Link. Giants.
Category Archives: share
Buying Miami in its last decades.
Link. Venice is the goal.
DelightEd now opens the rich text content of PDFs, as well as HTML, RTF and text files
Link. Save PDF text as new RTF file
“in 2019, a Google-branded product, feature, or service has died, on average, about every nine days.”
Link. I use gmail and calendar. Some Google docs. Those are switchable. Blogger is harder to quit.
“Whoever sent Yujing Zhang to Palm Beach would do better, next time, to apply for club membership in advance.”
Link. Whatever Trump is told the world knows.
Evernote’s melancholy story.
Link. My conclusions differ. This is about the curse of valley capitalism. Nobody is satisfied with just delivering a profitable service. Everything must be über.
Putin’s idiocracy assassinations.
Link. There are a lot of amoral stupid men in the world.
AVs are decades away: adversarial attacks.
Link. Humans are horrible.
“Almost everyone at Apple uses MacBooks of some sort. They know from their own use of the product how problematic reliability is.”
Link. Apple has failed a test they should have easily passed.
Cloudflare announces Warp: afree VPN service for iOS.
Link. Not yet available. This will kill a lot of vpn businesses.
Sussman paid for wikipedia fraud
Link. Wears volunteers down.
ISO 8601 time stamp: 2019-04-02T21:19:04.096Z
Link. YYYYMMDD. I’ve used this in my filenames for years, now I have an origin story.
Coding Falsehoods About Time and CSVs
Link. Excel CSV export nightmare.
DEA covert money counting machine monitoring.
Link. Appalling. Unspoken story: this stayed secret. Imagine what else is out there.
OA: moderate exercise associated with 8 fold reduction in disability.
Link. Merely suggestive. Need more intervention studies. I do believe “resting joint” is a prescription for disaster.
Oldest Disease?
Link. Leprosy and tb very old. Osteoarthritis in dinosaur. I think OA can be infectious.
“India’s actions “not compatible with the future of human spaceflight.”
Link. Human stupidity is global. India’s turn to mess up big time.
“the better the future is for Uber and Lyft, the worse it is for the rest of us.”
Link. AVs failed, so no win-win.
Anecdote of a one complex mental health disorder.
Link. Complicated story, but I think players missed the real lesson. Psychiatric disease classifications are fundamentally flawed. NIH research no longer uses DSM.
“Unlike outdoor air, the air inside our homes is largely unregulated and has been all but ignored by researchers”
Link. Excellent research topic.
“9:01 a.m., an eerie chorus of synchronized clapping swelled from the floor below”
Link. Penetrating view of Apple’s celebrity show.
“mass-shooting era, civilians must help one another in a crisis and keep victims from bleeding to death”
Link. Or we could vote to change the 2nd amendment.
“calculations for the transverse frames required hand computation that took two or three months to produce a solution for each frame”
Link. Story of the short lived R100 dirigible.
Venezuela: Taking It Slow.
Link. Hoping for a peaceful transition.
Biden gets the Franken treatment.
Link. Dems got played so easily in Franken case; GOP helped then by Gillibrand and Klobuchar. Let’s see how stupid we are this time.
“Invented exactly 20 years ago this month on the back-end of a feverish dot-com boom, RSS”
Link. Been forgotten near a generation.
“Between 1877 and 1950, more than 4,000 African-American men, women and children were lynched”
Link. Good overview of the basics.
The Economist: 1843.
Link. Diamonds and Patek watches and ice climbing atop Kilimanjaro. Made for the Valley.
Dr Evil has style: “I look forward to seeing what the president is proposing and what he can work out with the speaker,”
Link. McConnell on Trump ACA repeal.
Office Depot faux-malware scam: “PC Health Check was configured to tell consumers their computers were infected regardless of what any scan showed, according to the FTC”
Link. Mixture of desperation, incompetence and malice. CEO should have seen criminal charges.
“In 2018, Ms. DeVos, a billionaire businesswoman, decided to donate a portion of her annual salary to the program” That special olympics program.
Link. She has to have serious self-respect issues to live with Trump. Maybe guilt about where those billions came from?
New York suit alleges Sackler family funneled money from opioid company into personal accounts offshore.
Link. This is getting interesting.
“Mitch McConnell, perhaps the craftiest and most cynical man ever to head up the US Senate (think about that for a second)”
Link. I despise Trump, but I prefer him to McConnell.
“By the time less than a single second had passed, practically all of the antimatter had annihilated away”
Link. Still a puzzle.
“most deadly pathogen known to science”
Link. Asian species resistant.
Correlation: automation and Trumpets.
Link. The non-college feel it most.
“I don’t think anyone can beat the President in a kicking and screaming match.”
Link. True.
Artificial Womb progress.
Link. Slow but steady.
“QuickTime Player …. doesn’t appear to write details of the new codecs used to the converted movie’s metadata”
Link. Great overview of how to find problem video codecs
“You’ll always know when the payment is due: it’s the last day of the month, for everyone.”
Link. Not all bad.
Apple Card details.
Link. Could be a good choice for college students.
iCloud Deletion Bugs.
Link. Bloody awful.
Clods kidnapper/murderer: “He wrote that he could not explain his motives clearly and that “I can’t believe I did this”
Link. There are a lot of broken minds out there.
GWB affair: “Their surreptitious romance would last for more than a dozen years, inexplicable to those around him and impossible for anyone to manage,”
Link. What did he say about Bill Clinton’s choices?
Childbirth with pain free mutation: ““I could feel that my body was changing, but it didn’t hurt me,”
Link. Healing factor too. Wolverine basically. Boon to medical science.
Immigration, David Frum, The Atlantic: “In any given population, according to Stenner, roughly one-third of people will have authoritarian tendencies”
Link. Frum is a notorious neocon, but I confess I liked this essay. There’s a real deficit of reasoned articles on immigration policy.
Appl Still Hasn’t Fixd Its MacBook Kyboad Problm
Link. A work of art. Article has widgets to restore missing characters. Apple has earned this humiliation.
Apple’s Services Event – geek reactions.
Link. Negative.
Known bugs in macOS Mojave 10.14.4
Link. Not including big gmail bug. Preview: “fundamental flaw which should never have appeared in release software.”
Don’t buy ASUS.
Link. “hijack happened as early as June of last year and ASUS didn’t do a thing about it”