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Book Summary: Deep Work.
Link. Interesting enough that I’ll get library copy. Doesn’t map well to medical practice. In leadership some of this deep work is trying to figure out people/work alignment …
Time Machine 2.0: probably 2020 debut
Link. After Catalina, for good reasons.
More details on Apple’s iTunes lockout power and horrendous customer service.
Link. Imagine family sharing … if one family member buys a bad iTunes gift card. It’s time to break up Apple.
Apple Account: “the account was disabled for ~6mnths. long enough that i totally gave up. i wrote off thousands of dollars in apps, movies, music, trashed 2 apple TVs, and stopped “buying” any kind of digital content on any platform”
Link. Apple has gone insane.
“Apple Card has an iPhone-only interface. If you lose said iPhone and need to make a payment, Apple’s recommendation is to use a second iOS device (eg. iPad) or call support (not, presumably, with the phone you just lost).”
Link. No data export. Tsai predicts limited search, no copy/paste.
Quick review of a Trump rally.
Link. He’s good at this, he knows his base.
“Apple is sending push notification message text to all Apple Card users, but only displaying it if it’s relevant to a specific user”
Link. Should be an opt-in program. Amazon doesn’t do this to cardholders.
Camping coffee
Link. Airopress easy to clean. Biodegradeable filter or pack it out
“…. is also apparently a fan of anti-Semitic conspiracy theories, an anti-vaccine truther, and promoter of claims that “Zionists” killed right-wing publisher Andrew Breitbart and may be trying to kill him, too:”
Link. Google Trumpista are quality people. m
Chemistry: “The carbon bonds were arranged in alternating single and triple bonds.”
Link. Awesome science
Web less dead than I thought: some novel websites
Link. A few I didn’t know. Maybe we need to resurrect the human curated web directory (1996 style).
“I don’t care if Sen. Elizabeth Warren is a mendacious Massachusetts liberal. She could tell me that she’s going to make me wear waffles as underpants and I’ll vote for her. “
Link. Great opener by a never Trumper.
WeWork is a nutty investment
Link. Whackier than über.
Tips For Bike Commuters: “Daytime running lights help get you seen by motorists especially on overcast or foggy days”
Link. My forward “blinker” is designed for daylight use, way too bright for even twilight. I’ve seen it make a big difference.
“The measurement problem, then, is that the collapse of the wave-function is incompatible with the Schrödinger equation.”
Link. I really enjoyed this.
“Alifix version 1.0 is now available to scan through any selected folder, identify those aliases which are now broken, refresh those which are in danger of breaking”
Link. macOS should do this
Former GOP denialist: “I’m here before you to say that I was wrong in 2001,” Luntz testified. “Just stop using something that I wrote 18 years ago, because it’s not accurate today. That was a lifetime ago. I’ve changed.”
Link. Persuaded by personal experience, not data, but wth I’ll take it.
The Yuan/$ ratio: “Terming this abandonment of a futile effort to keep the yuan from losing value due to market forces a “devaluation” reflected incompetence on the part of the media and financial commentators”
Link.
You can delete an Apple ID account.
Link. As of late 2018. Used to be you couldn’t, but was fixed a year ago. No word on merging Apple IDs, a ageless problem.
Ebola monoclonal ab: “only 6 percent of those who got REGN-EB3 died, and only 11 percent of those who got mAb-114 died,”
Link. Now available to all. We need some good news.
“here’s a good argument that a significant third party/spoiler candidacy — or ideally more than one — are the necessary predicate of Trump’s reelection”
Link. Not sure that’s true given electoral college, but FoxGOPRussia will make great efforts to launch a third party candidate.
Google Flights price guarantee trial period.
Link. “Price guarantee is available between August 13th and September 2nd, 2019. You’ll see the price guarantee badge on select flights where travel is completed by November 24th, 2019.”
