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Author Archives: jgordon
SIP and “Operation Not Permitted” in macOS Mojave
Link. I would not do this, but a useful command ref.
Checking for broken Aliases using Alifix
Link. Appreciated.
Fining Facebook is futile.
Link. Would need to be 10s of billions to be noticed. US doesn’t do that.
Medicare readmission policy has some side-effects.
Link. Why are they surprised?!
Behind and beyond Brexit: “fissiparous four-nation state cannot be governed without radical social and constitutional change.”
Link. Fabulous writing.
“meteorologists are showing up for work each day even though it’s been weeks since they received a paycheck.”
Link. Accuweather sort-of apology. Bigger point is Trump-McConnell should be removed from office.
Netflix audience numbers are staggering
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“Bangladesh is now effectively a one-party state in which somewhere around half the population hates and fears the ruling party.”
Link. Typical 2019.
Putin, orthodox saint
Link. Uncannily familiar.
MarsEdit 4.2.6: Restore Blogspot/Blogger Image Uploads
Link. That picasa API lasted a long time
“15-year-old ran up $6,500 in in-game charges and Facebook refused the request for a refund.”
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Cannabis and schizophrenia in the young.
Link. Tobacco similar association.
“TrueCar guaranteed price averaged $1,550 more than what consumers paid when dealers had to bid for their business.”
Link. Remember when the Net was going to make car buying simple?
5G – what to expect.
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“I actually admire Trump’s refusal to betray his allies, once he realised what Erdogan was up to.”
Link. Going a bit far.
Give that 90yo his friggin world record.
Link. I’m aiming to cross that line and drop dead.
“The association we find between digital technology use and adolescent well-being is negative but small, explaining at most 0.4% of the variation in well-being.”
Link. Minuscule.
“US should corner the market on software vulnerabilities”
Link. Rising prices is encouraging sign?
The Route of a Text Message: how things work.
Link. I liked the bit about angels. Lots of learning here.
“irisin levels in the brain blossomed during the exercise training and later, after the animals’ brains were exposed to beta amyloid, they seemed to fight off its effects”
Link. Mice. Still, very interesting. Dementia deferral makes CrossFit fees look cheap.
A succinct summary of the t-mobile corruption.
Link. McConnells name written in the ledger of American corruption.
The Titanic Hypocrisy of the Republican Party
Link. We’re out of adjectives to describe the modern GOP. True this: “Democrats would not have accepted Obama confiscating his interpreter’s notes or Clinton’s campaign conspiring with the Chinese.”
Insect collapse.
Link. Silent Spring 2.0.
Sabine in which physics problems are worth chasing
Link. Some favorites rejected.
China “now faces the disturbing specter of being stuck in the so-called middle-income trap.”
Link. I don’t think this will happen, but those numbers are bad.
Greenlight debit card can be used internationally without fees.
Link. So if I made my sister a member of the family, and sent her a card…
Trump admin to walk back Obama regs on employment for cognitively disabled.
Link. Quietly … I agree with the Trump administration on this one. I was hoping they’d adjust.
A valiant run at explaining QFT and the standard model.
Link. He could make a book out of this piece.
Against Public Bug Trackers
Link. IBM published OS/2 bugs. Was noble mistake.
Apple FoundationDB: “Record Layer and FoundationDB form the backbone of Apple’s CloudKit”
Link. There’s a preprint.
Signal v Noise Exits Medium
Link. Hope.
Why bet against China.
Link. I’ve lost that bet msny times.
Lifehacker has a shockingly well done review of Toxic Shock Syndrome.
Link. So rare now few will do much specific research.
Brett Terpstra’s tools (that he made)
Link. nvALT gets updates still.
Putin’s Trump strategy exceeds expectations- NATO on the line.
Link. Blame McConnell.
Batterygate was very effective at driving iPhone sales.
Link. Whether deliberate or emergent (or both) Apple’s de facto degradation of old device performance was clearly effective.
RSS tools: “ On my Palm Pre 2 (heh heh): FeedSpider. Really a great app”.
Link. You win my friend.
The Strange Marketplace for Diabetes Test Strips
Link. America sucks.
Cannabis risks – the evidence.
Link. Good summary. Most physicians are apprehensive, but recent warning flurry is not science based.
Killing brain eating amoebae
Link. “10-year-old boy who goes swimming in the South in the summer and starts to get a headache a few days later”. Rare complication of Neti pot use.
“both men and women gained a whopping 24 pounds on average from 1960 to 2002”
Link. Doctors no longer examine abdomen. Too fat to be useful
GoDaddy does JavaScript Injection for hosted sites
Link. Try Dreamhost?
CES 2019: A Show Report.
Link. Sinofsky, who knows things.
The Thirty Years War: “Defenestration of Prague to the Peace of Westphalia of 1648″
Link. History podcast. In Our Time.
Library superpower
Link. Analog.
iOS – Home Accessories: AirPlay 2 device support
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The Standard Model – TEDEd Lesson
Link. VERY well done. Fast too. Alas, the LHC spin is too optimistic.
InternetAlt: Cuba’s “el paquete semanal”
Link. Cuba has the best alternative.
Four new features Apple Podcasts should add in iOS 13.
Link. Books and Podcasts and audiobooks should all be manageable within Files.