Link. Patent worries.
Resetting the volinfo.database
Link. “Could not enable permissions for volume __ : please restart your Macintosh”.
Remember the Carrier plant jobs Trump “saved”?
Link. All gone.
Imaginary girlfriends.
In the community of special needs teens and adults imaginary girlfriends are not rare. Imaginary children on occasion. Imaginary careers, colleagues, relationships. Often based on real people. Belief shaded with grief.
This doesn’t get discussed in parenting books.
I am not sure if this is delusion or something else.
Pages white and yellow.
The Yellow Pages were replaced by Google Maps. They became a feature, not an application.
The White Pages went without replacement.
There is some lesson here.
Nobody wants to be T’s press secretary.
Link. Loathed by the sentient.
GOP shifts medicaid costs to states.
Link. Long term care race to the bottom
American guns: it is a Republican thing.
Link. Driven by fear.
NYT: “president frequently embellished details during his speech, or told outright falsehoods.”
Link. How to cover a T speech.
iOS UI glitch: can’t send location from new message screen.
Only works if in a message thread. Otherwise i icon replaced be “cancel” button.
On the persistence of science blogs.
Link. 5% decline from peak.
“billions of Earths in our galaxy”
Link. Quiet though.
A New Antibiotic Class.
Link. Researches ard more sanguine about antibiotics than many.
Sen Capito’s Medicaid defense is pointless theater.
Link. Stop acting like there is hope among GOP.
Thunderbolt 3 docks.
Link. More than T2.
“17 percent … of Americans between 18 and 24 voted in 2014”
Link. What is breakdown by ethnicity?
“there are only 15 congressional districts where at least half of adults have a college degree”
Link. Remember.
Standard eBooks: classics you can stand to read.
Link. Open source. karma++
Amazon to pay $6,000 per Slack user: rationalizations.
Link. Nobody bets Bezos made a mistake.
How American diabetics survive without insurance – Walmart insulin.
Link. I didn’t realize no prescription was needed.
“every gene impacts every other gene.”
Link. Sigh.
MSP Trails: Minneapolis Grand Rounds – 35 mile bike loop as Google Map.
Link. In 10 minutes I made a map I like better than everyone else’s.
Inreasing male lifespan: growth hormone and metformin.
Link. Growth hormone “supplements” very unwise.
TrumpCare shows how corrupt GOP is now.
Link. Winning was the worst thing for the party.
Trump is close to constitutional crisis.
Link. Broken GOP, broken nation.
Walmart vs Amazon: the war on work.
Link. Mass disability.
Mobile phone call spam now extreme.
Worse than the dark days of email spam. I have to leave iOS DND active during day.
Car rooftop tents are really dumb.
Link. Make sense in Australia where everything tries to kill you.
Eero beacon preview.
Link. Still in the game.
AI conquers Pac-Man.
Link. Don’t worry, lots of people say AI impact overhyped.
Mike Bossy’s hockey story.
Link. Class.
“Hey Siri, make screen brighter”
When an errant swipe plunges your iPhone into unusable darkness.
Apple’s fake-out pricing.
Link. The device you want is really expensive.
In Defense of Cultural Appropriation
Link. Sometimes the left can also be nuts.
Delta and others: Making Travel Easier for Autistic Passengers
Link. We had some rough times.
OS X (macOS) installer sizes – Mountain Lion through Sierra
Link. How did Apple shrink Sierra?
GOP health attacks: “Adjudicate it at the next election”
Link. Don’t whine. This is what they do.
“the liver grows and shrinks by up to 40 percent every 24 hours”
Link. WTF.
Rat lungworm: another delightful emerging disease.
Link. In Hawaii, coming soon to your local produce.
NYT: iPad Pro still makes no sense.
Link. My iPad is nice, my Mac and iPhone are essential.
NYT has more seedy details on Dear Leader cabinet groveling.
Link. Slowly they realized the meeting was recorded.
Medicaid – you will need it desperately.
Link. America’s cover long term care insurance.
iPhone dev hx: “The iPhone is the reason I’m divorced”
Link. Wise people declined.
GOP is now an authoritarian regime.
Link. Absolute corruption
Mattis refuses to sing of Trump’s glories.
Link. “Your Majesty is like a stream of bat’s piss.”
Airtable RDMS review
Link. Web only.
“FileMaker is truly a database application development platform now, not an end-user database”
Link. I still run a very old version.
Google’s ad war: the countdown
Link. Interesting year.
Apple drives me into Google’s arms – using Google Photos with iPhone and Aperture
Link. I’m a broken man. If only Google didn’t hate albums.
iCloud photo stream shared album fail.
Link. I’m done. Deleted iLifeAssetManagement. Google Photos now.