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waylandsmithers
·8 months ago·discuss
Anything you search for, the first thing at the top of the list is an ad from a competitor!
waylandsmithers
·8 months ago·discuss
Did we all have a Mandela moment that what we all thought was "The Farmer's Almanac" with the yellow cover actually has OLD in the title? And there is randomly this other farmer's almanac?
waylandsmithers
·9 months ago·discuss
I think my expectations for apple intelligence were just too high. All I've really seen it do on my macbook is suggest "Sounds great!" or "See you there!" as responses in Messages, and it's like, really, it took the best engineers on earth working round the clock to come up with this?
waylandsmithers
·9 months ago·discuss
> After I had done this test, I asked myself why I decided to do a test on something that would convert a joyful activity into a soulless one

This is how I feel at the moment about AI coding tools. Programming is the fun part of my job
waylandsmithers
·4 years ago·discuss
As a developer it's easy to forget how insanely hard it can be to run a business. After all the time, effort, and energy that goes into actually making and selling something, you still have to go through all this additional nonsense just to get the customer's money from their hands into yours.
waylandsmithers
·6 years ago·discuss
As someone who has worked mostly in a consulting context, "Fun projects ONLY" is... interesting
waylandsmithers
·6 years ago·discuss
In my experience on slack I always thought RightGIF returned the gif I was thinking of more often than giphy.
waylandsmithers
·6 years ago·discuss
Maybe this is a win for everyone then if content owners and creators are able to get paid as a result
waylandsmithers
·7 years ago·discuss
I was skeptical too, but some apps have found really great ways to use it:

- Mute/unmute on skype

- Preview and switcher for a number of slides at a time in powerpoint

- Mirror displays / extend desktop when connected to an external display