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“Stasi’s files were opened to the public, and anyone could apply to see if their nearest and dearest had been passing along information. Many decided not to”

Posted on January 15, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Choosing ignorance – the good and the bad.

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mRNA win has legions of parents.

Posted on January 15, 2022 by jgordon

Link. No way to be fair given Nobel rules.

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Riemann Hypothesis, Explained.

Posted on January 15, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Sometimes YouTube is worth it.

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“He was wearing one of those anti-vax ‘Live free or die’ t-shirts. I just said, ‘I see you made your choice.’ He was already so far gone he couldn’t hear me.”

Posted on January 15, 2022 by jgordon

Link. ER docs and cops see the worst of us.

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Network Time Machine Backups: All the mediocre options.

Posted on January 14, 2022 by jgordon

Link. I do Synology NAS but it’s not my main backup solution.

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“military invasion, which could begin between mid-January and mid-February.”

Posted on January 14, 2022 by jgordon

Link. The most predictable invasion ever?

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“Germany would most likely eventually have to move to treating the virus as endemic.”

Posted on January 14, 2022 by jgordon

Link. The headline synopsis does not match the article. The experts quoted say it is endemic and we have a new routine.

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“deputy patsy would be leading a small team to take the fall for all future investigations into Adams for misappropriating funds, political patronage, and nepotism”

Posted on January 13, 2022 by jgordon

Link. New York is weird. Too.

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“…. there’s a certain point where a pawn should understand they’re a pawn, not a king, or a queen, or even a rook. So, if you’re still a willfully unvaccinated person: You’re a pawn, sorry.”

Posted on January 13, 2022 by jgordon

Link. We need to lower people’s self-esteem.

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“first-year enrollment is 9.2 percent lower than prepandemic levels in fall 2019.” College.

Posted on January 13, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Very bad.

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“Epstein-Barr virus infection increased the risk of multiple sclerosis over 30 fold”

Posted on January 13, 2022 by jgordon

Link. MS patients tend to have very effective immune systems. But EBV cannot be eliminated.

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“iPhone 14 Pro models will have a new main sensor, switching from 12MP to 48MP.”

Posted on January 13, 2022 by jgordon

Link. 12 is too small.

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What is the metaverse? The Verge.

Posted on January 13, 2022 by jgordon

Link. First useful summary I have found for the average geek.

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“self-deception is the strongest and most mysterious of all the deceptions. With self-deception, you’re both the teller and receiver of the lie.”

Posted on January 13, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Fascinating and so important. Related, I think, to our capacity for denial. Maybe essential for life.

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Thai unloads on Apple’s Mac strategy: “We once hoped for a successor to AppleScript; now we are grateful that it is at least still on life support.”

Posted on January 12, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Apple hasn’t made a significant Mac app in over 10 years.

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Tianjin: “One local health official said that the virus appeared to have been spreading in the community “for some time.”

Posted on January 12, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Breached.

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“After a lengthy back-and-forth over the election results, Mr. Trump asked how he could have lost the presidential election to Joe Biden, who he falsely claimed did not attract crowds during the campaign.”

Posted on January 12, 2022 by jgordon

Link. “Siri, what is narcissistic personality disorder?”

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China’s COVID revolution.

Posted on January 12, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Maoism lives. The more entropy I accumulate the more I distrust zealotry of all causes.

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Google (AI) Research: Themes from 2021 and Beyond.

Posted on January 12, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Long and impressive. Meanwhile Google Search results suck and iOS autocorrect is deteriorating. Something is off.

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“security problems that stem from all controls becoming software controls”

Posted on January 12, 2022 by jgordon

Link. No plug.

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“most of the 150,000 or so mail-in P.C.R. tests given to students were never returned; of the ones that were, a majority produced invalid results.”

Posted on January 11, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Self-administered testing only works for elites.

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“Half or more of the increasing gap in wages among American workers over the last 40 years is attributable to the automation of tasks formerly done by human workers, especially men without college degrees”

Posted on January 11, 2022 by jgordon

Link. I believe but has been hard to show.

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AIDS in Africa: astounding progress in 15 years.

Posted on January 11, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Science, medicine, politics. If you don’t tear up you need therapy.

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Apple Watch: all apps dying.

Posted on January 11, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Exercise related and bike navigation among few opportunities. Apple Watch main value is getting text message when active and phone inaccessible.

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“most Americans — including children and vaccinated adults — face little personal risk from Omicron.”

Posted on January 11, 2022 by jgordon

Link. In SF 1/3 of persons admitted with Omicron it is incidental. Likely most immunized admissions are incidental.

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“There’s about $1.6 trillion worth of $100 bills in circulation — 80 percent of all U.S. currency”

Posted on January 11, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Neither zealots or critics speak much of Bitcoins true value in illegal transactions.

