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“I find the PowerBeats Pro less comfortable than advertised.”
Link. Not compatible with eyewear.
Backblaze Price Hike: “amount of data being backed up increasing faster than the cost of storage was falling”
Link. Google storage prices static. Moore’s law ended for storage as well as calculation
Running Mojave in Parallels
Link. A good market opportunity
How to identify unknown file types using File
Link. Great ref
Never use APFS on spinning media
Link. Way way slow
Scanbot Goes Freemium (in less bad way than most)
Link. “… a very cheap subscription would be fair to both sides. But I haven’t seen that done.” Yes. Data freedom is also a prerequisite for subscription. I do very few subscriptions
Pocket Cast: “stuff that was previously covered with a one-time $9 payment is now under a $10 subscription”
Link. Was acquired.
iOS 13: “Text selection is accurate and predictable”
Link. Been broken since ios 6
Cycling the city.
Link. In Minneapolis we are close to that Nirvana. Lots of routes that are very safe.
Specialized is kind of an asswipe bike company.
Link. A reason to look elsewhere.
Ode to the fixie.
Link. Despite bicycling continuously for past 50y I missed all this. Maybe it wasn’t as big in Midwest?
Notes and References for: Lecture Notes: Introduction to Economic History: The Ancient Economy
Link. Great reading.
“The effective size of the Native American population was small, most likely in the order of a few hundred individuals, with point estimates close to 250 individuals, even though credible intervals include a number as large as ~4,000 individuals”
Link. Perhaps why over 90% died of European infections diseases.
Evangelicals driving Americans — to atheism.
Link. They give religion a really bad smell.
“Lightbox is a mobile-first, full-featured, traditional (hand-drawn) animation production application/suite.”
Link. Great back story.
“iOS 13, Apple has added a Low Data Mode for cell networks”
Link. love
“Republicans won’t abandon their white identity bunker strategy until they lose, but at the same time that strategy has made them so averse to losing they are willing to bend the rules to avoid this fate.”
Link.
What Really Brought Down the Boeing 737 Max.
Link. Boeing errors certainly. But also deeply corrupt owners, local governments, and local regulators.
Google’s cookie proposal – Tsai’s measured judgmemt
Link. Google has a point. Despite the evilness.
Using Apple’s kind of busted log to debug crashes
Link. Ref
“13.1 needs to be a lot more stable than 13.0. 13.0 feels like a late stage beta.”
Link. Wait for 13.2.
“medical data from more than 16 million scans worldwide was available online, including names, birthdates and, in some cases, Social Security numbers.”
Link. Not a surprise.
Boeing’s mixed safety actions.
Link. Smells like they have a lot to hide.
Predicting Trump. In 2011. “ a catastrophe for the Republican Party, for free-market capitalism, and for America.”
Link. Berlusconi. He nailed it.
Putin’s miserable life.
Link. Who would want that?
Outsourcing your homework essay to Kenya.
Link. The world is swamped with underused talent
Review of Arrive canping gear rental service
Link. REI and some universities also rent. Good option to have
vape lipoid pneumonitis: “illicit operations are using a tactic common to other illegal drug operations: cutting their product with other substances”
Link. Chinese counterfeit packaging to fake regulated Colorado source.
NYT article on KY mining town is flashback to 50s.
Link. A cultural time capsule. Useful to understand.
Sugar soda is bad, diet soda isn’t necessarily better.
Link. I suspect it’s the confounding variables, but coffee, tea, and water are probably better choices.
Thermoelectric power: “The cloudless atmosphere becomes a porthole to the void, through which warmth flows like air through a porch screen.”
Link. Enough to light a small LED
“Microsoft Academic Knowledge Graph (MAKG), a large RDF data set with over eight billion triples with information about scientific publications and related entities, such as authors, institutions, journals, and fields of study”
Link. RDF! The semantic web. I miss those days.
“Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo” is a grammatically correct sentence in American English”
Link. Horrible language.
“airborne, metabolically active microbes are directly engaged in the core biogeochemical cycles of the Earth”
Link. Gaia.
“South Korea is the only nation with large, commercial dog meat farms.”
Link. Change will come from within Korea, but it helps to have international attention.
“58 percent of Democrats1 said that a candidate who can beat Trump was more important than a candidate who shares their position on most issues”
Link. Yep. Give me Wisconsin polling and forget the rest.
“a chess player can burn up to 6,000 calories a day while playing in a tournament”
Link. There’s a reason most animals have “just enough” brain.
Clark Goble 1967-2019
Link. Remembering an online friend and his gift of very fine Amano chocolate.
Rosettavert 1.3: “the command tool iconv can transcode between around 144 different text encodings, from ASCII to MacUkraine”
Link. OK, I want a directory of all macOS command line tools.
SIM cards have embedded browser that can be trivially exploited.
Link. Ummm we are learning this now?!?!
Apple Card partner Goldman Sachs expects 26% AAPL hit
Link. Apple’s wants smarter shareholders
Bash Fun – BrettTerpstra.com
Link. Learn the terminal.
Ultra Wideband revolution
Link. Hah! Light speed security feature easily defeated with tachyon tech.
iPhone price cuts.
Link. Making it up with services. Is Apple vacuuming up used devices? Also, they apparently manufacture cheaper old devices for carriers and partners.
Apple App store: incompetence or malevolence?
Link. It’s both. If the incompetence had hurt Apple it would have been fixed.
Sunsetting Python 2: a painful process
Link. Subtext: how not to do it.
GOP attack on reality comes for the weather.
Link. Trump is the fruit of a long process that started with tobacco.
Why Is It So Difficult to Listen to Audiobooks on the Apple Watch?
Link. Audiobooks are a mess everywhere in Apple world
Metformin and brain repair in mice
Link. Metformin is a fascinating drug.