Link. One part of Evangelical moral panic. Ironically embracing Trunp likely accelerates departure by exposing hypocrisy.
Timeline of the Universe. xkcd
Link. I suspect the shape is our best current model and it is truly weird.
Fox News Is Now a Threat to National Security | WIRED
Link. Murdoch.
Distance running is likely GOOD, not bad, for knee cartilage.
Link. I bet we find same thing for squats in weight lifting. I’ve expected this for years. We are SO WRONG about osteoarthritis and “DJD”.
Phone Cameras – SLR endings.
Link. Going way of the medium format camera. Instead of new lens and flash for my Canon I bought a $7 remote and tripod adapter for my iPhone.
macOS 10.15.2 “… doesn’t fix the Mail data loss bugs”
Link. Still not ready.
macOS Music App Brings Back the Column Browser
Link. Wonder if it was always supposed to be in release. Reassuring in several ways.
“when an administration changes over on January 20th, each agency then gets their allocated number of political appointees. At VA, we had about 30 political appointees”
Link. It’s a way of rewarding loyalists. It’s also a really stupid way to run a vast enterprise. Also significantly corrupt.
Sleep apnea is undertreated and that’s fixable
Link. Sleep specialists will tell you they are no longe needed for this. “Austin might have been diagnosed at home, but the machines he was given for home testing failed” is a problem
How Enceladus Got Its Stripes
Link. Subcrustal water expanded as froze.
Sponges got 90 percent of their carbon from sugars dissolved in seawater
Link. Most of ocean carbon is dissolved
“27 of the 47 people who were on the volcano when it erupted are suffering burns on at least 30 percent of their bodies,”
Link.
“Mr. Simmons, who was not wearing his seatbelt at the time of the 6 p.m. accident, suffered a fatal head injury”
Link. There are still people who don’t wear seat belts. His daughterw will live without him.
The establishment goes after “$2 million” Warren.
Link. I should joined the Trilateral Commission when I had the chance. I coulda been a player.
TidBITS membership: “A full-text RSS feed”
Link. I subscribe.
“The key theme of Giuliani’s trips has been looking for crooks in Ukraine trying to keep out of jail either in Ukraine or the U.S. and offering them protection if they’ll intervene in the 2020 U.S. presidential election”
Link.
Google Calendars app to support moving events between calendars
Link. Such a weird omission. Calendars 5 supports it
“Apple has been “stunningly effective” with its goal of Intelligent Tracking Prevention stopping websites from knowing what users are doing on the web”
Link. Kudos earned.
“Apple’s SMB has had something of a rollercoaster ride, and in many versions of macOS has had problems, sometimes to the point of being unusable”
Link. One of Apple’s weirdest fails.
The moral panic of the Evangelicals.
Link. Primarily patriarchy. Same as al Qaeda.
Resources for Adapting to zsh in Catalina
Link. ref
NYT article about protecting vulnerable people (children esp) is spectacularly awful.
Link. Same old drivel. Letting Apple/Gopgle off, setting up parrnts for failure. Physicians are wrong experts for this
Remember the inverted yield curve?
Link. The economy is beyond our ken.
Doonesbury: enemy of the people.
Link. Will historians remember Murdoch’s role and the power of Fox?
“Since 1895, the average temperature in Santa Barbara County has warmed by 2.3 degrees Celsius”
Link. California shows the future.
Revert to old AirPort firmware: “click the base station in AirPort Utility, then Option-click the firmware version number.”
Link. Latest version is 7.9.1, it breaks Google’s web OAUTH when in DHCP mode, that mode needed to enable guest network.
“a world in which every company works 100% remotely is probably a world which is less hospitable to people just starting out”
Link. All remote and all local are differently good. Mixed not so much.
“useful for cracking passwords you kinda-remember.”
Link. People make money recovering cybercurrency.
“I had a lot of trouble with CNN’s legal department with this essay.”
Link. Interesting.
How South Korea fought off a likely Russian cyber attack.
Link. Heroic work unrecognized. Fighting allies of today’s GOP.
The future health generic city: “apartment buildings, shopping villages, coffee shops, ethnic restaurants, bookstores and co-working spaces”.
Link. And cheap rent, 5G, online dating. He omitted bicycle paths.
AMD CPU shipped with a broken random number generator.
Link. When Apple does stuff like this there are more eyes on the problem.
“if the heat absorbed by the oceans since 1955 had gone into the lower levels of the atmosphere instead, land temperatures would be warmer by 65 degrees Fahrenheit”
Link.
“of the DNA in his semen belonged to his donor.”
Link. Whoa.
“Thirty-seven percent of Republicans polled hold a very or somewhat favorable opinion of Putin”
Link. I’m surprised it’s that low.
Prisoner swap: American hostage freed
Link. An “easy one” as these go. Iran loves the hostage game
$100K drugs for sickle cell anemia
Link. But … “30 more sickle-cell drugs are now in late-stage clinical trials.”. The price will come down.
Jury Rules You Can Call Elon Musk a Pedo Guy
Link. I was amazed by this jury decision
The killer application for Apple’s AR glasses will be driving
Link. “AR glasses that receive input from forward facing light sensitive sensors and that enhance what I see as I drive. Draw circles around pedestrians. Turn night into day.”
“Core Graphics is leaking like a sieve when generating thumbnails from 16 bit per component tiff files.”
Link. Nice find.
The Deep Sea
Link. Must view. Science.
“first she starts making more money than you, then she buys a Peloton, and before you know if you’ve turned “half gay”
Link. Peloton / spin-cycle base are professional women with limited time. An appealing target for scorn.
“Tariffs let him exercise unconstrained power, rewarding his friends and punishing his enemies.”
Link. Trump has finished corruption of GOP. They will continue this.
The AR optimist story.
Link. I’ll be in my late 70s by then and will need all the help I can get
Debugging Catalina weirdness.
Link. Install the next release.
“cargo bikes had worked best in densely packed city centers with lots of deliveries, when there is a well-developed bike network and a close partnership with city officials”
Link. NYC test. Electric assist.
Life as an Equinox trainer: 50% annual turnover.
Link. That’s a crazy burn rate and even higher for newbies.
Left behind Italian style.
Link. A harder harsher crash than American non-college. Abundant racism follows.
Colorism: “Some family members may call only lighter-skinned relatives beautiful, or treat them better than darker-skinned relatives.”
Link. Not racism but kind of a cousin.
“Beijing had accidentally appointed the most inflexible politician in China to head the Hong Kong S.A.R., and was now watching the ensuing disaster unfold as helplessly as everybody else.”
Link. Carrie Lam: wrong person on the destiny train.