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wmichelin

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wmichelin··on Half-Life 25th Anniversary Update
Love to see Valve revisiting old games and giving them modern quality of life improvements.
wmichelin··on The Tyranny of the Marginal User
Can you elaborate on why you think reddit is pushing out the weirdness? I don't think it's a zero sum game, you can have both normies and weirdos in entirely separate subreddits.
wmichelin··on GIL removal and the Faster CPython project
At my job we get pretty far just using things like einhorn to just run a bunch of similar python processes under the same port- this mostly fixes the single threaded performance problem.
wmichelin··on The EU wants to cure your teen’s smartphone addiction
Would you let your child buy tobacco once they had enough money? I'm sure there's a certain age where disallowing your child to use a smartphone would be damaging to them- but up until maybe even 16 years old - I don't see value in allowing it.

I have a much younger brother and I can watch him being mentally harmed from having access to a smartphone.

And even worse, the UIs are so simple, the kid doesn't even get computer skills out of it like we did.

I myself got some mental illness out of the deal but at least found gainful employment in the process.

wmichelin··on We reduced the size of our JavaScript bundles by 33%
this is overly simplistic. rsync to where? please tell us more :p
wmichelin··on Web Scraping via JavaScript Runtime Heap Snapshots (2022)
Totally feel that, I got a life-time ban from a huge programming sub on Reddit for being rude to a person who was obviously just copying-and-pasting their software homework on the forum.
wmichelin··on How does it feel to live without a smartphone? ‘Almost spiritual’
> I don't know how people use phones for hours to do that

I assume you stay off Reddit and Instagram on your phone then? I personally find mobile to be the biggest time sink for me on the low-brain-energy social media (memes and short-form videos, really) consumption front.

wmichelin··on Web Scraping via JavaScript Runtime Heap Snapshots (2022)
When you figured it out, what was the cause?
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wmichelin··on No-more-secrets: recreate the decryption effect seen in the 1992 movie Sneakers
༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ homebrew pls
wmichelin··on Companies Requiring Full-Time In-Office Are Struggling to Recruit New Employees
Headline might as well be: "Water is wet".
wmichelin··on Apple Watch knows when I wash my hands Does it also know when I'm jerking off?
Mods please fix the URL!
wmichelin··on Svelte switches to JavaScript and JSDoc, deem TypeScript “Not worth it”
why not? it's a really good language. type safety is extremely valuable if you have any project that is sufficiently complex or has enough people working on it.
wmichelin··on Tech companies are irrational pop cultures
The same exact results can be yielded by OOP interfaces and implementations, so I unfortunately don't feel this is a valid argument for microservices.
wmichelin··on Mastodon's federation model encourages specific instances with peculiar rules
I'm naively convinced that Lemmy will never take off purely due to the awful name
wmichelin··on Ask HN: What's your proudest hack?
Kids love to wake up really really early. Like 5 or 6am. By 8am, the OP here probably had their kid in daycare or something already.
wmichelin··on Neuralink faces federal probe, employee backlash over animal tests
In no way am I advocating for the way they have treated animals, in fact I am a vegetarian myself and I hate killing or harming animals.

"Who even needs their supposed products"? If they deliver the technology they are supposedly building, they'll cure blindness, quadriplegia, and shepherd in the genesis of cyborgs.

Based on Elon's track record, they'll probably never deliver anything, but to pretend that nobody wants their products is ridiculous.

wmichelin··on Pup: Parsing HTML at the command line
Why? CSS selectors are the normal web developer way to select content from a document. Even JavaScript adopted the approach.
wmichelin··on Laying myself off from Amazon
This author sounds insufferable. Tooling sucks? Fix it. It's important to lead with a culture of quality and impact. Wasting 40 hours a month on something broken? It'd literally be faster to stop your feature work, fix that thing, and then go back to your feature work.

Be the change you want to see.

wmichelin··on YouTube confirms that it has removed the “sort by oldest/newest” option
FWIW - I was still served the old.reddit.com link from the HN frontpage. Maybe that's already known behavior, or not. Just thought I'd share!
wmichelin··on YouTube confirms that it has removed the “sort by oldest/newest” option
unrelated, but I really wish people would stop using old.reddit.com links.

reddit has support for user-preferences for exactly this. if you want the old site, you can make reddit.com resolve to the old site, or resolve to the new site, depending on your preference.

/endrant

wmichelin··on I make $8k/year sending cheap flight alert emails
they're leaving room for the rest of us ;)
wmichelin··on Dagger Python SDK: Develop Your CI/CD Pipelines as Code
I don't know if this is just scoped to my company, but drone seemingly supports starlark, which is just python
wmichelin··on CD Projekt is remaking the first Witcher game in Unreal Engine 5
What about Cyberpunk was abysmal to you? I really enjoyed the atmosphere and the gun-play. NPC animations left some to be desired, but overall I thought the graphics were super engaging and Night City was super fun to run around in.
wmichelin··on Office vacancy rate in San Francisco just hit a new high
the city closes at 10 for the most part, yeah
wmichelin··on Watchman: Execute a command when something changes
I have been using reflex https://github.com/cespare/reflex for the same thing in some of our docker projects
wmichelin··on San Francisco decriminalizes psychedelics
Have you ever tried psychedelics? What makes you think they're problematic? I'm sure opiates are the primary driver of many of the problems in San Francisco, combined with a failure to charge anyone with petty property crimes. Drug prohibition doesn't work and just hurts the wrong people.
wmichelin··on Prevent DoS by large int-str conversions
Can anyone TL;DR why? Why wouldn't it just return that long integer of all 1s?
wmichelin··on Kubernetes Failure Stories
Can they just... setup autoscaling? Hopefully the mistake wasn't too hard to correct.
wmichelin··on Pearson Says Blockchain Could Make It Money Every Time E-Books Change Hands
So you think publishers only deserve to get paid for the first copy, and then all of humanity should be free to replicate and distribute their work for no cost?

It's intellectual property, and duplicating it is piracy. Do I judge pirates? No, they're taking risks, and that's their own prerogative.

I am all for available and affordable resources, but expecting a book someone else wrote for free is a bit ridiculous.

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