Link. An exceptional contribution to the cult literature. Love the reference to the lawyers.
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“Mozilla intends to deprecate IRC as our primary synchronous-text communications platform”
Link. Can’t be fixed
How to clear Google Voice conditional call forwarding from an AT&T phone including iPhone
Link. Dial #62#, #61#, #67# to turn them all off.
Juul works hard to encourage youth vaping.
Link. Preserving shareholder value. They are evil but not stupid.
Reflections on the mediocrity of eBooks.
Link. I blame Apple DRM. Blocks long tail software dev.
“Tony Fadell has tweeted about the state of Screen Time on Apple’s platforms, calling the feature ‘a rush job’. Fadell also wants Apple to release a sanctioned API for access to the digital health data.”
Link. I’d been thinking nobody besides me was using that pile of poop.
Apple claims MDM use was reason to ban 3rd party parental control apps.
Link. Bullsh*t. What do schools use? Also, been years of this. Also, when did they ban this?
How to open a tab delimited file in Apple macOS Numbers.app.
Link. Change extension from.tab to .csv. Excel recognizes .tab, an ancient mac convention.
Programmer migration patterns.
Link. “Terminal nodes are: Rust, Java, Go, Python 3, Javascript.”
Programmer migration patterns.
Link. “Terminal nodes are: Rust, Java, Go, Python 3, Javascript.”
Programmer migration patterns.
Link. “Terminal nodes are: Rust, Java, Go, Python 3, Javascript.”
Programmer migration patterns.
Link. “Terminal nodes are: Rust, Java, Go, Python 3, Javascript.”
Programmer migration patterns.
Link. “Terminal nodes are: Rust, Java, Go, Python 3, Javascript.”
Culture 2020: Extreme athletes in middle-age and beyond.
Link. Midlife crisis isn’t right frame. There is continuity with trends over past 60y. Arguably a rational response to what we know about aging, better training knowledge, and human capacity.
If you enable iOS safari restrictions history cannot be cleared.
Link. It will be grayed out. Such a flaming mess.
After Endgame: answers to some puzzles.
Link. But not all of them. Only read after movie.
NYT writes on Apple’s Screen Time failures and the assault on third party alternatives.
Link. Sins on both sides, but this judge rules against Apple. Congressional help would be appreciated.
China’s mad economy: the bike share bust.
Link. “Last year, China minted a new unicorn [billion dollar valuation] roughly every four days” This is a global economic failure – inequality at work.
California cannabis: illegal growers persist.
Link. Export market, limited legal businesses, reduced enforcement. Not mentioned, but I bet illegal market has much better customer privacy protection.
“Pentagon is now planning for terrorism suspects still held in the facility to grow old and die at Guantánamo Bay.”
Link. The Forever War.
Korea: “My memory, hand and tongue don’t work like I wish,” Ms. Park said. “But I am going to learn to write before I die.”
Link. A lot squeezed into a small article. Demographic collapse, rural collapse, extreme determination.
Apple’s abuse of parenting support apps gets some press.
Link. This is a complicated area I know well. Overall Apple is wrong and abusive. OTOH these apps all failed my testing. OTOH Apple’s solution has huge unfixed bugs …
“we’re pretty close to being able to create any protein we want from the comfort of our jupyter notebooks”
Link. I’d enjoy auditing a class on this.
Writing Docs for Bezos meetings.
Link. Bezos comes across relatively well in this piece.
Don’t recommend or purchase Intuit products.
Link.
“These keyboards are the biggest mistake in Apple’s history”
Link. How Ive will be remembered.
Mueller proof of collusion: standards of evidence
Link. Criminal conviction vs evidence supporting trial
Google Fit for iOS: Apple Health API support.
Link. I do excessive exercise so probably won’t adopt.
Google Earth Timelapse: mobile web interface
Link. Delightful.
Google Custom Search gets an enhancement
Link. It’s not totally dead. Or maybe this is a post-mortem twitch.
CRISPR gene-editing creates wave of exotic model organisms
Link. Hang on.
Death of the phone call unfolds.
Link. Google is reinvesting in Google Voice. We will probably need to get phone service through Google. Apple should worry.
“Biden pulled ahead in our endorsement tracker after just one day and is already getting endorsements from black leaders that Harris is missing.”
Link. I care abou Black women and white non-college women. If they want Biden I’ll go that way.
Jamitons in traffic flow.
Link. I entertain myself in traffic by dissipating jamitons. Smart people behind me get laminar flow.
“The returns to working long, inflexible hours have greatly increased.”
Link. Winner take all. I saw this happen
[toread] Why geeks dislike Luminary
Link. I could see Apple doing same thing.
“As a taxpayer, I guess I’d like to thank Facebook for paying its parking ticket.”
Link. Try $50 billion next time.
“Google was, in some cases, storing copies of Apple data within a single data center rather spreading them out to different locations, as Apple had expected”
Link. The data center had a fire. iCloud data was lost
“ how beautifully and efficiently bike racing distills the absurd nature of my own life down to its very essence”
Link. The joys of hanging on.
Reeder 4 for iOS and macOS.
Link. Been using it for years. Will definitely pay but I’ll wait a month or so. Great app. Use it all the time.
Reeder 4 for iOS and macOS.
Link. Been using it for years. Will definitely pay but I’ll wait a month or so. Great app. Use it all the time.
“100,000 unsolved major violent crimes and 40,000 unidentified bodies.”
Link. Lots of murderers get away. Also, there are a lot of murderers.
“100,000 unsolved major violent crimes and 40,000 unidentified bodies.”
Link. Lots of murderers get away. Also, there are a lot of murderers.
The Atlantic article on opioid use in 1990s rural medicine.
Link. I lived this era and locale. One addition: we used a *lot* of hydrocodone in 1990s adult medicine. We used it ourselves. Most of us didn’t run into problems. Similar methamphetamine in early 20th century weight loss.
2006 case: “new connections seem to have grown across around the back of the brain, forming structures that do not exist in normal brains.”
Link. I missed this. Looking for scholarly report.
Impeachment as a moral obligation.
Link. If not for this President, than when? (Yes, it will almost certainly fail.)
Facebook anticipates 3-5 billion FTC fine.
Link. If that happens then it’s a good start on realistic fines for the megacorp era. Next time go for 30 billion.
NHL: “seldom does the best team hoist the trophy at season’s end”
Link. A hot goalie and a bit of luck in a league designed for equity.
Thor: Ragnarok “He’s a friend from work!”
Link. That great line came from a poignant source.
The Great Irish Famine (In Our Time).
Link. British gov response sounds just like what do today. Unclear (still listening) what the best possible response would have been. A (the?) classic Malthusian crisis following an ecological collapse.