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saintlunaireon Ask HN: What is the most useless project you have worked on?

Needed to read this, thank you!

saintlunaireon The "Reitoff principle": Why you should add "nothing" to your work-life schedule

This hits home. Confirms my decision to decline future projects with a difficult client!

saintlunaireon Root cause of Alzheimer's may be fat buildup in brain cells, research suggests

May I ask how you found out your nervous system has trouble clearing cortisol? Is there a test you can do? How are you remediating it?

I also have Alzheimer’s in the family and this hypercortisolism discussion feels familiar to me.

saintlunaireon Write code for the web

I agree. Another thing I really dislike about XCode is the error/warning messages – you stop typing and wait with bated breath for them to appear, only for them to be positioned over the very line of code you’re trying to debug and can no longer see.

saintlunaireon Apple Vision Pro and ADHD

Wives read HN and enjoy new technologies too, FYI.

saintlunaireon British inventor seeks to take $18B bite out of Apple in bitter patent war

This article [1] I found from 2017 goes into a tiny bit more detail:

Smartflash was founded in 2000 by inventor Patrick Racz, who obtained several patents on a system for storing data like songs, videos and games and accessing that data through electronic payments systems. Racz was unable to commercialize the technology and Smartflash sells no products of its own.

And then on the connection with Apple:

Smartflash’s complaint alleged that Racz has discussed his ideas in 2000 with a technologist who later became a senior director at Apple.

The Guardian however states:

But in the fallout from 9/11 and the dotcom crash, Spears and Gemplus pulled out, and Racz says in court that Gemplus – also a partner to Apple – then claimed the product as its own.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN1685D5/

saintlunaireon Is my plane a 737 MAX?

Is anyone else contacting airlines to state their reluctance to fly the Max? I’ve just had a surprising chat with Ryanair where the agent boldly claimed that my enquiry about it is “the first one this year”.