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MaysonL··on Apple unveils contactless payments via Tap to Pay on iPhone
A colleague of mine owned a lunchstand, where the cook brought in his own receipt printer and used it for a large portion of daily business, and later bought the business.
MaysonL··on Frank Rosenblatt's perceptron paved the way for AI 60 years too soon (2019)
A former colleague of mine, Terry Koken, who worked with Rosenblatt at Cornell for a while and is quoted in the article, dropped a comment last year saying pretty much that:

https://blogs.umass.edu/comphon/2017/06/15/did-frank-rosenbl...

MaysonL··on The impact of sexual abuse on female development: a longitudinal study
A former colleague and lover of mine was abused at home as a teen, and got married quite young in order to escape the situation. She did manage to have a quite successful career, ending in the C-suite at a major company.
MaysonL··on What Do We Know About Time Pressure in Software Development?
"Soon, cheap, and good. Pick two."
MaysonL··on Japan’s Vaccination Policy: No Force, No Discrimination
Look up Sumo wrestling…
MaysonL··on Robert Graves in the Great War (2018)
I fondly remember listening to Robert Graves speak at Hunter College decades ago, and getting a couple of books autographed. “Welcome, all my gods and goddesses…”
MaysonL··on The utilization of 44/8: the reason I mapped IPv4 and IPv6
I wonder how much IP address embezzlement goes on in big companies?
MaysonL··on Great Barrier Reef 'gives birth' in coral spawning event
The title I submitted this with was

"Great Barrier Reef 'gives birth' in massive coral spawning event"

Does HN now censor massive events down to events?

MaysonL··on The Catherine Project: A new experiment in liberal education
The project itself: https://catherineproject.org
MaysonL··on Alan Kay at UCLA (2016) [video]
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MaysonL··on The Mind’s Body Problem
Interesting: Cloudflare Warp blocks archive.md…
MaysonL··on Facebook chooses profits over people
OfficeHours.global is working on it…
MaysonL··on Apple’s new M1 Pro and M1 Max processors
Linux on M1 Macs is under development, running, last I heard.

https://9to5mac.com/2021/10/07/linux-is-now-usable-as-a-basi...

MaysonL··on Always Do Extra
Swap the proportions! Do more Extra, less Normal Work. Worked for me, and most of the best I’ve known seem to do that.
MaysonL··on Dude, where’s my stuff
Like the 710 freeway? https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-05-22/710-free...
MaysonL··on A search engine that favors text-heavy sites and punishes modern web design
Google Info - for when you're looking for information, not shopping advice or lists!
MaysonL··on Apple released iOS 11.4.8/Big Sur 11.6 to address security problems
That's iOS 14.8, not 11.4.8, and no mention of 11.6 here.
MaysonL··on Rumble, an open source, offline, censorship resistant microblog (2017)
That's actually 2020, when he lost. In 2016 he got less than 63 million votes.
MaysonL··on The World After Capital (2018)
https://brucesterling.tumblr.com/image/661056847548121088
MaysonL··on Work Hard (2007)
I used to work at a company where the janitor, by working hard, and being willing to step up to opportunities he was offered, became a shift supervisor. Not every company is like that, true, maybe almost none are, but it can happen. Reminds me of the concept "return on luck" to go along with "return on investment".
MaysonL··on At Shul, We Drink Single Malt: On “A Fortress in Brooklyn”
Well, both groups also have many more children than average, thus requiring ever-expanding amounts of real estate.
MaysonL··on Ask HN: Google is confusing me with others in a harmful way – what can I do?
I just tried to see it again (previously saw it with incorrect photo): the photo has been removed (for now).
MaysonL··on Ask HN: Google is confusing me with others in a harmful way – what can I do?
And by Greg Egan, who has gone through the same problem.
MaysonL··on Ask HN: Google is confusing me with others in a harmful way – what can I do?
And he's just retweeted a reference to this thread…

https://twitter.com/sohkamyung/status/1427919846985986052

MaysonL··on A $100k Prize for a Decentralized Inflation Dashboard
Mining fees?
MaysonL··on Becoming a Chess Grandmaster
I gave up playing chess seriously after watching the one grandmaster I ever played compete in the US championship, and learned that he was driving a cab to make ends meet.
MaysonL··on A Chemical Hunger: Mysteries
> That's incredibly hard to do, of course

Only for fat people. People like me find it fairly easy.

Over my adult life[currently 75yo], my weight has fluctuated modestly year to year (as measured by the tightness of my belt). When my abdominal circumference has grown by a couple belt notches, I tend to eat less for a while, until the belt is less tight. THIS REQUIRES ALMOST NO WILLPOWER OR CONSCIOUS ATTENTION ON MY PART. Why????

MaysonL··on Apple still planning return to in-person work despite complaints
And a number of people have had rather scathing takes on Gruber's take. See Charlie Warzel's Substack for example:

https://warzel.substack.com/p/this-is-the-awful-voice-inside...

MaysonL··on Plover is a free, open-source stenography engine
I heard three pronunciations of "Wacom" yesterday and I'm still not sure if there's an official one and if so, which it is (if it's not a fourth).
MaysonL··on Apple is building the metaverse substrate
Reading your HN profile, sound like you might find office hours.global interesting…
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