Link. Just practice.
Monthly Archives: October 2017
Computational Microscopy using Wolfram language
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Review: Western Digital MyBook Duo
Link. Avoid
Repairing a Time Machine backup
Link. Only in desperation
Trump believes his fake Renoir is real.
Link. He derangement is longstanding.
Kaplan dissects all the lies Trump told about the Iran nuclear weapons treaty.
Link. Exceeds Trump standard.
If you use Quicken your financial account credentials are on their servers.
Link. There is no way they haven’t been hacked.
The Best Lenses for iPhone Photography
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Equifax new blunder gives IRS a contract exit
Link. Deep problems
Black lawmakers take on Facebook fomenting race hatred
Link. FB looks worse all the time
USB-C is a disaster
Link. Such a lovely dream. Also: “Some USB-A dongles make Wi-Fi drop on MacBook Pros”
“ten big lies Trump and allies are telling” about taxes
Link. “Against stupidity the gods themselves…”
Iowa loses its cognitive elite – and turns red
Link. Being “smart” party is bad idea
Tales of Trumpland: “the 67 percent of adults in this country who do not have a four-year college degree”
Link. Of course he abandoned them. Of course they don’t blame him.
Movies Anywhere: “The vast majority of my iTunes movie purchases immediately became available to watch via my Amazon and YouTube accounts”
Link. Why would Apple do this?!
CrossFit is in part a market response to abandoned industrial buildings.
Market solutions often odd.
BBEdit 12: more column tools
Link. Free version superb, $50 for full.
Parallels Desktop 13.1 – another reason to wait on High Sierra
Link. VM users truly need to wait
“Bicycle Suspension Is Evil”
Link. True, good stuff $$$ to buy and maintain, and Plus doesn’t need rear….
Five rings to rule them all. Google, Apple, Facebook …
Link. Infinity stones.
Farhad Manjoo also worries about ubiquitous computing
Link. Change too fast for humans.
Humans are to chimps as dogs are to wolves.
Domestication.
NYT inexplicable “objectivity” collapse
Link. This will not stand
T-Mobile caps data on its roaming feature.
Link. Too popular with Canadians?
“Kaspersky is either grossly incompetent or horrendously compromised”
Link. Limited future.
Millennials Are Over.
Link. My daughter’s generation rises.
Bob Cringely’s home lost to California fires
Link. Family escaped.
Using iOS workflow.app to unzip an archive
Link. Repeat loop is key. Suddenly Workflow.app makes sense.
And GOP destroys … the NFL.
Link. Next, Nascar, then country music. What an amazing performamce.
NYT calls for Trump to lose sole control of nuclear arsenal
Link. GOP faces another test.
Rise of the Nati across the white world
Link. Demographics and the unwanted non-college.
State Borders – xkcd
Link. Of course he knows about MN’s bit of Canada. He is an AI
Smartphones and sending genital images.
Link. Genetic programming malfunctions.
Critiques of cosmological inflation.
Link. Imperfect at best.
An Epitaph for Newsvine
Link. Born in blog days.
“Even before there were Homo sapiens, then, our distant forebears had a mix of genes for light and dark skin”
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“a statement that is not true, in any sense”
Link. NYT on Trump equating market rise to deficit reduction
GOP tax plan: substantial tax increase for the upper middle class and the only moderately wealthy.
Link. GOP is completely nuts.
Asian Camry ad says Dads can drive kids
Link. Wasn’t clear if there was a White guy ad
Live Photo Long Exposure effect
Link. Computational photography.
Trump science: “an extremely well-connected crank, with ample funding and an influential perch at the wild outskirts of both politics and science”
Link. Maybe we offended a deity?
Psych care won’t lower mass murder rate
Link. Gun control is only choice
Trump also proceeds to destroy NAFTA
Link. Markets don’t seem worried.
Trump moves to destroy ACA
Link. I expect he succeeds
“Our model predicts nearly complete racial integration upon the emergence of online dating”
Link. Evidence this is happening.
“relationship between quantum information theory and the emergence of gravity, space, and time”
Link. Feels true.
Zombie physics: 5 theories.
Link. Super symmetry must die.
Google concludes their EPIC hack of an iPhone 7 via WiFi stack.
Link. This is one hell of a secure device. Even more so after this.
Saint Paul Minnesota mayoral race: bikes and peds.
Link. There’s an “independent” too (GOP undercover). Not considered.
When drivers rage on cyclists send them this link.
Link. Comprehensive response. Even explains why stop means yield for a cyclist.