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Return of Ihnatko – with less CSS

Posted on August 1, 2019 by jgordon

Link. CSS was a mistake.

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“the number of people aged 80 or older will rise from 146 million to 881 million”

Posted on July 31, 2019 by jgordon

Link. 2020 to 2100. Ugh.

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There are no successful socialist nations …

Posted on July 31, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Because the word is kind of meaningless. Progressive is probably a better word.

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Apple Maps in iOS 13: Still no bicycle directions.

Posted on July 31, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Huge gap. Google rules.

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Heart failure update – classic curbsiders.

Posted on July 31, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Great overview. Still topical. On my saved list to review periodically.

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“When victims send funds, they often do so via wire transfers or iTunes and Amazon gift cards, which the scammers sell at a discount on the black market.”

Posted on July 31, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Not bitcoin! I think cards have to be used in country of origin

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‘Moscow Mitch’ hits McConnell nerve?

Posted on July 31, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Darth Vader suddenly squeamish? What happened?

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Fact checking Dem debate is kind of boring.

Posted on July 31, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Old school political prevarications kind of cute now.

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Do We Really Know the 2016 Results Weren’t Altered?

Posted on July 30, 2019 by jgordon

Link. No. We don’t.

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Apple watch EKG feature probably a quite bad thing

Posted on July 30, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Tons of false positives, big healthcare expense

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Open source data portability project

Posted on July 30, 2019 by jgordon

Link. I’m amazed this is a thing

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Trump’s 2019 racism was 1989 white NY mainstream.

Posted on July 30, 2019 by jgordon

Link. In 1989 he would not have been unusual by location, gender, race. He’s weird because he remains stuck in time.

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RTF and RTFD

Posted on July 30, 2019 by jgordon

Link. .docx is, sadly, the better choice

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“when someone tells me that everything happens for a reason, I do not respond with a brief treatise on life’s ultimate meaninglessness”

Posted on July 29, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Actually, the reason is God hates us.

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Apple’s iPad education thrash

Posted on July 29, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Also, the textbook publishers crushed them.

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A history of the Great War: Mosquitoes vs Us.

Posted on July 29, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Isn’t Falciparum also a predator?

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NYT article on Facebook’s imposter account scams

Posted on July 29, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Facebook’s imposter reporting framework is obscure. Tiny minority know how to use it.

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“repatriation drives,” a series of informal raids that took place around the United States during the Great Depression”

Posted on July 28, 2019 by jgordon

Link. American history is kinda brutal.

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“50 percent increased risk of dementia among people who used a strong anticholinergic drug daily for about three years within that 10-year period. The association was stronger for antidepressants, bladder drugs, …”

Posted on July 28, 2019 by jgordon

Link. There are other worrisome studies. Correlation only.

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Another conviction based on a false confession

Posted on July 28, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Happens a lot, especially to vulnerable adults.

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Trump trying to deny Amazon a fed contract.

Posted on July 28, 2019 by jgordon

Link. In any other time this would be a huge scandal. Now it’s background noise.

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“DNA of first-year residents aged six times faster than normal.”

Posted on July 28, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Child related family stress out years on me.

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“Patients lucky enough not to be obliterated by pain can learn to balance on the precarious edge of the discerned present and an incalculable future”

Posted on July 28, 2019 by jgordon

Link. I have issues with the Creator.

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VW Audi’s cheat: “would reduce nitrogen oxide emissions by at least 90 percent, while consuming a lot of AdBlue. But that mode would only be used in conditions that corresponded to an official test.”

Posted on July 28, 2019 by jgordon

Link. More recalls, more fines

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“no such relationship between sun exposure and skin cancer and dark-skinned individuals.”

Posted on July 28, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Asians?

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Dem debate: save America or SAVE America

Posted on July 28, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Me: electoral college decides. Some policy areas tack center, others room to try big.

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QM interpretations: Sabine likes superdeterminism.

