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Monthly Archives: August 2021
Nebraska recruiting particularly dim nurses.
Link. Beyond the COVID risks, they are selecting for bad nurses.
“The Sinai land bridge was crossable several times, as early as 246,000 years ago, and the southern strait had even more favorable windows, including the period 65,000 years ago.”
Link. Humans first left Africa long ago.
The phenotypes of cognition don’t line up with the fictional domains of the brain.
Link. We need new names for brain functional domains.
“Any academic department is a rats nest of perceived grievances, real grievances, ancient feuds, entitled snobs and desperate strivers.”
Link. Academia has longer term forced relationships than other disciplines.
“left 1Password for iCloud Keychain over two years ago”.
Link. I also want to exit 1PW.
“QuickTime Player name the file with .mov but use the H.264 format, so you can just rename the file with .mp4”
Link. Lots of heads hit tabletop.
Coase’s revenge: twilight of the gig economy.
Link. “traditional companies still have a good reason to exist”
“The city had been expecting the protests in the recent days but declined to actively intervene, citing among its reasons a lack of resources.”
Link. When police go on strike.
What is the average mile time of the GENERAL population for a 30 year old male?
Link. A famous example of bad estimations.
“Her brother-in-law gave her a vicious kick”
Link. What percent of Afghans are pro-Taliban?
“anyone ready to go beyond Mojave should now be preparing for Monterey, not Catalina or Big Sur”
Link. I have been seen. Powerful vote for Monterey. I have grown fond of Mojave …
“OCR in Live Text is better than any that I’ve used.”
Link. Monterey unusually appealing.
“Tesla has systematically pursued competitive advantage by sacrificing safety with its design and deployment of Autopilot and Full-Self Driving.”
Link. Worked under GOP rule.
“they had ample time to prepare for a Taliban takeover of the country — it might even be a couple of years until the group was in position to regain power”
Link. I’d love to read a solid review of why our analysts were so wrong. I suspect we have huge problems in our military and intelligence community.
“the drive to keep the door open for foreign money is reining in Taliban extremism”
Link. Dispense bits of money so long as the refugee flow continues.
Facebook “Widely Shared Content” report is a poke in the eye.
Link. It is true, however, that humanity is vacuous.
Unable to print from Chrome on macOS Mojave – use Cmd-Opt-P to print using system dialog.
Link. Chrome has been going downhill for a while.
Safari on US Bank: “our system is not cooperating”
Link. Weird bug since works on a different user account but cache clear failed. For now the workaround is Chrome.
Unable to print from Chrome on macOS Mojave – use Cmd-Opt-P to print using system dialog
Link. I’m done with Chrome. Such an annoying product.
“researchers planted a single Roundup-resistant Palmer amaranth plant in each of four fields of genetically modified cotton. In three years, the weeds choked out the cotton, and the crop failed.”
Link. The good news is Amaranth seeds are edible.
“the data he expects to be released soon is from studies of two doses of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, rather than an mRNA booster.”
Link. We don’t understand the immune system well enough to mix and match if we have actual data at hand.
Anti-Covid Plastic Barriers are not very useful.
Link. Sometimes hurt, sometimes help, mostly not worth the bother.
When Sea Snakes Attack “it’s just a lovesick boy looking for a girlfriend and making a rather foolish mistake,”
Link. Hold still and let the fanged lethal monster lick you.
Exercise for Olds: year 63 (CrossFit and so on).
Link. Personal status. Meeting CDC activity guidelines I think.
Google is right to cut remote workers’ pay.
Link. “An employee leaving San Francisco for London can expect a 20% pay cut.”
Now do telework.
“the brain, which is smaller than a rice grain, remained unnoticed”
Link. 310 million year fossil
“The doctrine I taught was a) Western armies always lose guerilla wars in the ‘Third World’, and b) it never really matters.”
Link. He means “matters” in a peculiar geopolitical sense sense.
“risk of developing breast cancer was 40 percent to 60 percent greater among women with the PALB2 mutation”
Link. By comparison smoking increases lung cancer risk roughly 2000%. The 50% increase with PALB2 is not as large as I would have guessed.
The base rate of breast cancer is much higher than non-smoker lung cancer risk however.
Health inequality: “The disparity persists even when adjusted for factors like age and income“
Link. What is the maternal mortality disparity for college educated? I want a deeper dive.
Working on Internet Explorer 3 and Google Chrome
Link. One of these is much better.
“21 percent of Republicans who favored some level of effort to overcome racial bias.”
Link. Why are the 21% still Republicans?
Antibody-Dependent Enhancement Crackpottery.
Link. How to ID crackpot: “detailed mechanistic explanation of how azithromycin and hydroxychloroquine work together as an effective therapy against the coronavirus”
Tesla’s Autopilot finally investigated.
Link. “G.M.’s system uses GPS positioning to restrict its use to major highways that do not have oncoming or cross traffic, intersections, pedestrians or cyclists.”
Saturn’s core: “makes up 60 percent of the planet’s radius”
Link. This is very Caltech.
The Afghanistan occupation and the Japan occupation.
Link. I agree.
“Among vaccinated adults, “the symptoms we are seeing now are much more commonly identified with the common cold”
Link. DO NOT GO TO WORK WITH A COLD.
GOP shifts from CO2 denialism to CO2 nihilism.
Link. The worst of humanity.
“While they failed to do so in an attempted 1934 coup, Fronczak explains, street fighters learned about the contours of fascism once their power as a violent street force was established.”
Link. Fascism is always with us.
“In neighboring Minneapolis, the police department explicitly banned “warrior” training.”
Link. Grossman has been a one man disaster.
“Even with health officials saying the hospital system could collapse in the coming days, Gov. Tate Reeves (R) reiterated Wednesday that the state would not have a mask mandate.”
Link. Don’t live in Mississippi.
“an initial deck collapse that extended beyond those key columns, where the deck joined the building’s facade, could have overloaded the columns and caused them to buckle”
Link. Changes to construction designs likely. Also, civil engineering is hard and scary.
“Buying those stablecoins would be tantamount to having money on deposit directly at the Fed.”
Link. The end of anarchy.
“McConnell is the greatest traitor to this country since Robert E. Lee.”
Link. McConnell is weak, American fascism is strong.
MN: “Children may be exempt if they have a notarized statement noting a parent or guardian’s “conscientiously held belief” against the child’s vaccination.”
Link. That’s for measles! We will not get a child vaccine mandate for COVID.
“it seems equally unlikely that an increasingly urbanizing, multicultural nation will continue to accept being governed by an ever-smaller white, rural minority.”
Link. I wonder how it breaks.
How the Pandemic Ends.
Link. My only change would have been to focus on relatively comfortable masks that also protect wearer and reduce innoculum. They exist now.
What Shamu Taught Me About a Happy Marriage.
Link. Originally 2006. Positive reinforcement conditioning for spouses. Handy reference.
Mark Sertich: Oldest hockey player, died 2020 age 99.
Link. “When I’ve got an injury, I lay it back a little bit, but I like to get into the action. I believe that my immune system should be able to take care of it.” I’m no Sertich, but I do kind of work my injuries the same way.
Exporting (iCloud) Keychain and Safari credentials to a CSV file
Link. Done by a senior Apple dev