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NYT on Facebook Portal.

Posted on November 12, 2018 by jgordon

Link. Should be good for parents and special needs adults.

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NK missile expansion follows Trump acceptance of nuclear NK.

Posted on November 12, 2018 by jgordon

Link. That *was* his intent … right?

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Grant on US drug prices – a failure to negotiate.

Posted on November 12, 2018 by jgordon

Link. Americans are spoiled.

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“it is imperative to request documents from Deutsche Bank, via subpoena if necessary.”

Posted on November 12, 2018 by jgordon

Link. Coming to the House soon.

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“40 to 50 per cent of people who suffer an episode of depression don’t go on to experience another”

Posted on November 12, 2018 by jgordon

Link. Depression is many things.

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Replace iOS Reminders.app with Reminder or GoodTask (same data store)

Posted on November 12, 2018 by jgordon

Link. I’m happy enough with Appigo ToDo.app, but Emily might like one of these. The iOS Siri integration is important.

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Read Safari pages in News.app

Posted on November 12, 2018 by jgordon

Link. Share widget has open in news.

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Finding App Store subscription in iOS – the hunt.

Posted on November 12, 2018 by jgordon

Link. Apple disappoints.

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538 on WWCW movement from Trump: 2016 35% Dem, 2018 39% Dem

Posted on November 12, 2018 by jgordon

Link. 2018 34% WW college gap. Movement is small; I suspect WWCW oppose #metoo.

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“AdaNet, a lightweight TensorFlow-based framework for automatically learning high-quality models with minimal expert intervention”

Posted on November 12, 2018 by jgordon

Link. It’s now fashionable to pooh-pooh AI. Whistling in the dark you are. BTW, from URL Google AI still uses blogspot and feedburner/feedproxy.

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Google makes tiny donation to World Wide Web Foundation for “new Contract for the Web”

Posted on November 12, 2018 by jgordon

Link. I don’t have high hopes for this, but I’ll watch. The web is a derelict neighborhood now.

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An almost useful Siri Shortcut: “Voice memo record”.

Posted on November 12, 2018 by jgordon

Link. Shortcuts need a few more iterations.

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Clouflare iOS 1.1.1.1 app makes it easier to use a private DNS service.

Posted on November 12, 2018 by jgordon

Link. Uses a VPN profile, but is not VPN. Free. Good compromise.

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2018 midterm numbers: 31% 18-29 voted, up 56% from 2016.

Posted on November 12, 2018 by jgordon

Link. White non-college women still Trumpista, but only half of prior devotion (other article).

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iOS: “You can tap the “Preview Content” button and then tap the list button to see the contents of the archive”

Posted on November 12, 2018 by jgordon

Link. When did that slip in?

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Gerrymandering visualized: “How to steal an election: a visual guide” (2015)

Posted on November 12, 2018 by jgordon

Link. Governorships matter. Will take decades to undo. Good reference.

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Doctors to “Stay in Their Lane” as NRA Tweet Advises

Posted on November 12, 2018 by jgordon

Link. Trauma surgeons are famously compliant.

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Trump advantage in WWCW fell by half between 2016 and 2018

Posted on November 11, 2018 by jgordon

Link. White Working Class Women (non-college) were -27% Trump in 2016, now -14%. So that’s good. (Some say evangelical WWCW should be split out.)

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Vonnegut “Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.”

Posted on November 11, 2018 by jgordon

Link. We should have a “celebrate civilization day” where maintainers drink free.

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Flickr’s new policies are necessary.

Posted on November 11, 2018 by jgordon

Link. If Flickr still worked with Aperture I might sign up.

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There’s a (buggy) Extract Archive step in Shortcuts.

Posted on November 11, 2018 by jgordon

Link. One day iOS will be able to handle zip files.

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Cisco Receiver client for Mac no longer works with Safari (NPAPI plug-ins are no longer supported by Safari)

Posted on November 11, 2018 by jgordon

Link. Have to use Chrome instead until Cisco does a Safari app extension version. I suspect Apple is at least partly to blame.

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“You can send passwords by AirDrop”

Posted on November 11, 2018 by jgordon

Link. Obscure but useful.

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Amazon-Apple deal ends counterfeit Apple products on Amazon

Posted on November 10, 2018 by jgordon

Link. Also some legitimate sellers. Amazon’s counterfeit sales can be a weapon

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Boy Scouts: “Mormon boys were expected to participate in the program and accounted for about one in five Boy Scouts in the United States.”

