Link. WLW was the best blogging tool ever. Windows with some SharePoint support. Killed 2012. Leaned today was resurrected as Open LiveWriter. Looks like that died 2016. Farewell WLW, you were fine.
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Curbsiders tackle LGBT+.
Link. Our guides walk a minefield while we listen for explosions. Lots of learning for me; also another way in which primary care has become more complex and time consuming/expensive.
Best Buy a bad choice for Apple repairs
Link. Best would be if they just handled shipping and pickup, avoid package theft
Unicode nirvana evaded us still.
Link. Hell, we still can’t handle line feeds and carriage returns.
Trump always accuses others of his own crimes: “Our radical Democrat opponents are driven by hatred, prejudice and rage. They want to destroy you and they want to destroy our country as we know it.”
Link. His projection is his insight
Edgar Rice Burroughs: atheist?
Link. Rereading “Gods of Mars” I think they have a point.
Unread 2: $20/ year
Link. Subscription is a great option for RSS client. I hope Reeder follows. I think betweem $10 to $20 is right.
“Apple today announced that it has now expanded its authorized service network to every Best Buy location in the United States”
Link. Remember when Apple killed longtime retail/repair partners?
“Catalina uses a form of bi-directional symbolic link, termed a firmlink, to make it appear that the two new volumes are still one.”
Link. Catalina APFS is interesting and complex
“When you’re viewing your inbox, just tap and hold on the New Email / Compose icon in the bottom-right corner of the screen. From there, you’ll see a list of all of your previous drafts.”
Link. I remember when DOS was considered cryptic.
“if your profession requires mental processing speed or significant analytic capabilities—the kind of profession most college graduates occupy—noticeable decline is probably going to set in earlier than you imagine.”
Link. Welcome to life. bwahaha.
Black holes disrupt rather than absorb.
Link. What size of non-BH makes the best sponge? Maybe a gas giant? (Stars too energetic)
A quiet change: you can have one gmail address per phone number.
Link. That’s a big change quietly made.
Educational reform: “after decades of organizing and giving, I have come to the uncomfortable conclusion that I was wrong. And I hate being wrong.”
Link. People of power rarely admit error. So kudos.
Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370: “the reason for the climb was to accelerate the effects of depressurizing the airplane, causing the rapid incapacitation and death of everyone in the cabin.”
Link. Lots of detective work.
Prison for con that used copyright law to extort money from porn consumers.
Link. Echoes of an early 90s scam that used fake credit card porn transactions. Because was “porn” victims didn’t go to banks, especially in Japan.
Google’s RCS experience reminds us how awful carriers are
Link. They literally can’t help themselves.
SIM swap nightmare. Again.
Link. SMS is a catastrophic second factor. Apple uses it. Imagine sign-in with Apple.
Apple notarization is way harder than it should be
Link. No architecture?
“Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Florida and Michigan … Trump trails Biden by double-digits. In … Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Florida — Biden’s leads sit outside the poll’s margin of error.”
Link. GOP internal polls. Wisconsin is why Biden should be the nominee.
“Pentagon and intelligence officials described broad hesitation to go into detail with Mr. Trump about operations against Russia for concern over his reaction — and the possibility that he might countermand it or discuss it with foreign officials,”
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“You’d spurt blood from your goddamn eyes.”
Link. Imagining GOP reaction to Obama accepting op intel from Russia. Like Evangelicals GOP has no reputation to salvage. They are bankrupt.
A positive spin on workforce analytics.
Link. There are other perspectives.
Online regex tester and debugger: RegEx 101
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Catalina notarization: “you should still be able to use it but ask its developer when it will be fully notarized. And don’t take no for an answer.”
Link. Making malware creation more expensive.
Tell Nik what you most miss from Aperture.
Link. DAM. Unmatched.
Should I Shoot RAW or JPEG? What’s HEIF?
Link. By one who knows.
“I was the lead developer for Aperture, and I later led the team that developed the editing engine for the Mac version of Photos. Now I’m on my own, developing a Photos extension called RAW Power”
Link. Read it.
Sign In with Apple: “Apple adopted the existing open standards OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect to use as the foundation for their new API.”
Link. Reserving judgment
Apple’s Catalyst apps
Link. They kind of suck. Music column browser gone
McGahn: “if he cooperated with House investigators his career would be over.”
Link. He joined the GOP. He can never leave.
“Because our laws frame privacy as an individual right, we don’t have a mechanism for deciding whether we want to live in a surveillance society”
Link. Think of mandatory vaccination.
The concert ticket scam continues
Link. Blame the ticketmaster monopoly. Or are tickets sold too cheaply?
“Waldorf school here, 60 percent of the school’s 300 or so students were not vaccinated”
Link. Too bad FoxGOP won’t beat up on these leftie fools.
“two hours of outdoor time by the end of the week”
Link. Does urban bicycling count or only mountain biking?
Masks off, drug makers fight price transparency.
Link. No more pretense.
“Amazon introduced a secured card called Amazon Credit Builder.”
Link. Valuable for special needs adults
An Afghan War Veteran returns as NYT journalist
Link. Short, dense, melancholic.
“AppleScript is one of the crown jewels of macOS, but recent versions and policies actively prevent people from using it.”
Link. AppleScript is dying. I have not had success with any of Apple’s automation solutions. There have always been gaps I couldn’t close.
“AppleScript is one of the crown jewels of macOS, but recent versions and policies actively prevent people from using it.”
Link. AppleScript is dying. I have not had success with any of Apple’s automation solutions. There have always been gaps I couldn’t close.
“AppleScript is one of the crown jewels of macOS, but recent versions and policies actively prevent people from using it.”
Link. AppleScript is dying. I have not had success with any of Apple’s automation solutions. There have always been gaps I couldn’t close.
The Hatch Act is toast.
Link. Conway killed it. Gov employees can speak freely now. Indeed, almost an obligation.
Big name academics suck at useful predictions.
Link. Academic success came from specialization and unrealistic confidence. Refused to face failure of their predictions. Smart, cooperative, and thoughtful generalists did far better.
DNA identification of infection: “He had been infected with an obscure species of bacteria. Once identified, it was eradicated within days.”
Link. Oh boy oh boy oh boy. This is super exciting for doctors. Finally it might work!
“Cats with rabies acquired from wild animals now outnumber dogs with rabies, because so many dogs have been vaccinated.”
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Feedback Assistant:”the database migration was a disaster.”
Link. This is basic, basic, stuff. An intern should have been able to do it
“we might want to go ahead and classify insulin as a nuclear hormone”
Link. Biochemistry is an enormous landscape.
Google reinvestigates Cold Fusion
Link. Looks like a zero.
Tourist deaths in Dominican Republic: “The fact that toxicology reports have not been released or completed is “unconscionable and inexplicable”
Link. Suspiciousfor serial killer.
Perpetual Detention Without Trial at Guantánamo
Link. America’s choice.