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Roundabouts: climate and cars.

Posted on November 20, 2021 by jgordon

Link. The article suggests they are bad for bikes and pedestrians unless special accommodations are made.

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The end of file system defragmentation.

Posted on November 20, 2021 by jgordon

Link. SSDs and APFS are marvels.

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Managing beavers: “easily, easily trapped and easily caught by wolves, so, no, they’re not exactly the brightest animal on the street.”

Posted on November 20, 2021 by jgordon

Link. The beaver-deceiver is cool. Beaver population is growing very quickly.

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“five biggest Chinese mining companies in Congo had lines of credit from state-backed banks that totaled $124 billion”

Posted on November 20, 2021 by jgordon

Link. While Trump focused on …. Coal. The safety story is surprising.

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Gordon’s Tech: How to mitigate SMS spam in iOS 15: filter unknown AND disable notifications for unknown senders

Posted on November 19, 2021 by jgordon

Link. If this made the news I missed it.

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“mild peripheral neuropathy, a condition defined by nerve damage, pain and stiffening in the feet. Despite extensive testing, the team found no cause for that condition.”

Posted on November 19, 2021 by jgordon

Link. This is common but doesn’t get enough medical attention. Biden is one fit almost-80 dude.

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Acquittal of Kyle Rittenhouse: “for legal scholars, it was not a surprise”

Posted on November 19, 2021 by jgordon

Link. WTF wasn’t it universal knowledge that anyone who actually knew WI law expected an acquittal? Because journalists won’t spike a hot story.

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“unicode (outside of string literals) in programming languages was a mistake”

Posted on November 19, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Undo this.

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Proteins Aging: “perhaps the adoption of asparagine as a canonical amino acid might have been a mistake”

Posted on November 19, 2021 by jgordon

Link. My cataracts are developing nicely.

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Alzheimer’s Vaccines: “these clinical trials, long shots though they are, are appropriate”

Posted on November 19, 2021 by jgordon

Link. A relatively positive take by a trusted source.

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“the first two weeks of November, those two ports cleared about a third of the containers sitting on their docks.”

Posted on November 19, 2021 by jgordon

Link. If BBB passes this could be an impressive Biden finish. As they say, “Go Brandon!”

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Disk Utility still can’t check and repair APFS volumes and containers.

Posted on November 19, 2021 by jgordon

Link. There are workarounds. Sigh.

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Returning faulty Apple product via a doorstep replacement service.

Posted on November 19, 2021 by jgordon

Link. “if the new keyboard was delivered by UPS, I could ask them to wait on the doorstep” while swap old and new.

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“At the end of each year, I’ll export the current year’s messages to EagleFiler and have a mostly-empty Mail app to work with.”

Posted on November 19, 2021 by jgordon

Link. I’m slowly moving in this direction. Don’t trust the way Mail manages archives. Would like less Google dependency.

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Congress threatens to draft women (not really).

Posted on November 19, 2021 by jgordon

Link. It is insane that men register and women don’t. Registering women will ensure draft never happens.

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Roma genetics: “The slip from genetics to eugenics is one that can happen quite easily”

Posted on November 19, 2021 by jgordon

Link. It is hard to study humans without falling into the traps of our history. In medicine today we have the estimated GFR problem.

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“Congressional Budget Office published an official cost estimate on Thursday afternoon that found the package would increase the federal budget deficit by $160 billion over 10 years.”

Posted on November 19, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Damn, that’s a lot smaller than I expected. A pittance basically.

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“China required some travelers from overseas, including diplomats, to submit to anal Covid swab tests”

Posted on November 19, 2021 by jgordon

Link. China has GOP assholery down.

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WI: “Senator Ron Johnson, a Republican, said that G.O.P. state lawmakers should unilaterally assert control of federal elections,”

Posted on November 19, 2021 by jgordon

Link. He probably sincerely believes Democrats can only win by cheating. He is very stupid and left reality long ago.

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Giant Sloths dug huge South American tunnels.

Posted on November 18, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Then we ate them.

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BBB act fixes many Obamacare issues.

Posted on November 18, 2021 by jgordon

Link. What should have happened years ago — but for the GOP.

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Not worth fighting MN’s despicable GOP on behalf of those who seek their own death.

Posted on November 18, 2021 by jgordon

Link. The drowning idiots refuse the life rope.

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Amazon to stop accepting Visa’s UK-issued credit cards over high fees.

Posted on November 18, 2021 by jgordon

Link. POWER! AMEX and Apple VISA also have high fees. So have they given Amazon a special deal or are they next?

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Gifts for People You Hate 2021: Naomi Kritzer.

Posted on November 14, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Many gifts from past years are likely available as well. If, for example, you hate lot of people.

