Link. Apple shipped despite knowing the bug. Crap decision.
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“ If Task Manager ever becomes internally corrupted, kill/close it. Restart it while holding down CTRL, ALT, and SHIFT, and Task Manager will reset ALL internal settings to factory fresh”
Link. Doubt that is documented.
Elastomeric masks are much better than paper masks.
Link. We need a lesser version of this with cheap disposable filters for every American. A Biden administration would make that happen.
Facebook relies on super-spreaders of hate to drive engagement.
Link. The comparison to nicotine is useful.
“Apple iPhone OS Application Signing certificate expired on May 20, 2020 at 9:04:15 PM”
Link. All the smart people are being assassinated. It’s the only plausible explanation.
“Christian Cooper also said things have already gone too far.”
Link. She has lost custody of her dog.
US Airlines are not processing refunds
Link. I complained to state AG about our Delta refund. If they declare bankruptcy we won’t get anything. Will add DOT complaint.
“As we’ve looked at our first 80 or so critically ill COVID patients on ventilators, we’ve seen a survival rate around 70%”
Link. MN has its COVID surge. Largely Somali and immigrant communities. Bad time to reopen churches.
COVID-19 Strategy: The Japan Model.
Link. Another good summary of Jappan’s approach. Focus on indoor crowd conversation, masking, super-spreader/cluster suppression. The latter may require sharp lockdown.
Catalina, I wish I’d never installed it – TidBITS Talk – TidBITS Talk
Link. Is Catalina the worst ever? I’m still on Mojave.
Don’t install 13.5 if you rely on family sharing.
Link. Apple considers early adopters to be alpha testers.
“He took a non-cyclotomic polynomial, found its roots, raised those roots to different powers, multiplied them together, then took the square root of that product. Then, finally, based on that square root, he could construct a power series with the essent
Link. He won the recipe through an arcane ritual which I dare not describe.
Birx tries to dodge her church-spread responsibility
Link. She owns it.
The 6-Week Routine to Run a Sub 6-Minute Mile
Link. Not really.
“We discovered anaplastic lymphoma kinase ( ALK) as a candidate thinness gene”
Link. Big money.
Migrating from Blogger to WordPress is an expensive journey through Mordor
Link. Fits my impression — just about impossible. We need way better tools. (In the meantime Blogger is getting updates that somehow make it even worse.)
Former NASA Engineer Builds a Ninja Warrior Obstacle Course to Stop Nut-Stealing Backyard Squirrels
Link. This was delightful.
“yet another person whose posts denigrating women and people of color — particularly black women — with foul and juvenile insults seemed to resonate with Mr. Trump”
Link. NYT getting better at covering Trump.
College board HEIC screwup: “alleged nonprofit, which grosses over $1 billion a year and pays its CEO over $1 million”
Link. Everyone hates them at the best of times.
macOS 10.15: apple’s security system can cause substantial delays in system response.
Link. I’m so happy to be on Mojave.
“tens of millions are on the move, the biggest migration of human beings across the subcontinent since the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947”
Link. Unemployed by coronovarus. Also, I cried reading about the world’s most willful daughter (and cyclist).
Death cults get Trump essential-service label.
Link. My CrossFit gym will convert to a Temple of Narcissus and reopen.
Bookmarks in macOS
Link. So much more complex than I had imagined
The mask we need.
Link. “We could give everyone over a better indoor mask. A mask that gives bidirectional protection, that protects against both infection and transmission. Give it first to 70+, then 60+, then every adult… At $100 a unit we could give every American adult this mask and family UV sterilization unit for 30 billion dollars”
“Anyone with halfway decent credentials, who is willing to say that economies should open now, will have an opportunity to make a new career as a cable pundit”
Link. There’s never been a better time to sell-out.
How We Reopen Safely – covidexitstrategy.org
Link. A tracker of state readiness
VintageApple.org: “full magazine collections (in PDF format) of Macworld, MacUser, Byte, and Softalk.”
Link. BYTE! (Not Byte)
“the president’s son-in-law goes out and finds a company to figure out how to undercount deaths is appalling.”
Link. Birx supports fake data. Sad that Redfield is de facto last voice of science.
“Only the federal government has pockets deep enough to fund the extraordinary public-health effort now needed”
Link. If Trump won’t act our only recourse is a general strike. The states may support.
“To be red-pilled meant you discovered that feminism was a scam that ruined the lives of boys and girls.”
Link. I wasn’t going to buy Elon’s car anyway.
Peloton killing Trump-donor SoulCycle.
Link. How will Trump save them?
Singapore: “The coffee shops and subway cars were crowded, but, as far as we knew, the virus was hardly spreading. Could it really be this easy?”
Link. (No.)
“Humans, chimpanzees, bonobos and gorillas have an unusually high tolerance for alcohol because of a shared genetic mutation that allows them to metabolize ethanol 40 times faster than other primates”
Link. Most mammals get drunk very quickly
Early universe: “large rotating disks were also part of the primordial mix”
Link. Lots of time for life to spread
Pompeo had lots of reasona to fire IG
Link. He and his wife are definitively corrupt.
CDC reopen guidelines: Churches are the political problem.
Link. Churches are bad news. Inside singing! Original CDC document had warnings, but released version omits. Indoor churches should be last things to open.
FileMaker 19: “FileMaker Pro “individual” (non-cloud) license is intentionally buried within the website but still available at $540″
Link. So much more expensive than it once was.
“true’ prevalence of infection usually in the 10x to 12x range compared to official tallies”
Link. This is a good rule of thumb.
“On the afternoon of May 5, Dr. Christiane Northrup, a women’s health physician, shared “Plandemic” with her nearly half a million Facebook followers.”
Link. Antivaxxer. Another foul spawn of Oprah.
If sscurity staff have your iPhone you can never trust it again.
Link. I assume wipe doesn’t help? Don’t take iphone to China.
Photo libraries migration to Luminar with Avalanche
Link. I’m still using Aperture. Apple’s greatest software failure.
Neutrino science.
Link. Solid review of everyone’s favorite particle.
“I have sympathy for people with chronic fatigue syndrome now, and I believe this disease fast-tracks you into experiencing these symptoms.”
Link. We are learning a lot of medicine quickly.
Stop retesting post-COVID recovery.
Link. RNA fragment shedding persists. We don’t think reactivates …
Ingraham and her puppet president off the rails
Link. She’s insane and in his head.
Life in China’s Wuhan.
Link. Four well chosen stories from a vast and complex city.
In Germany, as in US, anti-vaxxers ally with neo-Nazi.
Link. Fundamentally similar cults.
Bike surge.
Link. Bike thefts spiking. Use good locks including in garage. Best time to sell an unwanted bike, old fenders…
“persistent waves of self-destructive distress. Many of these people, who number in the millions worldwide, go through each day compulsively tuned to the world’s casual cruelties”
Link. Excellent brief review of suicide risks in COVID times.
Amazon outbreak: “when the total reached about 60, the announcements stopped giving specific numbers”
Link. They expect litigation.