Link. Art will be fun to study as I age. I know so little.
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Visualization of cannabis, CBD value in health care.
Link. “Promising” wouldn’t justify a clinical trail for most meds. The MS benefit is only one that looks interesting.
Women who go to Trump rallies like him because they like him.
Link. And some have a visceral dislike for #metoo. It’s not a logic thing.
Amazon reviews now unreliable – negative reviews filtered.
Link. Fox effect spreads.
On certainty.
Link. “lived long enough for the world to pin your eyelids back and burn reality into your retina”
Simplenote Focus feature.
Link. I missed this blog somehow, it’s not new. Anyway, more signs of life. The big one will be image integration. And please, please, fix tags (tag maintenance is lousy)
More Simplenote WordPress integration: SSO
Link. I missed this from June. Noted as a sign of continued Simplenote work.
“Magnesium 400-500 mg/day can be used for prevention or for acute treatment of migraine with aura. Antiepileptic drugs also appear to be effective.”
Link. I never did buy the “vascular” model of migraine.
The Curbsiders – An Internal Medicine Podcast.
Link. Superb, and a long back catalog for me. I usually skip the first 5-10 minutes of chatting though.
“2013 ASCVD score “overestimated 10-year risk by roughly 20% overall”
Link. Arghh. Until I learn more I’ll let borderline risks slide.
iOS 12 Notes.app tables don’t render in Notes.web (or Sierra Notes)
Link. iCloud is overdue for some maintenance.
Ominous trends in Apple’s marketing strategy.
Link. A Fox-like island where negative words are not heard.
“Google is still far ahead in correctly identifying places and specific destinations”
Link. This is a big failure on a key initiative.
“Apple’s decision to make its iPhone sales less transparent may underscore the seriousness of these challenges.”
Link. As a customer there is something to be said for a weaker Apple. They need me more.
Don’t use browser extensions.
Link.
The Labyrinth Index by Charles Stross
Link. I’m in
State representatives have some genuine crazies.
Link. Five terms is a lot for a loon. Must be a scary district.
Young rat blood helps old rat livers survive insults
Link. Millenials aren’t young enough. You all can relax.
We can finally delete an Apple ID?!
Link. Been a problem for decade. If true we have EU to thank.
“Huawei and Xiaomi, which saw their shipments grow by 32.9% and 21.2% respectively”
Link. The new rulers.
“now impossible to have intellectual integrity and a conscience while remaining a Republican in good standing.”
Link. Honest conservatives are homeless.
Apple’s New Map (CA) vs Google.
Link. No bicycle maps. Google remains far ahead.
“Cook clearly believes that the iPad is the future of computing, but the market doesn’t seem to agree.”
Link. I could easily live without my iPad. I love my Air.
“time stamp Shortcut”
Link. First one that sounds useful
“Retina MacBook Air score right in-between the 12-inch MacBook and the 13-inch MacBook Pro”
Link. The old Air holds up well.
VHA star rating gets a well deserved roasting
Link. VA physicians think it’s broken.
Vote against all Republicans. Every single one.
Link. No exceptions.
“2 to 3 percent of the male rats exposed to the radiation developed malignant gliomas”
Link. Extreme exposure, but 2% vs 0% control is a lot.
Democracy looking fragile
Link. The natural choice is a tribal strongman.
Quiet on the Russian Front. Too quiet.
Link. Ukraine is hot, we are not. Maybe.
Trump cell phone misuse probably doesn’t matter
Link. Everyone is insecure.
“Voting machines are terrible in every way”
Link. Windows CE. Rampant ignorance and incompetence, probably corruption too. Systems failure.
NYT: “of the 203,000 new digital-only subscribers, 143,000 signed on for digital news products, with the remainder paying for the company’s cooking and crossword features”
Link. The subscription rate is way too high.
Using simulated c elegans mini-neuron nets to solve problems.
Link. Mechanics of thinking.
Feeding the hate-loving whites.
Link. There are many who thrive on hate.
Google Home: “genuinely shocked by how poor the overall security of these devices are”
Link. If I ran Google this would be a “stand down” moment.
Who would buy a MacBook?
Link. Old Air, new Air, both good. MacBook really dumb. Even low end Pro seems dumb.
“global warming of the past few decades has exceeded conservative estimates and has been more closely in line with scientists’ worst-case scenarios”
Link. If new ocean temperature method is correct
“10.14.1 does update a great deal more than we have been told”
Link. Group Facetime has old version number. Weird.
Known bugs in macOS Mojave 10.14.1.
Link. Relatively minor so far.
Tableau Public for Mac.
Link. Pull tables from PDF. Free. 1.6GB disk space.
Experimental Ebola Treatments Effective
Link. Science!
“rough edges of Shortcuts, edges that feel like they result from a small team with too much on their backlog”
Link. Years from what it should be.
Parkinson’s Disease and the Appendix: “human appendix contains clumps of a protein called alpha-synuclein in a form associated with the disease”
Link. WTF.
“gas clouds circle every 45 minutes or so, completing a circuit of 150 million miles at roughly 30 percent of the speed of light”
Link. Dark heart of the milky way.
Nurse Faces Trial in Germany in Deaths of 100 Patients
Link. Health care has the worst serial killers.
“Kepler is now in orbit around the Sun, trailing Earth by 94 million miles, where it will gradually and safely drift away”
Link. How long will it last? Will it be in a museum one day?
MacBook Air 2018 no faster than old model.
Link. New era. The 2017 Air is still a good alternative.
“four Thunderbolt 3 ports and an Ethernet port—with an option for 10 Gb Ethernet—along with a standard HDMI 2.0 port, an audio jack, and two legacy USB-A ports supporting USB 3.0″
Link. Mac Pro.
“Congress should codify countless broken norms into unbreakable laws.”
Link. Trump as cowpox. Good ideas if we emerge.