Link. The juvenile detention centers were closed. Our armed carjackers are mostly children.
Author Archives: jgordon
“the standard used internally in the Mac’s Core Audio currently employs 32-bit floating-point numbers for precise representation of digitised waveforms.”
Link. Good review.
iPhone overdoes the computer side of photography.
Link. Sensor needs more pixels.
“Senator Ben Sasse (R-NE) said “I think we should recognize that the jackassery we often see around here is partly because of people mugging for short-term camera opportunities.”
Link. Even Rs hate Cruz.
Gini Thomas is crackers.
Link. A real nutcase.
“Agnew spent the remainder of his life quietly, rarely making public appearances. He wrote a novel and a memoir; both defended his actions. Agnew died at his home of undiagnosed acute leukemia.”
Link. A rare example of prosecuting the powerful.
“only guarantee I can give is that no one here will ever read your exit-interview notes.”
Link. When an employee leaves – the raw truth. (Ends on an oddly positive note.)
“The book that most clearly saw where Putinism was heading was not a history or biography but a novel. “Day of the Oprichnik” by Vladimir Sorokin”
Link. Putin in books – some came closer, none the full horror.
A bit more on NY DA Bragg’s termination of Trump investigation.
Link. NYT treats Bragg very gently.
“60% of people supported Finland joining NATO, a massive jump from previous years”
Link. Now is the time.
“Senator Braun is correct: it is not possible to overrule the Supreme Court’s use of the Fourteenth Amendment to protect civil rights on just one issue.”
Link. Yep. Pull on the string and slavery is at the end.
“if we try to deal with the problem of expensive health care, child care, and higher education by throwing more money at it, the result will be that although consumers will pay less, society as a whole will pay more”
Link. Economists hate Baumol. Don’t know why.
“My mind had been blown open, and I was seeing possibilities and connections I never had before. I was full of energy and ambitions: I was going to write a graphic memoir, launch a parenting website, renovate a house.”
Link. Great portrayal of mania. And, yeah, Kanye is a great example of media and mental illness.
“A “good number” of Russian flights in the war never leave Russian or Belarusian airspace”
Link. Out of range of defenses.
“Putin will do what he says he is going to do.”
Link. Trump is more subtle.
“he maneuvered his jet through a series of extreme banks, dives and climbs in order to exhaust the fuel supplies of the missiles coming after him”
Link. “My skills are better than the Russians. But on the other hand, many of my friends, and even those more experienced than me, are already dead.”
“Putin has his own strong opinions about Ukraine. He’s writing articles about the history of Ukraine, and he’s talking incessantly about Ukraine. How can you challenge him?”
Link. He can never admit he was wrong.
ACE Inhibitors probably have psych brain activity.
Link. Seemingly not bad effects.
Axios: “Minnesota has some of the highest costs of care in the country because we have higher standards for teachers and lower ratios of kids-to-teachers, per the report.”
Link. Quality child care is expensive.
“…. Eastern Orthodoxy and Russian empire. Orthodoxy’s combat against Western Christianity and Western decadence could be harnessed to the geopolitical war to come.”
Link. Secularists always forget the power of religion.
“the lowest temperature ever observed on Earth: minus-128.6 degrees (minus-89.2 Celsius), set on July 21, 1983.”
Link. I didn’t realize Earth could get that cold. Now it’s 70F degrees above normal, so -10 or so.
Turning conditional call forwarding on and off (Google Voice voicemail for a phone)
Link. I did this for my son’s iPhone and forgot about it. When we didn’t reverify his number his voicemail stopped working. It’s probably not a good idea.
“We should begin making arrangements for war-crimes trials, and begin naming defendants, as we should have done during World War II.”
Link. Putin obviously.
Apple web form for reporting a problem with an Apple content (media) purchase.
Link. Top secret.
“Chaos Climbers on the Right and Left both have some incentive to want Putin to win”
Link. I like this framing.
Russian military strategy is to kill civilians until leaders surrender.
Link. Tamarlane did this.
Monterey’s Visual Look Up and paintings.
Link. VLU is an awesome feature.
“squats or probably lower-body training in general, doing just 18 sets a week makes you significantly stronger than doing 24 sets.”
Link. I suspect the number falls with age.
Living at the bottom in America.
Link. Not cognitively disabled by obsolete legal standards, but effectively disabled now. #massdisability
“be gracious to people that are staring or looking or asking for pictures”
Link. MN family tallest in the world. They are really tall.
Deep Neural Nets: “modern libraries have adopted a design that splits into 3 components: 1) a fast (C/CUDA) general Tensor library that implements basic mathematical operations over multi-dimensional tensors, and 2) an autograd engine…”
Link. Surprisingly readable.
Deep Neural Nets: “modern libraries have adopted a design that splits into 3 components: 1) a fast (C/CUDA) general Tensor library that implements basic mathematical operations over multi-dimensional tensors, and 2) an autograd engine…”
Link. Surprisingly readable.
“I’m approaching the conclusion that Face ID should be scrapped. It’s so slow, doesn’t work with winter gear on (even with an Apple Watch), and now it’s less secure.”
Link. Apple Pay with Face ID is awkward.
Afghanistan’s last finance minister, now a D.C. Uber driver.
Link. High integrity and perhaps too much idealism. A good read.
China: “imagine the whole country is one giant Qanon”
Link. It was like that in the 1960s. Russia to follow.
“GOP leaders don’t care about reality; their audience doesn’t care about the truth, and their political media apparatus always stays on message.”
Link. “If that sounds cynical, I would ask: Have you met my former party?”
Google’s low profile support page for uses of free Google Apps pre-transition
Link. “If you have 10 or fewer users in your group and do not use your G Suite legacy free edition for business, please sign in to your administrator account to provide more information.”
“The support page detailing the shutdown has quietly been updated (for some reason, Google is not making a big deal of the changes yet). First, if (and only if) you’re signed in with a free G Suite account, you’ll see a link to this survey”
Link. Damn. This has been quiet.
App Bundles As Upgrades: “Who in their right mind designed this system?”
Link. Another Apple cluster.
“Would you have wanted to be a health official telling Xi Jinping that his vaunted vaccines were seriously inferior to Western alternatives?”
Link. Lee Kuan Yew was a dictator who dodge this trap. Few do.
Repaired M1 Macs bricked by Monterey 12.3 update.
Link. I have never regretted waiting to apply a macos update.
Russia’s end-game is a lose-lose scenario.
Link. Germany pays a high price, US far less. Ukraine beyond measure. Russia catastrophic.
Putin assassination: “May couldn’t do much because Brexit had isolated England and then-president Trump refused to back her. He promptly fired Tillerson”
Link. She could have done more. Trump of course covered for Putin.
Rural Georgia elections return to the 1960s.
Link. Easy to see why GOP blocks voting rights.
Weigh lifting progression for punies: The Step Loading Method
Link. I’m too Old and small to add weight, this approach focuses on adding stops and sets.
China COVID quarantine is hellish.
Link. “China uses the PCR tests continuously to detect for the presence of the virus in your nose.” The iodine was is insane. Medicine without science.
A $24 Thunderbolt 4 Cable from OWC.
Link. MacBook “USB-C” is charging only, extremely slow USB data transfer. WTF Apple.
“the technique of targeting children and civilians he developed in Chechnya and Syria”
Link. It’s an ancient tactic.
Russia’s honorable journalists resign.
Link. Putin will make resignation illegal.
“it is time to recognize the problem of international kleptocracy as a matter not just for the Treasury, but for those who make American foreign policy”
Link. We enable them. We can stop.