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The Concept of the Ruliad—Stephen Wolfram.

Posted on November 14, 2021 by jgordon

Link. “we are bounded observers, embedded within the ruliad.” Reminds me of The Mathematical Universe (Tegmark)

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Published by iHeartMedia: “[mRNA vaccine] It’s an egg that hatches into a synthetic parasite and grows inside your body”

Posted on November 14, 2021 by jgordon

Link. There’s money to be made exploiting simple minds.

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Uyghur genocide and corporate sponsorship of the Olympic games.

Posted on November 14, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Sponsor ads should reference genocide.

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“high-tech flat-screen televisions with some of the latest fancy features are often surprisingly affordable. Part of the reason those prices are so low is due to the rampant selling of user data by TV makers like Vizio.”

Posted on November 14, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Give up.

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“Dealers buy $600 worth of parts, put them together, then sell guns for as much as $1,400. Customers are happy to pay a premium for an untraceable weapon, he said.”

Posted on November 14, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Gun control works better than I thought.

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Twin Cities Bicycle Touring Map

Posted on November 14, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Local cyclist personal project. Google map based.

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“as industrial conglomerates are breaking up, a new breed of conglomerate has emerged: Big Tech companies like Amazon and Alphabet have embraced the strategy of multiple business lines”

Posted on November 14, 2021 by jgordon

Link. I disliked being a worker in a conglomerate. Conglomerates get managed by finance. But private equity is worse.

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M1 Mac: managing external startup and doing system repair.

Posted on November 14, 2021 by jgordon

Link. “their boot process always starts from the internal SSD”

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Monterey: “If you’ve never opened that app’s Help book before, when you try to open it, it appears empty.”

Posted on November 14, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Some version of Windows had the best Help/User Guide format. I miss good documentation.

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Eddie Gallagher and the corruption of the Navy SEALs

Posted on November 13, 2021 by jgordon

Link. He was, and is, a monster.

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The bike snob’s guide to cycling tribes (2010 Weiss).

Posted on November 13, 2021 by jgordon

Link. A classic I did not remember. So good.

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UK mountain bike slang.

Posted on November 13, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Almost identical to US! Two we do not use and we define huck differently in MN (or maybe I’m confused).

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Infrastructure bill has a lot for bike and ped.

Posted on November 12, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Electing Dems matters everywhere.

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Twitter Blue: “I don’t want to deal with micro-payments for articles, newsletters, and other content worth our attention”

Posted on November 12, 2021 by jgordon

Link. STRONG disagree. I want to buy a $25 ticket that I can spend on 1 click micropayments. When it is spent I buy another.

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“Price became for the world a heartbreaking symbol of hatred’s sheer waste. But the shooter? He simply faded into anonymity, becoming the evil that men do.”

Posted on November 12, 2021 by jgordon

Link. WW I’s end.

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CO: “all adults in his state to receive a vaccine booster dose, going further than current federal guidelines.”

Posted on November 12, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Bold, but I like it.

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“there’s never a good reason to tax foreign steel. If you want to support U.S. steelmakers, use subsidies instead. Otherwise you’ll just hurt American manufacturing out of pure economic illiteracy.”

Posted on November 11, 2021 by jgordon

Link. FWIW

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“A crime boss with a jones for the days of Soviet glory is a dangerous combination.”

Posted on November 11, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Nichols has a gift for the pithy phrase.

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10 Image File Formats That Didn’t Make It

Posted on November 11, 2021 by jgordon

Link. This is great for old geeks.

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iPhones to Detect Car Crashes, Auto-Dial 911.

Posted on November 11, 2021 by jgordon

Link. 911 operators will LOVE this. So if I crash my mountain bike will it call 911 when I hit the dirt?

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“we don’t know how to calculate the zero-point energy of space from these quantum field theory methods”

Posted on November 11, 2021 by jgordon

Link.

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Plantar Fasciitis: aggressive PT.

Posted on November 11, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Unorthodox, but personally I’d give it a try. Similar to how I’ve managed some similar issues.

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Ukraine explained: from Manafort to Trump to Biden.

Posted on November 11, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Manafort is a remarkable story.

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“This is what we call crowd turbulence. You don’t want to be where two waves cross, because the pressures come from opposite directions, and that’s really dangerous.”

Posted on November 11, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Useful tips.

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Apple Business Essentials: Device management, storage.

Posted on November 10, 2021 by jgordon

Link. The price in article seems too low. I wonder about this as a service for vulnerable adult iPhones.

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Bandit trails and gravel from Utepils.

Posted on November 10, 2021 by jgordon

Link. MSP Strava Utepils bike singletrack gravel

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