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If you get “random” airport screening frequently: “apply for a redress number via the DHS’s website”

Posted on December 12, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Your name is on a list.

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Long essay on “why ios subscriptions” never mentions customer switching costs.

Posted on December 12, 2019 by jgordon

Link. How did tyler miss this key factor?

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“remove all TM backups from a volume, you’ll probably want something like sudo tmutil delete”

Posted on December 12, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Essential macos reference.

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Google’s Interpreter Mode comes to phones via Google Assistant

Posted on December 12, 2019 by jgordon

Link. But not Google translate.

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[toread] Republicans yell because it works.

Posted on December 12, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Their base likes the yelling. Fox effect too.

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Millennials Are Leaving Religion And Not Returning

Posted on December 12, 2019 by jgordon

Link. One part of Evangelical moral panic. Ironically embracing Trunp likely accelerates departure by exposing hypocrisy.

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Timeline of the Universe. xkcd

Posted on December 11, 2019 by jgordon

Link. I suspect the shape is our best current model and it is truly weird.

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Fox News Is Now a Threat to National Security | WIRED

Posted on December 11, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Murdoch.

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Distance running is likely GOOD, not bad, for knee cartilage.

Posted on December 11, 2019 by jgordon

Link. I bet we find same thing for squats in weight lifting. I’ve expected this for years. We are SO WRONG about osteoarthritis and “DJD”.

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Phone Cameras – SLR endings.

Posted on December 11, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Going way of the medium format camera. Instead of new lens and flash for my Canon I bought a $7 remote and tripod adapter for my iPhone.

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macOS 10.15.2 “… doesn’t fix the Mail data loss bugs”

Posted on December 10, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Still not ready.

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macOS Music App Brings Back the Column Browser

Posted on December 10, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Wonder if it was always supposed to be in release. Reassuring in several ways.

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“when an administration changes over on January 20th, each agency then gets their allocated number of political appointees. At VA, we had about 30 political appointees”

Posted on December 10, 2019 by jgordon

Link. It’s a way of rewarding loyalists. It’s also a really stupid way to run a vast enterprise. Also significantly corrupt.

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Sleep apnea is undertreated and that’s fixable

Posted on December 10, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Sleep specialists will tell you they are no longe needed for this. “Austin might have been diagnosed at home, but the machines he was given for home testing failed” is a problem

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How Enceladus Got Its Stripes

Posted on December 10, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Subcrustal water expanded as froze.

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Sponges got 90 percent of their carbon from sugars dissolved in seawater

Posted on December 10, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Most of ocean carbon is dissolved

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“27 of the 47 people who were on the volcano when it erupted are suffering burns on at least 30 percent of their bodies,”

Posted on December 10, 2019 by jgordon

Link.

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“Mr. Simmons, who was not wearing his seatbelt at the time of the 6 p.m. accident, suffered a fatal head injury”

Posted on December 9, 2019 by jgordon

Link. There are still people who don’t wear seat belts. His daughterw will live without him.

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The establishment goes after “$2 million” Warren.

Posted on December 9, 2019 by jgordon

Link. I should joined the Trilateral Commission when I had the chance. I coulda been a player.

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TidBITS membership: “A full-text RSS feed”

Posted on December 9, 2019 by jgordon

Link. I subscribe.

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“The key theme of Giuliani’s trips has been looking for crooks in Ukraine trying to keep out of jail either in Ukraine or the U.S. and offering them protection if they’ll intervene in the 2020 U.S. presidential election”

Posted on December 9, 2019 by jgordon

Link.

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Google Calendars app to support moving events between calendars

Posted on December 9, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Such a weird omission. Calendars 5 supports it

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“Apple has been “stunningly effective” with its goal of Intelligent Tracking Prevention stopping websites from knowing what users are doing on the web”

Posted on December 9, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Kudos earned.

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“Apple’s SMB has had something of a rollercoaster ride, and in many versions of macOS has had problems, sometimes to the point of being unusable”

Posted on December 9, 2019 by jgordon

Link. One of Apple’s weirdest fails.

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The moral panic of the Evangelicals.

