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“Passkeys are WebAuth credentials intended to replace passwords for websites and apps with device sync and backup. The technology is now available in WebKit as a preview.”

Posted on October 26, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Safari 15 has a lot of new powers.

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residential proxies – Google Search

Posted on October 26, 2021 by jgordon

Link. A small but thriving American industry that seems to largely funded by scammers and Russian hackers.

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Exercise for autism – the home mini-CrossFit program.

Posted on October 26, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Sharing what has worked.

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Fly brain connectome 1.0.

Posted on October 26, 2021 by jgordon

Link. A map, but not the terrain. We are still a way from emulating a fly brain in software. But one day…

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“Apartments built in every single one of those decades began to filter up instead: they became occupied, on average, by higher-income people.”

Posted on October 26, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Essential read. Housing in America.

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“The difference between gain of function research and research that would be expected to yield results showing gain of function in some cases is a subtle one.”

Posted on October 26, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Better oversight needed.

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“clean energy advanced far more quickly than predicted”

Posted on October 26, 2021 by jgordon

Link. This is doable.

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Flock license plate scanners for gated communities.

Posted on October 26, 2021 by jgordon

Link. The technology keeps improving.

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Rendering on the Apple M1 Max Chip.

Posted on October 26, 2021 by jgordon

Link. The author is extreme. Easy to see why Apple dropped their max machine on him.

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The Worm Blob: “It is not hard to fall in love with them.”

Posted on October 25, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Reads like it was great fun to write.

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“South Pole thruster could literally be the one and only thing, after the ice melts, that truly saves our planet.”

Posted on October 25, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Spaceship Earth. Also, Feersum Endjinn is a great book by Iain M Banks.

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“Many spyware companies, including NSO, prevent the targeting of United States phone numbers”

Posted on October 24, 2021 by jgordon

Link. China not worried.

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“the gas tax doesn’t come close to keeping pace with federal spending on roads and highways … Congress hasn’t raised it in 28 years.”

Posted on October 24, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Myths about roadways refuted.

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“The primary goal of a container is to hide the real OS from an application.”

Posted on October 24, 2021 by jgordon

Link. “Containers shouldn’t be confused with virtualization however, which provides a consistent hardware interface to the OS. A container is more about providing a consistent OS interface to applications.”Helped me understand the basics.

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“Conspiracy theories are more visible online, and journalists feel they need to report on them to help make sense of what is going on. But that doesn’t mean there are more of them, or that belief in them has necessarily increased.”

Posted on October 24, 2021 by jgordon

Link. The 1970s were a heyday of astrology and crystals and UFOs.

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“the Frauchinger-Renner paradox, which demonstrates that quantum mechanics cannot consistently describe the use of itself.”

Posted on October 24, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Gödel has thoughts.

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“In Sri Lanka, people were able to automatically add hundreds of thousands of users to Facebook groups, exposing them to violence-inducing and hateful content.”

Posted on October 23, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Facebook is a global catastrophe.

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“internal research over several years had identified ways to diminish the spread of political polarization, conspiracy theories and incitements to violence”. “

Posted on October 23, 2021 by jgordon

Link. They reduced engagement.

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“The Cheneys are likely not unaware of what is happening among intelligence officials, which seems likely to involve some current Republican lawmakers.”

Posted on October 23, 2021 by jgordon

Link. People who know things.

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How to use thecompendium.cards

Posted on October 23, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Open source. Lovely project.

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Coordination Headwind – How Organizations Are Like Slime Molds

Posted on October 23, 2021 by jgordon

Link. The problem description is persuasive but the fixes seem a bit miraculous. Explains Google though.

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Guns on sets: the safety protocols.

Posted on October 23, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Lots of things have to go wrong to cause serious harm.

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Is China in Big Trouble? (Again)

Posted on October 22, 2021 by jgordon

Link. How will they escape this time?

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Waller TX truck assault by idiot teenager – the update.

Posted on October 22, 2021 by jgordon

Link. “Blowing coal”. Sick culture, sick parents, warped kids. National, maybe international, attention.

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Happy stories of the social media startups Trump spurned.

Posted on October 22, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Their great flaw was their opposition to censorship. A Trump site must be strongly censored.

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Migration assistant: “set up your new primary account on the new Mac with the same user name – in particular short username – and password”

Posted on October 22, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Solid tips. Save.

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Scott Aarronson’s Shtetl-Optimized has moved to scottaaronson.blog

Posted on October 21, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Feedbin picked up new feed. I don’t think old feed is necessary redirecting.

