Link. Just great to know ongoing work. My favorite iOS app.
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“Open the Source window for any PDF document in Podofyllin, and instead of drowning in streams of noise, you can now see its structure and every object”
Link. Awesome app.
Software design – back to the 80s. (And BYTE)
Link. Small talk persists.
A (very) inclusive CrossFit gym – in Reno Nevada.
Link. “Inclusive and adaptive programs for any type of physical or mental impairments… free or reduced price memberships … Adults with physical or cognitive impairments and their families”
Skyscanner: cheap flights, ticket consolidator.
Link. A friend recommended.
How a nation collapses: “most experienced operators had long left the company because of meager wages and an atmosphere of paranoia”
Link. Venezuela is small nation.
Congress has mitigated Trump attack on science.
Link. Very quietly blunting harm of the idiot chief.
Feedbin hosting open-source Mercury reader for full contract extraction.
Link. I see improvent in Reeder 3.
“Chinese fear that the president could walk out on Mr. Xi like he did on Mr. Kim.”
Link. World is going to try to wait Trump out.
Rural-urban split over gun management.
Link. Education, age, culture all divide rural-urban.
Sprint attacks Apple-AT&T scam.
Link. These scams are vintage.
“Swells reach up to 20 feet, occasionally requiring the ship captain to order the subsea cable to be cut so the ship can seek safer waters”
Link. Work recognizable to 18th century sailors.
Feed Discovery with Feed Compass
Link. Other innovations suggested. Urban gardens in the dystopia.
Flickr Protects Photos From Deletion
Link. Kudos earned.
Apple’s bug problems run deep
Link. “It’s as if the OS is rotting away before our eyes”
“screen still accumulates dust from the cooling system, which is not officially recognised by Apple as a design flaw, despite it being a problem for more than a decade now”
Link. Wow. The lineup really does suck.
Galaxies Smashing Together
Link. “aside from the spectacle in the sky, anyone living in the galaxies themselves likely wouldn’t face any danger”. Really? More supernova …
“If you want to combat false belief, you have to ask, “What work is this belief doing for the person who holds it”
Link. Known to smart salespeople. The argument that “I’m rational because I like think of myself as rational” feels incomplete.
The real Dem divide: “largely about wooing white swing voters in the Midwest, not mobilizing nonwhite voters in states like Georgia”
Link. Booker can do both.
Putin tightens ties to cybercrime.
Link. Russia is deteriorating.
Biden and Sanders Lead the 2020 Field in Iowa
Link. Biden has best chance to beat Trump
The importance of document recovery
Link. We need way smarter customers
Using Libre and OpenOffice to open old Word docs.
Link. Microsoft and Apple equally despicable.
“Apple engineers seem to loathe the process of screening bugs.”
Link. A dysfunctional corporate culture. At root is a lack of pride in software work.
Trump’s science guy: “you say humans are the cause of climate change, that’s incorrect because climate change is due to humans and natural variability,”
Link. “True” even if 99% human and 1% variability, though I think the pre-industrial secular trend was more to colder climate (ice age). Trump relatively “sincere” about Denialism.
Treating chronic pain with hard “painful” exercise.
Link. I believe this.
“1945 Parsons separated from Helen after having an affair with her sister Sara; when Sara left him for L. Ron Hubbard, he conducted the Babalon Working, a series of rituals designed to invoke the Thelemic goddess Babalon to Earth”
Link. Caltech alum, rocket pioneer.
Programmers have short careers.
Link. Like athletes.
Walgreens sells tobacco to minors.
Link. CVS stopped all tobacco sales. My family needs to ween itself off of Walgreens.
Western economies post y2k: multiple interacting disorders.
Link. Demographics yes, but I’d give IT and globalization as other root cause.
Its insane to run the MMT experiment on the US.
Link. Maybe we could pay Switzerland to try it first?
DeVos and Obama admin Special Ed rule.
Link. I suspect DeVos is right and Obama administration was wrong. This smells like a very bad rule.
Yang, Trump, and the Chinese sex slave industry — just another morning in America.
Link. Probably just wild coincidence that Kraft’s arrest led to the Yang-Trump connection.
Manafort sentencing: more than a corrupted judge.
Link. American justice has never been just.
CPAC fears Facebook-Google fight against delusion.
Link. CPAC is delusional, so a focus on reality is an existential threat. If anything they aren’t anxious enough.
BerkazonChase is now Haven.
Link. Good to have a label.
The death of San Francisco is near.
Link. A world out of balance.
“PDFKit is effectively sanitizing each PDF document which it opens”
Link. Great research
“Every November, countless Americans condemn DST because they conflate it with Standard Time.”
Link. You hate Standard Time, not DST.
Correlation: “People exposed to secondhand smoke even a few days a week had more than 50 percent increased risk of developing kidney disease.”
Link. I doubt this is causal or of this magnitude.
Statin: “38 percent increased risk for the development of Type 2 diabetes.”
Link. Not new finding, but better defined. Wish we had the mechanism.
From PDF to PWP: A vision for compound web documents.
Link. Web archive format never caught on alas. Also, it so weird 21st century software can’t handle book sized docs.
Phone-brain kills more and more pedestrians.
Link. “Subaru’s collision-avoidance system, EyeSight, led to a 35 percent reduction in pedestrian-related insurance claims.”
Mathematics: Death of proof greatly exaggerated
Link. Readable and entertaining
Facebook Groups for MN cyclists
Link. Great resource.
Dem primaries and reparations.
Link. Obama awesomeness recalled.
Tetanus in unvaccinated 6yo child of abusive parents.
Link. It would be unethical to give the parents tetanus.
PDF files can easily retain “deleted” content.
Link. PDF needs a rethink
“do not use CloudBerry Backup for macOS”
Link. Lots of software reviews are worthless
“Some people’s time and effort are worth hundreds of times less than other people’s. The widening gap between the new American aristocracy and everyone else is what drives both the supply and demand of Uber-for-X companies.”
Link. Servant economy.