Link. The therapeutic ratio for a young person is not as good as we like.
Monthly Archives: July 2021
Printed Twin Cities Bike Map Discontinued.
Link. I miss printed maps.
“95% of the stars in our galaxy are less massive than our Sun”
Link. And earth is about as massive as a rocky world can get. We are in a weird solar system.
Apple ID problem: sharing iTunes Apple ID in two factor world means authentication requests go to one of many possible devices
Link. Apple ID management has been a long painful thrash.
Disk Utility First Aid problem in Mojave: Working around the Disk Locked bug
Link. I couldn’t find a fix in Google. Perhaps because Google isn’t as useful as it once was.
Apple Card for Families: non-owners have a $250/transaction limit but no cap on total spend
Link. Not as useful as I’d expected.
What mRNA is Good For (and less good for).
Link. Vaccines mostly. He doesn’t mention auto-immune diseases.
“Jupiter is one such planet; despite being three times the mass of Saturn, it’s only ~15% larger, as its atoms are gravitationally compressed.”
Link. Damn. I didn’t know that. Great article. “Earth, the largest rocky planet in our entire Solar System, is almost as “super” as a rocky planet can get.”
Lebanon’s collapse: “unsustainable monetary policies that finally collapsed, leaving the banks largely insolvent”
Link. I wonder if they will dollerize.
Murdoch’s legacy: “I can only guess that the destructive editorial policy of Fox News is driven by a deep-seated vein of anti-establishment/contrarian thinking in Rupert that, at age 90, is not going to change.”
Link. Brain rot and the bloody curse of the “contrarian”.
6 Training Rules For Over-40 Lifters
Link. The grip stuff is silly, but the rest is very good.
Apple fought China – and quietly won.
Link. The party didn’t care that much and the corporations buckled.
How to recognise and diagnose kernel panics.
Link. Save for reference. Our M1 Air on early Big Sur had a lot of them.
Boeing’s 737Max Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System
Link. Wikipedia article needs a rewrite; as written Boeing looks very bad.
The Underside of the Aducanumab Approval
Link. A legitimate scandal at the FDA.
Concrete: “lifespan is roughly 50-100 years, thanks to the way in which modern concrete is reinforced.”
Link. America has trillions of dollars of concrete to replace.
“Authorization does not guarantee appropriation.”
Link. A terrific tutorial on how Federal spending works, including the infrastructure bill.
Save cognitively disabled from well-intended but stupid-smart progressives.
Link. “Conviction of some advocates and policymakers that larger settings like Misericordia”
Good intentions and denial of reality do not go well together.
COVID warning was his final wish.
Link. Kept putting it off, feared side-effects of vaccine. Lots of guys in 40s think they are young. (Forty is not young.)
APFS Volume Names: “a bug in Disk Utility, which fails to normalise volume names to Form D as the Finder does. But there’s also a bug in Spotlight indexing which results in volumes with Form C names not being indexed at all”
Link. Computers haven’t been able to handle English language paragraphs since about 1980. So don’t expect this to be fixed.
“despite starting from a very humble base, Hispanics are treading the same upward path that American immigrant groups always tread”
Link. The fall in Hispanic high school dropout from 1996 to 2016 is remarkable.
“That’s what it takes to make a new universe. 10 kilograms.” (of false vacuum)
Link. The key is energy is not conserved if space changes over time. There is such a thing as a free lunch.
“Delta is presenting with symptoms closer to those for the common cold than those seen with other variants.”
Link. Less anosmia? Will Delta end the pandemic? Read this one.
An Introduction to Dfinity and the Internet Computer.
Link. “Since 2016, Dfinity has been focused on building the “Internet Computer”, a decentralized blockchain network that aims to expand the functionality of the internet.”
“Thirty percent of South Korea’s population have received one vaccine dose and 9.5 percent are fully vaccinated,”
Link. Much better than Japan or China. Wonder how Taiwan compared.
“recently completed a study of cats and dogs living in households with humans who had Covid, found several cases of cats with severe symptoms”
Link. Project your cat by getting vaccinated.
Joe Rogan Profile.
Link. Long but scannable. A lot like Limbaugh.
SolarWinds hack was “S.V.R., a competing Russian intelligence agency that was an offshoot of the K.G.B.”
Link. Lots of small details in this article.