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“The biggest Mac problem is still software quality”

Posted on October 21, 2021 by jgordon

Link. The hardware improvements don’t mean much to me. I’d trade it all for a Pro version of Photos.app.

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“if your MacBook Pro or Air ever wakes or starts up unexpectedly, look first for magnets”

Posted on October 21, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Funny.

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“PBS really should be doing an internal investigation about why they broadly promoted a dangerous quack for years”

Posted on October 21, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Before you donate ask the status of that investigation. Christine Northrup.

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macOS Upgrade to Big Sur fails due to bug handling Spotlight files.

Posted on October 21, 2021 by jgordon

Link. private/var/folders/*/*/C/com.apple.metadata.mdworker. Apple will fix eventually.

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“lot of potential for more lightweight outliners like Drummer and Zavala that can potentially talk to each other and to the web.”

Posted on October 21, 2021 by jgordon

Link. All that is old is new again.

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Device Software Updates

Posted on October 20, 2021 by jgordon

Link. I got one for Mojave. Nice.

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If America Had Six Parties, Which Would You Belong To?

Posted on October 20, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Quiz.

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The biofuel opposition: “tip the scales against farmers like me who produce corn and soybeans for ethanol and biodiesel.”

Posted on October 20, 2021 by jgordon

Link. CO2 support is bigger than Exxon.

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“Black and Hispanic or Latino death rates are six times higher than those for white people.”

Posted on October 20, 2021 by jgordon

Link. In middle-age, men 1.6x women. Get vaccinated.

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Genetically altered pig kidney works briefly for a brain-dead human.

Posted on October 19, 2021 by jgordon

Link. “Dr. Montgomery and his team also transplanted the pig’s thymus.” Many thanks to the patient and their family who gave permission for this work.

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“that’s not what Amazon — and Jeff Bezos in particular — have said under oath”

Posted on October 19, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Bezos lied about how bastardly his company behaves. Bit like Cook but more flagrant.

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“secretary, who is vaccinated, learned of his infection during routine testing ahead of a foreign trip”

Posted on October 19, 2021 by jgordon

Link. We need home antigen test kits.

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“the longer a person had high levels of LDL — no matter what their LDL level is in young adulthood or middle age”

Posted on October 19, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Favors treating LDL over 100 earlier in life. Some people have dramatic drops with small statin doses.

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“street vendors who used to line the sidewalks, some of whom were kidnapped by the gang for what little they had in their pockets or told to sell what few possessions they had at home”

Posted on October 19, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Haiti is a warning.

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“protein-based vaccine as a booster for people who have already received other vaccines”

Posted on October 19, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Good overview. Future is likely regular COVID vaccines of different types. Challenge is parsing out side-effects.

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Tuberculosis: “coughing accounts for as little as 7 percent of the total bacteria emitted by an infected patient”

Posted on October 19, 2021 by jgordon

Link. One of the odder learnings of the COVID era.

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“the Minnesota Psychiatric Society released a position paper opposing authorization of medical cannabis as a treatment for every and all anxiety disorders.”

Posted on October 19, 2021 by jgordon

Link. No kidding. There’s no medically credible evidence that cannabis is a good longterm treatment for anything. Cannabis is recreation (with risks) and should be treated that way.

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“Supply-Side Progressivism is the kind of vision I want to fight for. Cost Disease Socialism is the kind of last-ditch palliative that I will accept, but only glumly.”

Posted on October 19, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Would love to see a critique of his dismissal of Baumol’s cost disease.

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“horseback riding likely sends more people to the hospital than other sports like football, auto and motorcycle racing, and skiing”

Posted on October 18, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Motorcycle racing?! They probably don’t mean super cross. But otherwise this is not surprising. Horseback riding is THE extreme sport.

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Powell immunosuppressed due to multiple myeloma history and therapy.

Posted on October 18, 2021 by jgordon

Link. I’m sure he received monoclonal antibodies as well.

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“the kind of media that suffocates nuance, venerates self-assuredness, and equates self-reflection and principled concessions with weakness.”

Posted on October 18, 2021 by jgordon

Link. The 20% who sustain civilization sigh and go back to pushing the rock up the hill.

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“In Idaho, commissioners last month appointed a new physician representative to the health board in the Boise region who advocates unapproved treatments for Covid-19 and refers to coronavirus vaccinations as “needle rape.”

Posted on October 18, 2021 by jgordon

Link.

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Summary of housing crisis.

Posted on October 18, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Too few homes and corporate consolidation makes eviction more efficient. Does not dig into problems with assistance programs.

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