Link. The article suggests they are bad for bikes and pedestrians unless special accommodations are made.
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The end of file system defragmentation.
Link. SSDs and APFS are marvels.
Managing beavers: “easily, easily trapped and easily caught by wolves, so, no, they’re not exactly the brightest animal on the street.”
Link. The beaver-deceiver is cool. Beaver population is growing very quickly.
“five biggest Chinese mining companies in Congo had lines of credit from state-backed banks that totaled $124 billion”
Link. While Trump focused on …. Coal. The safety story is surprising.
Gordon’s Tech: How to mitigate SMS spam in iOS 15: filter unknown AND disable notifications for unknown senders
Link. If this made the news I missed it.
“mild peripheral neuropathy, a condition defined by nerve damage, pain and stiffening in the feet. Despite extensive testing, the team found no cause for that condition.”
Link. This is common but doesn’t get enough medical attention. Biden is one fit almost-80 dude.
Acquittal of Kyle Rittenhouse: “for legal scholars, it was not a surprise”
Link. WTF wasn’t it universal knowledge that anyone who actually knew WI law expected an acquittal? Because journalists won’t spike a hot story.
“unicode (outside of string literals) in programming languages was a mistake”
Link. Undo this.
Proteins Aging: “perhaps the adoption of asparagine as a canonical amino acid might have been a mistake”
Link. My cataracts are developing nicely.
Alzheimer’s Vaccines: “these clinical trials, long shots though they are, are appropriate”
Link. A relatively positive take by a trusted source.
“the first two weeks of November, those two ports cleared about a third of the containers sitting on their docks.”
Link. If BBB passes this could be an impressive Biden finish. As they say, “Go Brandon!”
Disk Utility still can’t check and repair APFS volumes and containers.
Link. There are workarounds. Sigh.
Returning faulty Apple product via a doorstep replacement service.
Link. “if the new keyboard was delivered by UPS, I could ask them to wait on the doorstep” while swap old and new.
“At the end of each year, I’ll export the current year’s messages to EagleFiler and have a mostly-empty Mail app to work with.”
Link. I’m slowly moving in this direction. Don’t trust the way Mail manages archives. Would like less Google dependency.
Congress threatens to draft women (not really).
Link. It is insane that men register and women don’t. Registering women will ensure draft never happens.
Roma genetics: “The slip from genetics to eugenics is one that can happen quite easily”
Link. It is hard to study humans without falling into the traps of our history. In medicine today we have the estimated GFR problem.
“Congressional Budget Office published an official cost estimate on Thursday afternoon that found the package would increase the federal budget deficit by $160 billion over 10 years.”
Link. Damn, that’s a lot smaller than I expected. A pittance basically.
“China required some travelers from overseas, including diplomats, to submit to anal Covid swab tests”
Link. China has GOP assholery down.
WI: “Senator Ron Johnson, a Republican, said that G.O.P. state lawmakers should unilaterally assert control of federal elections,”
Link. He probably sincerely believes Democrats can only win by cheating. He is very stupid and left reality long ago.
Giant Sloths dug huge South American tunnels.
Link. Then we ate them.
BBB act fixes many Obamacare issues.
Link. What should have happened years ago — but for the GOP.
Not worth fighting MN’s despicable GOP on behalf of those who seek their own death.
Link. The drowning idiots refuse the life rope.
Amazon to stop accepting Visa’s UK-issued credit cards over high fees.
Link. POWER! AMEX and Apple VISA also have high fees. So have they given Amazon a special deal or are they next?
Gifts for People You Hate 2021: Naomi Kritzer.
Link. Many gifts from past years are likely available as well. If, for example, you hate lot of people.
The Concept of the Ruliad—Stephen Wolfram.
Link. “we are bounded observers, embedded within the ruliad.” Reminds me of The Mathematical Universe (Tegmark)
Published by iHeartMedia: “[mRNA vaccine] It’s an egg that hatches into a synthetic parasite and grows inside your body”
Link. There’s money to be made exploiting simple minds.
Uyghur genocide and corporate sponsorship of the Olympic games.
Link. Sponsor ads should reference genocide.
“high-tech flat-screen televisions with some of the latest fancy features are often surprisingly affordable. Part of the reason those prices are so low is due to the rampant selling of user data by TV makers like Vizio.”
Link. Give up.
“Dealers buy $600 worth of parts, put them together, then sell guns for as much as $1,400. Customers are happy to pay a premium for an untraceable weapon, he said.”
Link. Gun control works better than I thought.
Twin Cities Bicycle Touring Map
Link. Local cyclist personal project. Google map based.
“as industrial conglomerates are breaking up, a new breed of conglomerate has emerged: Big Tech companies like Amazon and Alphabet have embraced the strategy of multiple business lines”
Link. I disliked being a worker in a conglomerate. Conglomerates get managed by finance. But private equity is worse.
M1 Mac: managing external startup and doing system repair.
Link. “their boot process always starts from the internal SSD”
Monterey: “If you’ve never opened that app’s Help book before, when you try to open it, it appears empty.”
Link. Some version of Windows had the best Help/User Guide format. I miss good documentation.
Eddie Gallagher and the corruption of the Navy SEALs
Link. He was, and is, a monster.
The bike snob’s guide to cycling tribes (2010 Weiss).
Link. A classic I did not remember. So good.
UK mountain bike slang.
Link. Almost identical to US! Two we do not use and we define huck differently in MN (or maybe I’m confused).
Infrastructure bill has a lot for bike and ped.
Link. Electing Dems matters everywhere.
Twitter Blue: “I don’t want to deal with micro-payments for articles, newsletters, and other content worth our attention”
Link. STRONG disagree. I want to buy a $25 ticket that I can spend on 1 click micropayments. When it is spent I buy another.
“Price became for the world a heartbreaking symbol of hatred’s sheer waste. But the shooter? He simply faded into anonymity, becoming the evil that men do.”
Link. WW I’s end.
CO: “all adults in his state to receive a vaccine booster dose, going further than current federal guidelines.”
Link. Bold, but I like it.
“there’s never a good reason to tax foreign steel. If you want to support U.S. steelmakers, use subsidies instead. Otherwise you’ll just hurt American manufacturing out of pure economic illiteracy.”
Link. FWIW
“A crime boss with a jones for the days of Soviet glory is a dangerous combination.”
Link. Nichols has a gift for the pithy phrase.
10 Image File Formats That Didn’t Make It
Link. This is great for old geeks.
iPhones to Detect Car Crashes, Auto-Dial 911.
Link. 911 operators will LOVE this. So if I crash my mountain bike will it call 911 when I hit the dirt?
“we don’t know how to calculate the zero-point energy of space from these quantum field theory methods”
Link.
Plantar Fasciitis: aggressive PT.
Link. Unorthodox, but personally I’d give it a try. Similar to how I’ve managed some similar issues.
Ukraine explained: from Manafort to Trump to Biden.
Link. Manafort is a remarkable story.
“This is what we call crowd turbulence. You don’t want to be where two waves cross, because the pressures come from opposite directions, and that’s really dangerous.”
Link. Useful tips.
Apple Business Essentials: Device management, storage.
Link. The price in article seems too low. I wonder about this as a service for vulnerable adult iPhones.
Bandit trails and gravel from Utepils.
Link. MSP Strava Utepils bike singletrack gravel