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Conversely, slowing down an adversarial email conversation can lead to better outcomes. A rapid or delayed response signals your position and priority on the topic.

Sounds like he had lots of good people around him helping him.

The technical aspects you mention are important. I have diplopia, and also close one eye. It gets worse in the evenings. I love paper books and own many, but all my reading now is on a Kindle, with a huge font. It makes it so much easier.

Many people with MS get diplopia, and so need prismatic lenses to help with the double vision.

Well, it's no Java Ring.

https://www.nngroup.com/articles/javaring-wearable-computer/

Yeah, really good point, and I question my own diagnoses sometimes. However: I did not understand for many years why I needed to mask. I was not being contrary or looking for attention - I really did not get it.

Once you understand that neurotypicals have special needs and you must play-act to smooth things over, then you play the game.

I think your comment is very insightful. It made me think and reflect. I am not socially awkward, however: but I am autistic. I really think so. My ability to appear less so over time is my own achievement.

I get it.

Society is moving in the right direction at least. At one point, the bell curve had 3 sections: normal, genius, retarded. Now we have more gradients and some of them trigger help or maybe longer exam times.

This causes over-diagnosis and resentment. Coping mechanisms grow over time. It’s definitely better if you can appear neurotypical.

I think you can mask to appear less autistic, yes.

I think autistic people would have less eye corner wrinkles, because they don’t smile automatically when others smile. A study would be interesting.

Not the OP, but after a couple of decades of people pointedly talking about eye contact, small talk, and body language, you learn “coping mechanisms” to deal with neurotypicals and make them more comfortable.

Did your sporting team have success on the weekend? Wonderful, direct eye contact, smile, mirror. Ok, now, to business:

I imagined it was what he - as an airport user - thought airports should play.

Yep. I naively thought that no-one representing a company would ever do such a thing.

Last time I flew Ryanair in July, I presented my phone to the agent to check my boarding pass. She took my phone to scan it. I turned my head to talk to my companion.

When I looked back, the agent was in my settings, quietly enabling all the permissions for the app (which I had deliberately disabled).

When I (shocked) told her off, she rolled her eyes and said I would need to change them anyway to scan the bag tags.

The cheek.

The story Stephen Tobolowsky tells (and Byrne confirms) about how Tobolowsky inspired the song Radio Head, which gave the eponymous band their name, is so good and complex that a comment cannot do it justice. Google it and sink in if this is your thing.

Bravo! Apparently they are known as keyers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyer#Computer_interface_keyer...

Edit: Circa 1980 when I was young and impressionable, my father's buddy had a WriteHander and since then I have loved this kind of thing.

http://ibnteo.klava.org/keyboard/writehander

The article (which is great) is written from the perspective of "large old established companies innovating". This is something that is fairly elusive even in the different environment of the rest of the western world, I think.

Startups have a different set of constraints in Europe, one of which is the safety net for the people trying to become "ramen profitable".

It's the first hyperlink in the article, and the first Google result for "996".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/996_working_hour_system

Peter Norvig's Gettysburg Address powerpoint is a great illustration of how Powerpoint makes things worse.

https://norvig.com/Gettysburg/

This is mentioned in the article, and linked to.

Friends with Parkinson's with neural implants anecdotally report great results, but of course with rather coarse tech. There seems to be lots of future potential.

https://www.parkinson.org/living-with-parkinsons/treatment/s...

EnergyVault are building these GESS (Gravity Energy Storage System) arrays right now.

https://www.energyvault.com/projects/cn-rudong

The wonderful New Yorker article "Pets Allowed" comes to mind. Turtles, turkeys, and so on.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/10/20/pets-allowed

Great idea. I’m pro scientific medicine. I was therefore a bit put off by my first test:

Treatment for knee osteoarthritis

The second response was a Chinese study about acupuncture. AFAIK that is a pseudoscience.

Didn't they announce this 3 years ago?

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/feb/03/capta...

Yes. LLMs are good at producing plausible statements and responses that radiate awareness, consideration, balance, and at least superficial knowledge of the technology in question. Even if they are non-committal, indecisive, or even inaccurate.

In other words, they are very economical replacements for many non-developers.

Note that the proposal for this came from the EU Commission over the last few years - the Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T). Initially Finland pushed back on it as being too expensive.

https://transport.ec.europa.eu/transport-themes/infrastructu...

Progress has been made and is ongoing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rail_Baltica#Project_progress

After Viber was pinged for delivering Pegasus spyware, I switched to RebTel. Works fine.

https://cyberinsider.com/viber-messenger-abused-for-deliveri...

Buffet said of Munger:

> “In terms of managing money, there wasn’t anybody better in the world to talk to for many, many decades than Charlie.”

Buffet gets all the press, but he acknowledges Munger as a huge part, if you listen.

Note that this means "in class" rather than "in school".

If the point is that bringing items into Australia could have a negative impact as they are not present (such as cane toads, rabbits, etc) then sure.

However, Australia already has much uranium. The mine at Rum Jungle has quite a lot left. Multiple nuclear explosions have taken place there.

This is not equivalent to keeping rabies out, nor a cultural issue.

Isn't that basically the AliExpress business model?