Link. A perfect storm, but (much) less extreme versions are known to everyone who does healthcare.
Author Archives: jgordon
Apple 2FA still kind of sucks
Link. SMS bypass.
Apple makes a persuasive case – no hardware hack.
Link. Curious.
“The Reichskonkordat … is a treaty negotiated between the Vatican and the emergent Nazi Germany … signed by Eugenio Pacelli, who later became Pope Pius XII”
Link. American Evangelicals understand the Catholic position better now.
Does Coenzyme Q10 Reduce Statin-Related Muscle Aches?
Link. Statins deplete synthesis but replacement doesn’t seem to do anything
Goeppert Meyer – amateur physicist
Link. Nobelist too
Luxardo Maraschino Cherries
Link.
Cărturești Carusel Bookstore in Bucharest, Romania
Link. Hope.
This annoys me: “existence of a revanchist core of white men”
Link. 52% of white *women* voted Trump. The problem isn’t just white men.
Solar electric bicycle raced 12,800 km in 64 days.
Link. Love the 99% saddle discount.
“The truly wealthy end up paying a much lower effective tax rate than the merely rich, not because of loopholes in tax law, but because they break the law”
Link. Trump is less surprising now.
Neanderthal genes protected against Neanderthal HIV.
Link. We got both, long ago.
“It is not just that the perpetrators of this cruelty enjoy it; it is that they enjoy it with one another. Their shared laughter at the suffering of others is an adhesive that binds them to one another, and to Trump.”
Link. Trump era is tutorial in human nature.
The Bandwidth Needed to Restore an iPhone
Link. “Designed for a California network connection.” Weekly app updates suck bandwidth too.
Russian cyberwarfare is kind of rogue, kind of nutty
Link. Makes no military/strategic sense. Kids on vodka?
War between China and US is not unthinkable.
Link. Missing Obama.
Supermicro hack: “traced the malicious chips to four subcontracting factories that had been building Supermicro motherboards for at least two years.”
Link. Not clear FBI wanted this known. So far Supermicro presented as victim. Would be surprising if they were not penetrated though.
Lessons from Trump: American tax law corrupt for decades.
Link. Trump’s GOP has made clear how rotten our society has been.
“⌘⌫ returns an item in the Trash to its original folder”
Link. MacOS archeology.
Age of athletic collapse moves from 70 towards 80 in elite athletes.
Link. For most humans 85 is the wall.
Australia – vaccination may eliminate cervical cancer
Link. But … “In Japan … fear campaigns have helped cause the rate of HPV vaccinations to plummet from 70 percent to close to zero”
Cook on Jones: “Safari is the app for you if you want to look at anything that’s on the free and open Internet that’s not on our app store.”
Link. USENET is his other option.
“drivers behaved more dangerously around female riders, passing, on average, three inches closer to female cyclists. Of all the unsafe passes in the study, 73 percent occurred against female cyclists”
Link. We also know drivers are more dangerous if cyclist wears a helmet.
Event Management Software.
Link. A niche I didn’t know about
Trump’s extended con of his father.
Link. Kept taking him for more money.
“cyclists typically roll stop signs at the same speed most motorists consider to be “stopping.”
Link. Mostly true, but didn’t occur to me.
Sildenafil OD shows how it can alter color vision
Link. A poor choice at least helps medical science.
Trump and subs: “set up a sham corporation to disguise millions of dollars in gifts from their parents, records and interviews show”
Link. White collar criminal.
Quantum Computing and Cryptography: we can manage this
Link. “… we might end up back to where we were in the late 1970s and early 1980s: symmetric cryptography, code-based cryptography, Merkle hash signature”
Insurers torture-by-form: “If one insurer puts up enough barriers, patients may switch to another”
Link. Why we need government and lawyers.
A Warning From Europe – a naturalized Polish conservative Jewish woman on the rise of the right
Link. Unique perspective, persuasive warning. For conservative intellectuals (few remain!) who say things aren’t “so bad”. //@clarkgoble
Safari 12 Crashes Spotlight in Sierra
Link. “deselect the Bookmarks & History category.”
“iOS 12, binary data stored in Core Data with the External Storage option gets corrupted/goes missing on every second save of the context.”
Link. Wow.
iPhone XS: serious computational photography
Link. I want SLR comparisons
Incoming Calls
Link. As I read this I got a spam call.
“use of alternative medicine in lieu of conventional cancer treatments resulted in an overall death rate two and a half times higher than the rate experienced by patients getting standard therapies”
Link. Steve Jobs.
China’s chaotic healthcare system rebuilds.
Link. They move fast, be interesting to check back in a few years.
“Denny Tamaki, the son of a Japanese mother and a United States Marine, became the first mixed-race governor in Japan”
Link. He must have stories to tell.
Google’s Family Link for remote device management – puberty, adulthood, and Google Suites.
Link. Apple has nothing like this. What happens at age 18?
If Obama loved Kim: “ridicule on Fox News, the outrage on the Senate floor, the musings about the 25th Amendment, and the motion of impeachment that someone would file the very next day.”
Link. The GOP is all Trump.
“extended dynamic range available for video shot with the iPhone XS, provided you’re shooting at 30 frames per second or lower”
Link. I think same in XR as XS.
LTE only, no wired broadband: “12% in 2016 to 20% this year.”
Link. This is the big one.
Supervise iOS devices with Apple Configurator for use with Jamf
Link. First you wipe the device. Then you enroll it. I’m beginning to understand why it’s so hard for vendors to implement remote mobile device management for families.
How to Participate in Politics – based on your time budget.
Link. League of Women Voters guide.
Machine translation of books for $150
Link. There is probably a style of English non-fiction writing that works best for machine translation.
Jamf free 3 user accounts for Daring Fireball readers.
Link. I’m testing it for guardian/parent management special needs adults.
Email apps for macOS.
Link. Mail.app is one of Apple’s better products but search is flaky.
South Africa ANC has become a mafia party.
Link. Like Putin’s party but more bullets.
If Facebook was your OAUTH supplier you should worry.
Link. This looks worse and worse.
Nutrition science plagued by p-hacking
Link. Mostly nonsense. Ioannidis on the case. I’m getting a worse feeling about this. World has too many scientists.