Link. Impeachment unlikely.
Monthly Archives: January 2018
Arthritis update (personal note).
Link. Looks like fast OA, treated with Hydroxychloroquine.
Hydroxychloroquine retinopathy: “Even after cessation of HCQ, there was progression of retinopathy in eyes with choroidal involvement”
Link. We really need to understand this better.
Vulnerable user support: Qustudio review and PC Magazine parental control page.
Link. Apple could clone Qustudio, update the look, enhance the unlock password handling, and add it to iCloud. This is doable.
GOP 2018: Postmodernism, Posttruthism, Tribalism, or Nihilism?
Link. Trump is just the end-stage, process was strong under GWB. Began on Left, but devastated Right.
Czech Republic continues drift to Russia and authoritarian rule.
Link. A global disease.
Facebook should adopt Google’s system for rating news sources.
Link. Classic AI: algorithm tries to match expert.
Toastmasters of Georgia
Link. “While toastmasters almost always discuss death, history, and peace, every feast changes depending on who is presiding.”
Photographs from America’s concentration camps
Link. Japanese-Americans have special reasons to join resistance
NYT ed: “Trump sure acts as if he has something big to hide”
Link. Murder?
Bruni puts Nassar, Sandusky and others into a common template
Link. We need more research on how these people happen.
“Fake accounts, deployed by governments, criminals and entrepreneurs, now infest social media networks”
Link. I think conflates bots with fraud. Not same.
In praise of Gchat.
Link. No interop means no choice.
Restoring from a snapshot with APFS.
Link. First good High Sierra news.
“adding an extra qubit potentially doubles the resources of a quantum computer.”
Link. Excellent discussion.
Ebola: “Bepridil, for example, provides 100% protection from Ebola infection in a mouse model”
Link. Great science.
“If cosmic inflation, General Relativity, and quantum field theory are all correct, the Multiverse likely is real”
Link. Siegel seeks the middle ground. More to my taste as a spectator.
Sabine (also) dislikes inflationary model building.
Link. I think she considers inflation to be plausible, but not the attempts to explain it.
Sabine _really_ hates the multiverse.
Link. One is a weird number.
Out of Africa: origin of anatomically modern humans in flux
Link. Lots of migrations of lots of hominims.
James Webb Space Telescope Deployment
Link. This seems impossible.
Applied air pollution for peptide drug delivery.
Link. Promising.
“There’s basically no country in the world where the consumer is not doing well,”
Link. 10y after the Great Recession began even Brazil & Japan expand
“create a Smart Group in Photos using “Unable to upload to iCloud Photo Library” as the matching condition”
Link. Somehow helps with upload bug
“a large decline in personal savings, which are now down to levels not seen since before the financial crisis”
Link. Good time to borrow against 401K to buy bitcoin.
Toggle iCloud Photo Library: “watched it cripple my internet access for a week”
Link. Does Cook have any clue?
$400 Million Goes Missing From Japanese Crypto Exchange Coincheck
Link. Having fun yet?
Swift is not a beginner programming language
Link. Pascal was the last one.
Why the genome of wheat is so massive.
Link. Incredible burden.
Brooks: “men whom society is trying to turn into emasculated snowflakes.”
Link. David Brooks has strong personal feelings here.
Religious right lineal descent from white supremacy.
Link. Trump isn’t a problem, he’s home.
Fraud alerts misfire and plane ticket cancellation
Link. Last cc fraud I had was 2 guys flying on my amex. Is this mire common now?
Wolfram tackles task of telling our story to aliens
Link. Read
“The conservative playbook is to shift funding sources to the states, while cutting states’ abilities to raise such funds off at the knees.”
Link. Simple but effective
“first machine in the world capable of solving partial differential equations.”
Link. Familiar to Pratchett fans
MN’s extraordinary election of ’32: gerrymandering plus
Link. Wild.
Afghanistan: analysis
Link. Pakistan remains intractable
“it’s as if no one at Apple actually uses the company’s own apps.”
Link. Maybe they use paper planners?
“Republicans say 72 – 22 percent that Trump is a good role model for children.”
Link. Borderline child abuse. Certainly they are deadbeat parents.
“flow of hominins coming in and out of Africa for at least the last half a million years.”
Link. No Big Bang.
HEIF: “Apple’s encoders both on iOS and MacOS only support 8 bits per channel.”
Link. Ok, that’s obnoxious
“If this were Barack Obama, Tiki-torch-toting Nazis would have descended on the White House and burned it to the ground”
Link. We have learned a lot about white America
HomePod doesn’t support iTunes Home Sharing
Link. Apple want leased music only
Telemedicine consults from China to US.
Link. I thought about starting this business 7y ago. Feel validated :-).
iOS 11.3 to enable 911 location reporting
Link. Apple had declined previously
Doctors: empathy vs patient volume
Link. Doctors who see fewer patients are obviously less common
“Mueller sees Trump’s efforts to bully Sessions into resigning as either obstruction itself or part of a pattern of criminal conduct.”
Link. Pattern most likely.
Afghan pedophilia and American law.
Link. Patriarchy.
Senators make an effort to save Senate.
Link. Long odds
Why are Trumpista so afraid of Mueller?
Link. Their nature or they know something?