wmichelin

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Comment · 4 days ago
HN hug of death
Comment · 5 days ago
The decompilation efforts I've been seeing with 15 year old Xbox 360 games or PS3 games has been absolutely incredible, getting them running natively on macOS with presumably much fewer engineering resources than are allocated to a standard game port.

I do think the limited macOS gaming market is a chicken-or-the-egg problem - people don't game on Macs because there aren't that many great games on Mac (Although Cyberpunk runs amazingly on my M4 Macbook Pro).

I'm very excited for the future.

Comment · 26 days ago
I just look at my own diffs in a draft GHE PR and iterate with my agent on Github. This is often a much better UX than trying to make sure every single linter or thing is consistent between my machine and the CI machine. We do use Docker but it's still just easier to do it all on the CI box / Github.
Comment · 27 days ago
It’s all just the wiggle lol
Comment · 1 month ago
yes, each of these things are larger than the other
Comment · 1 month ago
Very brave take about Apple /s
Comment · 2 months ago
This debate is irrelevant. It doesn't matter. Having the idea and the skills to dictate a stable piece of software are all that matter.

There is no point in taking pride in typing out lines of code by hand. The entire world is moving on.

Comment · 2 months ago
Probably FF lol
Comment · 2 months ago
Safari is fantastic for me. Passwords app integration alone is a killer feature.
Comment · 2 months ago
Damn! We had it in the sunset when I lived there back in 2017
Comment · 2 months ago
I know of social media sites who have kept an untracked version of the link in the dom of the A tag, but replace it with their in-house link tracker copy of it as you're clicking, that way the destination looks correct when you hover over the link.
Comment · 2 months ago
Apple Watch has never lasted the full night for me. I'm super happy with my Garmin Instinct 3. A full blown iOS device on my wrist was too stimulating anyways. I'll take charging once every ~25 days-ish over the color + capacitive touch screen.

The Garmin Instinct 3 is my favorite tech purchase I have made in a very very long time.

Comment · 3 months ago
The finished product alone does not have to be the reward. The reward can still be building a great tool, a great application, etc. With AI we can build it 100x faster, freeing us up to think deeper about our test coverage, our design, our scaling, our observability.

There is no excuse for lazy execution using AI, that is, IMO, equivalent to shoddy software engineering. it's just faster and more accessible now. "AI slop" is just poor execution delivered more quickly.

The onus is still on the human in the drivers seat to deliver quality outcomes.

Comment · 3 months ago
I enjoy building things. I do not enjoy the act typing out code by hand.

> Do you not enjoy coding? I'm not trying to be snarky, just a genuine question

To follow this debate through, to maximize coding enjoyment, shouldn't we be avoiding compilers? They take away a lot of the code we need to write. Frameworks as well?

Comment · 3 months ago
This is frankly disgusting and I hope you do not deploy this to any children. The classroom is the last place where we should be deploying AI.

Look where smartphones not being used in the classroom got us. Imagine how this would harm us.

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