Link. Essay on diversity in Japan.
Daily Archives: December 13, 2020
Pandemic Heroes: Professor Yong-Zhen Zhang and Doctor Li Wenliang of China.
Link. Despite Xi.
A story of migrant separation and reunion — and some incredibly kind Americans.
Link. It’s a story about Ms Peren and Yovany, and thus touches lightly on those who helped them, but it is good to read of those people. The anti-Trumps essentially.
Bicycling Surges in Manila: “It’s really fun, like you’ve unlocked something overwhelming.”
Link. Based on photo of a portion his bike it should serve him well for many years.
“I have not found a single outbreak traced to a movie theater”
Link. Talking/singing when aligned with air flow — your mouth to my mouth carried by air currents. In Las Vegas casinos with indoor smoking air flow is unusual. Masks work in part by decreasing talking.
Apple Silicon M1 problems: Big Sur.
Link. BS sounds like it might be ok next summer. Better than Catalina!
Vaccine strategy trials.
Link. Cutting 2nd Pfizer vaccine dose in half for under 65 is worth doing.
Energy optimism.
Link. College degree not required.
“Petersen used a portion of the money to smuggle dozens of pregnant Marshallese women in to the United States and offered them $10,000 once the baby was born”
Link. This is a special flavor of despicable evil.
An iOS Zero-click Radio Proximity Exploit
Link. “A fairly trivial buffer overflow programming error in C++ code in the kernel parsing untrusted data, exposed to remote attackers.” See aside on why OS protections fail – legacy code.
Family Sharing for Subscriptions and IAPs
Link. Makes subscription model better — but only when cost of switching to competitor is low or data is disposable.
“deliciously stupid but frighteningly anti-democratic traitor tots”
Link. What a great phrase.
“X-Mode would pay to embed its SDK into other developers’ applications in exchange for the location data it collects.” Sold to military and others.
Link. App Store not all bad.
“Nullification wing of the Republican Party is obsessed with the fact that Trump lost key states in part because a lot of Black voters in big cities rejected him”
Link.
Twilight of the autonomous automobile.
Link. Maybe some highway trucks where autonomous should be much safer than human – but would need remote human backup because people are awful.
“In three years, Mrs. Rodríguez captured nearly every living member of the crew that had abducted her daughter for ransom”
Link. Not a movie.
Trump may force Pence to crawl before him.
Link. Couldn’t happen to a more deserving lackey. The line about “shadow over presidency” is really stupid.
Digital vaccine certs.
Link. We used to do this on paper. Is needed, will happen, will be abused.