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>These Southern singing conventions thrived because the untrained singers, who had to sing from written music, could learn how through a technique called “solfège,” to use the music-school word for it. Plainer folks called it shape notes. You know the system. You’ve heard it a thousand times.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solf%C3%A8ge

Solfège has nothing to do with the shapes of the notes, just the naming.

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

This is shape note.

You can use the two together obviously, but they are not the same thing.

doormatton FDA stands against using smartwatches to monitor blood glucose

>We currently don't measure fructose level

Apologies, but I'm unsure if you're saying that no devices measure fructose level, or just the watch doesn't measure fructose level.

doormatton Freenginx: Core Nginx developer announces fork

Cost.

Now, SSL termination is done at the host level, using a distributed SSL termination proxy developed by S3 called "JBLRelay"

doormatton Freenginx: Core Nginx developer announces fork

Yup - there was a massive internal push to move off of SSL terminating LBs back in ~2018

doormatton Capturing the ripples of spacetime: LISA gets go-ahead

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

They're already planning for something like that!

doormatton Change of Name: Coq –> The Rocq Prover

As an young anglophone enrolled in French immersion, I (nearly ~30 years later now) distinctly remember the day my teacher taught us about seals (phoques).

And yes, it's pronounced exactly like you think.

That was a glorious month or two until we moved on to the next module.

doormatton 4D Gaussian Splatting for Real-Time Dynamic Scene Rendering

Ecstatica - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnOXk3QJWN8

doormatton Caltrans exec who protested a freeway expansion gets demoted

>She said she told him she was thinking of filing a whistleblower complaint with the state auditor. A complaint could trigger an investigation.

Mistake number one. You either file a complaint or you don't. You do NOT warn them.

doormatton A new instrument found unusual success

What about the Chapman Stick, which came even earlier?

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

doormatton Is push/pop really not available as a Cloud Service?

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSSimpleQueueService/latest/SQS...

>The order in which messages are sent and received is strictly preserved and a message is delivered once and remains available until a consumer processes and deletes it.

>In addition, FIFO queues support message groups that allow multiple ordered message groups within a single queue. There is no quota to the number of message groups within a FIFO queue.