Grustaf

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by Grustaf 2y ago
Wow, almost half of Automattic's annual revenue!
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by Grustaf 2y ago
The codebase
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by Grustaf 2y ago
What he meant was they were running out of money.
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by Grustaf 2y ago
Is 125 m the actual number? I would be surprised if they got more than 10.
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by Grustaf 2y ago
Let’s hope so
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by Grustaf 2y ago
What i meant was that the idea was that people would eventually stop using e.g. whatsapp on Beeper and just use Beeper, since eventually all their friends would also have the beeper app installed. Might sound a bit optimistic but there it i
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by Grustaf 2y ago
It wasn't, they genuinely believe in Beeper, and the long term plan was rather to become the leading chat app in their own right, with users communicating over the Beeper protocol.
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by Grustaf 2y ago
> I feel a little exhausted just thinking about needing to be on 14 different chat networks. That's the point, the vision is that you should only have to be on Beeper.
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by Grustaf 2y ago
The Beeper codebase is also in a pretty bad state.
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by Grustaf 3y ago
That seems anything but “neat”
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by Grustaf 3y ago
I am contradicting this: > People need cars that can handle the longest distances they would need to travel You should not buy a car for the rare, most demanding use case.
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by Grustaf 3y ago
How do you wash it then? Seems like quite a chore to wash something like that every week?
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by Grustaf 3y ago
Yeah there is no need to have it hanging down, shaking it like a whip has the same effect.
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by Grustaf 3y ago
> Other expert voices say we should be doing this fortnightly, or even weekly. Even as a bachelor I wouldn’t wait two weeks to change the duvet covers, I hope most people change the covers when the change sheets?
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by Grustaf 3y ago
Even without the holes, you can just do the same thing by inverting the corners and grabbing the duvet through that.
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by Grustaf 3y ago
Presumably they put a sheet or something washable between themselves and the blanket though?
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by Grustaf 3y ago
What do others use then?
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by Grustaf 3y ago
It’s not “full”, since it only works in very limited circumstances.
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by Grustaf 3y ago
Cruise control only manages the speed, right?
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by Grustaf 3y ago
To me the general idea felt as trite and blindingly obvious as any book by Taleb or Gladwell, and about as self-congratulatory. The only thing that surprised me was that he picked the singularly unmemorable names "System 1" and &q
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by Grustaf 3y ago
>> the average trip in the US is less than 20km > I don't buy my car for my 50th percentile drive. For most people the average is more like the 95th percentile.
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by Grustaf 3y ago
> People need cars that can handle the longest distances they would need to travel. No they don't, it's much more optimal to buy something that is geared towards your daily needs, and then if you need to drive cross country a f
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by Grustaf 3y ago
> Is it really aspirational if you do it? No, aspirational means that you aspire to do it, which is probably why most people buy most cars, at least in the US. One exception does not disprove that theory. If you only need the range 4 tim
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by Grustaf 3y ago
Selling an expensive product or service is very different from committing fraud or stealing. There are plenty of practices within banking that are a lot more immoral than charging high fees.
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by Grustaf 3y ago
I suppose you could argue that as long as the car is doing the driving, it is in fact full self driving, even if you have to watch it?
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by Grustaf 3y ago
That's because Objective C is too old for anyone to bother improving it. That doesn't seem like a positive.
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by Grustaf 3y ago
I don't doubt that you find it difficult, I am just saying that I never had any problems migrating to Swift 5. That's why I offered help, and because I am genuinely curious what it was that you found so overwhelming.
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by Grustaf 3y ago
I offered help, not condescension. In my experience migrating to swift 5 has been exceptionally painless, so if you find it onerous I was offering to assist you.
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by Grustaf 3y ago
There are already many APIs you can’t use, and more or less all APIs in general are now easier to use in swift. But sure, you can still write apps in objc.
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by Grustaf 3y ago
The source breaking differences between swift 4 and 5 are very few, and quite mechanical. Most of them should be adequately handled by the migration assistant, did you try that? If it’s open source, I’m happy to take a look.

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