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Software Updates: xkcd shows the modern geek practice.
Link. Modern geeks run 1 major version behind until we give up and accept the abyss. Civilians stay current. Apple has a quality problem.
“there is growing evidence that when the financial sector gets too big it actually acts as a drag on the economy — and America is well past that point.”
Link. Finance billionaires hate knowing they are parasites.
“impossible for Chromium to get competitive performance and battery life without using private API, which Safari freely uses.”
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“an area of the APOE gene that binds with a sugar-protein compound called heparan sulfate proteoglycans (HSPG), which is involved in spreading tau in Alzheimer’s disease”
Link. Paging Stockholm.
Feds looking for Chinese-Americans failing to file China disclosures
Link. Federal rules are a maze of treacherous obscurity. Few know them all.
“president’s lead among white, working-class voters nearly matches his decisive advantage from 2016″
Link. Warren would likely lose.
“hidden ratings that determine how long each of us waits on hold when calling a business, whether we can return items at a store, and what type of service we receive”
Link. Soxial credit. Opaque models, no appeal. Don’t criticize Apple.
“everything around the feature that makes it harder: UI design, localization, refactoring, accessibility, state restoration, getting new artwork…”
Link. No feature is easy.
Why our software will get buggier.
Link. Biology is like this. Bugs that rely on bugs that create bugs that are essential for survival.
“Facebook has since said that it won’t allow Mr. Hampton to take advantage of its lax approach to political speech despite his candidacy, and he says he is exploring his legal options.”
Link. Foxbook.
measles: “leaves a child vulnerable for several years to other dangerous infections like flu and pneumonia”
Link. Vaccinate. Now… can we use this to treat auto-immune disorders?
New cystic fibrosis med: “The drug will cost about $311,000 per year, the same as Vertex’s previous cystic fibrosis drug, Kalydeco”
Link. Big advance..
Price hiding: the “facility fee” in healthcare
Link. Sowing the wind.
“Paul Manafort (and his Russian intelligence associates) who has continued to provide back channel and guidance from prison to Giuliani and Trump.”
Link. Trump defense made in Moscow. What does Putin have on McConnell
Warren medicare for all had Berwick input
Link. Somewhat realistic.
Trump: “so shameless and criminal in his conduct that he’s making comically bad people from other (albeit quite recent) eras suddenly start to seem reasonable and even righteous”
Link. Today’s GOP is unfathomably bad.
Only 15% of Dem voters are nonwhite and liberal
Link. Why Biden polls well.
Using Deep Learning for Differential Diagnoses of Skin Diseases
Link. Promising. Maybe we will see it within next few years?
Towards the galactic translator: multilingual networks
Link. Hawaiian from its kin. One day ancient mystery scripts?
“used this capability to build a hardware-level single-step kernel debugger for the iPhone X called KTRW that can be used with LLDB and IDA Pro and works with an off-the-shelf Lightning cable”
Link. Hardware havk iphone.
SeaMonkey fading
Link. My preferred wysiwyg editor.
Fitbit: “The company never sells personal information[…]” “Except, I guess, when they sell all of it to Google at once.”
Link. Tax ad clicks.
“China severely punished Marriott after an employee in Omaha, Neb., “liked” a pro-Tibet tweet. Marriott profusely apologized and fired the employee”
Link. MAGA
“Facebook is allowing political ads to spread falsehoods because Facebook wants political ads to spread falsehoods.”
Link. Foxbook
Randall Munroe: How To (xkcd)
Link. I have it. Sweet, gentle, clever, insight full, fun.
“This bug where apps are getting killed soon after they’re backgrounded is driving me nuts.”
Link. I wish I could keep our 6s on the 12.4.x update stream. Looks like we will stay on 12.4 for at least 1-2 more releases.
Fall Weather Cycling Tips
Link. Pro tips.
Aperture to Photos.app – preparation
Link. Basically dumb down Aperture Library until it is consistent with the Photos.app regression. Also, I kind of don’t like Apple.
Aperture in El Capitan: there were lots of issues.
Link. If any vendor is able to support Aperture in a Mac VM, I’d want something older than El Capitan.
The Drone Wars.
Link. Some predictions are guaranteed true.
Trump pastor is prosperity gospel.
Link. Converse: wealthy are God’s faves.
Apple Notes and iCloud Syncing: Breaking Badly
Link. It’s not one thing it’s everything.
Apple to have two iPhone sunscription plans: old one plus Apple Card
Link. They want old iphones gone.
“Most of these people do not show up in the stunningly low official unemployment rate of 3.5 percent”
Link. Working 1h/week means you are employed
A plain guide to Mac firmware and its problems
Link. Firmware update failure a cause of crashes, may be fairly common.
13.2: “embarrassing that all of the hard work put into making animations and app launching feel smooth is squandered by mismanaged multitasking.”
Link. My 13.2.1 plan looking too optimistic.
Trump admin feeding info to winger bloggers attacking civil servants.
Link. It’s a war.
“Every single app on my iPhone 7 iOS 13.2 gets killed every time I close. No backgrounding.”
Link. God forbid 6s install.
Curbsiders: Osteoarthritis.
Link. Good: Clearly states OA is NOT “wear and tear” and that orthopods don’t know this. Bad: She treats OA as though it were a true disease rather than a syndrome composed of many unnamed disorders.
OPLC: “one of the tech world’s best failures.”
Link. iPod Touch comes closest.
“the rules of quantum mechanics are unequivocal that you need an amplitude for every possible configuration of all thousand bits.”
Link. Aaronson miracle: a quantum supremacy explanation in NYT oped that teaches new things to me.
AirPods Pro.
Link. Someone must sell retention cords so they can be worn on a plane
“El Capitan at least, there is a serious bug in the software update system which allows Macs to remain out of date and vulnerable.”
Link.
“Sierra download appears incapable of making a bootable installer, and the El Capitan download seems not be installable as a VM”
Link. Did Apple outsource development to the lowest bidder?
Computational photography and the Pixel
Link. Burning CPUs
Consider toxocara in cases of itching and eosinophilia
Link. Eos are the clue
No Toyota for us
Link. Maybe ales to Trumpista will make up?
Cars that will save you from hell: “2019 Audi A4, 2019-20 BMW 3 Series, 2019-20 Mercedes-Benz C-Class, 2019-20 Nissan Maxima, 2020 Subaru Outback and 2019 Volvo S60”
Link. Hell is where you live after you run over a pedestrian or cyclist. These studies are pedestrian only.
Tb vaccine 50% good at suppressing latent infection
Link. A start.