Link. It’s not the above 2017 bug – that got fixed. The baseline app is game-sized, presumably due to the platform they built on and cached images and maps.
Monthly Archives: February 2023
“he meets regularly with an impressive, ideologically diverse range of policy wonks, diplomats, and political theorists for conversations about the global economy and military conflicts and constitutional law and I’m kidding.”
Link. Another ‘Trump is Over’ article. I’d want the DNA evidence.
“there is a reason you probably don’t know what Ron DeSantis’ voice sounds like. There is a reason you cannot quickly picture what he looks like, especially from the neck down.”
Link. Jedeed thinks DeSantis won’t be the candidate and Trump is finished.
Florida men: “More things found in the Library,” their site breathlessly reads. The offensive materials they flagged? Michelle Obama’s memoir and a history of Barack Obama’s presidency.”
Link. Sea level rise not all bad.
“MAME is now a globally significant cultural project – a core way that old games are preserved. Niftier yet, it’s an archival project that arose entirely at the street level: Hundreds of open-source coders and hardware phreaks, working hard to make
Link. Hope.
Preparing for influenza H5N1 – a practical list (free link)
Link. Mink farming is a bad idea. We need to vaccinate pigs and chickens. More surveillance. mRNA flu vaccine prep.
“last officially trademarked commercial UNIX™ is Apple’s macOS 13”
Link. Linux rules.
“In Colorado, call dispatchers had trouble recalling an instance in which a watch had saved a skier in distress.”
Link. Apple boasts of saves while ignoring vast false positives. Watch fall detection is a bad test with low predictive value.
China: “a loose assemblage of organizations and aspects and subcultures, an infinity of self-enclosed activities, rather than a “country” in the normal sense…”
Link. The mysterious East.
“In 1879 … Democratic former Confederates banded together, demanded the leadership of key committees—which the exceedingly weak speaker gave them—and set out to make the Republican president, Rutherford B. Hayes, get rid of key Republican policies
Link. Back then Dems were the bad guys.
“Over the past month, Google Ads has become the go-to place for criminals to spread their malicious wares that are disguised as legitimate downloads by impersonating brands such as Adobe Reader, Gimp, Microsoft Teams, OBS, Slack, Tor, and Thunderbird”
Link. Outsmarted.
“If a Punjabi woman from Derby can do this, then anybody can achieve anything”
Link. Bored of ultras she skied for 90 days across Antarctica. I don’t think her catchphrase computes though.
Scalzi is honest about why he brings money to Musk: “it’s still the place where I have the most followers and the most engagement”
Link. I didn’t know he had a Mastodon presence: https://bit.ly/3HCOkye
I am sad that Scalzi’s values are not what I thought but I respect that he’s truthful.
“The College Board has provided documents showing that key decisions about the course were made well before Florida officials rejected it in January”
Link. Sorry guys, now you are gonna have to put them back in. Doesn’t matter whether you obeyed DeSantis or not.
“In July, after profits had dropped dramatically, the store manager of the Greensboro Woolworth’s asked four Black employees to put on street clothes and order food at the counter. They did, and they were served. Desegregation in public spaces had beg
Link. A fairly clever way to surrender. I wonder who suggested it.
“spending listed in a Heritage Foundation report thundering against “woke earmarks” totaled about $19 million — less than the federal government spends every two minutes”
Link. That’s weak even by the standards of the 2023 GOP.
“… a doctor paid by United [Healthcare] concluded that denying payments for McNaughton’s treatment could put his health at risk, but the company buried his report and did not consider its findings…”
Link. It’s a long dense report — and murkier than the headline. A very sick patient responds to an essentially experimental therapy that is clearly outside the terms of the obscure contract Penn State signed with UHC. When sued UHC folded rather than risk a jury.
“the best RSS reader for Android isn’t even on the Play Store”
Link. RSS support was always better on macOS than on Windows, but this gap is amazing. I wonder if most Android users only install games.
“most Android apps suck compared to their iOS counterparts; it’s that the entire OS lacks cohesiveness.”
Link. If Apple Maps actually had decent content I’d delete Google Maps — and that’s got to be the premier Android app.
Original COVID strains persist in deer.
Link. Strains bit surprising. No mention of deer get sick.
Ovarian cancer misnamed: “If you look at the biology, maybe we should be calling it fallopian tube cancer and think of it differently, because that’s where it starts”
Link. My last 6y of practice was men only so I missed this evolution. Instead of tubal ligation for birth control will we remove the tubes (opportunistic salpingectomy)?