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Web3: “micropayments, but in crypto”

Posted on January 10, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Wait! I like that! I’m a huge fan of micropayments and enemy of subscriptions. Now I have to be a crypto fanboy?!?!

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“It takes about 200 hours of investment in the space of a few months to move a stranger into being a good friend.”

Posted on January 10, 2022 by jgordon

Link. That seems high, and hard to achieve outside of work or school.

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“The slowest ager gained only 0.4 “biological years” for each chronological year in age; in contrast, the fastest-aging participant gained nearly 2.5”

Posted on January 10, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Lifespans don’t vary 6x however. This aging variability is easy to see in dogs.

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Botulism: “why canned foods have a burnt, metallic taste and jarred sauces can sometimes have a harsh acidic note”

Posted on January 10, 2022 by jgordon

Link. So good.

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Cowpox transport: “Twenty-two orphans, ages 3 to 9 … accompanied by lead doctor Francisco Xavier de Balmis … and Isabel Zendal Gómez, the head of the boys’ orphanage”

Posted on January 10, 2022 by jgordon

Link. The orphans, and Balmis, saved tens of millions from Smallpox. Adopted by families in Mexico they must have descendants now.

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Create a computer-to-computer network on Mac

Posted on January 10, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Ad hoc Wi-Fi is deprecated in Big Sur but can be resurrected. Via TidBITS.

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Moderna’s mRNA Flu Vaccine: Meh so far.

Posted on January 10, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Nice flu review.

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Inside iCloud+ Private Relay.

Posted on January 10, 2022 by jgordon

Link. I will enable eventually.

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Djokovic: “On Dec. 16, the day he said he tested positive, he appeared at a live-streamed public event. The following day, he appeared at an awards ceremony for junior players, where photographs showed that he was not wearing a mask.”

Posted on January 9, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Either he’s lying or he’s an asshole.

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Screen Time calculation nonsensical due to persistent web sites.

Posted on January 9, 2022 by jgordon

Link. I think this bug is new in iOS 13.

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“H01 is a petabyte-scale dataset, but is only one-millionth the volume of an entire human brain. Serious technical challenges remain in scaling up synapse-level brain mapping to an entire mouse brain (500x bigger than H01), let alone an entire human brain

Posted on January 9, 2022 by jgordon

Link. June 2021. Mouse is exabyte.

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Mathematica 13 – 1/3 of a century of development.

Posted on January 9, 2022 by jgordon

Link. I used it in grad school around ’95. It was just a toddler then. (The programming models were kind of everything.)

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Time Machine has a bug with backup to APFS

Posted on January 9, 2022 by jgordon

Link. With large numbers of small files

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Converting from Aperture to Apple Photos: Personal results

Posted on January 9, 2022 by jgordon

Link. The first of many updates to this blog post. I was unable to find any useful descriptions online so I’m doing my own experiments.

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Aperture and unsupported image formats – use Photos and export as TIFF

Posted on January 9, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Video formats are, of course, much harder. For me Adobe’s DNG converter is good enough.

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“Sibelly said there were no staff absences, pointing out that most teachers had contracted Covid last month or over the Christmas holidays.”

Posted on January 9, 2022 by jgordon

Link. London. Essentially all teachers will get Omicron, but without surveillance many won’t know.

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The Case Against Crypto(currencies) – “every use case is better served by another simpler technology except for crime, ransomware, extralegal gambling, and sanctions evasion”

Posted on January 9, 2022 by jgordon

Link. Handy reference.

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How Mars got red.

Posted on January 8, 2022 by jgordon

Link. It’s a bit complicated.

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“Many of number theory’s most important problems arise when mathematicians think about how multiplication and addition relate in terms of the prime numbers.”

Posted on January 8, 2022 by jgordon

Link. The starting points are so easy to understand. Then the warp drive kicks in.

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“If you see a hedgehog in your backyard,” he said, “you should probably avoid kissing it.”

Posted on January 8, 2022 by jgordon

Link. MRSA evolution from fungus vs. bacteria on hedgehog skin.

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Antigen tests less sensitive to Omicron.

Posted on January 8, 2022 by jgordon

Link. More pressure on PCR.

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“Feature that allows me to use Google’s search engine through DuckDuckGo: prepend “!Google” to searches. Basically, DuckDuckGo launders my search.”

Posted on January 8, 2022 by jgordon

Link.

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Oracle’s Ellison: “You’ve got to be good at intellectual intimidation and rhetorical bullying,”

Posted on January 8, 2022 by jgordon

Link. That’s the Ellison we know, but this shocked: “He later disavowed this as the strategy of an “inexperienced and insecure” C.E.O.”. WTF? Is there nobody we can trust?

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“school disruptions were an important issue for swing voters who broke Republican — particularly suburban white women.”

Posted on January 8, 2022 by jgordon

Link. GOP will encourage unions to fight for remote schooling. Article doesn’t mention unvaccinated teachers – a weird omission.

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