Link. Need to make this a recurring regular feature. Too much ch to remember.
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“fsck_apfs -u as the man page may not be as accurate as its usage information.”
Link. APFS is quite the project.
“many Republicans “are nearly unrecognizable versions of themselves pre-Trump. At this stage it’s less about defending Trump; they are defending their own defense of Trump.”
Link. Has the corruption of a people ever been so closely analyzed in real-time?
“date night at least once a week”
Link. When you are married with kids that seems kind of often. Unless you count walking the dog together.
2001 to 2017: “the incarceration rate for black men aged 25–29, 20–24, and 18–19 declined, respectively, by 56 percent, 60 percent, and 72 percent”
Link. Includes the Obama years. I think the Trump years will reverse some of those games.
“The German banks (notably Deutsche and Commerzbank) look deeply problematic.”
Link. Hmm.
Apple Dev forums – macOS 10.15 beta – has public RSS feed
Link. I had to delete some parameters to make it work with Feedbin. https://apple.co/2onJ2l6. Defaults to Apple news. Not high volume so way to track how bad 10.15 is. I may follow some other dev forums.
Apple dev forum honesty: “You’ll have to live with this limitation on 13.1, as you did on 13.0. The only difference here is that 13.1 is likely to get a much larger audience, which will make this more painful”
Link. I think this is actually better than Apple used to do.
“iOS 12.2 NWUDPSession began to trigger errors which killed connections. These errors were only identified with a code ‘55’. After some research it appears 55 has referred to the same error since the early foundations of the FreeBSD”
Link. We’re still running FreeBSD on our iPhones.
“black market for abortion pills has changed the landscape for those lacking easy access to an abortion clinic or preferring to have an abortion in private”
Link. Safe and effective – when genuine meds.
“Trump promises to put Barr on the Biden case, reflecting once again his faith in his AG’s subservience and total lack of professional ethics.”
Link. Remember this. Trump thinks corruption is normal and universal, laws are for the peasants.
ios 13: “the Junk mail filtering to be a bit too aggressive, catching several legitimate messages by mistake”
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Apple TV set top box is toast.
Link. I liked older generation better
“autocorrect and predictive text don’t consider the whole word I’m typing, but start making suggestions from the point I resume typing”
Link. I thought that flaw was eternal. For me not obviously worse but i only use US kebyboard
Hard Times at Stack Overflow.
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“Fox is about defending our viewers from the people who hate them. That’s where our power comes from.”
Link. They are utterly insane.
Black market THC vape cartridges: “13 reportedly contained vitamin E, 10 had traces of pesticides, and all of them had the fungicide myclobutanil”
Link. China?
“Solomon’s role in all of this, as a conveyor belt of conspiracy theories into the right wing media.”
Link. Journalist gone bad.
Facial Recognition Tech in Public Housing
Link. False positives common. But what if it were never wrong?
micro.blog: Category tag innovations.
Link. Good to see progress in this area.
“counterfeit capitalism as ‘leaders’ like Neumann are celebrated and actual leaders who can make things and manage are treated like dogshit”
Link. Late 90s were same.
Juul new CEO: “Crosthwaite formerly worked as an executive overseeing Marlboro cigarettes at the company”
Link. I respect the clarity.
“Russian-American journalist Masha Gessen … how journalists should think about covering the Trump administration … If you dismiss something because it seems unimaginable, that’s a mistake.”
Link. Most of us don’t routinely interact with criminals and sociopaths. It’s a different world.
Even Trump conservatives think Juul is pure evil.
Link. That’s high grade evil. If your friends work for Juul bid them farewell until they reform.
California Balance Billing Law increases insurer negotiating power.
Link. Isn’t clear from article whether it actually helped patients.
Sabine critiques Many Worlds.
Link. Perhaps response to Carroll’s book? Short read, good discussions. I liked the “sloshing” bit, if I had to do MWI I’d go there.
Google migrates Nest users to Google, and users discover Google Suite accounts are not supported.
Link. The first email in the 818 message thread is from Oct 2018. I can’t add our family members because they’re all on Google Suite family account. The old Nest account is gone now. No warning. Infuriating.
Trump’s Ukraine freeze: “three rounds of interagency meetings were then held to try to “unstick” the blocked aid or at least figure out why it was behind held up. When the White House continued to not explain, some administration officials began enlis
Link. This is how he’s always done business. He must find it strange to actually be in trouble for it.
We now know Trump believes his idiotic conspiracy theories
Link. He is dumber than you think
Libertarian paradise: 1930s drug dev – “Watkins failed to note one characteristic of the solution. Diethylene glycol, a chemical normally used as an antifreeze, is a deadly poison.”
Link. I’d not heard this one. Terrific story and captures vaping lung disease issues so well.
“age-related changes in the skin’s microbiome”. Or not
Link. We don’t understand. I have my own theory
Cloudflare’s NOT free Warp VPN.
Link. They said would be free. It isn’t. Is $5/month. Refer friend and both get 1GB free. So more costly than most.
Chrome: “Why in the world would a web browser’s software updater be doing anything at all at the root level of the boot volume?”
Link. Malware behavior.
“When Time Machine backs up a Photos Library, it completely omits the database folder within it, where all its vital metadata are stored.”
Link. Maybe this data is somehow recreated even in absence of iCloud?? If true more reason I’d love Cook to retire.
iOS 13.1: “given how cursed this release cycle has been, we recommend waiting at least a few days to see if any major problems crop up after mass distribution.”
Link. I’m waiting for 13.2.
Trump and the corruption of the State departmemt
Link. Everywhere in government the Trump-McConnell disease spreads.
“explain why the new Music app no longer supports internet radio stations, which have been part of iTunes for a long time”
Link. I wish my sources spent more time on what Apple discards. I often disagree with Apple’s tastes
The Moderate Middle Is A Myth
Link. There’s no such beast.
“Regulation Rage” – a part of authoritarian psychology.
Link. High rage people
“there’s a mini “flash crash” in some stock or other every day, with the price plunging and then recovering within the blink of an eye.”
Link. I remember when flash crash was new and scary.
‘Jawn,’ Philadelphia’s All-Purpose Noun
Link. Doesnt seem so unique…
Diplomat brain injury in Cuba: “cholinesterase inhibitor intoxication.”
Link. Zika war chemical spraying makes sense. Canadian also affected but less intensely.
Carbon sequestration: “Diamond has a density of 3.5 gm/m or 3,500 kg/m3. If the wall is 1000km long by 50m high by 10m wide it will consume about 1.75*10^12 kg of carbon”
Link. Current CO2 output is 4*10^13kg/year. Maybe we could build Mount Diamond and give Minnesota some serious terrain.
How the NYT has fallen to Trump.
Link. Time to switch to WaPo.
Scott Aaronson’s Quantum Supremacy FAQ.
Link. Just in case a paper should show up somewhere not too obscure.
The President Needs To Be Impeached
Link. Marshall turns. “A flat no to any and all oversight simply means years of process in the courts and thus presidential impunity.”
Dog search – the extremes
Link. Spoiler – she was found.
Mac hardware diagnostics: review and error code.
Link. Best I’ve read.
“All the black-and-white editing adjustments in prior versions of iOS have been removed”
Link. joy
Migrating Apple Aperture Libraries to Capture One Pro.
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