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Epic Systems to support macOS version of EpicCare.
Link. I’m a bit skeptical but interesting announcement. Apple should fear healthcare though.
“By far the fastest disks that I have tested are internal SSDs in Apple silicon Macs, with read and write speeds typically around 7 GB/s with full encryption.”
Link. Great review.
“The rise in remote work is probably the biggest reason apartment rents have surged over the past few years.”
Link. And that is partly reversing.
“2.5 million ants for every human being”
Link. Highest life form.
“Venture capitalists who bet several hundred million 1987 dollars that AI would have some chance of being economically practical at $0.25, were wrong by 48 million X.”
Link. The early Apple firings were insane.
“Bankman-Fried’s philanthropic adviser, Will MacAskill, texted Musk on March 29 — a week before the Tesla boss made his [twitter] stake public — to suggest “a possible joint effort” between the two billionaires”
Link. There must be a half-dozen books in development — this story has so many legs.
“The subject, of course, is Hunter Biden and his laptop. Here’s a detailed rundown of this sordid affair”
Link. It’s short and a helpful aide.
Cat kidney transplant: “Losing a kidney does come with risks, as well as a lot of pain and discomfort. But most of the donors go on to live long, healthy lives—in many cases, very cushy lives with extremely devoted owners.”
Link. We spent several hundred on gerbil end-of-life care and we were not great at gerbil health.
“Mearsheimer has followed the path of other contrarians interviewed by Chotiner in recent years: they intellectually self-immolate under the pressure of his polite prodding.”
Link. Brain rot explains their resistance to reading and their belief that they won’t disintegrate under inspection.
“What if when given instructions from people, robots could autonomously write their own code to interact with the world?”
Link. What if.
“AT&T realized it had a problem. In January 2017, the company hired the president-elect’s personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, paying him $50,000 a month”
Link. In America we institutionalize our corruption.
Russia’s attacks on Ukrainian civilian infrastructure have been effective at disrupting life.
Link. Ukraine cannot retaliate against Russian infrastructure. An unusual war.
Saudi: “aggressive long-term strategy to keep the world hooked on oil for decades to come”
Link. “Isn’t it terrible that the Biden administration is forcing you to buy an electric car when we could be producing biofuels right here in Iowa?”
“bputil is one of the most hazardous command tools in macOS accessible to the user. Experimenting with it is guaranteed to cause your Mac serious problems.”
Link. I remember when accidentally typing ‘c’ instead of ‘a’ destroyed all data and apps. (Format c:).
“has revealed exactly how little a Chief Executive can know, how foolishly a Chief Executive can act, and how ignorant one very rich man can be.”
Link. All CEOs are good at taking and holding power. Some have no other competencies.
[toread] Evolution of hockey and decline of the slapped: “Now, the technology allows guys to score from 30 feet,”
Link. Carbon fiber sticks. Hockey is the best game, but it’s insanely fast now.
If only I could shoot …
“Lenz had long admired Thomas Stevens, an Englishman who had made a celebrated world tour on his ordinary in the mid-1880s, devouring Stevens’s monthly travel logs published in Outing magazine.”
Link. Dies in the midst of massacres of Armenian people. Incredible times.
Teplizumab immunotherapy to slow onset Type I DM in antibody positive patients.
Link. Screening will uncover many surprises.
Effective Altruism: The New Yorker on MacAskill.
Link. Required reading for strange times.
“Starve them out, and Ukraine will have recovered almost all of its pre-February territory. That’s the point at which negotiations would finally become possible. Many different peace deals would then be available.”
Link. How the war might end. Good point on how small the armies are by historic standards.
Haldeman’s Technocracy – rule by the cognitive elite.
Link. “Joshua Haldeman was a leader of Technocracy Incorporated in Canada from 1936 to 1941 … Haldeman’s daughter Maeve gave birth to … Elon Musk”
Feedle: Blog Search with RSS Feeds.
Link. What is Google going to do with Blogger?
Iran: All the Options Are Bad.
Link. China same.
Wealth is partly imaginary: Noah teaches mark-to-market accounting.
