Grustaf

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by Grustaf 5y ago
What makes you say "reasonably good"? It's excellent. Ten kilograms of metal makes you three times faster at a quarter the energy spend, I'd say it's amazing.
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by Grustaf 5y ago
As I understand it, crocodiles and sharks have looked basically the same for tens of millions of years, unlike humans that were basically pre-chimpanzees 6 million years ago, even 1 million years age we were quite different from today. htt
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by Grustaf 5y ago
Mechanical efficiency is not that important when most people only ride a few miles a day, at a slow pace, dictated by traffic conditions. If you take a broader view and consider vantage point, ease of mounting, mechanical efficiency, aesthe
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by Grustaf 5y ago
Why would it be gross? Breast milk is the first thing we drink, it's an almost perfect food. Drinking cow milk isn't very far fetched, especially when you keep cattle for meat. Seems like the most natural thing in the world frankl
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by Grustaf 5y ago
> Fitting cave-dwellers to a Victorian contraption. Is this the best we can do? Yes it is. Like crocodiles or sharks, the reason they haven't changed much is because they are basically perfect. Deal with it.
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by Grustaf 5y ago
Does that apply to all state media, like the BBC, or only Russian?
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by Grustaf 5y ago
It's of course impossible to do that, which is why it's a bad idea to pretend you can.
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by Grustaf 5y ago
Yes, that's my point. Either it's possible to detect, then there's no reason to target specifically Russian disinformation. Or it's not, and then it's just a matter of blocking all Russian information, not dis info
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by Grustaf 5y ago
Assuming it is actually possible to identify "disinformation", why not down-rank all disinformation?
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by Grustaf 5y ago
You can think whatever you want, but we are still discussing the quality of the code that they write. Not which skill is more important, what life is like at Google, your inferiority complex about not passing the whiteboard test, or anyth
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by Grustaf 5y ago
Why do you insist on not understanding what it means to write high quality code? In some contexts, like my previous job, it's important. In others, like if you're making games or non-essential apps in your one man indie shop, much
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by Grustaf 5y ago
Yeah, that's definitely what he should do. Very surprising he didn't do it already, this is the perfect use case for markup plugins.
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by Grustaf 5y ago
> Trust me, the code is not rocket science that the vast majority of what software engineers do at BigTech. Again, that is not the discussion. Nobody said that you have to write high quality code to make it in tech, or as an indie. You k
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by Grustaf 5y ago
He spends maybe 1% of the time talking about his apps, that really isn’t the reason. And time is definitely money, or rather, money is time. If you already have an income stream that is more than enough for your chosen lifestyle, spending l
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by Grustaf 5y ago
The interview is the least demanding part, working as a software developer at an ambitious company has nothing to do with binary trees. What does it matter which skill is more impressive? Obviously there are way fewer successful indie devel
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by Grustaf 5y ago
He's undoubtedly a world class indie developer, but we were discussing his abilities as a programmer, in the sense of writing good code. True, it's not necessarily important or valuable in life, but that is what we were talking ab
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by Grustaf 5y ago
A few hundred bucks a month is for all intents and purposes "nothing". It's a rounding error in terms of the time he spent on it.
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by Grustaf 5y ago
Brilliant! Then he could also bring back the old name.
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by Grustaf 5y ago
We obviously can't know, but hearing someone talk about something gives you an idea. My impression is that Casey is quite weak (as in average), but meticulous. Siracusa is almost certainly the one with the best understanding of theory,
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by Grustaf 5y ago
I replied to this: > the rest of the time was due to him doing pass after pass improving the UX
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by Grustaf 5y ago
Not saying you're wrong at all, I have zero insight into foster care. Just trying to understand. But why is it a problem if someone sees a family photo and notices that one kid looks different? He could just be adopted, or a friend or
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by Grustaf 5y ago
The app is not bad. If I had this need I would have used it. Well if Instagram hadn’t had it built in. Many apps with worse UX and UI have been roaring successes, that is not the issue. I’m just saying that I think it’s very unlikely he wil
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by Grustaf 5y ago
It was a comment on the comment I replied to. But: 1. UI is not UX 2. Marco doesn’t have a UX department Not sure what your point is about Marco to be honest.
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by Grustaf 5y ago
I'm not saying people don't hide their children's faces, I know they do, saw it first in Japan more than a decade ago. Im also not saying anything against his priorities, I don't care how he spends his time. What I am sa
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by Grustaf 5y ago
Sure, in theory that makes sense. But he hasn't mentioned it once before last week, and he usually talks very little about his apps, so I don't think that is the main, or even an important reason. He also hasn't mentioned tha
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by Grustaf 5y ago
I asked because I didn't see why foster children specifically had to be hidden. The reason you are not talking about me is that I'm not famous. Does that disqualify me from having an opinion? Do all opinions have to be positive? D
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by Grustaf 5y ago
No, not really. I've done passion projects for things I have a passion for, but not for keeping my skills up.
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by Grustaf 5y ago
Well clearly he didn't, or at least it didn't help. Did you hear Casey talk about the app? Very unrealistic. Plus Marco didn't even test the app before it was launched, so I don't think he's been very involved. To b
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by Grustaf 5y ago
Of course it's better for them if the CAN make you install it. Just like it's better for a company if they can convince you to sign up for something, or at least give them your email. But the point is that if you can expose your c
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by Grustaf 5y ago
That's not the impression I got. To me it sounded like he was hoping to earn money from it. He said the same thing about his youtube channel, which also seemed very unlikely.

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