

jf — Fri, 09 May 2025 21:28:49 +0000

I enjoyed seeing how these sorts of “magic tricks” work.

New comment by jf in "Walmart plans EV Charging network which will blanket the US within a few years"

jf — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 20:07:51 +0000

Thanks for making that decision, the title you picked is better

Wanix: The Spirit of Plan 9 in WASM

jf — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 18:06:23 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGBeT8lwbo0

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43813900

Points: 3

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New comment by jf in "ICE Deports 3 U.S. Citizen Children Held Incommunicado Prior to the Deportation"

jf — Sat, 26 Apr 2025 16:20:01 +0000

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.