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“The community founded by the late Mel Lyman is still around today and runs a flourishing home-renovation business in the Los Angeles area.”

Posted on April 29, 2019 by jgordon

Link. An exceptional contribution to the cult literature. Love the reference to the lawyers.

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“Mozilla intends to deprecate IRC as our primary synchronous-text communications platform”

Posted on April 28, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Can’t be fixed

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How to clear Google Voice conditional call forwarding from an AT&T phone including iPhone

Posted on April 28, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Dial #62#, #61#, #67# to turn them all off.

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Juul works hard to encourage youth vaping.

Posted on April 28, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Preserving shareholder value. They are evil but not stupid.

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Reflections on the mediocrity of eBooks.

Posted on April 28, 2019 by jgordon

Link. I blame Apple DRM. Blocks long tail software dev.

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“Tony Fadell has tweeted about the state of Screen Time on Apple’s platforms, calling the feature ‘a rush job’. Fadell also wants Apple to release a sanctioned API for access to the digital health data.”

Posted on April 28, 2019 by jgordon

Link. I’d been thinking nobody besides me was using that pile of poop.

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Apple claims MDM use was reason to ban 3rd party parental control apps.

Posted on April 28, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Bullsh*t. What do schools use? Also, been years of this. Also, when did they ban this?

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How to open a tab delimited file in Apple macOS Numbers.app.

Posted on April 28, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Change extension from.tab to .csv. Excel recognizes .tab, an ancient mac convention.

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Programmer migration patterns.

Posted on April 28, 2019 by jgordon

Link. “Terminal nodes are: Rust, Java, Go, Python 3, Javascript.”

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Programmer migration patterns.

Posted on April 28, 2019 by jgordon

Link. “Terminal nodes are: Rust, Java, Go, Python 3, Javascript.”

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Programmer migration patterns.

Posted on April 28, 2019 by jgordon

Link. “Terminal nodes are: Rust, Java, Go, Python 3, Javascript.”

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Programmer migration patterns.

Posted on April 28, 2019 by jgordon

Link. “Terminal nodes are: Rust, Java, Go, Python 3, Javascript.”

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Programmer migration patterns.

Posted on April 28, 2019 by jgordon

Link. “Terminal nodes are: Rust, Java, Go, Python 3, Javascript.”

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Culture 2020: Extreme athletes in middle-age and beyond.

Posted on April 28, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Midlife crisis isn’t right frame. There is continuity with trends over past 60y. Arguably a rational response to what we know about aging, better training knowledge, and human capacity.

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If you enable iOS safari restrictions history cannot be cleared.

Posted on April 27, 2019 by jgordon

Link. It will be grayed out. Such a flaming mess.

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After Endgame: answers to some puzzles.

Posted on April 27, 2019 by jgordon

Link. But not all of them. Only read after movie.

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NYT writes on Apple’s Screen Time failures and the assault on third party alternatives.

Posted on April 27, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Sins on both sides, but this judge rules against Apple. Congressional help would be appreciated.

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China’s mad economy: the bike share bust.

Posted on April 27, 2019 by jgordon

Link. “Last year, China minted a new unicorn [billion dollar valuation] roughly every four days” This is a global economic failure – inequality at work.

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California cannabis: illegal growers persist.

Posted on April 27, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Export market, limited legal businesses, reduced enforcement. Not mentioned, but I bet illegal market has much better customer privacy protection.

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“Pentagon is now planning for terrorism suspects still held in the facility to grow old and die at Guantánamo Bay.”

Posted on April 27, 2019 by jgordon

Link. The Forever War.

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Korea: “My memory, hand and tongue don’t work like I wish,” Ms. Park said. “But I am going to learn to write before I die.”

Posted on April 27, 2019 by jgordon

Link. A lot squeezed into a small article. Demographic collapse, rural collapse, extreme determination.

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Apple’s abuse of parenting support apps gets some press.

Posted on April 27, 2019 by jgordon

Link. This is a complicated area I know well. Overall Apple is wrong and abusive. OTOH these apps all failed my testing. OTOH Apple’s solution has huge unfixed bugs …

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“we’re pretty close to being able to create any protein we want from the comfort of our jupyter notebooks”

Posted on April 26, 2019 by jgordon

Link. I’d enjoy auditing a class on this.

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Writing Docs for Bezos meetings.

