Link. Google has a point. Despite the evilness.
Author Archives: jgordon
Using Apple’s kind of busted log to debug crashes
Link. Ref
“13.1 needs to be a lot more stable than 13.0. 13.0 feels like a late stage beta.”
Link. Wait for 13.2.
“medical data from more than 16 million scans worldwide was available online, including names, birthdates and, in some cases, Social Security numbers.”
Link. Not a surprise.
Boeing’s mixed safety actions.
Link. Smells like they have a lot to hide.
Predicting Trump. In 2011. “ a catastrophe for the Republican Party, for free-market capitalism, and for America.”
Link. Berlusconi. He nailed it.
Putin’s miserable life.
Link. Who would want that?
Outsourcing your homework essay to Kenya.
Link. The world is swamped with underused talent
Review of Arrive canping gear rental service
Link. REI and some universities also rent. Good option to have
vape lipoid pneumonitis: “illicit operations are using a tactic common to other illegal drug operations: cutting their product with other substances”
Link. Chinese counterfeit packaging to fake regulated Colorado source.
NYT article on KY mining town is flashback to 50s.
Link. A cultural time capsule. Useful to understand.
Sugar soda is bad, diet soda isn’t necessarily better.
Link. I suspect it’s the confounding variables, but coffee, tea, and water are probably better choices.
Thermoelectric power: “The cloudless atmosphere becomes a porthole to the void, through which warmth flows like air through a porch screen.”
Link. Enough to light a small LED
“Microsoft Academic Knowledge Graph (MAKG), a large RDF data set with over eight billion triples with information about scientific publications and related entities, such as authors, institutions, journals, and fields of study”
Link. RDF! The semantic web. I miss those days.
“Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo” is a grammatically correct sentence in American English”
Link. Horrible language.
“airborne, metabolically active microbes are directly engaged in the core biogeochemical cycles of the Earth”
Link. Gaia.
“South Korea is the only nation with large, commercial dog meat farms.”
Link. Change will come from within Korea, but it helps to have international attention.
“58 percent of Democrats1 said that a candidate who can beat Trump was more important than a candidate who shares their position on most issues”
Link. Yep. Give me Wisconsin polling and forget the rest.
“a chess player can burn up to 6,000 calories a day while playing in a tournament”
Link. There’s a reason most animals have “just enough” brain.
Clark Goble 1967-2019
Link. Remembering an online friend and his gift of very fine Amano chocolate.
Rosettavert 1.3: “the command tool iconv can transcode between around 144 different text encodings, from ASCII to MacUkraine”
Link. OK, I want a directory of all macOS command line tools.
SIM cards have embedded browser that can be trivially exploited.
Link. Ummm we are learning this now?!?!
Apple Card partner Goldman Sachs expects 26% AAPL hit
Link. Apple’s wants smarter shareholders
Bash Fun – BrettTerpstra.com
Link. Learn the terminal.
Ultra Wideband revolution
Link. Hah! Light speed security feature easily defeated with tachyon tech.
iPhone price cuts.
Link. Making it up with services. Is Apple vacuuming up used devices? Also, they apparently manufacture cheaper old devices for carriers and partners.
Apple App store: incompetence or malevolence?
Link. It’s both. If the incompetence had hurt Apple it would have been fixed.
Sunsetting Python 2: a painful process
Link. Subtext: how not to do it.
GOP attack on reality comes for the weather.
Link. Trump is the fruit of a long process that started with tobacco.
Why Is It So Difficult to Listen to Audiobooks on the Apple Watch?
Link. Audiobooks are a mess everywhere in Apple world
Metformin and brain repair in mice
Link. Metformin is a fascinating drug.
How to back up your iCloud Keychain
Link. Ugh. This is really bad.
Saving files in macOS: HPFS vs APFS
Link. APFS isn’t finished. Also, Apple should have keptbold function working.
Scrub 1.0 for macOS – reduce data leakage
Link. Patching an OS and app failure.
Clark Goble, RIP
Link. Michael Tsai knew him too
App Store scams: buying legit apps and going evil
Link. Apple can’t keep up
Gut microbiome research: obesity fix unlikely.
Link. Early results are “meh”
“sending fingers from three neighboring Republican districts deep into Austin and giving the party a lock on all but one of the House seats in heavily Democratic Travis Count”
Link. The GOP is amoral and utterly ruthless.
“Morocco, for example, early Homo sapiens had a very Neanderthal-like appearance”
Link. Africans 300kya had many different bodies
Whacko WH climate denialist “blocked by other senior White House and administration officials, including members of the military and intelligence communities.”
Link. Bolton was a supporter because nobody is stupider than Bolton.
NOAA head, Jacobs, caved to Ross threats.
Link. His job was on the line. He caved.
What’s the Best Medicine?
Link. Rabies answer was most interesting by a mile.
Bolton: “back to the American Enterprise Institute, the neocon think tank whence he came and from which, one can reliably predict, he will never roam far again”
Link. A good day for civilization.
“Clarence Thomas is the longest-serving Justice on the Supreme Court. “
Link. This is fascinating. Must read.
Bicycling North Dakota’s Maah Daah Hey trail with Western Spirit.
Link. What I did to mark my 60th birthday. Some travel notes for others.
US spy was source on Putin’s role in hack of US election.
Link. That’s buried deep in the article. CIA thought Trump would want that spy exposed … and terminated
Charlie Stross update.
Link. Has had rocky years with parental passings.
“as much as I love the functionality that iCloud provides, I cannot put my valuable data at risk.”
Link. Maybe 13 really is unlucky.
Apple screws up notarization: “For those of us who now realise that we’ve been suckered for the last year”
Link. Lots of fail.
“It’s the end of the world as we know it. The world is disintegrating, and much of the highly-visible noise and chaos is a symptom of a much deeper problem.”
Link. I guess if you made me pick one cause, I’d say wealth concentration. Has happened many times in history.