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MaysonLon Trials begin on lozenge that rebuilds tooth enamel

I just bought 3 small tubes for $9 on Amazon, seemingly coming from Canada. I bought some previously from an Amazon seller in India, and have been using it for a few weeks. It seems to be working - teeth are less sensitive.

MaysonLon CLUI: Building a Graphical Command Line (2020)

See the Oberon system for hints as to how to do it.

MaysonLon Changes at Basecamp

Or because they fear being targeted if they don’t contribute…

MaysonLon Changes at Basecamp

How about all the qualified applicants that Harvard rejects in favor of legacy and athletic admits? And why hasn’t Harvard’s enrollment increased in step with its endowment?

MaysonLon All-new iMac features the M1 chip

Two Thunderbolt, 2 USB-C on the better version, 2 Thunderbolt on the cheaper.

MaysonLon Twitter investigating system irregularity after users report access issues

Twitter web is not working for my logged-in session. Can’t refresh.

MaysonLon Clothing, How Did They Make It? Part IVa: Dyed in the Wool

Ah, deep obsessive hobbies. My mother once made a couple of suits for herself and my sister-in-law, starting from an almost raw fleece (she refused to do the cleaning of the fleece to get rid of the twigs and other crap). Also, for clothes construction and fabric arts, see my sister-in-laws blog, which made the front page of HN a few months ago. [0][1] She makes clothes, and teaches the art and craft of it.

0: https://weaversew.com/wordblog/2020/11/07/thats-not-why-i-di... 1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25195659

MaysonLon Ask HN: How do old (30plus) software engineers remain excited about the field?

By being grateful for SSDs that finally give them the responsiveness that head-per-track disks did in the ‘70s…?

MaysonLon Ask HN: What was the biggest contributor to your happiness in the past year?

Making vegetable soup, and giving it to friends.

MaysonLon Breaking the warp barrier for faster-than-light travel

See the novel Tau Zero by Poul Anderson. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tau_Zero

MaysonLon Some Were Meant For C (2017) [pdf]

Structure alignments…

MaysonLon Booting the IBM 1401: How a 1959 punch-card computer loads a program

Many years ago, I wrote a one-card program to duplicate a card deck – reading from the reader and punching a copy until there were no more cards in the input. I can almost remember it: ,008015,022029……1200 (don’t remember all the opcodes, or special memory locations)

MaysonLon Does Private Equity Investment in Healthcare Benefit Patients? [pdf]

Betteridge's law seems to apply…

MaysonLon San Francisco school board halts appointment based on race

Do you ever think that about the white guy?

MaysonLon The Full Automation Fallacy

That’s $26 billion in revenue: profit was $4 billion. Note also that half of their stores are “licensed”. The difference between that and franchised is unclear to me at present.

MaysonLon Why Combustion Is Exothermic

Basically, E = MC squared.

MaysonLon Two Worlds: So Much Prosperity, So Much Skepticism

> In the USA even the poorest people can own property in big cities.

Why do think, then, that there are so many homeless people in the US? They aren’t all mentally ill or drug addicts.

MaysonLon Ticketmaster admits it hacked Songkick before it went out of business

Also the CEO, COO and CFO were sentenced to prison.

MaysonLon Developer progression as a function of navigating complexity

Well, The Psychology of Computer Programming might help too…

MaysonLon North Dakota needed to hire Latvians to manage an ancient state computer system

My first long term programming job was writing COBOL code to replace some Autocoder programs. I think they were ashamed of the Autocoder stuff though. The only time I saw any of it was during final acceptance for the last program in the system. I couldn’t duplicate the output from the previous system. It was eventually traced to the fact that an object code patch had been applied to the old program, since they had stopped paying license fees for the compiler. This patch was documented by a hand-written note on the official program listings.

MaysonLon How Apple’s rivals plan to catch up with the M1 chip

What might be interesting would be an Ampere Altra Hackintosh…

MaysonLon Chess tactics explained

And Magnus just lost! In the final of the Skilling Open there were 7 decisive games out of 10 - 8 rapid games followed by a 2 blitz game tiebreak.

MaysonLon That’s not why I did it

This is my sister-in-law’s blog, and it’s about weaving,and somewhat technical. But the lessons it teaches cam apply to a lot more than weaving…

MaysonLon Masayoshi Son had help pulling SoftBank from the brink

Remember diapers.com?

MaysonLon When Jewish wives beefed with butchers and changed the world

Bull. The price rise was due to price fixing by a cartel, which was shown in the article.

MaysonLon I Dissented. I strongly support the new Statement on – by Neel Kashkari

Note to mods: the title when submitted began with “Why”. Why did the ‘Why’ disappear?

MaysonLon OBS Studio 26.0

Interesting – Xsplit is reported as a $20K sponsor on the website: https://opencollective.com/obsproject#section-budget

(Scroll down to see the list of contributors.)

MaysonLon OBS Studio 26.0

According to their website[0] their current balance is $97,012.47 USD, and their annual budget is ~ $47,327.66 USD, so they're probably not too badly unerfunded.

[0] https://opencollective.com/obsproject#section-budget