Link. And earth is about as massive as a rocky world can get. We are in a weird solar system.
Daily Archives: July 5, 2021
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.