Posted on April 26, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Bezos comes across relatively well in this piece.

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Don’t recommend or purchase Intuit products.

Posted on April 26, 2019 by jgordon

Link.

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“These keyboards are the biggest mistake in Apple’s history”

Posted on April 26, 2019 by jgordon

Link. How Ive will be remembered.

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Mueller proof of collusion: standards of evidence

Posted on April 26, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Criminal conviction vs evidence supporting trial

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Google Fit for iOS: Apple Health API support.

Posted on April 26, 2019 by jgordon

Link. I do excessive exercise so probably won’t adopt.

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Google Earth Timelapse: mobile web interface

Posted on April 26, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Delightful.

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Google Custom Search gets an enhancement

Posted on April 26, 2019 by jgordon

Link. It’s not totally dead. Or maybe this is a post-mortem twitch.

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CRISPR gene-editing creates wave of exotic model organisms

Posted on April 26, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Hang on.

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Death of the phone call unfolds.

Posted on April 26, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Google is reinvesting in Google Voice. We will probably need to get phone service through Google. Apple should worry.

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“Biden pulled ahead in our endorsement tracker after just one day and is already getting endorsements from black leaders that Harris is missing.”

Posted on April 26, 2019 by jgordon

Link. I care abou Black women and white non-college women. If they want Biden I’ll go that way.

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Jamitons in traffic flow.

Posted on April 26, 2019 by jgordon

Link. I entertain myself in traffic by dissipating jamitons. Smart people behind me get laminar flow.

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“The returns to working long, inflexible hours have greatly increased.”

Posted on April 26, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Winner take all. I saw this happen

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[toread] Why geeks dislike Luminary

Posted on April 26, 2019 by jgordon

Link. I could see Apple doing same thing.

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“As a taxpayer, I guess I’d like to thank Facebook for paying its parking ticket.”

Posted on April 25, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Try $50 billion next time.

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“Google was, in some cases, storing copies of Apple data within a single data center rather spreading them out to different locations, as Apple had expected”

Posted on April 25, 2019 by jgordon

Link. The data center had a fire. iCloud data was lost

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“ how beautifully and efficiently bike racing distills the absurd nature of my own life down to its very essence”

Posted on April 25, 2019 by jgordon

Link. The joys of hanging on.

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Reeder 4 for iOS and macOS.

Posted on April 25, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Been using it for years. Will definitely pay but I’ll wait a month or so. Great app. Use it all the time.

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Reeder 4 for iOS and macOS.

Posted on April 25, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Been using it for years. Will definitely pay but I’ll wait a month or so. Great app. Use it all the time.

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“100,000 unsolved major violent crimes and 40,000 unidentified bodies.”

Posted on April 25, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Lots of murderers get away. Also, there are a lot of murderers.

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“100,000 unsolved major violent crimes and 40,000 unidentified bodies.”

Posted on April 25, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Lots of murderers get away. Also, there are a lot of murderers.

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The Atlantic article on opioid use in 1990s rural medicine.

Posted on April 24, 2019 by jgordon

Link. I lived this era and locale. One addition: we used a *lot* of hydrocodone in 1990s adult medicine. We used it ourselves. Most of us didn’t run into problems. Similar methamphetamine in early 20th century weight loss.

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2006 case: “new connections seem to have grown across around the back of the brain, forming structures that do not exist in normal brains.”

Posted on April 24, 2019 by jgordon

Link. I missed this. Looking for scholarly report.

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Impeachment as a moral obligation.

Posted on April 24, 2019 by jgordon

Link. If not for this President, than when? (Yes, it will almost certainly fail.)

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Facebook anticipates 3-5 billion FTC fine.

Posted on April 24, 2019 by jgordon

Link. If that happens then it’s a good start on realistic fines for the megacorp era. Next time go for 30 billion.

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NHL: “seldom does the best team hoist the trophy at season’s end”

Posted on April 24, 2019 by jgordon

Link. A hot goalie and a bit of luck in a league designed for equity.

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Thor: Ragnarok “He’s a friend from work!”

Posted on April 24, 2019 by jgordon

Link. That great line came from a poignant source.

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The Great Irish Famine (In Our Time).

Posted on April 24, 2019 by jgordon

Link. British gov response sounds just like what do today. Unclear (still listening) what the best possible response would have been. A (the?) classic Malthusian crisis following an ecological collapse.

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