Link. This is getting silly.
Monthly Archives: June 2018
AR use case: Apple iGlass as heads-up display for augmented driving car.
In the dense fog the child on a bike is surrounded by a pulsing golden circle.
Apple would sell the sensors and computation to car manufacturers.
Cost subsidized by car insurance discount. Apple insurance?
George Papadopoulos Russia-Trump case pivots to pardon ploy.
Link. Events moving very quickly.
“Twitter is becoming increasingly concentrated on a tiny core of power users”
Link. Many, perhaps most, humans want a master to obey. Elon Musk is happy to oblige.
macOS 10.14 doesn’t sound awful
Link. Suspect slow on 2015 Air. APFS fixes?
Google Meet: connect via Skype, Cisco hardware via pexip
Link. Not Facetime.
AR: “augmented Apple Car display”?
Link. They ain’t doing this for iPhone
Putin helped Trump with his cover story.
Link. What an amazingly successful hack on America.
Why education revolt now.
Link. Good primer. Baumol’s Cost Disease — IT failed to increase productivity.
The price of speech may be sleep apnea
Link. Best I have heard. Great series.
Email is really hard to secure.
Link. Typewriters.
Twitter Data Saver: consume less mobile
Link. I have it on now. Was this officially rolled out?
iPad lockout with forgotten credentials.
Link. Now add 2FA complexity.
OmniFocus 3 for iOS – a Tsai roundup
Link. I’ll ask him to note absence of family sharing
Apple Music embeddable web player widget access to user Apple Music.
Link. That’s weird.
Quitting Family Sharing – David Sparks in 2015.
Link. I waited until 2018 to try Family Sharing — but I’m also thinking of backing out. Subscriptions, in-app purchases, iTunes Match are 3 big problems.
Evaporative Cooling of Group Beliefs – 2007.
Link. It is hard to keep a diverse and stable community in a virtual space. Via Twitter.
Trump falsehood rate shows steady growth.
Link. Desensitized? Or perhaps he has found his base likes it.
Cardiac Complications Attributed to Chloroquine and Hydroxychloroquine
Link. Rare but happens. Irreversible
How Apple handles hardware design defects: “pretends that the problems don’t exist, keeps selling the products (sometimes quietly revising them), and makes customers pay for the repairs.”
Link. Why I have come to love class action lawsuits.
iMac Pro VESA Mounting Screws are defective as designed.
Link. Adapter isn’t made by Apple, they don’t support it.
Finder shorcuts article had things I’d forgotten. Damn.
Link. Sierra, so me. Option-spacebar slideshow. Changed New Finder Windows to Favorites. Cmd-Opt-S toggle Finder sidebar.
Google Drive needs a more efficient way to transfer file ownership.
Link. One at a time is dumb.
Sanctioning Trump family instead of America.
Link. Has been effective against other authoritarian rulers.
Vancouver tries to manage China’s real estate purchases
Link. Good start. Other cities watching
Human brain evolution genetics: roots of developmental disorders.
Link. Been long assumed autism and schizophrenia (connectopathies) arise from the evolutionary hacks that created big brains. Needs another 3 million y to settle.
Suboxone babies.
Link. Doc friend from my rural FP days of 25y ago says now common in the town I knew. This is a root of Trumpism.
Iran’s theocracy shows yet more cracks
Link. No predictions on when cleric rule finally fails
Fecal transplants get more C Difficile support
Link. Increasing use, better studies coming
Mandatory coal purchasing – GOP Marketarians fall.
Link. First the Evangelicals. Then Libertarians. Then Free Traders. Now Marketarians. Nothing left of GOP ideology save naked Power.
“50 percent of all work could be eliminated with no downside”
Link. Must read. Doesn’t include R&D for products/companies that disappear.
Using the found phone alert to find special needs person
We rely on Find Friends to support independent life for our special needs kids. Sometimes location tracking doesn’t work though — particularly on buses.
Find iPhone.app has a great feature for phones in a family group. If the phone can’t be found it offers to notify when found.
Works great.
Why Is AirPlay 2 Not Available for the Mac?
Link. Sigh.
In simulation energy efficiency predicts bird migration.
Link. Old hypothesis supported.
“The war is over and I have lost. I love Big Scooter.”
Link. This was the 1999 Segway vision.
Autonomous vehicle problem: “Modern car- and road-culture expectations assume unsafe driving”
Link. Exactly. Humans can’t drive safely.
Google social security “trampoline”
Link. Hope more meaningful than AmazonHealth. Doubt it though.
Meeker: “Her preso has got a whole lot less focused as she’s scrambling for things that may still indicate that the tech boom isn’t over.”
Link. It’s over … except for the AI.
Drone Vaccine Delivery In Pacific Islands.
Link. Real world application.
Statin myalgia controversy.
Link. What do animal models show?