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Drinking While Pregnant: Don’t.
Link. Unfair, but life is that way.
Online Learning Platforms – review
Link. Coursera, edX, Udacity, Udemy. Apple U not on list.
“active-duty forces supporting Customs and Border Protection agents there to about 4,350”
Link. Operating cameras.
Joe Ricketts: another quiet GOP billionaire.
Link. Maybe we can move him to New Zealand.
Bluetooth 5.1.
Link. Getting there
Amazon and fake books
Link. There’s a fake book industry
“If Apple TV 4K actually costs $180 to sell at no profit, Apple really didn’t design the right product.”
Link. Low value, high cost.
“Xi has potentially further destabilized the system by crowning himself with 10 titles, including head of state, head of military, general secretary of the CCP, and…”
Link. The Brittle Goliath.
Aaronson favors the collider.
Link. Uncharacteristically unpersuasive. I think Sabine is still ahead.
Klass on the complexity of pain.
Link. Hope her mother is alive to read this. Klass is indeed her mother’s daughter.
“the Permian generates more oil than any of the 14 members of OPEC except Saudi Arabia and Iraq.”
Link. Peak Oil not my best prediction.
Siegel v Sabine: build the next collider.
Link. I think she’s ahead.
“We as an industry have slammed into the amyloid hypothesis over and over, and the results might be trying to tell us something.”
Link. Amyloid may not be the enemy.
Precision Medicine has failed.
Link. One day it may succeed, but huge disappointment to date.
“30th year of doing drug discovery research, and never once have I worked on a project where the chemical matter came from an academic lab”
Link. AOC isn’t omniscient.
Sabine: “I’m also a writer. Words are my weapons. And make no mistake, I’m not done.”
Link. Not intimidated.
Screen Sharing Software 2019
Link. Good ref list
iPhone FaceTime Vulnerability: “it’s hard to imagine how an adversary can operationalize this in any useful way.”
Link. I didn’t get what the big deal was.
“Google then moved to NoCaptcha ReCaptcha, which observes user data and behavior to let some humans pass through with a click of the “I’m not a robot”
Link. Good update.
“ideas and life of one of the greatest mathematicians of the 20th century, Emmy Noether.”
Link. Great topic for IOT podcast
Broken things at Apple: deceloper documentation.
Link. A cost cutting measure? Hard to find benign explanation.
“any accounting of the value of goods and services that a society produces gives a very limited measure of the resulting well-being of the society that uses these goods and services”
Link. Things I’d not thought of.
Aaronson 2008 – The Singularity Is Far.
Link. A classic.
Against superhuman AI.
Link. I try to be optimistic.
Salmon, Picketty, Corporate Persons, Eco-Econ, and why we shouldn’t worry. 2014.
Link. Fun to read from 5y in the future.
“March 2019, Blogger will revert to only having Blogger profiles. Users that have selected a G+ profile in the past will appear as unknown authors until they next login to Blogger and supply a new display name and avatar.”
Link. Post promises new Blogger stuff in 2019.
“In 1948, a group of former racing stars had him reburied, with financial assistance from Frank Schwinn of the Schwinn Bicycle Company”
Link. Even by 1948 he was remembered.
“in almost all cases, Schultz would take away votes from a Democratic nominee”
Link. Trump’s base is utterly unshakeable.
Screen Time: the quick setup guide
Link. Always Allowed: Tap on “Always Allowed” and add apps that every Explorer should always have access to. Basically everying that’s useful but boring[1].
App Limits: Tap on “App Limits”, then “Add Limit”, choose “All Apps & Categories” and set a daily limit of, say, 3 hours. Be sure to enable “Block at End of Limit”[2].
Downtime: Tap on “Downtime” and enter time that Explorer is at work or school.
“Mr. Kushner was not the only person in the president’s orbit to meet the underside of a bus”
Link. Trumpologists decipher the ravings of the mad President.
“known telecommunications vulnerability being exploited to target bank accounts by intercepting SMS text messages used as 2-Factor Authentication (2FA)”
Link. Apple and Vanguard: stop using SMS 2FA. You never should have started.
nanized nickel – “as strong as titanium but four to five times lighter”
Link. Cyclists drooling.
Simulating a TIFF/RAW image from JPEG input.
Link. Very slow.
“Apple laptops are expensive, somewhat unreliable (keyboard), and hard to repair on.”
Link. Our home will wait another year.
Apple loses money on HomePod hardware, Apple TV 4K sold at cost.
Link. Accounting vs Design.
“A good rule for winter swimming is never to stay in for more minutes than the number of degrees it is in the water.”
Link. English ladies. Degrees C.
GeoCities lasted until 2019 – in Japan.
Link. GeoCity fall was first Bonfire of the Datacities.
Permanence valuation big cultural change now. Only Olds keep photos.
Also … I want more coverage of other nation nets.
“almost everything produced by ML could have been produced, more cheaply, using a very dumb heuristic you coded up by hand,”
Link. Or just ask me what I’m interested in.
“Amanita phalloides are said to be quite tasty”
Link. Last meal.
“Russia, which has violated the INF Treaty, deserves most of the blame for the collapse of this important agreement”
Link. Once again Putin & Trump aligned.
Chrome custom search engines
Link. I use, but for me big Chrome advantage is user switching
“Apple still doesn’t provide any tool to rebuild the IconServices cache”
Link. Harder to do manually now.
Graphic Converter: “Set Creation and Modification Date depending on Exif”
Link. One of the Greats.
“By the metrics of a Mafia state, though, the Trump Presidency has yielded great results for Russia.”
Link. A Russian analyst with a different, and persuasive, theory of the Trump-Russia relationship.
Schultz analyzed.
Link. Conclusion: He’s very vain, maybe stupid.
Second Apple employee accused of stealing ‘Project Titan’ car trade secrets, this time for a Chinese competitor.
Link. Sounds like he may have been a plant.
“many Americans already pay wealth taxes, in the form of property taxes on their homes”
Link. Estate tax or wealth tax. Dems can run on this.
Media layoffs: “they are a devastation”
Link. Panic evolved for a reason.
Sanders interview.
Link. Appallingly good at being evil. Hit multiple Trump-evangelical targets spot on. Suggestion evangelicals have give up on moral superiority, laughter is effective there.