Posted on December 8, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Primarily patriarchy. Same as al Qaeda.

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Resources for Adapting to zsh in Catalina

Posted on December 8, 2019 by jgordon

Link. ref

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NYT article about protecting vulnerable people (children esp) is spectacularly awful.

Posted on December 8, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Same old drivel. Letting Apple/Gopgle off, setting up parrnts for failure. Physicians are wrong experts for this

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Remember the inverted yield curve?

Posted on December 8, 2019 by jgordon

Link. The economy is beyond our ken.

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Doonesbury: enemy of the people.

Posted on December 8, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Will historians remember Murdoch’s role and the power of Fox?

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“Since 1895, the average temperature in Santa Barbara County has warmed by 2.3 degrees Celsius”

Posted on December 8, 2019 by jgordon

Link. California shows the future.

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Revert to old AirPort firmware: “click the base station in AirPort Utility, then Option-click the firmware version number.”

Posted on December 7, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Latest version is 7.9.1, it breaks Google’s web OAUTH when in DHCP mode, that mode needed to enable guest network.

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“a world in which every company works 100% remotely is probably a world which is less hospitable to people just starting out”

Posted on December 7, 2019 by jgordon

Link. All remote and all local are differently good. Mixed not so much.

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“useful for cracking passwords you kinda-remember.”

Posted on December 7, 2019 by jgordon

Link. People make money recovering cybercurrency.

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“I had a lot of trouble with CNN’s legal department with this essay.”

Posted on December 7, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Interesting.

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How South Korea fought off a likely Russian cyber attack.

Posted on December 7, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Heroic work unrecognized. Fighting allies of today’s GOP.

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The future health generic city: “apartment buildings, shopping villages, coffee shops, ethnic restaurants, bookstores and co-working spaces”.

Posted on December 7, 2019 by jgordon

Link. And cheap rent, 5G, online dating. He omitted bicycle paths.

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AMD CPU shipped with a broken random number generator.

Posted on December 7, 2019 by jgordon

Link. When Apple does stuff like this there are more eyes on the problem.

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“if the heat absorbed by the oceans since 1955 had gone into the lower levels of the atmosphere instead, land temperatures would be warmer by 65 degrees Fahrenheit”

Posted on December 7, 2019 by jgordon

Link.

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“of the DNA in his semen belonged to his donor.”

Posted on December 7, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Whoa.

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“Thirty-seven percent of Republicans polled hold a very or somewhat favorable opinion of Putin”

Posted on December 7, 2019 by jgordon

Link. I’m surprised it’s that low.

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Prisoner swap: American hostage freed

Posted on December 7, 2019 by jgordon

Link. An “easy one” as these go. Iran loves the hostage game

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$100K drugs for sickle cell anemia

Posted on December 7, 2019 by jgordon

Link. But … “30 more sickle-cell drugs are now in late-stage clinical trials.”. The price will come down.

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Jury Rules You Can Call Elon Musk a Pedo Guy

Posted on December 7, 2019 by jgordon

Link. I was amazed by this jury decision

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The killer application for Apple’s AR glasses will be driving

Posted on December 6, 2019 by jgordon

Link. “AR glasses that receive input from forward facing light sensitive sensors and that enhance what I see as I drive. Draw circles around pedestrians. Turn night into day.”

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“Core Graphics is leaking like a sieve when generating thumbnails from 16 bit per component tiff files.”

Posted on December 6, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Nice find.

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The Deep Sea

Posted on December 6, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Must view. Science.

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“first she starts making more money than you, then she buys a Peloton, and before you know if you’ve turned “half gay”

Posted on December 6, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Peloton / spin-cycle base are professional women with limited time. An appealing target for scorn.

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“Tariffs let him exercise unconstrained power, rewarding his friends and punishing his enemies.”

Posted on December 6, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Trump has finished corruption of GOP. They will continue this.

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The AR optimist story.

Posted on December 6, 2019 by jgordon

Link. I’ll be in my late 70s by then and will need all the help I can get

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Debugging Catalina weirdness.

Posted on December 6, 2019 by jgordon

Link. Install the next release.

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