Link. Seven years now. Apple’s 2016 “fix” doesn’t work.
Monthly Archives: October 2017
2012 article on the incompetence of the modern American general.
Link. I disagree corporate CEOs are better. They are also rarely fired.
Philosophy: The non-identity problem and the repugnant conclusion.
Link. The multiverse resolves the conundrum.
Google Home Mini: “Google’s call quality is awful”
Link. I’m surprised.
“So that was Character Counts Week” – The Atlantic summarizes another disastrous Trump week.
Link. And Kelly falls. No president in history has had weeks like this.
Adult-Onset ADHD – is it a thing?
Link. To name is to create.
Obstetrics: back to lying down for labor?!
Link. If you did ob in 80s this is funny.
New Mexico trumpista try to weaken science teaching.
Link. Partially stopped – but not entirely.
Plants that get stronger when attacked.
Link. Article fails to explain costs of strategy. Bad editing?
NYT: Trump lies about British crime and “terrorism”
Link. No need to read, just a marker. #NNTRJAM.
NYT: Trump lies about British crime and “terrorism”
Link. No need to read, just a marker. #NNTRJAM.
“military is an elite class separated from the American people by its infallible values”
Link. Substituting myth for history.
To fund tax cuts to wealthy and MegaCorp GOP considers 401K limits.
Link. Of course.
“American ground forces are not allowed to conduct unilateral direct-action operations in Niger”
Link. Explains silence.
France and obesity stigma: “customary in France for job applicants to include photographs”
Link. Obesity rate 1/3 US but rising.
Cities discarding freeways: “Paris; Seoul … Boston; and Portland”
Link. Suburban vs urban struggle.
Kelly caught lying. Trump too of course.
Link. Without video he’d have gotten away with it.
Larger study of police cameras contradicts early findings – no obvious benefits
Link. Data storage expensive
IoT Cybersecurity: without government we are screwed
Link. And our government is dying
Apple metadatacide: iPhoto, Aperture, Photos
iPhoto allowed notes on albums and rolls. Aperture discarded the album notes but allowed notes on Projects. Photos discards the notes on Projects, it does not support them when translating to Albums.
Why I would like to see Apple broken up into five smaller companies.
Apple’s keyboard fiasco detailed
Link. Fix: sell a Retina Air and bury last 2 years
“Viral” is a meaningful modifier of meme
Link. Hyper-mutation and evolution running on silicon and wetware
EPA web pages purge climate change.
Link. We need to mark these things.
“Glass’s flow requires billions of years to move just a few nanometers”
Link. Neither solid nor liquid.
Bitcoin may increase the cost of electricity.
Link. We need to tax bitcoin generation.
“debate with a Four Star Marine General … highly inappropriate”
Link. These people are insane. Pathetic, but insane.
Safe-mode reboot for High-Sierra bugs
Link. We forget these ancient practices.
“experiments with fluid-analogies may reveal how we can find evidence for a substructure of space-time.”
Link. Economists once used fluid “computers”.
The Five and bleak prospects for tech startups
Link. All MegaCorp use finance and acquisition to kill competition
FBI and “black identity extremists”
Link. Trump’s shadow felt everywhere.
“John Kelly is not ‘adult supervision’ for Trump”
Link. Caught in an error he switches to lying.
There was a reason Kelly chose Trump
Link. His true nature exposed.
Witecutter: iPhone 8, 8 Plus, 7, 7 Plus, 6, 6 Plus, and SE
Link. A review to my tastes. Like the backup comment
Kelly succumbs
Link. Another wraith
“there was nothing to be afraid of, and urged her to be brave.”
Link. Here there be heroes. An antidote to our disgrace
Long depressing PoliSci review on how Trump is destroying American democracy
Link. Bleak.
Packing Milky Way into Neptune’s orbit
Link. Abundance of nothing.
iOS 11’s TV App: “There’s still no way to see a list of the videos that have been downloaded”
Link. Podcasts.app almost as bad. WTF.
You Can’t Turn Off Spotlight on Your Time Machine Backup
Link. The UI is lying
“eBay has become a haven for flipping”
Link. I never liked it. Forgot it existed
Russia’s Trump Operation looking bigger all the time
Link. Pearl Harbor class defeat for America.
Gmail phishing defenses strengthen
Link. Will US gov switch?
Black voters again disinterested in key elections.
Link. Part of why Trump won.
Drone hits plane. Again
Link. They will be banned.
Google serves scam fake news ads on Politifact and Snopes
Link. Almost as if they made money on them.
States-insurers evade latest Trump ACA attack
Link. Higher income need to switch from Silver
SCOTUS desperately needs technical advisers
Link. Publish their college math SAT scores
Xi spends 205 minutes saying “status quo.”
Link. Audience all on amphetamines.
$373,000 gene therapy for non-hodgkin’s lymphoma
Link. Yikes.
Neutron merger 2017: more on wavelengths
Link. Gamma jet pointed away from us.