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“Most displays sold are 27”. 4k 27” displays force you to choose between crisp, but oversized text or appropriately sized, but slightly blurry text.”

Posted on March 8, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Hope fixed by time I get to 4K.

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Why is modern software a pale shadow of what it could be? Why are so many paths lost to us?

Posted on March 8, 2022 by jgordon

Link. I don’t think Winer has the full answer, but “local minima trap” is part of the answer.

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“There is a backstop—the craton, that ancient unbudgeable mass at the center of the continent—and, sooner or later, North America will rebound like a spring.”

Posted on March 7, 2022 by jgordon

Link. “Our operating assumption is that everything west of Interstate 5 will be toast.”

1/3 in my children’s lifetime. Near enough for stock market speculations?

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Will everyone get COVID?

Posted on March 7, 2022 by jgordon

Link. They kind of dodge (we don’t know) that question but hint at “yes”. So this is about choosing when.

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Self-Censorship in college.

Posted on March 7, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Is it primarily women censoring or is it gender neutral?

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“Some 6,283 pedestrians died on U.S streets and roads in 2018, 42% more than a decade ago, while cyclist deaths rose 38%”

Posted on March 7, 2022 by jgordon

Link. “Euro NCAP added cyclist detection as an evaluation criteria in 2018, and program officials say that within a year over 80% of new automobiles were equipped to avoid striking bike riders”

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“Inversion is building earth-orbiting capsules to deliver goods anywhere in the world from outer space.”

Posted on March 7, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Seems premature.

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“Microsoft has helped, turning out patches in hours to kill off malware it detects in unclassified systems.”

Posted on March 6, 2022 by jgordon

Link. “cyberoperations underway, which have been moved in recent days from an operations center in Kyiv to one outside the country, are some of the most classified elements of the conflict”

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Ukraine: Mud, Cold, and War.

Posted on March 6, 2022 by jgordon

Link. “it’s what I spent much of my professional career treating, studying and researching. I too served ashore during the Falklands War forty years ago, and have suffered cold injury of the hands and feet.”

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“It’s funny how we always complained that iTunes had become a bloated, mastodontic piece of software”

Posted on March 6, 2022 by jgordon

Link. I knew iTunes’ heirs would be much worse.

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EagleFiler 1.9.7: “$40 new with a 20% discount for TidBITS members”

Posted on March 6, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Protect email archives from the vagaries of cloud transitions.

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“Douglas Macgregor, whom Trump nominated for ambassador to Germany and then appointed as senior advisor to the Secretary of Defense, telling a Fox News Channel host that Russian forces have been “too gentle” and “I don’t see anything heroic” a

Posted on March 6, 2022 by jgordon

Link.

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“Tamerlane is always over the horizon, waiting to strike.”

Posted on March 6, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Old and topical. Keeping civilization intact takes great effort by the 20%.

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Sean Carroll to Johns Hopkins as Homewood Professor of Natural Philosophy.

Posted on March 6, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Excellent news. One of the best science communicators – and researchers in quantum physics fundamentals.

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Police and the Alternatives: addressing America’s crime surge.

Posted on March 6, 2022 by jgordon

Link. I like this summary.

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3,000 really brave Russians arrested in protests.

Posted on March 6, 2022 by jgordon

Link.

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What happens when you have an Apple ID without an email address and you change it? (And much more about Apple ID hell.)

Posted on March 6, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Enter the chaotic realm of Apple IDs, entangled identifiers, iCloud, MobileMe and more.

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“the faint halos of the galaxies that indeed appear to have started to touch one another. Thus, in a manner of speaking, the collision between our two galaxies has already started.”

Posted on March 5, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Our galaxies will be old when they meet.

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The bug-free windshield.

Posted on March 5, 2022 by jgordon

Link. “modern single-crop farms simply lack the diverse plant life necessary to support an insect community.”

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The AT&T / Apple eSIM activation fee scam: $30 “discount” and a $30 activation fee

Posted on March 5, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Apple likely gets a kickback.

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“NATO had mobilized its rapid response force, a kind of military SWAT team, for the first time in history to deter an enemy.”

Posted on March 5, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Murdoch’s media empire, from Fox to the WSJ, persuaded Putin that Biden was demented and NATO was broken.

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Putin: “if they continue doing what they are doing, they risk the future of Ukrainian statehood”

Posted on March 5, 2022 by jgordon

Link. A comically weak threat. Doesn’t even make sense in context of Russian propaganda.

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“Chinese companies, determined to regain their market share, began exporting masks below cost, the customers disappeared.”

Posted on March 5, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Supply chain resilience will require tariffs.

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“despite the public rhetoric ahead of the invasion that the United States was overstating the threat, Mr. Zelensky privately took the warning more seriously and realized the Russians were intent on capturing or killing him”

Posted on March 5, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Establishing the long term resistance. Article uses “allies” rather like 1942. (iOS autocorrect does not yet recognize “allies”)

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“The United States has delivered nearly 70 percent of the $350 million package to Ukraine’s military”

Posted on March 5, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Huge effort.

