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Daily Archives: July 5, 2021

“95% of the stars in our galaxy are less massive than our Sun”

Posted on July 5, 2021 by jgordon

Link. And earth is about as massive as a rocky world can get. We are in a weird solar system.

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Apple ID problem: sharing iTunes Apple ID in two factor world means authentication requests go to one of many possible devices

Posted on July 5, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Apple ID management has been a long painful thrash.

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Disk Utility First Aid problem in Mojave: Working around the Disk Locked bug

Posted on July 5, 2021 by jgordon

Link. I couldn’t find a fix in Google. Perhaps because Google isn’t as useful as it once was.

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Apple Card for Families: non-owners have a $250/transaction limit but no cap on total spend

Posted on July 5, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Not as useful as I’d expected.

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What mRNA is Good For (and less good for).

Posted on July 5, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Vaccines mostly. He doesn’t mention auto-immune diseases.

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“Jupiter is one such planet; despite being three times the mass of Saturn, it’s only ~15% larger, as its atoms are gravitationally compressed.”

Posted on July 5, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Damn. I didn’t know that. Great article. “Earth, the largest rocky planet in our entire Solar System, is almost as “super” as a rocky planet can get.”

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Lebanon’s collapse: “unsustainable monetary policies that finally collapsed, leaving the banks largely insolvent”

Posted on July 5, 2021 by jgordon

Link. I wonder if they will dollerize.

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Murdoch’s legacy: “I can only guess that the destructive editorial policy of Fox News is driven by a deep-seated vein of anti-establishment/contrarian thinking in Rupert that, at age 90, is not going to change.”

Posted on July 5, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Brain rot and the bloody curse of the “contrarian”.

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6 Training Rules For Over-40 Lifters

Posted on July 5, 2021 by jgordon

Link. The grip stuff is silly, but the rest is very good.

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Apple fought China – and quietly won.

Posted on July 5, 2021 by jgordon

Link. The party didn’t care that much and the corporations buckled.

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How to recognise and diagnose kernel panics.

Posted on July 5, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Save for reference. Our M1 Air on early Big Sur had a lot of them.

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Boeing’s 737Max Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System

Posted on July 5, 2021 by jgordon

Link. Wikipedia article needs a rewrite; as written Boeing looks very bad.

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The Underside of the Aducanumab Approval

Posted on July 5, 2021 by jgordon

Link. A legitimate scandal at the FDA.

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