@substack Hi! Question: can you explain why I no longer have the handle/domain buzz.substack.com despite being an active user?
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@buzz
Tech veteran (Apple, Square, Tumblr, @bkcc), old school indie Mac/iOS developer, Eagle Scout. Mail: buzz at https://t.co/Acf3wgk0lo
Los Angeles, CA شامل ہوئے Temmuz 2006
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@ed_solomon I’d really love to hear more about how people approach the process rewriting. I, for example, have a script that’s way to long and I’m struggling to figure out how cut it down (though your 500+ page first draft of Full Circle gives me hope!).
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@mattschaar @303 @wooster I mean...yeah, nobody is saying it's great, but some people definitely seem think it's "not great" in a way that confirms their ideology.
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Guess this isn’t a very controversial statement anymore.
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@jomc I have long had the theory that sustained, historically low interest rates are one of the under appreciated things driving the current dystopian tech boom. Returns in safer assets suck, driving money into increasingly crazy tech stuff, consolidating economic power with big tech.
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@MikeIsaac I do think, though, that there is an issue where people like Musk, who are accustomed to a more contained type of software, don't understand the nature of distributed systems. I've always felt that Apple had the same blindspot--for example with the infamous MobileMe rollout.
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fwiw i dont think elon is wrong re: historical problems with twitter's source code — folks have complained for years it's like building atop a mountain of spaghetti
but rapid changes without proper stress testing (if we roll X out will it break Y) means multiplying bugs
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On the Twitter code base: "It is like a Rube Goldberg machine: you always discover new problems. At one point, we solved a problem where suspended accounts were able to join Spaces. But it had the consequence that android app users couldn't like tweets anmore! 🤷♂️" @elonmusk
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Someone just emailed to offer me $100 for my Twitter account, so I figure I’d better tweet something to keep my account active.
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@nwilliams030 Gabapentin seems to help with my occasional issues. It's prescription though, unfortunately.
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Anyone have miracle solutions for restless leg syndrome / leg cramps other than magnesium, heat & ice, massage, stretching, and water?
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California friends: I’ve read about how tons of the rainwater in LA is not being captured and just going back out to the pacific
but has the SF Bay Area built better/more efficient storm water capturing techniques? i hope all this water doesnt go to waste
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@jm3 Anyway, yeah, I’ve long suspected that something like that existed and that I was being affected by it. There was just a point where it felt like the weather around here changed.
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@buzz guessing you read about Twitter’s VF (visibility filtering) “thumb on the scale” option? I wonder if that dampening effect = the missing piece in the “what happened to engagement?” puzzle. The new View Count stuff suggests that either most followers Logged Off™ , or…
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Reminder that Twitter was nowhere near bankruptcy in May.
Q2 loss of $244 million. Around $2.7 billion of cash in the bank.
Obviously not a healthy biz. But not close to a bankrupt one.
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@jack @TwitterSupport It’s a singular solution to prevent the light of consciousness from escaping
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Just wanted to make sure everyone over here was aware of this
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