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Diagnosing a Mac which can’t complete booting.
Link. Reference.
Transcript of Trump’s Oval Office Interview With The Daily Caller.
Link. Imagine reading this 4 years ago. Nixon was similar towards the end. I think he had some substances to help though.
Handoff in iOS 12.
Link. Moved.
Wayne Gretzky and the Mysteries of Athletic Greatness.
Link. Unbalance is a prerequisite.
Corporate tax cut had no benefits for employees.
Link. Accounting maneuvers. And deficits.
“Facebook was publicly talking a big game about “fake news,” its PR partner was generating it”
Link. Sandberg should go.
Fujitsu ScanSnap Cloud Licensing
Link. Their software has always sucked.
NYT rips Zuck and Sanberg
Link. The board should fire Cheryl Sandberg and the Dem House should subpoena.
Facebook hires GOP firm to spread Soros hate.
Link. An exec must fall.
iPad Pro: “This machine won’t get your work done, but it’s a helluva lot of fun to play on.”
Link. Microsoft Surface owns the productive tablet space. I liked this review.
Maciej exits Twitter.
Link. For now. Idlewords.com.
Google launches free online image convertor
Link. Maybe helps their algorithm development?
Why even crude blackmail spam causes anxiety.
Link. Imagine if the writing was better.
5G is years away in US.
Link. 2026?
“under a gerrymandered map, Republicans held 13 of Pennsylvania’s 18 House seats. After the redraw and the election, the House delegation will be split evenly — nine seats for each party”
Link. Fighting for democracy.
Today’s laugh: “Our intent was never to have youth use Juul”
Link. Passed his psychopathy test.
“75 minutes a week of vigorous exercise”
Link. That’s the minimum of enough. A mile run 5 days a week. 150 min/week better. It’s far more exercise than we once thought, and benefits accrue even beyond that.
Remembering metasearch – a 2018 version.
Link. Udell wrote terrific columns for BYTE, back when the future was bright.
JD.Com’s Liu – details on the rape accusation.
Link. There could well be DNA evidence.
Google adds VPN to their Project Fi mobile service
Link. I wonder how performance will be.
Mercator corrected: Puny Russia.
Link. Canada too. I knew this but still impressive.
iPhone 8 -why we like it.
Link. Apple’s 64/256 memory choice aggravates
“Apple’s frameworks which are still 32-bit include AECore, AppKitScripting, CarbonSound, HTMLRendering, NavigationServices, QuickTime, Scripting, and vmutils”
Link. More than I thought.
10 iOS Shortcuts
Link. Recording one has interesting settings.
“China systematically hijacks and diverts U.S. internet traffic.”
Link. Google diversion might have been accidental use of malicious tech.
NYT on Facebook Portal.
Link. Should be good for parents and special needs adults.
NK missile expansion follows Trump acceptance of nuclear NK.
Link. That *was* his intent … right?
Grant on US drug prices – a failure to negotiate.
Link. Americans are spoiled.
“it is imperative to request documents from Deutsche Bank, via subpoena if necessary.”
Link. Coming to the House soon.
“40 to 50 per cent of people who suffer an episode of depression don’t go on to experience another”
Link. Depression is many things.
Replace iOS Reminders.app with Reminder or GoodTask (same data store)
Link. I’m happy enough with Appigo ToDo.app, but Emily might like one of these. The iOS Siri integration is important.
Read Safari pages in News.app
Link. Share widget has open in news.
Finding App Store subscription in iOS – the hunt.
Link. Apple disappoints.
538 on WWCW movement from Trump: 2016 35% Dem, 2018 39% Dem
Link. 2018 34% WW college gap. Movement is small; I suspect WWCW oppose #metoo.
“AdaNet, a lightweight TensorFlow-based framework for automatically learning high-quality models with minimal expert intervention”
Link. It’s now fashionable to pooh-pooh AI. Whistling in the dark you are. BTW, from URL Google AI still uses blogspot and feedburner/feedproxy.
Google makes tiny donation to World Wide Web Foundation for “new Contract for the Web”
Link. I don’t have high hopes for this, but I’ll watch. The web is a derelict neighborhood now.
An almost useful Siri Shortcut: “Voice memo record”.
Link. Shortcuts need a few more iterations.
Clouflare iOS 1.1.1.1 app makes it easier to use a private DNS service.
Link. Uses a VPN profile, but is not VPN. Free. Good compromise.
2018 midterm numbers: 31% 18-29 voted, up 56% from 2016.
Link. White non-college women still Trumpista, but only half of prior devotion (other article).
iOS: “You can tap the “Preview Content” button and then tap the list button to see the contents of the archive”
Link. When did that slip in?
Gerrymandering visualized: “How to steal an election: a visual guide” (2015)
Link. Governorships matter. Will take decades to undo. Good reference.
Doctors to “Stay in Their Lane” as NRA Tweet Advises
Link. Trauma surgeons are famously compliant.
Trump advantage in WWCW fell by half between 2016 and 2018
Link. White Working Class Women (non-college) were -27% Trump in 2016, now -14%. So that’s good. (Some say evangelical WWCW should be split out.)
Vonnegut “Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.”
Link. We should have a “celebrate civilization day” where maintainers drink free.
Flickr’s new policies are necessary.
Link. If Flickr still worked with Aperture I might sign up.
There’s a (buggy) Extract Archive step in Shortcuts.
Link. One day iOS will be able to handle zip files.
Cisco Receiver client for Mac no longer works with Safari (NPAPI plug-ins are no longer supported by Safari)
Link. Have to use Chrome instead until Cisco does a Safari app extension version. I suspect Apple is at least partly to blame.
“You can send passwords by AirDrop”
Link. Obscure but useful.
Amazon-Apple deal ends counterfeit Apple products on Amazon
Link. Also some legitimate sellers. Amazon’s counterfeit sales can be a weapon