Link. “And crypto wealth is more imaginary than most.”
Cable company: “Challenging publicly funded overbuilds is becoming one of the most important tasks we do as a company,”
Link. Overbuild is a carrier term for competition.
“If you rebooted every single $FAANG server simultaneously right now, all of $FAANG would be down for probably months”
Link. These systems are starting to resemble organisms.
“… there is another possibility: that Lyft as a company is not actually sorry for the trouble they have caused you … go to LinkedIn to see if you know anybody who works at the company.”
Link. We are going to need laws to punish tech companies using flaky algorithms to ban customers without valid appeal.
NYT panel picks 25 unusual travel experiences.
Link. Not my picks but all interesting.
“tau proteins specific to C.T.E. were distinct from those in Alzheimer’s disease and other tau-based neurodegenerative diseases”
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“Rumor has it that the president—a strong supporter of Hungary’s laws restricting marriage and child-rearing to a man and a woman—expected only the ambassador to show up, not his family, and so she was stunned.”
Link. Our ambassador to Hungary brought his husband and their children.
If your kid doesn’t look like you bring legal proof when you fly.
Link. Human trafficking hysteria. My kids look nothing like me so we always had proof.
“Artemis III, in which two astronauts will land near the moon’s south pole, is currently scheduled for 2025, though that date is very likely to slip further into the future.”
Link. Expensive and inefficient — but more certain than relying on a flaky Musk.
China: “they didn’t immediately understand why their favorite streamer would be shut down in the middle of a segment about a tank-shaped cake. So they started poking around, searching and asking questions about tanks, which led them to … learn about
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“If you happen to have a 240V outlet, it gets even fancier — the stove can actually supply power to the rest of the house”
Link. Patents and licensing will be a challenge.
Mehran Karimi Nasseri, the eccentric resident of CDG airport.
Link. What was more-or-less involuntary became his preferred home.
“Because politics is so calcified, virtually nothing matters, but because elections are so close, virtually everything matters.”
Link. We balance on the knife edge.
What to do when your Mac has a kernel panic
Link. Save this. If you get one kernel panic you’ll get more.
You need disk utility to show at least 37GB free before updating to Ventura
Link. I’d wait for a few months.
Debugging Apple Music and iCloud Match: iCloud Status
Link. I’m seeing a few hundred bugs in my music library.
Ukraine’s railroads: a story. Read this.
Link. Nazi invasion: “Everyone else in my family who stayed in Kyiv was killed: either marched to Babyn Yar or rounded up by their neighbors and shot in the courtyard of their own building.”
Accounts of Torture From Kherson: “Several residents described being hauled off to underground torture chambers”
Link. Russia is a broken place. “Ms. Naumova 57, might seem like an unlikely freedom fighter. For her entire adult life, she has been teaching kindergarten”
“The windows of the Arctic Restaurant have no signs offering access to prostitutes—even in a lawless Yukon outpost in 1899, decorum rules out such truth in advertising—but Friedrich Trump…”
Link. 2019. The Trump and Kardashian families will merge on Reality TV.
“Neither then nor later did most Russian liberals understand that the imperial project itself was the source of Russian autocracy.”
Link. Without an empire what is Russia?
Mitch McConnell – political failure.
Link. Given geography GOP should routinely dominate Senate.
Deep brain stimulation to nucleus accumbens for binge eating disorder.
Link. Interesting idea. Will be five years before we know if it works.
“I’m spending about $250 on food every week,” woman competing in strongman event.
Link. Building and repairing muscle requires crazy amount of protein.
Liz Cheney happy with election outcome.
Link. I suspect Cheney played as large a role as youth turnout. Effect on GOP voters and independents.
“managed to persuade Republican and independent voters to support their candidates, particularly in swing states”
Link. “turnout gap between voters under 25 and those under 30 was rapidly closing.”
Check interpretations in 2 months.
Canada: “at least 11 candidates in the last federal election had been secretly funded by China”
Link. “after the hostage-taking ended, the government has been gradually building up to a more aggressive stance.”