Link. Truce broken, subsidies to red states at risk
Monthly Archives: December 2017
Mac to iPad photo download is broken now (iTunes mediated sync).
Link. Certainly iTunes is broken, probably iOS as well.
The Polish-North Korean axis
Link. A weird vestige of Soviet occupation
iOS mystery: Contacts.app has both “phonetic” and “pronunciation” name fields.
Link. “Pronunciation” is newer. Maybe it’s how iOS is supposed to say the word?
Douthat continues reputation upgrade: recanting his Obama deficit criticism.
Link. What happened to him? He used to be unreadable.
Adtech exploit of browser password managers to track users.
Link. Diabolical. Have to appreciate the evil brilliance of the adtech engineer.
Minnesota’s lonely Republican “moderate” on the Women’s march.
Link. By standard modern GOP Carlson is radical.
Widespread issues with iTunes “sync” of photos to iOS devices.
Link. Photos.app for most, but Aperture/Sierra definitely has same issues. It’s a real mess.
SMS confirmation codes digit length grows
Link. A bad idea
“particular small city exists only because of historical contingency that sooner or later loses its relevance”
Link. Grim prognosis for much of rural America.
Even Trump Knows SALT.
Link. Blue state subsidies of red states get bigger.
Full text of Kay’s DynaBook talk transcribed (1972)
Link. On a German hypertext site. Very old web, reminds how much is lost.
Wired 2010 reprint of Alan Kay 1972 DynaBook essay.
Link. See also Vannevar Bush (memex): http://theatln.tc/2EfuBmt
Tech regressions: MORE, Quicken, PalmOS, iOS, Podcasts, Aperture, Music, iPad photo slide shows, and toasters.
Link. Sucks to be old … or a non-geek.
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis relatives have 10-fold autism risk
Link. Genetic disorder with many manifestations.
Forcing molecules into cells: electroporation and microfluidic squeezing.
Link. Great update on mechanics of research.
The slow affirmation of the BFKL model of the strong force that binds nuclei.
Link. 40 years of grinding it down.
The afterlife of Google’s Book Scan & Search project. (4/17)
Link. It continues, with better scanning. “Orphan” texts still unread. Authors Guild unheroic role.
Stross, in happy days of 2010, on Future Shock and the authoritarian impulse.
Link. In 2017 personal technology change regularly breaks things I rely on. Often with no substitute.
The life and death of Ali Abdullah Saleh, a Trump unchained.
Link. Note how long he lasted.
Bicycling for health: brisk 15k a day minimum.
Link. Unscientific, but seems right. I love bicycling, but it is only efficient exercise as a daily commute.
Johnny Hallyday, French superstar with million person funeral.
Link. France is an island.
The bitter nocoiner.
Link. Neurotic retention of arithmetic.
Economist mini-obit collection
Link. Sample of humanity, often messy.
Hotel Belvédère: abandoned by its glacier
Link. Wonder when owners first saw their doom
Limair: the “lime air” cave cooled sanitarium
Link. Sanitaria attracted eccentrics.
Weed is getting very cheap
Link. With no money from pot where will street sellers earn money?
Google tablets go Chrome over Android
Link. A mess.
Did an autonomous Tesla kill its first cyclist?
Link. Nov crash has had no follow-up, no questions answered.
iPhone Photographer Camera Kit
Link. Great personal tools
Apple battery message: Tsai response
Link. I liked: “Why are some pundits so obtuse?”. Also, will we lose phone for a week?
I think this NYT article is a caution to #metoo extremism ….
Link. … but it is written in code. Needs translation
The power of realistic thinking.
Link. In this universe “pessimism” is just realism. Outcomes biased as smarter people probably more “pessimistic“ (realistic).
“prank common in the online gaming industry known as “swatting.”
Link. “Prank”. Couldn’t think of a better word?
Bose-Einstein condensates simulate a simple cosmic inflation model.
Link. Neat experimental model.
Aperture sync photo to iPad: old advice to delete iPod Photo Cache periodically.
Link. I’m going to try after my 380GB library backs up. Annoying issues with sync 9,000 image slideshow to iPad.
Trump undoes Deepwater Horizon Spill rules
Link. Gulf states voted for him.
Google’s de facto support for climate change denialiam.
Link. DefyCCC, probably Koch funded, pays for search rankings. As usual Google “stops” when caught.
Tsai on micro.blog
Link. I like my blogs
Apple doesn’t understand only Apple can do App Store refunds.
Link. Fail.
Even NYT knows security questions are stupid
Link. A tax on geeks
“slashed the price of battery replacements for iPhone 6, 6s, and 7 devices from $80 to $30.”
Link. Wow. Poor techs
The Mandela Effect.
Link. Common SF theme.
End of ‘SALT’ Deductions: “big cudgel to Democratic candidates trying to unseat Republican incumbents in reddish parts of high tax blue states”
Link. GOP increasing what MN gives to AL
Drug rehab: “ethically murky business of customer acquisition in the treatment world.”
Link. Is capitalism getting nastier?
Drake equation revisit.
Link. Nothing new & headline annoys, but reminds how mysterious “great silence” is.
2018 – year of the Black Hole.
Link. “objects as small as 15 microarcseconds (μas) can be resolved: the size of a fly on the Moon”
New Antibiotic Action from an MS drug component
Link. Pseudomonas! Already approved for human use
“Men with graduate degrees or strong disapproval of President Trump reported lower rates of harassing colleagues.”
Link. I have wondered about medicine
US life expectancy down 0.2% for males.
Link. Again.