Link. I’m just going to give up now.
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WD Red 8TB drives make clicking noise every 5 seconds – replace?
Link. I just bought one and it’s clicking. I’m going to see if persists beyond first backup but chances are this one is going back.
Epstein journalist: “When the piece became the most-read article on the paper’s website, surpassing a story about a woman who had passed gas in a convenience store,”
Link. Pulitzer is least we can do.
“Hoffenberg, Epstein and Towers Financial “operated a classic Ponzi scheme from the late 1980s to mid-1990s,”
Link. Got away with an amazing amount.
Fibromyalgia is centralized pain syndrome. 2016.
Link. Early Curbsiders but still golden. I’m not 100% sure all interstitial cystitis is CPS, but I believe fibromyalgia is. Exercise is the most effective medicine.
Check EFI and security using EFIcienC
Link. Free!
Trained a Neural Net
Link. I’m going to say this.
“John Kelly, Trump’s former chief of staff, joined the board of Caliburn International, which runs the infamous Homestead detention center for migrant children.”
Link. For GOP corruption is virtuous.
Feedbin enhanced
Link. Feedbin and Pinboard are my 2 fave subs.
Biden: “basically every poll for months shows that he is significantly stronger than every other Democrat up against Trump.”
Link. Dem voters I know are ruthlessly pragmatic
“Boss email can be the workplace equivalent of getting a “k” text reply from a Tinder date”
Link. Funny and thoughtful.
A psychiatrist critiques simplistic views of bipolar disorder
Link. It’s not simple
“Trump’s claim of a “great crowd” on the National Mall is supported by genuine photographs from the event.”
Link. His supporters are passionate.
“Medical workers are excluded from the official definition of STEM occupations, but if you add these into a broader definition, the number of immigrant workers doubles from 2 million to 4 million”
Link. I’m one.
“The lunar theory was arguably one of the pinnacles of eighteenth and nineteenth century mathematical physics, as exemplified by Charles Delaunay’s Théorie du mouvement de la lune (1860), which comprised two volumes and nearly two thousand pages.”
Link. What a great essay.
“Farmer witnessed Epstein’s lawyer and friend, Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz, head upstairs where the girls were present, the affidavit stated.”
Link. He’s a Trumpista now.
At EPA coal idiot to be replaced by denier idiot.
Link. The future depends on California.
2034: “Cameras on Dragonfly will stream images during flight, offering people on Earth a bird’s-eye view of the Saturn moon.”
Link. Hope I get to see it
“plummeting rates of precancerous lesions and genital warts after vaccination against the human papillomavirus.”
Link. Can antivaxxers resist the siren call of life without cervical cancer? Paging JFK jr.
“Without the motion of turning a physical key, some car owners, especially older ones, forget to turn off a vehicle.”
Link. I would totally die this way.
“grown brain organoids with neurons that fired at a level consistent with that of a preterm infant”
Link. Now, reanimating dead brains.
Mozilla DNS-over-HTTPS and web filters.
Link. DNS based filtering doesn’t work very well anyway.
Roberts is what we thought.
Link. Corrupt.
The Qualcomm monopoly.
Link. They got away with it for decades.
Maciej on earthquake geology (2015)
Link. A gifted writer with oddly sympathetic snark.
12 pop psych explanations for the modern Trump-FoxGOP voter.
Link. Omits some Evangelical factors such as abortion restrictions and preservation of patriarchy. Those are rational reasons to choose Trump, especially for whites.
“The light-truck tariffs America imposed in 1964 in an unsuccessful effort to force Europe to buy our frozen chickens are still in place, 55 years later.”
Link. Minivans were exempted from emissions controls because regulated as trucks.
AT&T: “Rollover Data expires after one billing cycle, when you change your plan”
Link. I respect their evilness.
Baboon culture shift triggered by die off of most aggressive males.
Link. I’ve wondered if dogs had a similar effect in pre-technological humans. Advantage for less aggressive.
China smuggling Iranian oil: “the Chinese-owned ship, the Sino Energy 1, went silent and essentially vanished from the grid.”
Link. Porous sanctions
Zika update: “Transmission dropped dramatically through 2017 and 2018”
Link. Why?
Xi on Soviet collapse: “He belittled the Soviet leader, Mikhail S. Gorbachev, for allowing it to happen on his watch. “In the end, nobody was a real man,”
Link. Xi, Putin, Trump are of a kind.
“Venezuelan special forces have carried out thousands of extrajudicial killings in the past 18 months and then manipulated crime scenes to make it look as if the victims had been resisting arrest”
Link. Why do they bother?
New Weapons Against Cancer: Millions of Bacteria Programmed to Kill.
Link. “Ordinary bacteria will colonize tumors in the body, using them as a refuge from the immune system. “
The History of Private Planes -1920s Photos
Link. Using an Ediphone.
Prostate cancer androgen blockade: “one to four doses of A.D.T. was associated with a 19 percent increased risk for both Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia, and the risk increased with the number of doses.”
Link. Wow.
Check your EFI firmware automatically with EFIcienC
Link.
beta-test Catalina?
Link. Bricking T2 machines, wiping iCloud. Sure!
“Apple will roll out a new keyboard design based on scissor switches, offering durability and longer key travel, starting with the 2019 MacBook Air”
Link. Might buy that one.
I really like my SharePoint list based blog that’s not a SharePoint blog
Link. Necessity and invention.
New Roof and Ice Dam Prevention (1997-2019)
Link. Very little has changed from the 1977 U Minnesota book I just added to this page. In fact, the page is still pretty accurate. Metal and double roofs for the win.
What the web looked like in the late 90s – a static link set.
Link. About 1000 links, mostly from late 90s. I used that database to store web credentials from about 1995 to 2018 (went to 1 password). About 10-20% still more or less valid.
1977 guide to ice dam prevention in homes (U Minnesota)
Link. They need to do an updated version!
Review: Brydge Keyboard for iPad Pro
Link. “Brydge keyboard makes your iPad look very much like a Mac”.
Google Graveyard – Killed by Google
Link. Why I have not committed to a new Google product in the past decade. Untrustworthy.
How To Buy Hardware That’s Likely to Last
Link. Alt: Spend your money on a fine bicycle. This is why I buy as little tech as possible.
High speed SSD problems: “A compact external SSD has none of those facilities, and they do get hot. So hot that if they didn’t do something, they’d fail altogether.”
Link. Put a freezer brick underneath?
How I Rip Movies
Link. Rare modern reference. macOS.
Mixium brings smart playlists to iOS music.app
Link. Not as good as iTunes SP, but way better than Apple iOS defaults
Repairs: “One airplane part maker’s manuals “have risen from $5,000 to $51,000 in less than 10 years,”
Link. Market failure.