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Not lab leak, wet market.

Posted on March 5, 2022 by jgordon

Link. I had leaned to lab leak but now I’m wet.

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“Central Bank increased its reserves from $368 billion seven years ago to $630 billion today. With this war chest, Russia would be well prepared to withstand the inevitable sanctions that would come with the invasion of Ukraine.”

Posted on March 4, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Context.

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“Where lions have acquired a taste for the experience, and conditions exist allowing them to climb, they have taken to tree climbing with the leopard-like zeal of converts.”

Posted on March 4, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Like humans they lost tree climbing powers of their ancestors.

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COVID anosmia is collateral damage.

Posted on March 3, 2022 by jgordon

Link. No direct nerve infection.

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“they’re not only running out of gas, but they are running out of food.”

Posted on March 3, 2022 by jgordon

Link.

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Alexander Vindman: “what is amazing, what is shocking is the flawed assumptions of the Russian government. The Russian military is not incompetent….”

Posted on March 3, 2022 by jgordon

Link. “Marco Rubio frankly doesn’t know what he’s talking about. It’s kind of frustrating to watch him spout off. What we would call as, you know, like secret squirrel.”

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“Russian authorities have started to crack down and refuse to let people leave.”

Posted on March 3, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Leave Russia that is.

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Sen Tim Kaine post-COVID syndrome: “I can do everything I could do before. I don’t lose sleep over it. It’s not painful, it’s not debilitating. It’s just weird”

Posted on March 2, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Very weird. I’d worry about a demyelination syndrome. Hope he gets more answers.

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iCloud+ Custom E-mail Domains

Posted on March 2, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Heartburn.

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“Western intelligence report said senior Chinese officials told senior Russian officials in early February not to invade Ukraine before the end of the Winter Olympics in Beijing”

Posted on March 2, 2022 by jgordon

Link. “American and European officials have said they find it hard to believe it is mere coincidence that Mr. Putin’s invasion did not start until right after the Olympics.”

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Trump admin Army study (Esper): “The study referred to evidence of “interference in political processes” in relation to both the Trump and Brexit elections”

Posted on March 2, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Expected escalation. I doubt Trump saw the report.

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Biden: “… had harsh words for private equity companies that are gaining more control of the health care sector”

Posted on March 2, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Ahhh. So good to have a competent president.

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“Taiwan announced it sent more than 27 tons of medical supplies to Ukraine, claiming its own membership in the “democratic camp”

Posted on March 2, 2022 by jgordon

Link. “78% of voters polled by CBS said they approved of Biden’s speech.”

Biden is what I voted for. Competency, democracy.

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The end of the USSR and the seeds of Russia-Ukraine war. December 2021.

Posted on March 2, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Context.

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“Planck-scale phenomena should contribute terms to the Higgs mass that are huge — roughly a hundred million billion times larger than the actual Higgs mass.”

Posted on March 1, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Then the universe would be empty.

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The Mount St. Helens Trespasser • Damn Interesting

Posted on February 28, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Great story.

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“The thing that will bring down the Russian economy in the long term is the exact same thing that will fight climate change in the long term — shift from fossil fuels to renewables and electric vehicle”

Posted on February 28, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Inspiring Putin exit.

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Jane Brody’s alleged last Personal Health column.

Posted on February 28, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Retired — she says. Retrospective on health advice since she started at NYT … in 1965.

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“The two largest placebo-controlled trials of [psychedelic] microdosing were published last year, and they both suggest that the benefits people experience are from the placebo effect”

Posted on February 28, 2022 by jgordon

Link.

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Fiona Hill on Putin: “Russian World means re-gathering all the Russian-speakers in different places that belonged at some point to the Russian tsardom.”

Posted on February 28, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Must read.

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COVID: “one in every 168 American Indian or Alaska Native children, one in every 310 Black children, one in every 412 Hispanic children, and one in every 612 Asian children had lost a caregiver, compared with one in 753 white children.”

Posted on February 28, 2022 by jgordon

Link. The native numbers are insane. Would like deeper dive there.

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Pfizer Shot Is Far Less Effective for infection prevention in 5- to 11-Year-Olds Than in Older Kids.

Posted on February 28, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Dose is likely too low. Protects against severe illness.

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30% US “Asian” experience COVID discrimination.

Posted on February 28, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Presumably Han appearing Asian. Does not break down abusers by ethnicity or race.

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SK Omicron “surge”: “112 deaths in a 24-hour period”

Posted on February 28, 2022 by jgordon

Link. That’s much smaller than US numbers even when adjust for population. Should fall quickly. Amazing vaccine rate.

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Big tech is betting that offices are still the future.

Posted on February 28, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Most don’t build robust relationships remotely. Without those bonds small fissures grow.

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