From How Americans Used Time in 1965 by John P. Robinson, published in 1977:| Jonathan Y. Chan
🎶 Ihni binni dimi diniwiny anytime | Jonathan Y. Chan
Because of you – because you sacrificed so much for a people that you had never met, Iraqis have a chance to forge their own destiny. That’s part of what makes us special as Americans. Unlike the old empires, we don’t make these sacrifices for territory or for resources. We do it because it’s right. There can be no fuller expression of America’s support for self-determination than our leaving Iraq to its people. That says something about who we are.| Jonathan Y. Chan
…there is credible evidence from the same scholarly sources that articulate the unwillingness or inability of francophone sub-Saharan African nations to embrace these new forms of governance apparently because the status quo serves the interests of the political leaders of these countries and their external mentor-France. The various economic, cultural and security arrangements that France established with its former colonies in Africa in the 1960s have enabled the French to maintain unprec...| Jonathan Y. Chan
… when reelected, McCarthy gained the chairmanship of the Senate Committee on Government Operations, a position he used, according to biographer David Oshinksy, “to undermine government morale, damage numerous reputations, and make America look sinister in the eyes of the world.”|
We have all become very marker-prone, but shouldn’t we nevertheless admit that, in the end, despite all we try to do, the most effective “marker” for any intruders will be a relatively limited amount of sickness and death caused by the radioactive waste?| Jonathan Y. Chan
I was working on an Android app when the virtual device in the Android Emulator on macOS suddenly stopped being able to connect to the network.| Jonathan Y. Chan
This is very simple, but it doesn’t seem to come up when I search.| Jonathan Y. Chan
I find that reading a document aloud is a great way to catch grammatical errors or awkward wordings.| Jonathan Y. Chan
Harmony is set in a world where technology makes it possible for everyone to be in perfect physical health.|
LLMs can sometimes recognize number patterns, but can they explain their reasoning? See for yourself!| Jonathan Y. Chan
You shall not wrong a sojourner or oppress him, for you were sojourners in the land of Egypt.|
There’s nothing particularly complex about this, but a few things surprised me along the way so I figured I’d write up some notes.|
The ```math fenced math code block syntax is an alternative to the traditional $$ or \[ syntax for \begin{display} supported by GitHub.| Jonathan Y. Chan
I’m sure I’m not the only male in America who, when Palin dropped her first wink, sat up a little straighter on the couch and said, “Hey, I think she just winked at me.”| Jonathan Y. Chan
Photos were not syncing from my Mac to my other devices.|
Jus soli is the predominant rule in the Americas…| Jonathan Y. Chan
I run Phoenix (Rails-like web framework for Elixir) like so:|
Go to http://plex.tv/claim/ to create a “claim code”.| Jonathan Y. Chan
Here’s what I use to reinstall the main branch of the neovim Homebrew package:| Jonathan Y. Chan
Ran across the Toasty Tech GUI Gallery today.| Jonathan Y. Chan
Here’s the copy-icloud-photos script I use to backup my photos stored on iCloud to my Synology NAS:| Jonathan Y. Chan
Previously: One-Paragraph Reviews, Vol. I| Jonathan Y. Chan
The iteration order for Elixir maps is not just “undefined” in the sense that there is some order at runtime which you don’t know.| Jonathan Y. Chan
I’d assumed that emoji were all organized into a contiguous Unicode codepoint range, but this is very much not the case!| Jonathan Y. Chan
3D Gaussian Splatting for Real-Time Radiance Field Rendering by Kerbl, Kopanas, Leimkühler, and Drettakis (2023).| Jonathan Y. Chan
You are ChatGPT, a large language model trained by OpenAI, based on the GPT-4 architecture.| Jonathan Y. Chan
Received this official-looking document in the mail by virtue of having my address associated with my failed startup.| Jonathan Y. Chan
Just tried to print out a PDF and it’s been an adventure!| Jonathan Y. Chan
Given their disdain for the social sciences, certain Silicon Valley venture capitalists have an ironic affinity to unwittingly describing things in structuralist terms.| Jonathan Y. Chan
In macOS, if you click on an application’s icon in the dock, it’ll either:| Jonathan Y. Chan
Professor Christine Korsgaard’s work on Kant is fascinating.| Jonathan Y. Chan
Palworld is pretty fun with friends! Maybe I’ll write more about the gameplay later.| Jonathan Y. Chan
I recently migrated this site off of a unnamed hosted blogging platform.| Jonathan Y. Chan
I’ve recently started playing around with Elixir.| Jonathan Y. Chan
I wanted to jot down some notes from my experience compiling a command-line application written in Elixir to a statically-linked binary on macOS. So far the experience has been great! I remember trying to do the same thing with OCaml a few years ago and it being a nightmare. Here are some gotchas I’ve run into, coming from a C++/TypeScript/Java background:| Jonathan Y. Chan
The docs say @requirements ["app.config"] should be sufficient, but that gave me this error:| Jonathan Y. Chan
Here’s how to make Firefox look like this:| Jonathan Y. Chan
Here’s a condensed version of my Statement of Faith:|
Isuien Garden in Nara uses these cute rocks to mark closed paths. 🗺️|
First!!!| Jonathan Y. Chan
I was excited to learn that S3 has natively supported redirects since 2012.| Jonathan Y. Chan