Posted on November 10, 2018 by jgordon

Link. I had no idea. Accepting gay scouts caused Mormons to leave, now Boy Scouts want to go coed.

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Military leaks like sieve after Trump border stupidity.

Posted on November 10, 2018 by jgordon

Link. “Come Thanksgiving, they most likely will still be here”. #MAGA Trumpkins.

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“The universe has created an observer and now, in an act of quantum measurement, the observer looks back and creates the universe.”

Posted on November 10, 2018 by jgordon

Link. Wheeler channeling Einstein. One answer to the mystery of everything is that there isn’t anything.

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“college-educated voters — particularly women — dissatisfied with the president backed Democratic challengers”

Posted on November 9, 2018 by jgordon

Link. I presume they mean white college educated women. That was the target group.

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“they endured for several thousand years. Then they disappeared, leaving no known genetic trace in living people.”

Posted on November 8, 2018 by jgordon

Link. Humans invade the Americas.

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“Can you do that? Can you do that for me? Gun control.” Ms. Orfanos then hung up the phone.”

Posted on November 8, 2018 by jgordon

Link. We are obliged to read the stories of the dead.

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White House Releases White Supremacist Doctored Video To Attack Journalist.

Posted on November 8, 2018 by jgordon

Link. 2019 will be great

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Mojave access control dialogs are poorly worded.

Posted on November 8, 2018 by jgordon

Link. Needs refresh.

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Has Apple stopped its macos malware protection?

Posted on November 7, 2018 by jgordon

Link.

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Apple Health data will be often lost with switching phones.

Posted on November 7, 2018 by jgordon

Link. Apple incompetence.

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Placebo medicine: “genetic correlation to placebo response”

Posted on November 7, 2018 by jgordon

Link. I doubt genetics are that simple, but do believe placebo response varies. None of this is news to physicians. Placebos common in VHA system.

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“once you account for the economy it’s one of the great political blowouts of modern history”

Posted on November 7, 2018 by jgordon

Link. This is why I’m relieved, even satisfied. Also, Walker gone.

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Apple’s “New Map” – Tsai roundup

Posted on November 6, 2018 by jgordon

Link. Lousy.

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NYT pretty frank: “dark themes of fear, nationalism and racial animosity in an effort to salvage Republican control of Congress for the remaining two years of his term.”

Posted on November 6, 2018 by jgordon

Link. It works.

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“gender element to the rise of the far right that is not sufficiently acknowledged and studied”

Posted on November 6, 2018 by jgordon

Link. No sh*t. The dominant societal force of the past 60 years has been the weakening of patriarchy. Al Qaeda feared this too.

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“new MacBook Air is the only consumer MacBook that looks like a good deal”

Posted on November 6, 2018 by jgordon

Link. Pro single core only 15% faster. 8 GB 256. Prices going up everywhere.

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“The slug is the unit of mass in the US common system of units, where the pound is the unit of force”

Posted on November 6, 2018 by jgordon

Link. I don’t recall ever knowing this.

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Phone battery life is getting worse

Posted on November 5, 2018 by jgordon

Link. My iPhone 8 was a great choice. Still is.

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Vote for Democrats Everywhere

Posted on November 5, 2018 by jgordon

Link. Done.

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Gab now hosted by Epik.

Posted on November 5, 2018 by jgordon

Link. The best people I’m sure.

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iPhone XR Sales lowish?

Posted on November 5, 2018 by jgordon

Link. My daughter has one. It’s big and heavy and Face ID doesn’t seem better than Touch.

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Atul Gawande: Why Doctors Hate Their Computers

Posted on November 5, 2018 by jgordon

Link. I spent my professional life trying to build a better EHR. Why we all failed is an untold story.

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“the Combo update reverts XProtect and other configuration files to those which came with that update”

Posted on November 4, 2018 by jgordon

Link. Yikes. What an obscure problem. See post for workarounds.

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Mac problem-solving – The Eclectic Light Company.

Posted on November 4, 2018 by jgordon

Link. I love how he resurfaces and reorganizes old blog posts. There’s a lot to read here.

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“a MacBook Pro Retina 13-inch Late 2012 (MBP10,2) is allowed any of 145 different firmware versions”

Posted on November 4, 2018 by jgordon

Link. WTF. Explains why some machines seem lemons and others are fine.

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Comment on iiPad-first boggers: “will always take some of the sting out of losing hours trying to figure out how to upload a file to a website”

Posted on November 4, 2018 by jgordon

Link. They always seem silly to me. Like old ink-computing enthusiasts.

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