Link. A very accessible discussion. I learned things.

Link. Paxlovid isn’t worth much.

Link. It’s like watching a horror movie. One day we will put a stake in this thing

Link. 7% net traffic is malign.

Link. I’ve noticed this over the past few years. Google no longer indexes my Google Blogger posts. I suspect running Google ads helps. Otherwise you need to be a brand domain (Reddit, etc).

Link. Web service, free pending a business model. Example of results:

I’m testing it out. Similar to PubMed search to RSS.

Link. Noah claims that even if Trump loses the United States can barely stand up against China, and cannot handle both Russia and China. It’s Germany or Europe will fail.

Link. Similar to the feature pulled from iOS 17.5 but now with a proper UI and security cautions. Aperture had a similar feature, but Aperture was known for corrupting its database. I’m very curious how many lost things we’re going to find.

Link. The reboot process should be interesting too.

Link. I wrote this 13 years ago. It’s still pretty much the same story — but I don’t write for the GoogleMind now. The GoogleMind was dying even was a wrote that post. I write for the AIs now.

Link. He didn’t mention Rabin. As usual I am in the murky middle, but if I had to rule I would say he’s practicing a form of wishful thinking.

Link. “… for some complex numbers, the zeta function is equal to zero … in 1859, Bernhard Riemann conjectured that all the zeros are concentrated on two lines.”

The article is about a proof away from the core hypothesis, but the author does a great job of explaining the Riemann hypothesis for non-mathematicians.

Link. Changed shipping routes by data mining ship logs around 1840.

Link. The single machine desktop app still works for now, but the iOS app is mostly dead and there’s no future replacement.

Link. Similar story with Afghan opium.

There is no longer a viable economic strategy for rural areas anywhere.

Link. “The wealth of America’s billionaires was estimated at around $5.2 trillion in 2023, while federal government spending was about $6.4 trillion”

He ignores the sociopolitical consequences of wealth asymmetry. These days Noah writes what tech billionaires like to read – but the essay is still worthy.

Link. A huge success — but also very disruptive. It’s not surprising that a cap has been added.

China is 2nd largest source. Xi hates Canada for a reason.

Link. A $4 billion dollar AT&T fine might change someone’s behavior. But there will be no consequences in the US of course.

Link. ‘Participants with weak inner voices did worse at … Verbal memory …”

Not much new — it’s a short summary. Not having an inner voice may have other advantages.

This is a rather sensitive topic as it edges into the fun future-field of comparative consciousness (human, animal, AI)

Link. “Family Sharing for adults means every family member’s purchases go first to the Apple Cash balance purchaser’s account, next to the Organizer’s payment method.”

Link. Very expensive though.

Link. Via a Mastodon comment. This deserves to be better known.

See: Peak Oil.

Link. “writing regular dispatches for The Palestine Chronicle, a U.S.-based online publication”

The tunnels were real. Hospitals were Hamas bases. Administrators were Hamas. Gaza journalists were Hamas Some caregivers were Hamas.

I haven’t seen anyone who denied these things admit they were wrong.

Link. I have Fujitsu earlier version. ScanSnap owns the home office document scanner business.

Link. Bit of a desperation move?

Link. Everything everywhere all at once.

Page and Wootters mechanism, 1983.

Link. Moderns left Africa 250,000 y ago.

Link. I did not know this. So if you see that happening I guess you try to cool your Air …

Link. “I want to give my Agent the social security and medicare data it is likely to such; case number, my SSN, my phone, etc.  I want it to call social security using my voice and sit on hold for days, weeks, years until someone accidentally answers. Then it begins the conversation while paging me to swap in …. with a text summary of current discussion and a timer to join in 5…. 4….. 3…. 2…. 1…”

Link. Bit of good luck in this one.

Link. Not the Peak we were excited about 20y ago.

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Link. Author tells of eAssist handcycle adventure. I saw one such sessioning a singletrack downhill in Bentonville.

Link. Worked for catalytic converter theft.

Link. Gaza now has cheap abundant flour but a cigarette costs $30. So Egyptian-Gaza gangs hide cigarettes in flour bags then associates loot the trucks and dump the flour.

Link. Tim Cook should retire now. It’s gonna get ugly.

Link. Same with me. My ad-free 15k or so blog posts and 60K microblog posts are open for anything to read or reuse. I don’t care. I wrote to share.

Link. I think the reason Apple doesn’t document things any more is because so much of it isn’t ready to be documented. I would not be shocked if Apple has something of Boeing’s disease.

Link. This is clever. It’s been a theme of near future SF in recent times. The LLM answers the phone and then ties up the scammers while doing analytics on techniques.

Link. Life expectancy is basically quantum field theory. Don’t even try to understand it.

Rogan is achingly dumb, but there is big money in dumbness.

Link. Perhaps twice as many die on land as at sea.

“estimated 90 percent of women and girls traveling along the Mediterranean route were raped”

Link. Both are big but in different ways.

Link. Backup only works for non-optimized storage.

“[backupname]/[backup].backup/Data/Users/[username]/Library/Mobile Documents/com~apple~CloudDocs/“

Link. Every time I read cosmology 101 the story gets a bit different angle. I don’t know if that reflects new insights or evolving explanations.

Link. This is the last of Apple’s security blunders. We promise.

Link. Sandbox unfinished.

Link. It’s messy and confusing.

Link. “they had come across three patients who began to lose their vision from NAION within a week’s time …. all three patients were also taking semaglutide…

… semaglutide mimics the hormone GLP-1, which binds to receptors found in the cells of the optic nerve”

Sounds like a good observational study. Maybe patients taking glutides will need periodic eye checks. But 7x very rare is still rare.

Link. “for more than 100,000 years, Denisovans hunted or scavenged a wide range of animals on the Tibetan plateau”

We know we had contact some where and when.

Link. “The Busy Beaver function is Turing-uncomputability made flesh, a finite function that scrapes the edge of infinity”

Math stuff is fun because I don’t have to even try to understand it.