Link. Hurts not to have this.
Monthly Archives: April 2018
Godly Trump: the GOP evolves
Link. Every authoritarian state does this.
Create Public Albums with Apple Photos
Link. Been this way since iPhotos. Aperture same.
Mac App Store analysis.
Link. Better than I expected.
Dental procedures: acetominophen and ibuprofen
Link. Surprisingly effective compared vicodin.
Escape from deflation.
Link. Ten years.
Trump’s bank retreats.
Link. Deutsche may be getting ready for money laundering charges.
Excellent Twitter thread on VPN for iOS.
Link. Hits all the ones I hear of. Shame about TunnelBear acquisition.
Predictors of Rapid Cognitive Decline in Patients with Mild-to-Moderate Alzheimer Disease
Link. Rare useful article on a disorder we make no progress on.
CPAP, night 1: perspectives of an analytic patient.
Link. As a physician I *greatly* value these narratives.
Pharmacotherapy of autism spectrum disorder.
Link. Guanfacine has promise. Educated guess and empirical trials; utism not a useful classification.
“why not have iMessages use Signal when the recipient doesn’t have an iOS device”
Link. iMessage exclusvity sells teen iphones.
“people are getting very good at using Twitter threads to tell stories which can fire up the online outrage machine.”
Link. I’m going to stop following people who “like” or retweet theses.
Tsai on AirPort end – it is a poor decision
Link. Love how he builds his case. I mourned loss of LaserWriter Select 360.
“there are more times in my daily life when Touch ID is better than Face ID than vice versa”
Link. I like my 8. Needs headphone jack though
“the man who hired fake parents for his wedding because his real ones were dead eventually told his wife. It went fine.”
Link. A fascinating meditation on Japan, and on the universal assignment of meaning.
Family sharing: “Any time a family member makes a new purchase, it’s billed directly to the family organizer’s account”
Link. I found this the hard way. I assumed when my son’s credit was depleted he’d be unable to buy more. Ran up a nice bill. The ask to buy function is under 18 only.
EPA Climate Change Website: offline through GOP rule
Link. It isn’t just Trump. Or Pruitt. This is the GOP.
Making Sense of CDC’s Report on Increased Incidence of Autism
Link. Yes. Autism is an almost meaningless concept now.
The reality of 2018 speech recognition
Link. You have to learn the dialect and command set of each device. Like programming.
Use camera to add credit cards to Safari’s AutoFill on iPhone
Link.
Review: Gmail’s new Web Interface.
Link. Does it break mail.app?
Amazon “price-earnings ratio somewhere north of 200”
Link. Next: $1000/yr Prime.
Deer CWD can’t infect chimps
Link. Suggests humans can eat deer.
“there are more than 3,000 sheriff’s offices across the country, and they’re a prime place to go looking for muck.”
Link. A bad system.
Megan McCardle: Paywalls everywhere.
Link. I often find her unreadable. This is well done, if obvious.
MarsEdit – don’t enable all post sync if you have a very large number of posts
Link. It loads all posts across all blogs into memory.
Appigo Todo Cloud.app – don’t forget to unsubscribe when you leave.
Link. For now I’m using Reminders and Trello.
Reasons to leave Amazon.
Link. Breitbart funder.
OmniFocus has no family sharing: The curse of in-app purchases.
Link. Omni *wants* to enable family sharing, but they *need* the in-app purchase model. Apple doesn’t support family sharing for in-app purchases. This is on Apple do fix.
Aaronson on education: a respectful response to Caplan.
Link. It cheers me that I always agree with Aaronson.
Will low income whites realize Trump is hurting them
Link. Fox isn’t going to tell them. So no.
Ryan and Trump have similar values and policies
Link. Not “two parties”
Anazon Prime cost increases again.
Link. I don’t value anything but shipping. Without Prime shipping now very slow
Facebook closes scam accounts — after NYT outs them.
Link. Tax the ad clicks now.
“Trump is a transactional person, and many have made transactional decisions to work for him”
Link. Jackson’s willingness was proof he was broken.
NYT tiptoes around Kanye West’s mental health
Link. Drawing a picture
Reassuring signs that humans consider iX too expensive.
Link. All my 8 needs is a headphone jack
Climate engineering, China style
Link. One response to CO2
MacBook Pro Keyboard: “one of the biggest design screwups in Apple history”
Link. Class action?
“Officers arrived and “quickly determined that this was not a police issue,”
Link. A different flavor of metooo.
Chinese opera in Thailand
Link. “I was sold by mother for 6,000 bat”. I heard this in 80s.
Pruitt defense: “E.P.A. officials who were reassigned or demoted after challenging his spending all had performance issues.”
Link. Convinced me.
Finland declined UBI
Link. What did the data show? Article omits that
American Lynching Memorial.
Link. Progress, even in time of GOP rule.
Twitter doing better
Link. Longer tweets was a great move.
America’s corporate leaders bend the knee
Link. Would Jobs have gone?
6,399 reasons why 2014 iMac is good
Link. Apple value is not high.
tmutil: command line time machine control.
Link.
QuickTime can record your Apple TV
Link. Was this intentional?