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by joshdata 17d ago
Does anyone commenting actually have kids in daycare or experience with the alternative - being responsible for your kids 24/7 with no help? I could not do what my kid's daycare teachers do every day, emotionally or physically. Wi
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by joshdata 7mo ago
> If your application also runs NFKC normalization (which it should — ENS, GitHub, and Unicode IDNA all require it) That's not right. Most of the web requires NFC normalization, not NFKC. NFC doesn't lose information in the ori
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by joshdata 1y ago
Is the goal to make good ORM queries easier or to prevent bad queries? It's not clear there's really a compiler solution to the latter. If you're inside a loop in which a database cursor is in scope, then further database que
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by joshdata 1y ago
Without commenting on the merits of that idea, I'll just say that I do not want to be the one who has to moderate user generated content.
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by joshdata 1y ago
That's not really the right picture. Congress.gov, originally THOMAS.gov, was a product of the Republican Contract with America take-over of Congress in the mid 1990s. Republicans in Congress, including Rep. Issa for example, were help
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by joshdata 1y ago
I did much of that so I appreciate you saying that the documentation is excellent. :)
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by joshdata 1y ago
Hi. I run GovTrack. OP may have been unlucky on the timing. The site isn't usually down. Here's the link to the text of H.R. 1 on GovTrack: https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/119/hr1/text W
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by joshdata 1y ago
Totally agree with you that pride is important, but there's definitely more. Being a good engineer is frequently a problem of design --- whether it's user experience or code abstractions. Design is partly art, and that makes us ar
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by joshdata 1y ago
Hi. Author of that article here, and I worked with the DC Council to get the initial prototype going, if anyone has any questions. What's important in the story is that the law went from being not open to open and the law-publication-p
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by joshdata 2y ago
Millions of Americans already use GovTrack.us to track legislation in the U.S. Congress and how their representatives and senators vote. I created GovTrack twenty years ago with the idea that information in context helps us hold our governm
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by joshdata 2y ago
I agree that ethnic Jews with Christian religious beliefs is a legitimate concept. But I would rather call them Messianic Jews (or just Christian Jews) rather than adherents of "Messianic Judaism." To say that "Judaism"
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by joshdata 2y ago
Yes and that was what I was saying (sorry it wasn't clear). What it means to be a Jew is complicated. Jews form an ethnicity of interconnected people with a range of beliefs and practices (it is, definitionally, not whether one is rel
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by joshdata 2y ago
The unfortunate part is where Christians try to pass themselves off as Jews by adding "Jewish" to the name of their denomination. I wish my great aunts and uncles could have added "Christian" to their denomination to esc
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Unicode.run: A Unicode Text Debugger(unicode.run)
3 points by joshdata 2y ago|1 comments
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by joshdata 2y ago
Text is unexpectedly complicated. Use Unicode.run to debug text. Paste text or click an example to see: See when characters like emojis are composed of multiple code points. Click code points in the debugger output to highlight them in the
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by joshdata 2y ago
> Agencies will just need to work with Congress to help them write laws This is already exactly how it works. One reason why legislating takes so long is because there is an enormous amount of collaboration between legislators and agenci
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by joshdata 2y ago
Yeah, I don't want to be responsible for user-generated content, and I don't want to collect data on users.
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by joshdata 2y ago
I am pretty sure it's the simulation.
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by joshdata 2y ago
Author here. Glad to see this making the rounds again after a few years. Go science! Support your local climate scientist!
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by joshdata 2y ago
U.S. law requires that agencies perform this public disclosure of their analysis so that interested parties in the general public have an opportunity to meaningfully weigh in before the proposed regulation becomes an actual regulation. It&#
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by joshdata 2y ago
Just to clarify the headline, it's Congress and President Biden who are requiring critical infrastructure to report ransom and other cyber incidents, per a law enacted inside must-pass legislation in 2022: https://www.govtra
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by joshdata 3y ago
Self-replying... I found the comments really helpful so I wrote up some thoughts on different approaches to tackling projects. Hope this might be helpful to others. https://joshuatauberer.medium.com/bullet-time-and-elephant-
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by joshdata 3y ago
I think the idea is that for a slice of an elephant to be "elephant shaped," it has a bit of all of the key parts of an elephant - a bit of the trunk, a bit of a heart, stubs for four legs, whatever else makes an elephant an eleph
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by joshdata 3y ago
This is a similar idea to how I understand the Elephant Carpaccio exercise by Henrik Kniberg & Alistair Cockburn (2013), from what I've been able to Google. The key idea is that work should be broken down into "vertical slices
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by joshdata 3y ago
We don't ask for dollars back. The government asks for a loan that pays interest and lots of people gladly want to make that loan - like probably your retirement investments. This is where the national debt comes from. If we printed mo
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by joshdata 3y ago
This article seems to be extremely confused about the difference between increasing the supply of dollars (printing money or other tactics of the Federal Reserve) and deficit spending (moving already-created dollars from the public, includi
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by joshdata 4y ago
> You shouldn't be comparing the mailbox part of email addresses at all other than as literal bytestrings It's hard to know what to do in practice, but this seems to be wrong according to https://www.rfc-editor.org&#
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by joshdata 4y ago
Right. And I think subsidies are being offered to switch. (I saw an ad outside yesterday promoting this.)
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by joshdata 4y ago
It's complicated but thankfully you don't have to reinvent the wheel: https://github.com/JoshData/python-email-validator (my project) The README covers a lot of ground: internationalized domain names, interna
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by joshdata 5y ago
Of course. DC however has an unfortunate history of being ruled more like a colony than a part of a democracy, a consequence of racism, and talking about the city as if the residents don't exist is a part of the problem and perpetuates

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