Link. Been a while since I tried looking at the photos on iPad – I have this bug. Instant crash. Supposedly we can use iTunes to remove syncd photos and possibly resent. Not fixed in 14.5.
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Why raising capital gains doesn’t hurt the economy.
Link. Great point about incentives to invest. We got way too much cash looking for a home as it is.
Sentencing Chauvin: MN law.
Link. If appeal fails likely 12-18 years with release as early as 8 to 12 years.
“As a good Humean, I believe that all moral principles ultimately come from people’s moral intuitions”
Link. Until now I didn’t have a name for my natural tribe. I’m basically a Humean.
“Information warfare threat to the United States is different from past threats, and it has the potential to destroy reason and reality as a basis for societal discourse”
Link. GOP war on science set the stage.
Bryant shooting: “So for people who want to criticize [foster parents], you instead should think whether you can take in a teenager.”
Link. Most people cannot begin to imagine how hard it is to care for a child with behavioral disorders. Regular parenting is minor league.
President Boring.
Link. Boringly transforming America.
Biden to date: the 100 days.
Link. An astounding team working to save a nation.
Which Task Manager is Right for You?
Link. Gave me OmniFocus which would be right except it’s both subscription and also quite expensive.
What to do if you find a lost AirTag.
Link. “If the owner of the AirTag has put the tag into Lost Mode, they can provide a phone number and a message.”
Safari 14.1 “adds support for the WebM and Vorbis video and audio formats”
Link. Mojave too.
Z-genome in bacteriophages: nucleotide substitute
Link. Discovered in … 1977. Is it mentioned in modern biology textbooks?
“promiscuous gene expression (PGE), provides a molecular mirror of the body’s self‐antigens within TEC for the purposes of central T‐cell tolerance induction.”
Link. Inducing tolerance is one of the great mefical dreamms.
Big Sur 11.3 bug tracker
Link. “Spotlight stopped showing search results from Mail and Notes after fast user switching.”
Avalanche: “migrate their Aperture, Luminar 4, Luminar AI or Lightroom catalogs to Capture One”
Link. “ Full support for migrating masters and versions, both for pictures and videos…. Renaming a file/folder on a mounted WebDAV share resulted in a ‘reset’ of macOS”
“Security Update 2021-002 Catalina” has broken Apple’s OpenCL framework.”
Link. Does it break Aperture?
“clique” model of development, where some people are special and implicitly trusted.”
Link. Torvalds has a deep dislike of aristocracy.
Long COVID-1892: “Tanganyika (modern-day Tanzania) it helped cause a famine because so many people were too debilitated to pick the harvest.”
Link. I didn’t know this legacy of 1890s COVID. (Russian Flu)
Avoiding China’s conquest of Taiwan.
Link. I’m surprised Taiwan has not developed a nuclear deterrent.
“China adopted superblock planning with unprecedented zeal and on an unprecedented scale throughout the ’90s, 2000s and most of this decade”
Link. China loves the automobile. Passionately.
“platforms optimized for engagement will give a natural advantage to their most shameless users.”
Link. A diet of constant car wrecks.
“In the United States, the move toward oligarchy had been underway for decades.”
Link. Biden invokes the rate of change as a problem for democracy.
“The bacterial broth spends four days in the fermenter, multiplying every 20 minutes and making trillions of copies of the DNA plasmids.”
Link. This is awesome.
Collins: “10 percent shrewd planning and 90 percent blind luck”
Link. Not impressed by celebrity.
Life with COVID-induced parosmia.
Link. It often improves, but heck of an outcome for a young person. Also people are less aware of COVID smell effects than physicians think.
“West Virginia will give $100 savings bonds to 16- to 35-year-olds who get a Covid-19 vaccine”
Link. Excellent experiment!
Setting up Notion for Academic collaboration
Link. Fascinating.
“Basecamp, as a company, is no longer going to weigh-in publicly on societal political affairs”
Link. Not climate change. Not racism. Not overthrowing elections. Basecamp would fight for the Auschwitz contract.
