Link. The more people do it the faster it goes.
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iPhone 32GB 6s sold out in Canada too.
DeLong on Productivity: Finance & Healthcare administration are economic parasites.
Link. Lecture graphs. Educational.
2016: screensaver showing father camera photos of a boy you like.
iCloud Photo Library unexpected side-effect. My daughter unamused.
Jobs: “if they sell a lot of something, you want to tell everybody.”
Link. Apple expects iPhone 7 to do bleh.
Manufacturing hiring: there is no skills gap and no demand.
Link. Lots of unserious job listings.
If you bought dSLR in past 8 years you are set for a long time.
Link. Video focusing has improved. Otherwise, yeah.
5,300 Wells Fargo employees participated in massive fraud?
Link. 5,300 is not possible. There is something wrong with this reporting…
Wolfram essay on using Mathematica+ in education.
Link. Textbook for education innovation as blog post.
Trump to defeat ISIS with really big cyber.
Link. He is bizarro-Obama. Right out of a 1974 comic book.
STNG: ‘The Inner Light’.
Link. Best TV show I have watched. They were right to reject a sequel.
US economy has glut of managers.
Link. Demand deficit may contribute.
iPhone: either pay full price or do Apple lease.
Link. I pay full and hand off to kids.
Airbnb turns to its racism problem.
Link. How about ageism? Sexism (against males)?
Charles Blow attacks NYT Trump coverage.
Link. Like K. Neither say “NYT”, but we know.
Obama and CO2: “immersed himself in the scientific literature”
Link. Zorgonian AI sent to save humanity from itself.
Mori joins smart person consensus: Air Buds dumb, Apple jackectomy rationale dumber.
Link. I like water redistance.
Apple starts i7 invisibility project.
Link. Next year will be great.
iPod touch: now with headphone jack!
Link. Wonder if spec-bump pending …
Marshall take on Clinton/Trump Nat Sec Forum.
Link. I remember Carter did better than Reagan in 1st debate. America disagreed. Not that I’m scared.
Net video ads pass my annoyance threshold.
I’m low vid use, so notice that ads abruptly much worse. Esp. YouTube.
Pediatricians firing anti-vaxxers from practice.
Parents practicing child abuse. Social stigma growing.
Post i7 the 32GB 6s sells out.
Cafe wifi isn’t a hobby any more …
Post i7: 6s $550, 5SE $400.
Sadly 16GB 5SE still $400. 32GB 6s only $100 less than 32GB i7.
Daughter trusted school work to iCloud.
I have failed as a father.
“Informative mid-sized middle-aged multifaceted flesh-toned carbon-based Canadian grammaticing crossfitter”
Friend responds to post on adjective sequencing I shared.
Theology of Daesh defeat.
When IS no longer has a state what theological story will they tell?
Typical framing is Daesh insufficiently virtuous, so must reclaim virtue to win.
Google web forms can fail mysteriously.
Is iOS WordPress.app randomly changing my post format to “Status”?
I’ve assumed it’s an errant touch of mine, but now I wonder about a bug.
Siri needs better language model and Reminders need an alarm option.
Mail.app is killing my iPhone
Power use scales poorly with multiple Gmail accounts.
Is Google + bigger than Orkut now?
Google killed Orkut and Google Reader Social pre-G+ launch. At the very least they should rename the damned thing.
Weird things: no way to track Apple purchases on iOS
Odd omission, probably not deliberate.
MSFT XBOX store broken past 24h
The eBike era: there will be blood.
1st eBike on local trail – large man on large bike doing 25mph on 10mph trail.
ICD-10-CM encourages physician fraud and damages research.
Realized my “smartphone for special needs” book has nothing on phoning.
Weird.
The Mac Keychain never forgets ….
Certs from .Mac (2010), passwords from 2006 … curious bit of history.
iOS/OS X annoyance – always joining the wrong WiFi network
It tries to be too clever, especially if OS X Keychain share is enabled. Artificial Incompetence.
Quicken for Mac: We are still quite happy with it.
Deeply unfashionable, but works very well for my wife and I.
Another family iPhone needs a wipe/restore. Again.
Corrupted media storage metadata/files again. Bugs Apple has.
Remember when (sea) piracy was big?
A success story retrospective would be nice.
Google Maps.app iOS: multipoint routes don’t work.
Status
This renders in desktop, but not iOS maps.app: https://goo.gl/maps/i5tRPn4osbz
Facebook: please stop screwing with share function.
Status
Joined Zapier: kateva.org/sh RSS to app.net
IFTTT and PourOver were better, but both gone. Last days of ADN.
Whatever happened to 90s publisher’s clearinghouse scams?
Ancestor of 2016 phone phishing.
Still enjoy sending my father PhotoCard.app postcard every 2w.
Status
His long term care facility room has stacks of them. Show up as a postcard.
Whenever I paste from Word/Mac to Mail.app I see the original sin of computing.
The CRLF, CR, LF sin that is. Not the only place.
What disease has the highest prevalence/understanding ratio?
I nominate osteoarthritis. The research literature is awful, we have no treatments, we don’t even have good disease descriptions.