Link. WH knows contact tracing would show Trump harmed many.
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WH misuses antigen test to rule out COVID.
Link. Its a great rule-in test. If positive then coronavirus is present. Not so great for rule-out esp if person asymptomatic. This is really basic medicine.
“Hicks’ and Trump’s illness precedes the others in the White House cluster”
Link. He’s great at both corruption and spreading COVID.
Python password widget works with ios keychain manager.
Link. Several cool techniques put together here.
“congratulate the Notes team for making what may be the only Apple app that has been unambiguously improving over the past few years.”
Link. Cruel praise.
“Apple is just hoping that everything else will drown their failure to communicate about two very serious issues in macOS.”
Link. Apple appreciates the Donald.
Ethnic oppression grows in Mongolia too.
Link. What is Xi afraid of?
The Last Days of the Old Middle East.
Link. Demographic pressures, collapse of oil wealth, cultural and ethnic and religious conflict, ongoing wars…
“whereas non-violent movements to overthrow illegitimate regimes used to succeed half the time, now they win only one time in three”
Link. Dictators have more techniques and I’m sure there is a consulting industry to support them.
Bug fix: “unpair their watch and phone, back them up, wipe them and then restore them from backup.”
Link. iPhone backups are incomplete. Hell of a fix.
“confrontation between Rittenhouse and Rosenbaum, and the bloodshed that followed, was more accidental than political”
Link. I like to wait for the investigation before passing judgment.
“president was also taking “zinc, vitamin D, famotidine”
Link. 3 quacksh remedies. His doctor is a bottom feeder.
EasyFind was updated for Catalina
Link. I missed that. Thanks Devon Tech.
MN GOP U.S. Reps. Pete Stauber, Tom Emmer and Jim Hagedorn violate Delta COVID precautions.
Link. Will Delta block them from future flights? Can their fellow passemgers sue them?
“Cabinet members, senators, Barrett family members and others mixed unencumbered at tightly packed, indoor receptions in the White House’s Diplomatic Room and Cabinet Room.”
Link. They really do not believe in science.
“check and repair all volumes in a container, you must first eject each of its volumes, then select the container and click on the First Aid tool”
Link. In recovery mode might be simplest.
MN fallout from the Trump virus.
Link. Many wealthy GOP donors get to demonstrate their commitment.
Normal Movements of the Low Back During Squats and Deadlifts
Link. More detail than you can imagine.
“not a single person on the Trump side, including the Trump family, Melania Trump, the Trump children, were wearing a mask,”
Link. They wanted to make a statement.
“There are glaring problems with Apple’s platforms that could be greatly improved by spending money”
Link. I wish Tim a very happy retirement.
Another Developer Account Nearly Terminated
Link. We need an independent Apple funded entity to do hearings, and when Apple is at fault they should be fined.
“macOS 10.11.6 was probably the best since 10.6.8.”
Link. I went to Mojave around 10.14.5 and it has been ok (as @mjtsai also says). Catalina pretty dismal. There really have only been two good macOS releases.
“Some of Trump’s closest aides said they sensed on Wednesday that Trump was feeling poorly”
Link. He was probably infected on the weekend at the SCOTUS super-spreader event. Infectious during the debate.
“Thank you to everyone for your messages of concern. I hope this serves as a reminder: wear a mask, keep social distance, and wash your hands.”
Link. Who can deny him a bit of knife twisting?
“If you only consider countries with more than 50 million people, then Germany today is the fairest, the least conflicted, the most peaceful, actually the nicest major country on the planet.”
Link. Biden administration should look to Canada and Germany.
“It would be karmically disadvantageous to wish on Trump a level of viral severity that makes it sink in, even to him, how bad this disease can get, and how foolish he has been to deny it”
Link. Scalzi says it all for me.
“there’s always an element on the left who would prefer to be defeatist pieces of shit because it doesn’t require any effort on their part”
Link. These people annoy me more than Trump or even McConnell.
“Oct 1: The president flew on Marine One with people like Hope Hicks, and social media guru Dan Scavino.”
Link. He flew on jet with Hicks *after* they knew she was infectious?! Did he know he was infected already?
If he was infected through Hicks then Biden probably ok.
Handy NYT summary of all the times Trump danced with COVID.
Link. Between baseline odds and all the meds he will get (normally reserved for sickest or not yet available) he will be fine. Not so the people he’s misled.
“People now rationally expect that unlikely fat-tail events will happen multiple times per year.”
Link. COVID has been relatively predictable though.
MN Winter ’20-’21 MN Fatbike Events and Rides
Link. My winter COVID preventative is a Kona Wo.
“the few times when Biden was able to speak uninterrupted for 30 or 60 seconds he was actually devastating against Trump.”
Link. Biden is not a novice.
“the few times when Biden was able to speak uninterrupted for 30 or 60 seconds he was actually devastating against Trump.”
Link. Biden is not a novice.
Rethinking Covid-19 Test Sensitivity — A Strategy for Containment | NEJM
Link. Readable and open access. How to use cheap antigen tests.
“little follow-up on a series of documents from the Czechoslovakian security services revealed in 2016 which stated that in 1977 Trump had entered a bizarre agreement with the federal government to not pay taxes until 2007.”
Link. The money laundering years.
macOS (OS X) release dates and rates
Link. Earliest to do major upgrade is two weeks after the 0.1 release. I like to wait at least 6m, forever in the case of Catalina.
More App Store unfairness.
Link. Developers need legal recourse.
What to do when a macOS update goes wrong (macOS 10.13-11.0)
Link. Keep this.
Fusion is again a thing.
Link. More than one design.
“estimated IFR is close to zero for children … 0.4% at age 55, 1.3% at age 65, 4.2% at age 75, and 14% at age 85”
Link. IFR not CFR. I’m interested in analysis of this but seems about right. Significant illness would be maybe 10x mortality rate?
Apple Watch Series 6 Is kind of dumb.
Link. Oxygen sensor a gimmick.
QAnon needs a new con: “People are getting bored,” Mr. Argentino said. “There’s only so much content about child sex trafficking that you can share.”
Link. Fan fiction problem.
The Tedium of Trump.
Link. Excellent point. He is exactly what you see. There is nothing there.
MN alone has had 22 gym related COVID outbreaks.
Link. Bummer. I’d not heard of many and wondered about doing more at the locall JCC. MN numbers rising now.
Don’t install latest Mojave and High Sierra Updates.
Link. Wow. I’d meant to but ran into other iOS and MacOS bugs that delayed me. Saved by Apple’s disinterest in customer satisfaction!
“You can hold your wealth in financial instruments and property and pass these on at your death.”
Link. Enormous tax dodges for the monied.
“crows know what they know and can ponder the content of their own minds”
Link. Dinosaurs. How smart were them raptors?
“Donald J. Trump paid $750 in federal income taxes the year he won the presidency. In his first year in the White House, he paid another $750. He had paid no income taxes at all in 10 of the previous 15 years — largely because he reported losing much
Link. Poor Donald.
Remembering Peter Thiel’s passion for the blood of the young.
Link. QAnon channels Trump and hallucinates about Libs taking blood from kids. Trump and Thiel are best buds. Trump accuses others of his own sins. So he’s getting blood donations from Thiel?
“Senate Democrats neither to meet with Barrett nor participate in the confirmation process at all”
Link. Don’t take Trump’s hook.