Statistics without Context can be bad..
The world will never be the same
Resistance to the future is finally futile..
I said this over a week ago to my co-workers that the genie is out of the bottle and all the negative opinions about working from home and online education are about to be thrown completely out the window!
Don’t be afraid of taking something apart!
Good to have around if you forget the key shortcut for booting a Mac.
Had to do this twice already
So I am posting this here, incase I need to do it again..
https://gist.github.com/cdleon/d1eff7246a25193304284ecec40445b0
Don’t forget about getting it into recover mode either by using the Archlinux efi boot option with nomodeset or try a boot USB..
What’s going on in Wuhan China
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v42/n05/wang-xiuying/the-word-from-wuhan
An excerpt from the story that totally caught my attention and the power of social mobilization.
“Schools are suspended until further notice. With many workplaces also shut, notoriously absent Chinese fathers have been forced to stay home and entertain their children. Video clips of life under quarantine are trending on TikTok. Children were presumably glad to be off school — until, that is, an app called DingTalk was introduced. Students are meant to sign in and join their class for online lessons; teachers use the app to set homework. Somehow the little brats worked out that if enough users gave the app a one-star review it would get booted off the App Store. Tens of thousands of reviews flooded in, and DingTalk’s rating plummeted overnight from 4.9 to 1.4. The app has had to beg for mercy on social media: ‘I’m only five years old myself, please don’t kill me.’ “
Architect’s view of High er Education in the future..
Always felt bad for the Zoller and Williams in class :-)
How your last name will cost you at the Mall. (I know its from 2011, but was fascinating when I ran across it today..
Looking to sell some of that stuff from your garage, fast? Call the Zimmermans.
According to a new study, people whose surnames start with letters late in the alphabet may be the fastest to buy……
http://content.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,2045050,00.html