GOP establishment deplore state of GOP voters.
Link. Some mention of GOP war on science would not be amiss. Once the base abandoned science it was a small step to abandon reality.
“There’s no real room for growth here so it leaves the bullshit politicking at the door.”
Link. In my own odd workplace many “leaders” seem not to want work-life balance, but also seem unhappy. It’s a hunorless place.
Net slander industry: “The people facilitating slander and the self-proclaimed good guys who help remove it are often one and the same.”
Link. “ After a couple of stints in jail” The sleazebags who do these things often have a record.
Rereading Oliver Sacks 2015 essay on living with his terminal cancer at age 80.
Link. “I have been increasingly conscious, for the last 10 years or so, of deaths among my contemporaries. My generation is on the way out, and each death I have felt as an abruption, a tearing away of part of myself.”
Cultured Code Things is not a subscription product.
Link. The Cloud is “free” for people who pay for Things.app. They should make this clear on their web site, it confused me for years. Things is not inexpensive, but at least it’s not subscription.
“On Spotify, artists need 3.5 million streams per year to achieve the annual earnings for a full-time minimum-wage worker of $15,080, “
Link.
On life and GDP.
Link. Lotterman is one of my favorite writers on Economics. Obscure platform though.
“Representative Paul Gosar, Republican of Arizona, flew to London to speak at a second rally for Mr. Robinson.”
Link. Gosar again. It’s a trend. There’s a hint Peter Thiel is a backer of the white nationalist, more likely Shillman.
“Passwordstate creator Click Studios told customers that bad actors compromised its upgrade mechanism and used it to install a malicious file on user computers.”
Link. Don’t worry, no other password managers have been compromised. Why would Russia need passwords when they can just walk right in?
Chauvin judge on Waters: “I wish elected officials would stop talking about this case especially in a manner that is disrespectful to the rule of law and to the judicial branch and our function.”
Link. He goes on from there. Waters should retire.
“businessmen who hated government regulation warned voters that their tax dollars were being used to give Black Americans extra benefits. It was socialism, they said, and it would encourage Black people to step out of their place.”
Link. A Faustian bargain. It gave the GOP power, but it cost them you-know-what.
“Precision Finding, that interface that points you to the exact location of your AirTag — is made possible by Ultra Wideband technology, which is currently available only on the iPhones 11 and 12.”
Link. Bummer. I agree with his comments. iMac is kind of dumb.
COVID-19 Forecasting COVID-19 now.
Link. Wonder when they started showing these…
Japan is screwed: “less than 1 percent of the population fully inoculated”
Link. Insane to do the Olympics this summer.
“erroneous results returned by the M1 using double precision arithmetic are identical to those returned by current Intel processors”
Link. Good I think.
“the most effective malaria vaccine yet discovered. A year-long trial in Burkina Faso has shown 77%”
Link. “especially, thanks to 450 infants and toddlers in central Burkina Faso and to their parents. You have done the world a great service.” Will all the vaccines get one mass Nobel prize?
Command+Shift+Period toggle visibility of hidden files.
Link. As old as Snow Leopard but recently rediscovered. Also works in Finder (Cmd-sh-.)
“I have now realized,” Gostin added, “that our belief about travel restrictions was just that — a belief. It was evidence-free.”
Link. Unexamined beliefs are everywhere and very hard for experts to recognize. It is one of the true weaknesses of expertise.
“To speed up SMB file browsing, you can prevent macOS from reading .DS_Store files on SMB shares”
Link. defaults write com.apple.desktopservices DSDontWriteNetworkStores -bool TRUE
“in Delhi, 65% of cases are under 40 years old.”
Link. China next?
“if a scam makes its way into the App Store, Apple is entirely dependent on users posting on social media or contacting Apple through another channel to be alerted to problems.”
Link. Appigo’s crazy review nag can’t be reported.
Long line diff.
Link. BBEditvis easiest but Fold is cool.