Link. Skinny adult OSA is hard to treat. This might help.
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Masks in the legislature – Republicans own the asshole brand.
Link. Is asshole really a good brand?
Tamsulosin: “Chronic receptor blockade could lead to iris vascular dysregulation, subsequent secondary atrophy of the iris dilator muscle and, ultimately, the erratic iris behavior seen in [floppy iris syndrome]”
Link. This is a weird drug effect. I wonder how Tamsulosin affects night vision.
“Apple Card can be shared with family members who are 13 or older, and there will be dedicated options for parents to control their children’s spending”
Link. Greenlight does this.
Add AirPlay to Your Classic Stereo with an Old Apple TV
Link. Less old stereos have digital input. I miss AirPort Express.
“Some of those who updated successfully, so they thought, to 11.2 have since discovered that it’s incompatible with the latest release of SoftRAID”
Link. This got too complicated years ago.
“I updated my Watch Series 3 to watchOS 7.3. It was, as many Series 3 owners would have predicted, a nightmare. “
Link.
FBI unit investigating child porn: “they get about 1,000 tips a month”
Link. Humans are horrible.
Biden dumps pro-torture intelligence briefer.
Link. NYT article takes a long time to get to the problem.
“How the organ recipient gets the donor to agree to the procedure is not the hospital’s concern, the doctors say.”
Link. A hard place in a hard world.
“Apple also issued a Safari 14.0.3 security update that reportedly fixes a file-upload bug, as well.”
Link. Hallelujah! That was such an annoying bug.
Fixing the Mojave Mail split view in full screen bug.
Link. Maybe. I’ll see if it stays fixed.
“The hack of Sheika Moza’s emails with Mrs. Obama has never been reported.”
Link. “Everything worth taking has already been intercepted: Our personal data, intellectual property, voter rolls, medical records, even our own cyberweaponry.” Don’t miss this article.
“republicans accused New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Thursday of not being anywhere near the place they told the Capitol mob she would be”
Link. Unsporting.
xkcd: Tower of Babel
Link. Reminds me what a great story the original is. Very Greek mythic, very know-your-placeish.
“pushing through a version of Mr. Biden’s $2 trillion infrastructure reform plan could become difficult if it does not happen this year”
Link. These timeline constraints are a deep structural problem with government.
Things with promise
Radio would be used to improve education.
Television would be used to improve education.
The Internet would be used to improve education and discourse and bring knowledge to the world.
The Electronic Health Record would give just-in-time expert decision support to physicians and other caregivers and eliminate most medical error.
“Production of these bubbles was a cottage industry before the pandemic. A small Austrian firm, Polymun Scientific, is one of just a handful that can make them.”
Link. It is a miracle of genius and effort and markets that we have what we have.
“What impact does he have at all, other than the fact he might slip and say something?”
Link. Nobody wants the wisdom of the mad king.
Capitol police got no threat warnings from FBI and others.
Link. Oddly written, as though NYT is trying to protect FBI. This is clearly a colossal failure.
“The Mailbox Search menu command in Apple’s Mail app claims to use ‘natural language search’, which is one of the most infuriating interfaces”
Link. “Spotlight in macOS 11 needs redesign from scratch.”
Prevent Keyless Car Theft (carjacking)
Link. “Putting your keys in a signal blocking pouch will stop any thieves from being able to amplify the signal used in relay theft.” I miss simple and inexpensive mechanical keys.
Wisconsin and Minnesota had different approaches to combatting COVID. So why are their death rates so similar? | MinnPost
Link. When I look the per capita incidence in MN was significantly lower. Odd.
Kasparov on managing Putin: target the mob.
Link. Block the money laundering that saved Trump in 90s.
“The chief difference between the U.S. and countries that lost their grip on democracy, he concluded, was that America’s decentralized election system couldn’t be rigged in one fell swoop.”
Link. This is an extraordinary story in multiple ways. “ Chan Zuckerberg Initiative chipped in $300 million”
Supply chain: consumer electronics blocks auto production.
Link. By June everything will be in short supply. Except home exercise equipment. That will be cheap.
Deloitte screwed up America’s vaccine program.
Link. “Deloitte has a long history of making malfunctioning things for state and federal governments ” Federal procurement is broken.
Spotlight search – failing a simple test.
Link. No search in Notes or Mail and RTF files may not be correctly indexed.
Foxconn: “the company’s internship concept is a complete sham”
Link. Apple knows.
CalDigit’s new USB-C/Thunderbolt 4 ‘Element Hub’ adds 7 ports to your MacBook – 9to5Mac
Link. I want to read reviews. I’d connect this to my ancient T2 Hub with my Firewire 400/800 cables.
M1 Mac mini in the cloud now available for 12 cents/hour
Link. I need to play with this.
“the incredible year OpenStreetMap is having, largely because of enormous investment from Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, and Mapbox (FAAMm).”
Link. Google’s bicycle maps have degraded over past 3 years. An early sign of weakness.
Facebook Groups: “70% of the top 100 most active US Civic Groups are considered non-recommendable for issues such as hate, misinfo, bullying and harassment,”
Link. Facebook may be less ethical than Oracle.
macOS 11.2.
Link. Still testing to see if the spontaneous restart crash is better.
“longer delays in a two-dose regime can make things better, make them worse, or not make much difference, and the only way to be sure is to go out and get the clinical data.”
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AstraZeneca vaccine “vaccine could cut transmission by nearly two-thirds.”
Link. Expected but still great news.
The GOP Civil War That Doesn’t Exist
Link. Contra NYT the GOP is very united behind Trumpism.
“short-selling bans don’t seem very likely to make a difference one way or another”
Link. As best we can tell short selling doesn’t alter economic efficiency much.
At least some former Thomas clerks believe election “stolen”
Link. Insanity is very widespread.
“Mr. Trump gained support with Latino voters compared to 2016 while his support among Black voters was essentially unchanged.”
Link. It was white men who shifted, not white women! College?
Off the rails: Inside the craziest meeting of the Trump presidency – Axios
Link. I think Trump became a Cultist. They sucked him in.
“offering the first day of new appointments to people in ZIP codes with the highest rates of infection and death from the virus”
Link. A reasonable experiment. Federal subsidy for phone bank scheduling would also help.
Rt: Effective Reproduction Number – “we believe other metrics are now a better way to track the virus”
Link. I wonder what happened.
The shattered government bureaucracy.
Link. Decades of GOP assault, then Trump. Where do we go from here?
NYT 77 Days: “encompassing story of a more coordinated campaign.”
Link. The mob was aimed.
Getting photos from iPhone to Lightroom, Aperture and other non-Photos products.
Link. I treat iCloud Photos as a queue.
“As the months went on, the claims she was seeing grew more outlandish. There were slickly produced videos of cannibalism and Satanism within the Democratic Party.”
Link. Who made those videos?
Trump dispenses with unnecessary impeachment lawyers.
Link. The GOP has promised acquittal.
“changes are probably very close to the best that could’ve been done given the need for backwards compatibility, and they should have a significant impact on the security of iMessage and the platform as a whole”
Link. Google’s Project Zero reviews new iMessage security features.
“Red Summer is the period from late winter through early autumn of 1919 during which white supremacist terrorism and racial riots took place in more than three dozen cities across the United States”
Link. “… there is reflected the note of pride that the Negro has found himself. that he has ‘fought back’…” Just learned of this.