Link. I suspect same or worse at Apple.
Monthly Archives: May 2019
“As of March, Google worked with roughly 121,000 temps and contractors around the world, compared with 102,000 full-time employees”
Link. I suspect same or worse at Apple.
A clever editorial from the future on opportunity and genetic enhancements.
Link. So well done and inevitably correct.
“the efforts of caregivers are probably just as important to health as the drugs and procedures the medical system provides.”
Link. Friends and family are a gift.
Darwin and naming
Link. Is Darwin underrated?
“natural language learning systems, which include strongly probabilistic features, might make some headway with animal communication systems”n
Link. Non-categorical language
GOPFox attack on science: “Mr. Happer and Mr. Bolton are both beneficiaries of Robert and Rebekah Mercer, the far-right billionaire and his daughter who have funded efforts to debunk climate science.”
Link. Trump lashes out.
“I fired up LaunchControl and two minutes later had a launchd job installed that opened the SSH tunnel on boot and kept relaunching it if it ever failed.”
Link. Useful technique
“Juul has had to rely on scientists with tobacco industry ties”
Link. The league of evil scientists. Imagine their meetings.
Sleep apnea is weirdly common
Link. BMI of 30 isn’t so high.
Refuting claims that low income wages have not stagnated
Link.
“I just hit 100,000 reputation on Information Security StackExchange”
Link. A different sort of social network.
“52 percent of beer drinkers said this year that they wanted to reduce their consumption of alcohol”
Link. Me too! 5% is just fine. I avoid the high alcohol IPAs, I’m a wimp.
“In most southern states, white women express at least as much opposition to legal abortion as white men, and in some cases more”
Link. Very unpopular opinion: Excluding Catholic Church, I think American men are politically opportunistic followers in this struggle.
“n April, Customs and Border Protection detained close to a hundred and ten thousand people on the Mexican border”
Link. A challenge for a competent government. A disaster now.
Getting my Emily’s iCloud photos — you can multi-select in Photos.web (again)
Link. Wish these kinds of fixes got more attention. Was probably months ago.
“Windows today uses backslash as a path separator because 50 years ago, TOPS-10 used forward slash as an option separator.”
Link. I still get mixed up.
A methodical review of US trade issues with China
Link. Short: Trump is a cancer
Recreational drugs evolved to repell insects.
Link. We have same basic brain but also dopamine system.
Virus “… causes haemorrhaging and often kills in less than a week. The death rate is at least 90%.”
Link. African swine “flu” sounds more like Ebola than influenza. Me, I would worry about human transmission.
Making AMP less despicable.
Link. Burn it.
‘Is This Copernicus Coming Back to Haunt Us?’
Link. A gentle hint that it really is a Simulation.
Horsemanship: “The aims of the dressage … ceased to make much sense … against the machine guns”
Common Sense Horsemanship, 1951. Vladimir Littauer.
The personal anecdotes jump out from this extraordinary book on becoming a horse person. Not my thing, but fascinating nonetheless. Great gift for a scholarly rider.
Spinal muscular atrophy (maybe) cure: $2 million.
Link. Insurance can handle such a rare disorder … but in time we may need to shorten patent protection.
UberLyft Trip Tips
Link. Some new to me. Especially at end.
“Huawei is essential for many wireless carriers that serve sprawling, sparsely populated regions because its gear for transmitting cell signals often costs far less than other options.”
Link.
“T2M2 analyses your logs to discover whether Time Machine backups have been running normally, reporting any worrying signs or errors”
Link. Getting this.
Cirrus & Bailiff: iCloud diagnostics.
Link. Otherwise opaque.
Trump’s Air Force One: “televisions are streaming Fox News constantly.”
Link. Murdoch is dying, but his monster lives on.
The Fine Structure constant is only sort of constant.
Link. New only to me. At high energies closer to 1/128. Math in muon moment calculation deserves a video.
John Carter and the Origins of Science FiA Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Link. Free on Project Gutenberg. I got it
Button Battery Ingestion: “For over age 1, Honey 10 ml given every 10 min while awaiting emergent endoscopy may prevent further mucosal erosion, perforation”
Link.
Google: “34% of users could not recall their secondary email address.”
Link. Mine be any one of at least 20.
WordPress has problems.
Link. Where are they going?
“until you see me actively pissing on the House floor or pressing a broken beer bottle up to [Minority Leader] Kevin McCarthy’s dumb face, you dipshits can rest easy knowing I’ve been sober as a goddamn judge.”
Link. I like the broken bottle image.
Apple “Ask to Buy” isn’t useful for managing app installation by children or Explorers.
Link. It’s only useful for managing initial purchases by an under-18 Family Sharing member.
How To Fix Spotlight Forever Indexing issue in Mojave.
Link. I have this after the very latest OS update.
GOP moves to doctor government stats.
Link.
Barr’s new power to attack Trump’s enemies.
Link. Only the beginning.
SSD Showdown: Seagate Fast vs Samsung T5
Link. T5 wins
Mac Open Web: RSS, blogging, open social.
Link. Missing: WordPress, web page editor (SeaMonkey)
Google social – the hints of public events.
Link. Part of Android maps, not yet in iOS. Doesn’t seem to have relationship to Google Calendar, not yet a rival to Facebook Events. AFAIK Apple has nothing.
Gabapentin reassessment.
Link. Likely overused. Without opioids we got (almost) nothin’ for pain.
“even at American prices, health care is still a bargain”
Link. One reason price keeps rising – positive ROI.
Now GOP will attack nations when their currency falls sgsinst the dollar.
Link. It will get worse, and McConnell-Trump could eadily win. The world should unite against America.
Memorial day story.
Link. One standing in for more.
Dem voters: women prize winning over everything else.
Link. Me too The worst Dem candidate is vastly better than Trump-McConnell.
Trump loves Jackson. Tubman not so much.
Link. Trump is growing into his evil, and the GOP is completely his (save one).
The evolution of psychiatry.
Link. I think … the human mind is a brittle evolutionary hack working at the very extremes of biology. It is amazing we function at all.
Facebook Provides Sensitive User Data to Corporate Partners
Link. Tax the externalities.