Posted on July 28, 2019 by jgordon

Link. You were fated to measure X. Everyone else’s least favorite interpretation. I like Dr Who’s interpretation – statistical non-localism is a defect of the simulation.

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FAA “been finding it harder to compete for talented engineers, their government salaries unable to keep up with the going rates in the industry.”

Posted on July 27, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Government service has many good features, but compensation is 30y out of date. GOP wants govt to die

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“Fox News rang the bell, the president salivated and his thumbs moved across his cell phone into action.”

Posted on July 27, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Baltimore returns the compliments.

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“the sorts of misconceptions that had led me to discount disinformation continue to hamper responses to the threat.”

Posted on July 27, 2019 by jgordon

Link. It is effective. An academic analysis. Nature.

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Google Maps Places – a covert social network.

Posted on July 27, 2019 by jgordon

Link. It’s half-assed, but you can share a list of places. Useful edits to list contents conspicuously missing feature.

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“Those who were most opposed to genetically modified foods believed they were the most knowledgeable about this issue, yet scored the lowest on actual tests of scientific knowledge”

Posted on July 27, 2019 by jgordon

Link. The more you know, the less confident you are. What do we call the inverse Dunning-Kruger effect?

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“auto companies to patent more individual parts on their vehicles, forcing you to buy those parts directly from them instead of relying on a more affordable, third-party market for replacements”

Posted on July 27, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Nobody will know how much a car costs to purchase and own. Price hiding is the goal of 21st century capitalism.

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You’re Entitled to $125 or More in the Equifax Breach Settlement

Posted on July 26, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Do it because they need to be punished

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Broken iOS Cellular Data Switch

Posted on July 26, 2019 by jgordon

Link. I’ve seen this. App uses cellular despite switch. Nasty bug.

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Senate report on Russian hack 2016 elections.

Posted on July 26, 2019 by jgordon

Link. They had lots of power, didn’t seem to use it. Much state security is crap.

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Robert Mueller Was Awesome.

Posted on July 26, 2019 by jgordon

Link. The Old man did good.

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Google removed weather feature from Calendar with 2018 redesign.

Posted on July 25, 2019 by jgordon

Link. I thought I had it until more recently. There are lots of old articles on how to enable this now lost feature. Very little on its departure.

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A rehab story plainly told.

Posted on July 25, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Useful for doctors. Our goal is to keep the addict alive. One day they may change.

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“specification calls for lines to be separated by CR LF, but my robots.txt files were only using CR”

Posted on July 25, 2019 by jgordon

Link. The great AI Civil War of 2243 was between the CR and CRLF forces

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Spreadsheets. xkcd

Posted on July 24, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Now I need to try these.

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“Republican argument is that the President really should not have been investigated since he could not be indicted”

Posted on July 24, 2019 by jgordon

Link. King.

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“GOP Rep McClintock accuses Mueller of defaming Russian government by claiming the Russian government was tied to the Russian troll farm which interfered in 2016 election.”

Posted on July 24, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Putin is an honorable man.

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“Astrological sign has no effect whatsoever on how compatible two people are.”

Posted on July 24, 2019 by jgordon

Link. That was amusing. Statistics in everyday life.

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Known bugs in macOS Mojave 10.14.6: “resizing of APFS disk images remain completely broken”

Posted on July 24, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Sigh.

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“general restriction of xattrs: their name cannot exceed a maximum of 127 UTF-8 characters.”

Posted on July 24, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Old school

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Email HTML: “we opened up not just a can of worms but an entire case of canned worms”

Posted on July 23, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Some mistakes can be undone

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Trusting iCloud Drive: Don’t.

Posted on July 23, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Google Drive has yet to betray me. I still distrust it.

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BMW CarPlay subscription: “serious next-level bullshit right there.”

Posted on July 23, 2019 by jgordon

Link. I have a personal moratorium on new subscriptions of any kind anywhere.

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Why now is time to change our roads.

Posted on July 23, 2019 by jgordon

Link. I blame Google Maps and smartphones more than ride share, but both. It’s time.

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