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Apple Is Locking iPhone Batteries to Discourage Repair

Posted on August 8, 2019 by jgordon

Link. “Swapping in a new genuine Apple battery from another iPhone XS resulted in the “Service” message popping up in the Battery Health section, followed by an “Important Battery Message” telling us that it’s “unable to verify this iPhone has a genuine Apple battery”

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“If the body that created the Perseids ever collides with Earth, it will be a worse catastrophe than the extinction of the dinosaurs.”

Posted on August 8, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Would be a shame to lose technological civilization and possibility of diversion.

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The sheer hopelessness of the old creaky bike.

Posted on August 7, 2019 by jgordon

Link. I wonder if old aluminum frames tend to creak. I’m with this 2005 post.

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The Earth contains one squirrel mass of dark matter.

Posted on August 7, 2019 by jgordon

Link. No comment on dispersion.

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Google development vs. corporate Agile

Posted on August 7, 2019 by jgordon

Link. When I did this stuff I felt Agile gave scalable design (architecture) insufficient weight, but basic Agile was still better than most anything else…

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“researchers combined the blood test results with other factors known to influence the risk of Alzheimer’s disease — age, and the presence or absence of a gene variant, ApoE4 — and found the blood test was 94 percent accurate in predicting the pre

Posted on August 7, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Value limited to clinical trial enrollment.

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Living with crutches: helpful gear

Posted on August 7, 2019 by jgordon

Link. A unique reference

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“the larger the pool of people using Tinder, the more who might eventually pay for certain benefits. If they get frustrated enough.”

Posted on August 7, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Good strategy.

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“those with osteoarthritis had a 42 percent increased risk for congestive heart failure”

Posted on August 7, 2019 by jgordon

Link. We don’t understand OA at all

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Trump seeks to end foreign aid despite Congress

Posted on August 7, 2019 by jgordon

Link. McConnell shares responsibility

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“is often Mr. Trump’s Twitter feed that carries his authentic voice. Mr. Trump has a history of promoting inflammatory far-right opinions, including those of white nationalists, conspiracy theorists and critics of Islam”

Posted on August 7, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Is he worse than Nixon?

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Minnesota is a mountain bike Mecca.

Posted on August 7, 2019 by jgordon

Link. We Bluff well.

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“If the internet is going to be presented as this egalitarian platform and most of Twitter is liberal cesspools of venom”

Posted on August 7, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Hissssssssssss.

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“DeepMind had written assurances it would be financially supported for at least another year.”

Posted on August 7, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Yikes.

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Living with Desktop & Documents in iCloud

Posted on August 7, 2019 by jgordon

Link. I have not dared.

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Greenland sharks can live for centuries.

Posted on August 7, 2019 by jgordon

Link. They burn far less oxygen than us and have far less radiation exposure. The physiology of their longevity is going to be amazing.

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Dem caution: public support for gun control still below 1990s level.

Posted on August 7, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Upward trend however. i think we will need public support back to historic peak to get action in context of a Dem sweep.

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“hardly any U.S. journalist, even those supposedly covering monetary policy, really understands how the Fed works”

Posted on August 7, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Lotterman deserves a wider audience.

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“the Department of Justice is now more or less openly operating as the President’s personal defender”

Posted on August 7, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Trump’s superpower is corruption.

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Ebola adapts to its human hosts.

Posted on August 7, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Following theory.

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Warmer climate on the earth may be due to more carbon dioxide in the air. 1956.

Posted on August 6, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Predictions held up reasonably well.

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“Spotlight can completely overlook files and consistently fail to find words within them, which appears to result from an indexing problem.”

Posted on August 6, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Cook doesn’t use a computer.

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Wordprocessor metadata kind of sucks in macOS.

Posted on August 6, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Spotlight not indesing. Also, Pages is awful.

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Apple screwed up last Mojave update

Posted on August 6, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Making MSFT look marvelous.

