Link. He can never admit he was wrong.
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ACE Inhibitors probably have psych brain activity.
Link. Seemingly not bad effects.
Axios: “Minnesota has some of the highest costs of care in the country because we have higher standards for teachers and lower ratios of kids-to-teachers, per the report.”
Link. Quality child care is expensive.
“…. Eastern Orthodoxy and Russian empire. Orthodoxy’s combat against Western Christianity and Western decadence could be harnessed to the geopolitical war to come.”
Link. Secularists always forget the power of religion.
“the lowest temperature ever observed on Earth: minus-128.6 degrees (minus-89.2 Celsius), set on July 21, 1983.”
Link. I didn’t realize Earth could get that cold. Now it’s 70F degrees above normal, so -10 or so.
Turning conditional call forwarding on and off (Google Voice voicemail for a phone)
Link. I did this for my son’s iPhone and forgot about it. When we didn’t reverify his number his voicemail stopped working. It’s probably not a good idea.
“We should begin making arrangements for war-crimes trials, and begin naming defendants, as we should have done during World War II.”
Link. Putin obviously.
Apple web form for reporting a problem with an Apple content (media) purchase.
Link. Top secret.
“Chaos Climbers on the Right and Left both have some incentive to want Putin to win”
Link. I like this framing.
Russian military strategy is to kill civilians until leaders surrender.
Link. Tamarlane did this.
Monterey’s Visual Look Up and paintings.
Link. VLU is an awesome feature.
“squats or probably lower-body training in general, doing just 18 sets a week makes you significantly stronger than doing 24 sets.”
Link. I suspect the number falls with age.
Living at the bottom in America.
Link. Not cognitively disabled by obsolete legal standards, but effectively disabled now. #massdisability
“be gracious to people that are staring or looking or asking for pictures”
Link. MN family tallest in the world. They are really tall.
Deep Neural Nets: “modern libraries have adopted a design that splits into 3 components: 1) a fast (C/CUDA) general Tensor library that implements basic mathematical operations over multi-dimensional tensors, and 2) an autograd engine…”
Link. Surprisingly readable.
Deep Neural Nets: “modern libraries have adopted a design that splits into 3 components: 1) a fast (C/CUDA) general Tensor library that implements basic mathematical operations over multi-dimensional tensors, and 2) an autograd engine…”
Link. Surprisingly readable.
“I’m approaching the conclusion that Face ID should be scrapped. It’s so slow, doesn’t work with winter gear on (even with an Apple Watch), and now it’s less secure.”
Link. Apple Pay with Face ID is awkward.
Afghanistan’s last finance minister, now a D.C. Uber driver.
Link. High integrity and perhaps too much idealism. A good read.
China: “imagine the whole country is one giant Qanon”
Link. It was like that in the 1960s. Russia to follow.
“GOP leaders don’t care about reality; their audience doesn’t care about the truth, and their political media apparatus always stays on message.”
Link. “If that sounds cynical, I would ask: Have you met my former party?”
Google’s low profile support page for uses of free Google Apps pre-transition
Link. “If you have 10 or fewer users in your group and do not use your G Suite legacy free edition for business, please sign in to your administrator account to provide more information.”
“The support page detailing the shutdown has quietly been updated (for some reason, Google is not making a big deal of the changes yet). First, if (and only if) you’re signed in with a free G Suite account, you’ll see a link to this survey”
Link. Damn. This has been quiet.
App Bundles As Upgrades: “Who in their right mind designed this system?”
Link. Another Apple cluster.
“Would you have wanted to be a health official telling Xi Jinping that his vaunted vaccines were seriously inferior to Western alternatives?”
Link. Lee Kuan Yew was a dictator who dodge this trap. Few do.
Repaired M1 Macs bricked by Monterey 12.3 update.
Link. I have never regretted waiting to apply a macos update.
Russia’s end-game is a lose-lose scenario.
Link. Germany pays a high price, US far less. Ukraine beyond measure. Russia catastrophic.
Putin assassination: “May couldn’t do much because Brexit had isolated England and then-president Trump refused to back her. He promptly fired Tillerson”
Link. She could have done more. Trump of course covered for Putin.
Rural Georgia elections return to the 1960s.
Link. Easy to see why GOP blocks voting rights.
Weigh lifting progression for punies: The Step Loading Method
Link. I’m too Old and small to add weight, this approach focuses on adding stops and sets.
China COVID quarantine is hellish.
Link. “China uses the PCR tests continuously to detect for the presence of the virus in your nose.” The iodine was is insane. Medicine without science.
A $24 Thunderbolt 4 Cable from OWC.
Link. MacBook “USB-C” is charging only, extremely slow USB data transfer. WTF Apple.
“the technique of targeting children and civilians he developed in Chechnya and Syria”
Link. It’s an ancient tactic.
Russia’s honorable journalists resign.
Link. Putin will make resignation illegal.
“it is time to recognize the problem of international kleptocracy as a matter not just for the Treasury, but for those who make American foreign policy”
Link. We enable them. We can stop.
Syria’s al-Assad did the crimes but not the time.
Link. Putin is a war criminal but he won’t face justice. (Neither, of course, did Kissinger and friends.)
“under high-density conditions, cannibalism is likely to evolve. They’re basically working out a way to eliminate future competitors.”
Link. Cane toads are hungry.
“six suicide quadcopter drones exploded into the Iranian facility near Kermanshah, Iran, on Feb. 12”
Link. Israel attacks a drone site.
Duolingo praise.
Link. I might try for an Italy trip.
“The administration’s coalition against Putin is extraordinarily delicately balanced, and that balance will collapse if the U.S. heads off on its own in a resurrection of the unilateral action”
Link. Putin should encourage direct US action.
Fall “booster” for 50+?
Link. I’m planning on it with my flu shot.
“ultranationalist view of Russia’s destiny as a conservative empire in perpetual conflict with the liberal Western world.”
Link. Owning the libs.
The Dictator Traps.
Link. Well understood thousands of years ago. Singapore’s ruler escaped but few do.
Automattic: “Five percent of the 2,000 employees work full-time contributing to open-source.”
Link. My favorite large tech company by far.
Mariupol: “estimated that the actual total could be as high as 20,000.”
Link. Russian army has a well deserved reputation for absolute brutality.
“the authors of an SPLC report published in December struggled to find a prominent American far-right figure without a cryptocurrency presence.”
Link. Deplatformed.
System settings in macOS found in Apple’s apps.
Link. Mail has always been weird this way.
“system-wide OCR capability, so that translation is directly available from any app. Anytime text is on the screen, there should be a way to select it for OCR.”
Link. Probably hard to do but great goal.
Unfixed: “gaping memory leak in the Finder’s Find command, which has made this major feature next to useless since the first release of Monterey”
Link. That’s not good.
“Apple: Don’t Attach Your iPhone to Motorcycles, Mopeds, or Scooters if You Want the Camera to Last”
Link. Bikes too? Newer cameras have optical stabilization damaged by vibration.
New Brunswick dementia “cluster”: “The oversight committee has unanimously agreed that these 48 people should never have been identified as having a neurological syndrome of unknown cause, and that based on the evidence reviewed, no such syndrome ex
Link. Phew. The known dementia syndromes are bad enough.