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Daily Archives: September 20, 2023

“Nearly half a million years ago, humans in Africa were assembling wood into large structures, according to a study published Wednesday that describes notched and tapered logs buried under sand in Zambia.”

Posted on September 20, 2023 by jgordon

Link. Maybe Homo heidelbergensis. Not Homo erectus. Big brains by primate standards, but they didn’t do a lot of tech over 500ky.

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“Many of the claims and insinuations they leveled against Mr. Garland … were not supported by fact”

Posted on September 20, 2023 by jgordon

Link. By NYT historic standards it’s progress to declare that the House GOP is lying.

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“All kinds of idiotic crap made it through peer review before we had chatbot assistance, although this technology will likely mean that we get even more of it.”

Posted on September 20, 2023 by jgordon

Link. The fraudulent academia industry is generating ChatGPT papers.

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“new version of my free utility Mints can now resolve an inode number to a name and path for you”

Posted on September 20, 2023 by jgordon

Link. He’s got a tool for most macOS gaps.

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MN: “… elected officials guided by a center-left philosophy controlled the top offices 84% of the time, or 126 years out of 150”

Posted on September 20, 2023 by jgordon

Link. I’m still traumatized by the Pawlenty years but few states have done so well. Arne Carlson was a Democrat in disguise.

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HTML has a new tag: “The

Posted on September 20, 2023 by jgordon

Link. I miss . I think was Netscape only.

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iOS 17: “memory issue was introduced in Apple’s JavaScriptCore framework which can (but doesn’t always) trigger crashes when JavaScript code is used in an app.”

Posted on September 20, 2023 by jgordon

Link. I like to wait until Apple insists I update. Usually takes a few weeks.

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Freeing space to upgrade to Sonoma

Posted on September 20, 2023 by jgordon

Link. “identify large, older snapshot(s) in the list, select them, and click on the – tool below to remove them”

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Tsai’s iOS 17 feature list: better PDF.

Posted on September 20, 2023 by jgordon

Link. Not a lot new really. But that’s often a good thing.

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Navigating boot volumes in paths and inodes: “Each volume also has its own numeric ID, here 16777242 which is used for both linked volumes”

Posted on September 20, 2023 by jgordon

Link. Old school paths lie nowadays.

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