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“Apple has quietly removed customer reviews for products from its online store sometime this month.”
Link.
“About 2 percent of all iOS reviews of Monkey, ranked 10th most popular in Apple’s social networking category earlier this month, contained reports of unwanted sexual behavior”
Link. Apple doesn’t read reviews.
“A low moment in Apple’s proud history, and a sadly iconic moment for Tim Cook.”
Link. Cook is a cynical man.
Apple is in denial about its quality problem
Link. Flags too little.
GOP has jumped on a Russian attack on US.
Link. We now have a Russian-GOP alliance against the Democratic Party.
“The entire WH cyber security staff quit last week. There are so many FEC vacancies that there is no decision making quorum. Today the DHS cyber official for election security quit.”
Link. Journalism needed.
“machine learning rather suddenly allows physicists to tackle a lot of problems that were previously intractable, simply because of the high computational burden.”
Link. Some of the applications surprised me.
Joe Biden’s Stutter .. and denial.
Link. Makes him more sympathetic. Also Trump won’t be able to resist imitating him.
After death: “A surgical team then has 2 hours to fix the person’s injuries before they are warmed up and their heart restarted”
Link. Not frozen, but damned cold. Trials ongoing so suspect it sometimes works.
Surviving Jonestown. Speier.
Link. Read.
“About a month before Apple’s 2019 Worldwide Developers Conference in June, the company’s software engineers started to realize that iOS 13, then known internally as “Yukon,” wasn’t performing as well as previous versions.”
Link. So I’m May Apple knew iOS 13 was a mess.
“the strange relationship that’s developed between Tim Cook and Donald Trump over the past three years.”
Link. Like Cook and Xi.
“Bentonville promises 365 days of riding and has the resources to keep everything in good repair. “
Link. WTF. They got me with that one. Our trails are closed at least half the time. I’m in.
The story of A4 and Letter
Link. Canada also uses Letter despite being metric.
Pompeo jumping.
Link. Ship rat.
Why you don’t want Apple doing your repairs.
Link. It wasn’t always this bad. Cook.
Woman Who ‘Loves Brazil’ Has Only Seen Four Square Miles Of It
Link. The Onion from 2000. Truly a classic.
“There is one mass extinction event that we can see in the geological record—the Ordovician extinction—which matches with what we’d expect from a gamma-ray burst,”
Link. The universe is a dangerous place.
How Trump moved from plot to cover-up
Link. He’s so stupid. Anyone else would have gotten away with it.
“someone at Apple got pissed off and impetuously ordered Rambo’s account disabled, and now they don’t want to explain it.”
Link. Apple has deep problems. Needs new CEO.
DEN: “Once derided as an economic boondoggle, the facility is now so maxed out that airlines are fiercely competing to lease 39 new gates”
Link. I remember. Growth far exceeded the most absurd predictions. Lesson
Climategate ten years later: the GOP was despicable and, of course, wrong
Link. Pence was an idiot then too.
Warshipping: “Just drop your exploit in the mail and let your friendly postal worker deliver it to your target’s door.”
Link. For secure facilities that are hard to walk into.
Getting deplatformed from Apple. “Your account has been permanently disabled. There is nothing else you can do, there is no escalation path.”
Link. GOP has all-but-killed federal consumer protection. Elections matter.
Apple watch as digital distraction cure.
Link. IFF you leave phone at home. Only reason I’d buy an aWatch.
Musk to trial
Link. Can jurors do billion dollar fines? 50 billion?
Apple claims it loses money on “repair business”
Link. Warrantees I bet Apple Care is profitable.
Fitbit, wearables, and corporate wellness programs
Link. Wellness programs have a dubious reputation in health policy world.
You can’t subscribe to a Google Calendar from the iOS Google mobile app.
Link. “To add a calendar, go to calendar.google.com on your computer. ” I spent several minutes hunting for this on my iPhone. Couldn’t believe it wasn’t implemented.
Metapho: EXIF handler for iOS.
Link. iOS 13 only!! I haven’t updated yet.
How to recognize faux AI.
Link. Beautiful. Brief.
Using ios photo as a location aide
Link. Metapho.app recommended
“the admiral was making the move knowing that it could end his career, but that he had the backing of Adm. Michael M. Gilday, the chief of naval operations, and Richard V. Spencer, the secretary of the Navy.”
Link. Gallagher. America vs a corrupt President.
“Google, which pledged to add an end-to-end encryption option for Gmail users several years ago, has not made this the default option for email.”
Link. Were they secretly forbidden from doing this?
Brain remodeling when half removed in childhood.
Link. I suspect classic autism phenotype happens when specialized parts of brain are subsumed for other high priority functions.
“in both Mojave and Catalina, support for protected PDF documents is incomplete and of limited use
Link. Don’t even think about it.
$3,000 vs. $9,000 Mountain Bike – “I personally prefer riding alloy or aluminum frames with nice parts.”
Link. When my 26” Lefty finally dies I’ll for for the $3K bike and upgrade over time
iOS 13.2.3: Apple still fixing big bugs.
Link. I’ll wait for the next one.
Cable: “annual pace of subscriber decline hit 5.4 percent in the second quarter”
Link. Comcast share price over 2y vs 2w is interesting.
“According to Triton Submarines, a bubble-sub company in Sebastian, Fla., three tons of acrylic go into building a plastic bubble seven feet wide, its walls six and a half inches thick”
Link. To go where …
Samoa pays price for low measles immunization
Link. Only now mandatory
Juice jacking: don’t trust public charge cables and chargers.
Link. Use cable condom. Or abandon hope.
“harmful addiction as something that offered itself as the solution to the problems that it was causing”
Link. Death by alcohol.
“89% of the patients with cytolysin in their stool samples died within 180 days of hospitalization, but only 3% of alcoholic hepatitis patients without it died over the same period.”
Link. Alcoholic hepatitis has bacterial component. So what about NASH?
Facebook groups are effectively immortal.
Link. There’s no practical way to remove all members of a large group, and member removal is only method Facebook supports to end a Group.
“Laurent, who was born in Ostende, Belgium, studies electrical engineering at the Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands. He entered when he was 8 and is set to complete a three-year program in 10 months.”
Link. Prodigies are fascinating. 1 in a billion.
aVera eCare, Sioux Falls SD: critical care for rural America
Link. Disadvantages of rural life. Scary intubations
“I was born with size, and I was good at punching guys in the face. I didn’t love it, but I was good at it, and I was happy to do whatever it took to protect my teammates.”
Link. John Scott retirement piece. Fascinating.
“Convicted of a crime I didn’t even commit. Hah! Attempted murder? Now honestly, what is that? Do they give a Nobel Prize for attempted chemistry? Do they?”
Link. Good point.