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Equifax settlement was absolute crap

Posted on August 6, 2019 by jgordon

Link. $62 million ansolute max penalty

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“Document versions is another of those really powerful features of macOS which has been strangely stunted to the point where its benefits become marginal”

Posted on August 6, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Apple should quietly drop this feature.

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Yelp Inserts Tracking Phone Numbers.

Posted on August 6, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Avoid them.

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Employing China’s college graduates: “Graduates who want to start their own businesses may be eligible for a state loan with little or no collateral”

Posted on August 6, 2019 by jgordon

Link. There are some ideas there on boosting employment. Note the non-college are basically Soylent.

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Securing Congressional campaigns: “I know that “CANDIDATE_NAME2020” is your campaign password”

Posted on August 6, 2019 by jgordon

Link. 19yo enthusiasts vs the Kremlin. Assume you are hacked completely both politically and personally.

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The rules change.

Posted on August 5, 2019 by jgordon

Link. At the end of my 60th year age is a meaningful number.

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PET scans for amyloid / Alzheimers are a really stupid idea.

Posted on August 5, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Very few physicians are gonna want this for themselves

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It’s An Honor To Continue Being Valued Over Countless Human Lives

Posted on August 5, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Not bad Onion. 2016. Ever fresh.

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Ambiguities in arithmetic notation: a pop example

Posted on August 5, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Wolfram said 16, I thought 1.

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Statins Provide Heart Benefits Past Age 75

Posted on August 5, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Had been leaning towards stopping. Now leaning other way

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Stevens. Repeal the 2nd. 2018. Stop trying to persuade the hard right. Settle this at the ballot box.

Posted on August 5, 2019 by jgordon

Link. For reference.

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Noah Simpson demolishes a winger frantically insisting poverty is due to moral flaws.

Posted on August 4, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Most wingers don’t care why people are poor, but some are terrified that it might be fixable. i guess that makes them less despicable in some ways.

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xkcd: How to preorder available.

Posted on August 4, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Order from site for now.

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“CTVT was the only remaining genetic legacy of the first dogs that migrated from Asia to the Americas”

Posted on August 3, 2019 by jgordon

Link. 8000 years ago. All native dogs became extinct. Distemper?

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Another damned tick borne disease: Powassan virus.

Posted on August 3, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Paging wolves.

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Lighthizer – the theory begin Trump’s Trade Wars.

Posted on August 3, 2019 by jgordon

Link. There was a stupidly shortsighted theory, a bit better than the Laffer curve, but it was wrong. MoscowMitch owns this too.

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“There were at least 38 million pages on GeoCities before it was shut down, most user-written”

Posted on August 2, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Oct 2009. We should have a yearly moment of silence. The web itself is a ghost town now, ready to burn.

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How Long Does Quantum Tunneling Take?

Posted on August 2, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Fabulous new experiment agrees with best math. Not zero, no FTL travel.

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History of the cellphone.

Posted on August 2, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Early contributor 90, says iPhone nice but getting excessively complex.

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Bank sw: “This mail address is now forwarded to an email group. They couldn’t change the address as it’s hard coded and they don’t have the code that was used to compile this Java 6 service”

Posted on August 1, 2019 by jgordon

Link. We don’t understand software

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“All these years later, and iOS video output over Lightning is still less reliable than using the old Dock connector adapter”

Posted on August 1, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Apple speaks.

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“People who lose control and start screaming are received only with consternation and embarrassment.”

Posted on August 1, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Lasted longest in SV and DC. In my corporate world died in the 90s, but maybe persisted in C suite.

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“The president wanted his patrician secretary of state to understand that Reagan spoke for racist Americans, and they needed to be listened to.”

Posted on August 1, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Reagan’s racism was whitewashed.

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“I was again impressed by Cory Booker”

Posted on August 1, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Hope he stays in.

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Jeffrey Epstein also a Bond villain with a stable of celebrity scientists.

Posted on August 1, 2019 by jgordon

Link. We have SO many Bond villains now.

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“the Files app can’t easily cache whole folders offline and can’t be trusted not to purge its cache at inopportune times”

Posted on August 1, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Truly frustrating

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