Link. It is a kind of progress maybe. Sort of
Monthly Archives: February 2020
“ancestors of West Africans and the ghost archaic population interbred roughly 50,000 years ago”
Link. They would have been more different than neandertal.
Dizzy patient improves with antidepressant and a story.
Link. For a physician this is a bemusing article.
Australia after the fires
Link. Government still denialing.
“coffee seems to be good for most people — that’s 3 to 5 cups”
Link. I doubt the goodness but I like my AeroPress.
“compared with mothers who took penicillin in the first trimester, those who took macrolides had a 55 percent increased relative risk of having a baby with a major birth defect involving the nervous, cardiovascular, gastrointestinal, genital or urinary
Link. Still infrequent but will change use. Retest to see if truly Pen allergic
Bloomberg exploits Facebook’s Trump-exemption
Link. He’s a bad choice for primary, but I love his Zuck torment
A modern view of autism
Link. I’d prefer to start over with new terminologies, but if we are going to stick with “autism” this will do.
“creation of a uniform national driver’s license is a de facto National ID card system, which offers only the illusion of security, while threatening our fundamental liberties.”
Link. 9/11 cost us many things.
Does Dark Energy Gravitate?
Link. “the way the expansion rate changes with time, which is encoded (in a complex way) in the second Friedmann equation, depends on not only the energy density, but the pressure of whatever you have in your Universe”
Most would not benefit from Alzheimer testing
Link. Useful for research.
William McRaven: “when presidential ego and self-preservation are more important than national security — then there is nothing left to stop the triumph of evil.”
Link. Almost certainly a Republican. Of course its not just Trump. It’s 99.9% of GOP Congress.
Trump loyalists only: “promotions and significant staff changes should not occur without prior approval from the presidential personnel office.”
Link. Resistance gets real.
Internet madness: the freebirth cult.
Link. I used to deliver babies. There is no relief as great as a C-sxn when death wants a baby. It is the ultimate steal.
“Trump will stop at nothing to escape accountability at the hands of voters in a free and fair election, regardless of the damage done to our country along the way. “
Link. Putin rules the GOP.
Another border collie prodigy.
Link. What would dogs be like if we bred for language ability.
HK doc: “he slept on the floor of his office for 14 days to avoid the possibility of infecting his daughters and his in-laws.”
Link. Brave and dedicated.
“Trump has a long history of discarding assessments made by intelligence agencies that he has deemed unfair or unflattering”
Link. Fox is his only information source.
NYT pursues safety issues at Walgreens and CVS
Link. Pharmacist has become a terrible profession.
“took a matter of hours for the algorithm to assess the compounds and come up with some promising antibiotics.”
Link. I have been slightly sanguine about the antibiotic crisis because I felt as though we hadn’t tried that hard.
“PermissionScanner looks at every folder and file within a specified standard folder on your Mac, and checks whether you, the current user, can read that file or can write to it (your option)”
Link. Howard is a very generous person.
Opal: “an outliner application for Macs from A Sharp LLC (David Dunham), just updated for the latest Macs but derived from the wonderful original Acta”
Link. I think Symantec MORE was inspired by ACTA. I was a huge MORE fan.
“I was a wealthy suburban woman. Then I went to federal prison for bank fraud.”
Link. A hard route to wisdom. Praise and honor to her but maybe don’t do it this way.
How the non-elite have fallen behind.
Link. Twitter thread.
“Intelligence officials warned House lawmakers last week that Russia was interfering in the 2020 campaign to try to get President Trump re-elected”
Link. Putin owns the greatest exploit in the history of black ops.
How to ride near horses.
Link. I stop my bike when in front. To pass I ask the rider.
How to eliminate car killings and make happiness.
Link. Lower speed limits, redesign streets, separate bike paths, great transit.
“positioning themselves to launch from their necks a hard, sharp calcium carbonate spear that pierces the mate’s body.”
Link. Valentine special.
Trump pardons: “All 11 recipients had an inside connection or were promoted on Fox News”
Link. I loathe that man.
How to Build Healthy Habits: “starting with tiny habits to make the new habit as easy as possible in the beginning.”
Link. This is practical stuff
What Happens To Your Mail-Order Mattress After You Return It
Link. Not as bad as I thought.
Tehran stock market: “best performing equity market on earth, more than doubling in dollar terms.”
Link. Iran poised for strong growth if government changes.
Goodbye, Mac360.
Link. “More doctors and extensive tests confirmed a preliminary diagnosis of ALS.”
Catalina Data Protections Break File Sharing
Link. Apple is broken.
In praise of Wikipedia.
Link. I wish smaller town schools did more editing of local history.
“And then you have some that used religion as a crutch. They never used it before.”
Link. Trump implies Romney is actually an atheist, lies about religious faith to get protection. Remember Trump always accuses enemies of Trump’s own crimes.
“1917, on the basis of his theory, Einstein designed an airfoil that later came to be known as a cat’s-back wing because of its resemblance to the humped back of a stretching cat. He brought the design to aircraft manufacturer LVG”
Link. whoa. Didn’t know that.
Soundiiz – Transfer playlists and favorites between different streaming services
Link. If this works maybe I’ll learn to like Spotify.
“I now give Apple my money begrudgingly.”
Link. Just another PTC.
Repairing permissions in your Home folder has changed
Link. They need a better solution
The Paywalled Garden: iOS Is Adware
Link. Tsai pounds in quote after quote. Tim Cook’s Apple is a degrading experience.
How to clear junk from iCloud. (And others)
Link. Great tips! Especially obsolete backups from family members.
Canon’s dSLR lens — upgrade program for out of service lenses.
Link. Good to know about.
Mountain bike fads: 29 x 2.6 is new-old hotness.
Link. Today I’d buy AL squish 29 and 2.4 or 2.6 tires. Upgrade to carbon wheelset if price right. About $3K to $3.5K. If under 5’6″ 27.5 makes sense.
Apple can beat Google Maps — by investing in bike route maps
Link. Google has neglected their once excellent bike maps. Apple has an opportunity …
Avalance (Aperture migration tool) author comment on photo site
Link. “I was an Aperture user with over 100,000 images in various libraries and gave up on using Adobe’s integrated solution after waiting for countless hours and experiencing so many crashes.”
“AmorphousDiskMark is a Mac storage benchmarking”
Link.
“Mountain Duck is a cross-platform utility from David Kocher (Iterate GmbH) that “lets you mount any remote FTP, SFTP, WebDAV, S3 and OpenStack Swift server storage as a local disk in the Finder.”
Link. Curious name!
Reichstag fire.
Link. Interesting contrast to Wikipedia version. The end of the beginning, but unclear to this day if one mentally ill arsonist or a true false flag. Most forget the falsely accused were not convicted.
macOS 10.15.3 Update Doesn’t Create APFS Snapshot
Link. Has bad TM bug too!