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“the number of people aged 80 or older will rise from 146 million to 881 million”
Link. 2020 to 2100. Ugh.
There are no successful socialist nations …
Link. Because the word is kind of meaningless. Progressive is probably a better word.
Apple Maps in iOS 13: Still no bicycle directions.
Link. Huge gap. Google rules.
Heart failure update – classic curbsiders.
Link. Great overview. Still topical. On my saved list to review periodically.
“When victims send funds, they often do so via wire transfers or iTunes and Amazon gift cards, which the scammers sell at a discount on the black market.”
Link. Not bitcoin! I think cards have to be used in country of origin
‘Moscow Mitch’ hits McConnell nerve?
Link. Darth Vader suddenly squeamish? What happened?
Fact checking Dem debate is kind of boring.
Link. Old school political prevarications kind of cute now.
Do We Really Know the 2016 Results Weren’t Altered?
Link. No. We don’t.
Apple watch EKG feature probably a quite bad thing
Link. Tons of false positives, big healthcare expense
Open source data portability project
Link. I’m amazed this is a thing
Trump’s 2019 racism was 1989 white NY mainstream.
Link. In 1989 he would not have been unusual by location, gender, race. He’s weird because he remains stuck in time.
RTF and RTFD
Link. .docx is, sadly, the better choice
“when someone tells me that everything happens for a reason, I do not respond with a brief treatise on life’s ultimate meaninglessness”
Link. Actually, the reason is God hates us.
Apple’s iPad education thrash
Link. Also, the textbook publishers crushed them.
A history of the Great War: Mosquitoes vs Us.
Link. Isn’t Falciparum also a predator?
NYT article on Facebook’s imposter account scams
Link. Facebook’s imposter reporting framework is obscure. Tiny minority know how to use it.
“repatriation drives,” a series of informal raids that took place around the United States during the Great Depression”
Link. American history is kinda brutal.
“50 percent increased risk of dementia among people who used a strong anticholinergic drug daily for about three years within that 10-year period. The association was stronger for antidepressants, bladder drugs, …”
Link. There are other worrisome studies. Correlation only.
Another conviction based on a false confession
Link. Happens a lot, especially to vulnerable adults.
Trump trying to deny Amazon a fed contract.
Link. In any other time this would be a huge scandal. Now it’s background noise.
“DNA of first-year residents aged six times faster than normal.”
Link. Child related family stress out years on me.
“Patients lucky enough not to be obliterated by pain can learn to balance on the precarious edge of the discerned present and an incalculable future”
Link. I have issues with the Creator.
VW Audi’s cheat: “would reduce nitrogen oxide emissions by at least 90 percent, while consuming a lot of AdBlue. But that mode would only be used in conditions that corresponded to an official test.”
Link. More recalls, more fines
“no such relationship between sun exposure and skin cancer and dark-skinned individuals.”
Link. Asians?
Dem debate: save America or SAVE America
Link. Me: electoral college decides. Some policy areas tack center, others room to try big.
QM interpretations: Sabine likes superdeterminism.
Link. You were fated to measure X. Everyone else’s least favorite interpretation. I like Dr Who’s interpretation – statistical non-localism is a defect of the simulation.
FAA “been finding it harder to compete for talented engineers, their government salaries unable to keep up with the going rates in the industry.”
Link. Government service has many good features, but compensation is 30y out of date. GOP wants govt to die
“Fox News rang the bell, the president salivated and his thumbs moved across his cell phone into action.”
Link. Baltimore returns the compliments.
“the sorts of misconceptions that had led me to discount disinformation continue to hamper responses to the threat.”
Link. It is effective. An academic analysis. Nature.
Google Maps Places – a covert social network.
Link. It’s half-assed, but you can share a list of places. Useful edits to list contents conspicuously missing feature.
“Those who were most opposed to genetically modified foods believed they were the most knowledgeable about this issue, yet scored the lowest on actual tests of scientific knowledge”
Link. The more you know, the less confident you are. What do we call the inverse Dunning-Kruger effect?
“auto companies to patent more individual parts on their vehicles, forcing you to buy those parts directly from them instead of relying on a more affordable, third-party market for replacements”
Link. Nobody will know how much a car costs to purchase and own. Price hiding is the goal of 21st century capitalism.
You’re Entitled to $125 or More in the Equifax Breach Settlement
Link. Do it because they need to be punished
Broken iOS Cellular Data Switch
Link. I’ve seen this. App uses cellular despite switch. Nasty bug.
Senate report on Russian hack 2016 elections.
Link. They had lots of power, didn’t seem to use it. Much state security is crap.
Robert Mueller Was Awesome.
Link. The Old man did good.
Google removed weather feature from Calendar with 2018 redesign.
Link. I thought I had it until more recently. There are lots of old articles on how to enable this now lost feature. Very little on its departure.
A rehab story plainly told.
Link. Useful for doctors. Our goal is to keep the addict alive. One day they may change.
“specification calls for lines to be separated by CR LF, but my robots.txt files were only using CR”
Link. The great AI Civil War of 2243 was between the CR and CRLF forces
Spreadsheets. xkcd
Link. Now I need to try these.
“Republican argument is that the President really should not have been investigated since he could not be indicted”
Link. King.
“GOP Rep McClintock accuses Mueller of defaming Russian government by claiming the Russian government was tied to the Russian troll farm which interfered in 2016 election.”
Link. Putin is an honorable man.
“Astrological sign has no effect whatsoever on how compatible two people are.”
Link. That was amusing. Statistics in everyday life.
Known bugs in macOS Mojave 10.14.6: “resizing of APFS disk images remain completely broken”
Link. Sigh.
“general restriction of xattrs: their name cannot exceed a maximum of 127 UTF-8 characters.”
Link. Old school
Email HTML: “we opened up not just a can of worms but an entire case of canned worms”
Link. Some mistakes can be undone
Trusting iCloud Drive: Don’t.
Link. Google Drive has yet to betray me. I still distrust it.
BMW CarPlay subscription: “serious next-level bullshit right there.”
Link. I have a personal moratorium on new subscriptions of any kind anywhere.
Why now is time to change our roads.
Link. I blame Google Maps and smartphones more than ride share, but both. It’s time.