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Reassuring signs that humans consider iX too expensive.
Link. All my 8 needs is a headphone jack
Climate engineering, China style
Link. One response to CO2
MacBook Pro Keyboard: “one of the biggest design screwups in Apple history”
Link. Class action?
“Officers arrived and “quickly determined that this was not a police issue,”
Link. A different flavor of metooo.
“Officers arrived and “quickly determined that this was not a police issue,”
Link. A different flavor of metooo.
Chinese opera in Thailand
Link. “I was sold by mother for 6,000 bat”. I heard this in 80s.
Pruitt defense: “E.P.A. officials who were reassigned or demoted after challenging his spending all had performance issues.”
Link. Convinced me.
Finland declined UBI
Link. What did the data show? Article omits that
American Lynching Memorial.
Link. Progress, even in time of GOP rule.
Twitter doing better
Link. Longer tweets was a great move.
America’s corporate leaders bend the knee
Link. Would Jobs have gone?
6,399 reasons why 2014 iMac is good
Link. Apple value is not high.
tmutil: command line time machine control.
Link.
QuickTime can record your Apple TV
Link. Was this intentional?
“It is very hard to sell anything on Amazon if you play fairly,”
Link. Same root cause as GOP/Trump. Most people are easily deceived.
Brexit: stupidity is strong.
Link. NYT tries to be sympathetic but confirms “idiot”
HIV: long-term nonprogressors have a defect in their dendritic cells’ ability to form tunneling nanotubes.
Link. New biology to me. Cells astound.
Quicken 2007 replacement
Link. We also chose Quicken 2018.
Blogs to read 2018
Link. Many I follow. Great to see Tsai getting kudos. My favorite Apple blog.
Tech is cutting out the crappiest middleman – the Banks.
Link. Finally.
UK: “At least one in three heart surgeons has refused to treat critically ill patients because they are worried it will affect their mortality ratings if things go wrong.”
Link. It’s like watching the millionth test of gravity.
WordPress API, no: “viable authentication model for 3rd party clients”
Link. Lock-in everywhere. Tumblr news too.
Evangelical social status officially in free fall.
Link. They stand for nothing now.
Obama’s non-recreational activities
Link. Foundation focus on young
Shockingly GOP tax cuts were great for banks.
Link. Do ATMs vote?
“Garmin has decided to take all navigation apps – with a few exceptions – off the market as of May 14th, 2018”
Link. They had bought NAVIGON, but it’s all apps.
Kellyanne Conway caught out.
Link. Smart journalism. She’s shameless but maybe it will trigger Trump.
Two possible bugs in iOS 11.3 to watch out for: enable purchases by Touch ID, change iTunes & App Store account
Link. The bug that enabled Touch ID purchasing is going to cost some families real money.
One bank:,“90 percent fraud rate on Zelle transactions”
Link. Crap. So I have to watch my account for unexpected Zelle transactions?
TidBITS CompuServe Forum – 1993.
Link. A side-effect of the recent TidBITS system migration meant that Google resurfaced this when I searched on their new forum. Those were the days my friend.
How to reconcile two Apple IDs – migration.
Link. I’m going to have to bite the (antimatter) bullet on this one.
Workaround for Apple’s inability to merge Apple ID (2013)
Link. Things are probably worse today. One reason why I dislike Apple.
Trump’s threats.
Link. What a mess he is.
Mobster on Trump: “You don’t need a Harvard graduate to deal with these people. These guys are real gangsters. You need a f—king gangster to deal with these people.”
Link. Seriously, I think Trump has advantages over Obama in dealing with Kim. They understand one another.
AI prediction of chaotic system behavior: “stretching and compressing in the different dimensions correspond to a system’s positive and negative “Lyapunov exponents,” respectively”
Link. Fun summary of state of the art; many potential applications. Work builds on decades of research.
NYT exposes Pruitt’s history of deep corruption.
Link. Trumpian sleaze. Evangelical quality.
Health care techie rants on patient facing IT and phone systems.
Link. Market failure vs perverse incentives. Does anyone do this well anywhere?
Yeast genetic code studies show redundant systems, complex interactions.
Link. Why “personalized medicine” was spectacular failure in 00s.
The Danbury Trashers. A hockey story.
Link. Being Wayne Gretzky’s brother must have sucked.
Mori fears macARM.
Link. Me too. Apple’s Aperture fiasco ominous sign.
Wat Umong in Chiang Mai, Thailand
Link. Sounds agreeable. I remember when Chiang Mai was small.
DeLong’s Kevin Williamson correspondence.
Link. Maybe Williamson’s problem is that he isn’t very clever.
“Universe with … about 1-or-2 billion photons for every proton”
Link. This short essay answered several old questions of mine.
Uwe Reinhardt: “lived in a rural toolshed without electricity or water and often went hungry. Heavy physical work started at a young age … . Uwe always said he had the best and happiest childhood in the world.”
Link. A giant.
“With white nationalists, you’re never white enough”
Link. After Charlottesville the alt-right melted. Angry parents and Internet blocks. Trump’s affection only triggered a harder smack down.
Why you should change your router DNS to Cloudflare and Quad9
Link. Fewer dumb ads
DNS leak test – check privacy of your DNS
Link. I switched to 1.0.0.1 and 9.9.9.9. Until now comcast new everything.
Geeks upset with RCS encryption lack.
Link. The lack of encryption is a feature; RCS is the future (alas). Also it wasn’t “secret” dev — geeks ignored it. I have followed for years.
“modern populations almost everywhere in the world experienced massive genetic turnovers during the last 30,000 years,”
Link. Hard to keep up with all this.