Link. I’m sure that preprint will be impossible. Hoping for a lay book version.
Monthly Archives: May 2019
Managing iOS web restrictions – the web problem and the Chrome problem.
Link. Web content restrictions work for Chrome, but “Secret Power User Screen Time Controls” only work on Safari.
My exercise program towards the end of year 60.
Link. It is possible to lose weight with exercise.
‘Constitutional Crisis’ to be basis of Trump impeachment.
Link. Senate GOP will declare night is day. History will be amused.
“In the Midwest, the share of black children attending intensely segregated schools has steadily decreased since 2001″
Link. My (asian) daughter’s MN public school is minority white with an acclaimed black principal — but the academic track is quite Nordic. Miles yet to go.
Screen Time old device bug: Dev used device ID as key, forgot Apple ID
Link. Dev needed to use combination of Apple ID and Device ID to manage device, used only Device ID.
Two new discoveries in iOS Screen Time (parental controls): Age 13 and Apple ID incompatible with Screen Time.
Link. To do Screen Time right Apple would need to invest a lot more resources.
Children under 13 cannot be removed from Family Sharing.
Link. Discovered this when testing iOS Screen Time on a new phone. You have to call Apple Support to change birthdate or remove. Will count against Family Sharing device cap.
“These days I mostly use the old USB aluminum keyboard.”
Link. There are reasons nobody does a “root cause analysis” for this class of failure.
Rural America: Trump’s chumps.
Link. The perverse love between conman and conned.
Denmark: “third said that wolf whistling at women in the street was acceptable, and two in five had an unfavourable view of the #MeToo movement.”
Link. I think US women also have mixed feelings about #metoo.
“President is using his leverage as commander-in-chief to demand that the highly dependent government of Ukraine to target his political enemies in the US.”
Link. McConnell, philip morris servant, is responsible
Why SMS 2FA should be illegal.
Link. My banks are forcing this on me.
Hope Musk pays a billion dollar fine.
Link. Musk is a despicable bully. I despise him.
“small percentage of iPhone 8 devices contain logic boards with a manufacturing defect.”
Link. Devices lock up. Apple replaces. For once I don’t have a recall problem.
Finder security errors opening documents: a summary
Link. Kind of a mess.
Spotify family plan nuttiness.
Link. Secret address? They are not long for this world.
Amazon caught selling kids stuff with extra lead
Link. Shocked they were.
Assassination drone.
Link. Obama era, when US cared about civilians
The appendix and Parkinson’s Disease
Link. I doubt causal. Maybe same problem affects brain and gut, increases appendicitis risk.
Falwell rumors.
Link. Colorful people.
Creating, managing and using Apple File System snapshots for startup drive backups | Der Flounder
Link. Reference.
Blue Origin: “Bezos invests more than $1 billion in the company each year, through sales of his Amazon shares”
Link. Not all bad.
Al Franken has a podcast.
Link. He’s still popular in MN. Shame Klobuchar threw him under Gillibrand’s bus.
World population demographics and history.
Link. Everyone should know this. Instapaper.
America the diminished.
Link. So much wealth, so little courage.
America the diminished.
Link. So much wealth, so little courage.
Lyft/Über on collision course with reality.
Link. We will know economy is at full employment when driver rates increase. Also, we are 15-30 years from true autonomous vehicles so great shorting opportunities.
Ban Right on Red for Drivers.
Link. Our motor vehicle traffic laws are insane.
Economist replays NYT’s Trump Kayfabe article.
Link. The original was better. Disagree with the last paragraph advice. Berlusconi is our best example.
Trump’s bluster and the stock market.
Link. Markets will be shocked if Trump fails to be craven
5-HTTLPR: How to lie with genomics.
Link. My fave: “negative life events cause depression at p = 0.000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001”
Omic disease screens.
Link. Seems inevitable. Will have good and bad results.
Phage treatment for intractable infection in young CF patient.
Link. Another teen died before she could be treated. This is astounding experimental success.
“About this Mac => Storage => Manage provides a 1-click way to delete Garbage Band and iOS update files.”
Link. Good to know. I have had very few Mojave problems.
Federal Reserve Warns as Risky Corporate Debt Exceeds Peak Crisis Level
Link. Trump will protect us.
China uses NSA hacking tools it snared
Link. Huge amounts ofvmoney go into security now
High rate of postpartum cardiovascular death in black Americans.
Link. Obesity contributes, but not whole story. Smoking rates are low. Hypercoagulable state? Socioeconomic stressors? Hypertension? Compare Canada?
Dems will need to manage around Trump impeachment.
Link. He has decided impeachment helps him. I think will happen for better or worse.
Austria: “Mr. Kurz’s deputy chancellor, Heinz-Christian Strache, the leader of the Freedom Party and onetime neo-Nazi, “
Link. Closely allied, like Trump, with Putin.
IINA Video Player plays Mac videos Apple has abandoned
Link. Getting it.
How the Saudis Made Jeff Bezos Public Enemy No. 1
Link. Trump allies.
One-Ring Robocall Scam
Link. Don’t call back. Will get charged in an international phone scam
When Mojave says freeze it isn’t kidding
Link. He rebooted too soon. Can take hours. Not good UX.
Open macOS Apple News links in Safari.
Link. Registers as url handler.
“What’s driving the economy now is, instead, deficit spending.”
Link. It will be fun to laugh at future FoxGOPers promoting fiscal responsibility. Like Evangelical and family values.
If election is close SCOTUS will cheat.
Link. A corrupt state. Pelosi knows this.
Why a photographer stopped converting RAW to DNG.
Link. Undated. Manufacturers ignored DNG. Mac version DNG converter is old.
“aims to merge iPhone, iPad, and Mac applications into single downloads that can run on any Apple device. Eventually, it could also merge the App Stores.”
Link. Read this from the bottom. Top half is boilerplate.
Cory Booker’s Gun Licensing Program.
Link. Some FoxGOP fury would be helpful for Booker. At this rate FoxGOP will self-combust.