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Golly, Google forgot to support filtering all promotion type emails to the trash. Shucks, what a thing to miss. I’ll let them know so they can fix it right away…
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… speaking of mass disability, Emily saw some daytime TV — “one big Nigerian prince phishing expedition”. Daytime TV business model is predation on cognitively vulnerable; nastier version of lottery tickets.
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… Maybe microbiome betrayal is why sitting is bad for us. Prolonged sitting might be a sign of a useless host. So the microbiome attacks…
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Reeder 2 is working for me. Not constantly crashing like it used to. Bit of a shock.
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I’ve stopped sharing “look how stupid Fox is” stories. Too predictable. Will still share “amusing riff on Fox” or “Fox says something new but true” (if ever).
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Geico ad showing up in top right of my Amazon screen. Anyone else seeing this? Wonder if it’s a proxy injection or if Amazon is going off the rails.
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California effect: at 0F in MN iPhone says it needs to cool down before use. Worked when warmed in car vent.
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I’d really like the US Post Office to offer digital identity management services. Can I still post here?
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iPhone 5s HDR auto is underappreciated. One reason rivals my dSLR.
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The reason you can kill by car and go free is jurors know they can easily do it themselves. Nothing else is like this.
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How many identities do we need to maintain online? I’be used 3 in Chrome for years: personal, professional, and intellectual. Seems enough. Others?
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Old person thing – the 100+ year 7,000+ image family slideshow is sweet with a side of sorrow. Not just the dead people, also all the rivers we can’t cross again.
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Anyone know of a “day in the life” history book across cultures and time? Eat, pee, work, love, recreate, sleep, parent and so on? I’ve often thought it would be fun to write this. Not easy though…
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I suspect PowerPoint 2007, by itself, reduced America’s GDP by a non-trivial amount.
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I’m getting a tattoo on my chest that says “once I was a medical student”. Then I’m going to will my body to a local med school.
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If pi and e had churches, which would you join? No Unitarians.
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Local minima traps. Good enough solutions like sickle cell mutation in Africa vs southeast Asian mutation. They block better solutions. If we look for them we will find them everywhere. #eco-econ
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Tried using SiteSucker to create local copy of blogger blog so I could get better search. After 8h was 38K items, 5.5GB and still going. I need to rethink this a bit …
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Apple still replaces glass back of 4s – $29.
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In spirit of recognizing things that have been broken and abandoned, I’ve deleted 72 tags from Simplenote. Simplenote.app crashes every few seconds of tag editing.
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@joanna iTunes was born in Music, now Music is only reason Apple doesn’t end USB sync and iTunes both… //@pme @indigo
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Towel. Thrown. In. Bought 6 port Photive USB charger. Moving kid devices to iCloud backup, no more iTunes sync. Will keep Emily and I on iTunes for a while. Dumping USB hub.
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Seen in a product description: “2.4Ghz wireless devices (keyboards, mice, etc.) may not work around USB 3.0 ports. Try using a USB 2.0 connection.” Really?
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There’s a bug where if I reply to myself in a conversation thread the reply breaks out of the thread. I’m not sure if it’s app.net bug or Felix bug. Testing…
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Perverse incentives: if apple built hardware diagnostic into os x their warranty claims would jump.
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We know software products become senescent. We know software industry health tracks business cycles. We know malware never stops. Discuss implications …
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Remembering now how bad sw world was after .com crash. Palm dead, ios unborn. Fits our post-GR sw doldrums.
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Weird legacies of OS X updates. A console error message on unreadable Font Collection led me to launch Font Book, turns out I have “Web-safe Mac:Windows”. I think it’s legacy from 2007 or so. Deleted it.
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nvAlt just crashed; it syncs with Simplenote. Lots of ‘tagsets differ’ in Console, then “38 added”, then crash. Deep sigh.
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Plan for surviving the (sentient) AIs: Dogs have done this kind of thing. Develop AIs that like dogs. Dogs like us, so we get a free ride.
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Parental iOS annoyance: I lock cellular settings so kids don’t burn limited data plan, but new apps default to cellular data on. So they burn the plans after installing a new game…
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Anyone else seeing some iOS 8 spotlight failures? I’m wondering if I have bad Flash problems with my 5s.
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Just experienced one of very few iPhone crashes that needed a reboot rather than power down – on a 1yo 5s. My best guess is that a bit of Flash went bad; on restart one of my apps needed to be deleted. Hope it’s not an omen …
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Anyone know why Amazon is blending multiple products and reviews into single listings? For example [smile.amazon.com]. Arrogance, stupidity, or something else? We badly need a competitor.
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World needs ankle device that charges iPhone while walking.
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OldWhiteGuyRaceConscious2014: Before I cross to other side of street, I check only white guys on my side.
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Still liking my morphie juice pack. Battery holding up well over time. Easy to cheap out on lion batt.
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CO2 begat fat bike and Great Recession begat CrossFit.
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Non-human person Oragutan. Good precedent for non-silicon persons. We may need it.
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“Omnipaedista” editing wikipedia article on 1977 French legislation favored by pedophiles. Not so good for Wikipedia fund raising. Image [photos.app.net]
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Google is now an AI company, an advertising service and Google Apps. Web search is legacy and will die sooner than expected.
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TheEconomist on America’s police violence: “It’s the guns, stupid”. Duh. Took them to point out obvious.
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SafeSport, sports video training to reduce abusive and criminal adult behavior, is agonizing. Shoot me now.
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Reeder 2.app now has a five star rating. Well deserved now that it crashes no more often than other iOS apps. Big relief. Late, but good.
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iOS Devs behaving poorly: unwanted data collection [brooksreview.net] Crash reports shade into usage, marketing, tracking. #panopticon
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Finished Gibson, The Peripheral. Library. Thinking staccato now. Neuromancer style. Good.
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Reorganize transfer power and resources from those who work to those who reorg. Easy to see why this can yield a corporate death spiral.
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I would like to see an animation from the perspective of a proton at timescale of electron revolution. In various molecules and substances. Light, neutrinos, cosmic rays, etc
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Thinking of root cause of Yahoo’s dysfunction. I think it’s bigger than Mayer, bigger than the board, bigger than one company. I think it’s a game-theoretic-inevitable outcome of winner-take-all compensation… #b //@oluseyi @clarkgoble
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