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“millennials have one glaring, society-crushing character problem … They don’t vote”
Link. Are they really worse than boomers were at same age?
“Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp is currently blocking 53,000 predominantly African-American voters from voting”
Link. How does any person of honor vote GOP?
ARM optimization: JavaScript is the new C.
Link. Not what we expected in 98. What lessons can we learn from this?
“percentage of mobile homes ranges from 17% of all housing units in South Carolina, to 0.2% of all housing units in Hawaii.”
Link. A lot of people live in this world
Mac Sales Down: “The iMac was updated in June 2017 and still has a defective processor”
Link. Mac app store abandoned
Safari ios 3D models: “Universal Scene Description format, or USDZ, developed by Pixar.”
Link. Gallery of examples
Create Siri Shortcuts
Link. Early days.
Five Ways Google’s Pixel 3 Advances Computational Photography
Link. Marvelous work
Millennials are killing list.
Link. Paper napkins.
Chemistry Nobel Prizes aren’t about chemistry
Link. No biology prize.
Google Call Screen
Link. I’d be happy if Apple did DND for voice calls only
Favorite Fall Rides In and Near the Twin Cities-Part 2
Link. “The Vermillion Highlands and UMore Park in Rosemount”
ND GOP Voter ID law targets native peoples.
Link. SCOTUS let it stand.
Internal Monologues
Link. I definitely feel the medicine one. It is so weird.
“we’re going to be able to reverse single-nucleotide genetic diseases in human beings.”
Link. Duchenne. Some things will go wrong — but this is awesome.
“Microsoft missed the bug despite users filing reports in its Feedback Hub, since the number of total reports of file deletion was too low”
Link. Universal bug report problem.
“I have not yet come across any new issues with Aperture 3.6 on Mojave (macOS 10.14)”
Link. Compared to High Sierra. Suspect there are a few. I may skip High Sierra and go to Mojave in Feb-Mar.
“fermentation makes it somewhat more difficult to notice the taste of crushed stinkbugs in wine”
Link. Another invader.
“Not everyone with Down syndrome is afflicted with premature aging”
Link. And Alzheimer’s. Not all, but too many. Lots in this short article.
“Pixel 3’s on-device AI helps you screen phone calls and avoid spam calls.”
Link. Apple should take note.
Google resurrects digital photo frame
Link. Years ago Apple disabled iPad digital photo frame feature
Massive iPhone repair fraud in China.
Link. Tough neighborhood.
The end of bicycling with cars in America?
Link. Halfway down. I want to write on this. I think is real; I didn’t see it coming. iPhone consequence.
iOS 12.0.1 bug: no longer option to enter restriction code and allow a blocked site
Link. First bad bug I’ve found in iOS 12.x
“Only if the GOP as it is currently constituted is burned to the ground will there be any chance to build a reasonable center-right party out of the ashes”
Link. 1964.
Safari fails another security test: “might indicate the need to put more computational resources into fuzzing and/or review before release.”
Link. Humiliating.
GOP “senators parroting conspiracy theories about Soros-paid protesters”
Link. GOP keeps finding new depths.
I don’t get this: “it’s far better to use a second factor than not”
Link. I prefer a strong fixed password over a resettable password.
Liberals … “need to find a way to overturn the spate of campaign finance rulings from the court and reinstitute a genuinely democratic reading of the first amendment in their place”
Link. First win elections.
“90 percent of Google+ user sessions are less than five seconds”
Link. They had a chance, then they got greedy.
iOS Screen Time age-specific behavior: “Ignore Limit” vs. “Ask For More Time” – a plea for a new accessibility setting.
Link. Vulnerable adults need a “guided use” accessibility setting. In the meantime changing Apple ID age to 14 may work.
Climate Crisis by 2040
Link. Record oil cash flow in 2018. Climate wars to accelerate.
Long New Yorker on possible Alfa Bank route for Trump-Putin 2016 back channel
Link. DeVos too. Mueller should know more
UK High Court blocks $1.3B class action claim against Google for hacking iOS privacy protection
Link. Hope this is reversed. US 22.5 million fine pathetic
iCloud Photo Link use in Messages.app
Link. Still on Aperture, no ICloud Photos, so I don’t see this. Email doesn’t yet use as recipient might not have iCloud.
Sonia Orbuch, Bay Area woman who fought Nazis as a girl, dies at 93
Link. Whoa.
analogs of “black holes in a box do not behave like string theorists think they should”
Link. no firewall
“almost impossible” to find Japanese endurance athletes with a VO2 max above 75”
Link. Genetics? Why?
Cleaning and Structuring Large Datasets: Web Scraping with the Wolfram Language
Link. Enjoyed.
Wolfram U introductio to calculus
Link. Free online course. I’ll take a look.
How I Use a Mac but Work on SQL Server
Link. More broadly useful than it sounds. “VPN software can be so terrible”
“never give out any information about yourself in response to an unsolicited phone call”
Link. I never answer unrecognized phone calls.
Apple fails the DST test again?!
Link. If true this is ridiculous
Thinking about macOS neglected widgets I suddenly remembered this.
Link. TSRs were the first malware.
New Study Reveals Most Children Unrepentant Sociopaths.
Link. Survival of the fittest.
“FileSafe is a new platform by Standard Notes that integrates directly with your day-to-day usage of Standard Notes, and serves as an encryption intermediary between you and your favorite cloud provider”
Link. Makes sense.
Standard Notes blog
Link. It’s an interesting effort. I use Simplenote for now.
Why Kavanaugh is to SCOTUS as Trump is to presidency.
Link. Assault and alcohol abuse aside, he is a terrible Trumpian choice. I’m not sure he is worse than Thomas though.
Good Omens! looks just about right.
Link. Aziraphale is exactly as I imagined. This one took a while.