Link. Practical recommendations. Well done. Probably bigger value at this point than as needed masks.
Monthly Archives: November 2022
“It’s not uncommon for me to ride with an IV line in my arm while receiving antibiotics.”
Link. He is not going quietly. Cystic Fibrosis.
“use a branded Thunderbolt 4 cable, such as one of CalDigit’s used for this article, with a Samsung 980 Pro NVMe SSD inside an Orico TB3 enclosure.”
Link. Fast external Mac boot disk.
“Removing of mask mandates was associated with an additional 44.9 Covid cases per 1,000 students and staff members” over 15 weeks.
Link. Sounds plausible though hint in NYT that was borderline stats. Decreasing conversation and social interactions may
Home hemodialysis?
Link. Article initially confuses because home peritoneal dialysis is standard in Europe and growing here. This is about home hemodialysis, probably niche use: “He preferred peritoneal, and wishes he could be back on it now”
“Twitter engineers have designed fail-safes that the platform can fall back on so that the functionality doesn’t go totally offline but cut-down versions are provided instead.”
Link. It’s trickier than it looks.
“doctors have successfully treated a fetus by infusing a crucial enzyme into its minuscule umbilical cord, halting an otherwise fatal inherited disorder known as severe infantile Pompe disease.”
Link. Science and very determined physicians.
Keywords Instead of Albums With iCloud Shared Photos.
Link. No shared albums is weird.
“analytics control and other privacy settings had no obvious effect on Apple’s data collection”
Link. Now feeling sorry for poor Facebook.
“a sizeable portion of Twitter’s users are choosing to deplatform themselves en masse, and many have been directed to Mastodon”
Link. Be funny if Musk’s reckoning was via Twitter.
“Supergenes — stretches of DNA that lock several genes together into a single inheritable unit”
Link. “Sex chromosomes are essentially supergenes run amok” Modern high school biology ought to be amazing.
“… Mastodon … just add .rss to the end of a user’s URL … you can get RSS feeds for individual Twitter users through Nitter or Feedbin.”
Link. Feedbin should market more. Also, Tsai is trying Mastodon.
Twitter 8$ subscription includes 50% ad reduction: “Estimates showed that Twitter will lose about $6 in ad revenue per user per month”
Link. WTF? Twitter makes $12 in ad revenue per user per month? How is that sane for advertisers? No way…
“feature … will be available as an accessibility option, aimed at making the iPhone and iPad interface more user-friendly for those users who may find it too complicated”
Link. Probably nothing, but there is great need. It’s a very sensitive topic.
Timelapse of a life of aging. 2013. Anthony Cerniello.
Link. Trending again.
“Welcome to your Senior project at the Richard Cheney Institute of Advanced Torture. You are going to turn this 50yo woman into … this.
I’m sorry, that door is locked.”
“Why does inflation make wages go down? In fact, this is a major macroeconomic mystery.”
Link. I thought inflation would allow increases at bottom end.
The last straw for a failing college: “a ransomware attack blocked access to institutional data”
Link. These days one of the ways struggling enterprises die.
“threats against war profiteering are a counterproductive waste of time”
Link. Libs don’t say it enough. I suspect this statement is too definitive but it’s basically correct.
Fallows on the media: “The mainstream press obsession with politics over anything else. (“Martians land on Earth. Here’s what it means for the midterms.”)”
Link. We can’t fix the NYT. So what’s next?
“They were careless people… they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness… and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”
Link. It’s happened before.
“appears that Apple is quietly replacing or removing the noise cancellation tech in all of their products to protect themselves in an ongoing patent lawsuit.“
Link.
Kherson: “Kremlin-appointed administrators have relocated to a site 50 miles away — after looting anything of value they could take.”
Link.
Fixes and flaws in Ventura 13.0
Link. Not too bad so far. Wait a bit.
“Peakto is the control tower that regroups your catalogs from Apple Photos, Aperture, …, iView Media”
Link. Access to Aperture photo library after Mojave.
Frum: “Oswald Cobblepot (a.k.a. the Penguin) has taken over Gotham.”
Link. “We’re more than “users” because we’re also participants and co-creators. That makes us in some way responsible parties for whatever Twitter becomes.”
“Exposure to saccharin and sucralose significantly impaired glycemic response, but this was not seen with the aspartame or stevia groups”
Link. Thought due to gut microbiome changes. I’ve been mildly skeptical but this study is remarkable.
“attempt to throw a court case to Justice Clarence Thomas, whose wife was urging the overthrow of the election, and to pressure the Supreme Court to act by creating chaos”
Link. They really did have a strategy. And Thomas was pivotal.
SF: “Legislation, crafted by the city’s mayor, London Breed, gives the police the right to request access to the live footage of privately owned internet cameras.”
Link. Likely popular move.
“if openings suggest the labor market is a raging inferno, resignations imply it is more like an uncomfortably hot day”
Link. I think resignations is the right signal now.
Medicare Advantage: “preyed on vulnerable people with dementia and cognitive impairment”
Link. Many businesses and political campaigns seek the cognitively vulnerable.
Ventura file system issue: “fail on devices that present a “virtual” USB Mass Storage device.”
Link. Tsai has the most useful early reviews.
Ventura Bug Disables (some) Security Software.
Link. I like to wait a few months to do a macos update.
What I learned about managing catalytic converter theft: OEM vs aftermarket vs universal.
Link. I got bad advice from our longtime garage. Now we have a new garage.
US productivity drop: “… could have something to do with the fact that many employees “were working unsustainably hard” in 2020 and 2021, Summers said.”
Link. I think this is it. Plus burnout, retirement, deferred vacations.
Rheumatoid Arthritis: “They found a strong hit with particular Subdoligranulum strains: “Isolate 7” in this genus reacted with monoclonal antibodies from those RA patients”
Link. Osteoarthritis is an even harder mystery.
“Subway Exit No. 1 disgorges hordes of passengers all at once. Many head straight to a nearby 10-foot-wide, 130-foot-long, sloping alleyway because it is a shortcut”
Link. SK police know crowd control, but they didn’t use that knowledge.
Scalzi on reevaluating his Twitter use.
Link. Not leaving but preparing to leave.