Link. Is Kelly driving the NK attack madness? What does Murdoch want?
Monthly Archives: January 2018
Handheld $1-2K DNA sequencer … and 50K CPU hours.
Link. Still awesome.
GOP Strzok Delusion Deflates.
Link. They will find another.
NYT belatedly declares ad funded services are a bad idea.
Link. Tax ads like tobacco.
Real GOP achievement: “Annual deficits are creeping up to $1 trillion and the national debt has topped $20 trillion”
Link. The hilarity
Wait time for Apple battery swap: 4 months
Link. They need to start offering trade-in for new phone.
“Supplements containing omega-3 fatty acids, the oils abundant in fatty fish, are ineffective for the prevention of heart disease”
Link. Expected.
Facing crisis China experiments with health care
Link. Surprisingly prosaic. AI retinal imaging done here too
Another routine failure of US missile defense system.
Link. Is this even possible?
We don’t understand brain response to trauma
Link. Really, WTF?! How could brain be so fragile?
Trump won’t really change H-1B visa program
Link. True.
Google flights shows hidden fees and predicts travel delays
Link. The war between airlines and travelers continues
‘Type to Siri’ as a Smart Command Line
Link. Can we do this on mac?
Fact-Check of Trump SOTU
Link. Posted as reference. No need to read
Trump tobacco investor CDC head resigns.
Link. Scraped through barrel bottom, now digging up poop.
“Trump wants us to be scared of brown people based on nothing at all.”
Link. This sort of thing has never happened anywhere before.
Why We’re Underestimating American Collapse.
Link. Humans, unlike frogs, adapt to water being boiled.
“There is just no reason to go to High Sierra; it’s all negatives.”
Link. I was planning on updating in August 2018.
“aggressive ethno-nationalism” and valorization of police
Link. BLM was a useful tool for GOP.
“treat the demagogue like a normal politician who’s failing to deliver”
Link. Berlusconi
The Atlantic on the birth of alternative realities – in the 1960s. (Sept 2017)
Link. Beautiful irony that it was born of the Left but fully realized on Right.
2005: Rise and Fall of the Body-Scanning Clinics.
Link. From the archives, in anticipation of the next medical fad.
Fix iMessages Received Out Of Order.
Link. My wife has this bug. Presumably related to iCloud Message debut. Ugh.
“neither recreational nor intense cycling appear to have a negative impact on men’s sexual and urinary function.”
Link. The concerns started @1995.
NASA map tool “creates population projections of any area you like.”
Link.
Trump, as expected, blocks sanctions on Russia.
Link. Keeping his side of the bargain.
Five Chinese Children Get Lab-Made Ears Grown From Their Own Cells
Link. 1950s style research oversight.
Naked mole rats so not appear to senesce
Link. They are mortal, but age quite differently.
Fix black PDFs in macOS preview.app by recalibrating display.
Link. macOS is now held together only by our shared belief.
“every major iOS 12 feature had been frozen”
Link. So not completely clueless.
“Hadean Earth: a stoutly solid, temperate, meteorite-clear and watery world, an Eden from the very beginning.”
Link. If life is that likely we should see it elsewhere
Italy’s Trump returns
Link. Democracy is dying.
“dingoes had taken the first steps toward a second domestication event”
Link. Faster than expected, but we already have dogs
The omnigenic model of behavior and hereditability of divorce
Link. Remember predictive medical genomics?
“I don’t think spying is the specialty of the Chinese,” Kagame said”
Link. Trump level IQ.
71% of 20-30y S Koreans oppose unification
Link. I am surprised.
“Less than half of crimes that occur are reported to police, and long response times are a likely contributing factor to this trend of underreporting.”
Link.
CHIP is the hot new disease: “clonal hematopoiesis of indeterminate potential.”
Link. Nobel prize territory
Why Trump can’t testify: “creates his own reality and he actually believes it.”
Link. He doesn’t know what is true so can’t speak truth
Bitcoin: “digital equivalent of $100 bills”
Link. The Benjamin. The future is bright in a satanic sort of way
“Apple plans to completely stop selling digital music by the end of 2019”
Link. Wonder if anyone will sell by 2021.
Mac and iOS Privacy: a guide
Link. Load remote images should be off
“Having reached the Pacific Ocean, we have covered 10 percent of earth’s history.”
Link. The metaphor works better than most
Poor iPhone sales
Link. Price matters
“Mediterranean-style diet heavy on plant foods and unsaturated vegetable oils, with whole grains like brown rice and bulgur, fruits and vegetables as the main sources of carbohydrates.”
Link. Still the best evidence
Retiring is good for you.
Link. Raising retirement age sucks
Preventive care doesn’t save money
Link. Known since early 90s.
Minnesota super bowl a money loser
Link. We knew it was nonsense
Why do healthy young people sometimes die of influenza?
Our best guess is “bad luck”. Maybe they had another infection that interacted with influenza. Maybe their immune system was transiently disordered. Maybe they had an obscure genetic trait that set things down a bad path.
I’ve seen some long tortured explanations, but in this epidemic it seems bad luck. Sometimes lightning hits us.
How much did the cost of software maintenance increase between 2000 and 2017?
I’m guessing severalfold cost increase due to security issues. Much higher patch frequency driven by security findings and OS changes.
IT budgets, especially in government, have not kept pace. Internally developed software is no longer cost effective.
Lots of implications we don’t understand yet. Some workflows will need to be simplified or change to fit generic tools … or even revert to pre-software modes.