European view: Diagnosis and conservative management of degenerative lumbar spondylolisthesis
Link. One of best articles I’ve found on this topic — from 2008. Therapy is easy if there’s no claudication, things are a lot murkier when there’s claudication.
“An extensive New York Times review of popular right-wing media platforms found hundreds of examples of language, ideas and ideologies that overlapped with the mass killer’s written statement “
Link. This is why I subscribe. Still. Despite the nytimes periodic inanity.
Innovation is stuck — some ideas to advance the fundamental science
Link. We have a glut of cognitive ability in the modern world, but a deficit of science employment. Meanwhile finance pays fortunes.
Mankiw: “there must be a minimum level of unemployment that the economy can sustain without inflation rising too high. But for various reasons, that level fluctuates and is difficult to determine.”
Link. And those various reasons are?
Price transparency in college tuitions: lower list prices, less “merit” money (discounts)
Link. Helps colleges who cannot attract the 1%.
“YouTube’s search and recommendation system appears to have systematically diverted users to far-right and conspiracy channels in Brazil.”
Link. Tax click-based advertising.
Algorithmic YouTube radicalization: “What we found in Brazil went far beyond anything we had anticipated”
Link. Television is old, but the algorithm is new. Why am I only one saying we need to tax click-based advertising?
Putin’s nuclear weapon folly – the isotope engine
Link. Nuttier than Reagan’s desth ray satellites.
Inside Kashmir.
Link. India occupies.
“being fit nearly negated the effect of the deleterious gene ApoE4. “It’s a remarkable finding because it’s not something that was predicted,”
Link. Getting closer to showing exercise as only effective treatment for Alzheimer’s process. If you are ApoE4 positive sign up for CrossFit.
Javanka: “White House snake pit where power, not policy, was the coin of the realm, they had seemed to … sort of win.”
Link. She has plans. Be afraid.
“Agency operatives had high confidence they had found Mr. al-Zawahri but were never able to identify his exact location within the village, one former official said.”
Link. 2012-2013. Protected by Iran and Pakistan then and now.
Misogyny common trait of mass killers
Link. Only womem should have guns
“steady ascent of a political party with neo-Nazi roots, the Sweden Democrats. In elections last year, they captured nearly 18 percent of the vote.”
Link. This is a deeply disturbing story. Must read.
McMaster-Carr has one of the best websites I’ve seen anywhere
Link. They sell hardware. Weird that their site is so good. Somebody should buy them for the devs.
Trump’s defense of sociopathic murderer Gallagher now includes attack on Navy prosecutors.
Link. Dems will be able to rotate hundreds of attack ads.
Politicians know conservatives vote on guns but swing voters don’t.
Link. Just ask Al Gore. Need evidence that voters are changing. Guns are genuine religious artifacts in American culture. Like ritual knives for Aztecs.
“Nationwide, most students never have the opportunity to take a coding course”
Link. This really surprised me with my kids. In 1970s Canada I did Fortran and COBOL
Warren: “creating a federal licensing system, akin to getting a driver’s license, for people buying guns or ammunition.”
Link. I’m warming to Warren.
Bye-Bye iPad
Link. I only use ipad for reading.
SSDs in 2019: “MacBook Pros have been using NVMe (and M.2) SSDs for several years now”
Link. Ref.
“in many states the gun terror lifestyle is already protected under law”
Link. Vote.
China student life remains harsh
Link. Amazon not as scrupulous as Apple.
1Password bug: Keep getting disable/enable WLAN server when trying to sync iPhone
Link. Bug fixed in 1Password for iOS 7.3.5, not in app store yet.
“consistent pattern of Republicans acting aggressively to prevent scrutiny, monitoring or action against violent far right extremists stretches back almost 30 years”
Link. Trump is just the ultimate expression.
“people who drank fewer than three caffeinated beverages in a day weren’t more likely to have a migraine than they did on days when they drank no caffeine at all”
Link. Very helpful!
nvUltra: “First, we don’t do Simplenote”
Link. Not surprising but disappointing. I won’t be using it.