Link. Surprised it took so long.
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“Safari 12.1.1 failing to properly close and release the weblocs it has written from its Bookmarks page”
Link. Not new!
Known bugs in macOS Mojave 10.14.5
Link. So sad. So many old stupid bugs
Internet backup sucks: VM problems
Link. I do my own
Trump’s name is killing his businesses.
Link. Give me a hostel any day. Even a tent.
“Bolton is that bad – a comically caricatured militarist, an extremely effective and smart bureaucratic player and entirely capable of lying the country into war”
Link. GOP is fine with that.
Get The Research: “Find and understand peer-reviewed research papers”
Link. Jon Udell recommends.
Virginia Tech helmet ratings: WaveCell and MIPS.
Link. Fantastic to see progress.
Argentina: “Inflation is running above 50 percent, and joblessness is stuck above 9 percent. Poverty afflicts a third of the population, and the figure is climbing.”
Link. This is what we should understand better.
Torturing patients for their future benefit.
Link. The sedative meds seem to have worked.
Stem cell quackery abounds.
Link. FDA falling short. I suspect strategic donations and investments help. Reminds me of 1960s medicine.
Brain stimulation overview.
Link. As much garbage as stem cell therapy, but also much promise
Winnie Mandela obit.
Link. April 2. Apartheid’s monster child.
Superionic ice: core of some gas giants.
Link. Landmark in the development of novel forms of matter.
“Biden’s strength is South Carolina confirms which you see in the internals of the national polls – very strong support among African-American voters.”
Link. If he gets O numbers of WWCW he’s the nominee.
The Attacks on Rashida Tlaib Are Dishonest and Disgraceful
Link. And prefictable.
WhatsApp Voice Calls Used to Inject NSO Group Spyware on Phones
Link. One hell of a flaw.
“Social Security moves money from high-income, business-intensive states and regions to lower-income ones”
Link. Good primer.
Norway gets smoker as public health minister
Link. Trump hates smoking so we are saved this.
“Teva, Pfizer, Novartis and Mylan conspired to inflate the prices of generic drugs by as much as 1,000 percent”
Link. Potential fines are too small to make a difference
Pentagon diverts Afghan funds to build wall
Link. Likely to impact future DoD funding.
Friend of Charles, very evil man: “Mr. Ball, 87, who attended Lancing College and Cambridge University, was friends with headmasters of many of the country’s most prestigious boarding schools”
Link. A victim who spoke out then committed suicide
Twin Cities Free Market
Link. List things you’d like to give away. This is old web, meaning the good times.
Another healthcare serial killer.
Link. Pedophiles do kid sports. Necrophiles go into healthcare. How many do we have?
Price hiding in healthcare: insurers pay up to 4 time medicare rates.
Link. I suspect it’s usually 1.4 times, but who the hell knows. I need more beer.
“Trump has blundered into conflict with our competitors, insulted our allies, and generally made the United States into a laughingstock.”
Link. Not sure even Russia is laughing. Though they really should. The most brilliantly bloodless victory in the history of human conflict. I bow to our Russian masters.
Attack of the sex-crazed socialistic pangender atheists: “so help me God”
Link. Not all the news is bad today.
Russia targets 5G, the next measles vaccine.
Link. Ooo. They are *so* good at this game.
Ubiquitous surveillance continues.
Link. We knew this would happen by November of 2001. I’ve rarely been so right in a prediction.
Midwest has a lot of bad early industrial infrastructure.
Link. Not Minnesota (newer state). South and especially East of us. But population is falling …
“At the end of 2018, the average middle income household had wealth of $340,000 while those in the top 10 percent had $4.5 million”
Link. The top 10% of US is wealthier than most imagine.
“everything that has always struck everybody as strange about quantum mechanics can be explained by supposing that the concrete fundamental physical stuff of the world is floating around in something other, and larger, and different, than the familiar 3
Link. After that friendly intro come the Hamiltonians. Also, we need ePUB preprinted, not just this dang PDF.
David Albert, philosopher of quantum physics. Interview.
Link. I’m sure that preprint will be impossible. Hoping for a lay book version.
Managing iOS web restrictions – the web problem and the Chrome problem.
Link. Web content restrictions work for Chrome, but “Secret Power User Screen Time Controls” only work on Safari.
My exercise program towards the end of year 60.
Link. It is possible to lose weight with exercise.
‘Constitutional Crisis’ to be basis of Trump impeachment.
Link. Senate GOP will declare night is day. History will be amused.
“In the Midwest, the share of black children attending intensely segregated schools has steadily decreased since 2001″
Link. My (asian) daughter’s MN public school is minority white with an acclaimed black principal — but the academic track is quite Nordic. Miles yet to go.
Screen Time old device bug: Dev used device ID as key, forgot Apple ID
Link. Dev needed to use combination of Apple ID and Device ID to manage device, used only Device ID.
Two new discoveries in iOS Screen Time (parental controls): Age 13 and Apple ID incompatible with Screen Time.
Link. To do Screen Time right Apple would need to invest a lot more resources.
Children under 13 cannot be removed from Family Sharing.
Link. Discovered this when testing iOS Screen Time on a new phone. You have to call Apple Support to change birthdate or remove. Will count against Family Sharing device cap.
“These days I mostly use the old USB aluminum keyboard.”
Link. There are reasons nobody does a “root cause analysis” for this class of failure.
Rural America: Trump’s chumps.
Link. The perverse love between conman and conned.
Denmark: “third said that wolf whistling at women in the street was acceptable, and two in five had an unfavourable view of the #MeToo movement.”
Link. I think US women also have mixed feelings about #metoo.
“President is using his leverage as commander-in-chief to demand that the highly dependent government of Ukraine to target his political enemies in the US.”
Link. McConnell, philip morris servant, is responsible
Why SMS 2FA should be illegal.
Link. My banks are forcing this on me.
Hope Musk pays a billion dollar fine.
Link. Musk is a despicable bully. I despise him.
“small percentage of iPhone 8 devices contain logic boards with a manufacturing defect.”
Link. Devices lock up. Apple replaces. For once I don’t have a recall problem.
Finder security errors opening documents: a summary
Link. Kind of a mess.
Spotify family plan nuttiness.
Link. Secret address? They are not long for this world.
Amazon caught selling kids stuff with extra lead
Link. Shocked they were.