Hacker News: beastman82

New comment by beastman82 in "Uber, Lyft drivers in Massachusetts form first US ride-share union"

beastman82 — Tue, 26 May 2026 17:03:32 +0000

Well yeah they're presenting an irrational argument to benefit the few.

New comment by beastman82 in "Open Source Resistance: keep OSS alive on company time"

beastman82 — Wed, 13 May 2026 18:24:30 +0000

*and their employees, who depend on the company to be healthy as a central economic tenet of their employment. This really isn't debatable

New comment by beastman82 in "Open Source Resistance: keep OSS alive on company time"

beastman82 — Wed, 13 May 2026 17:09:21 +0000

Read "Not everyone will approve of this" section. You are not free to make any of these decisions on behalf of your employer.

New comment by beastman82 in "Open Source Resistance: keep OSS alive on company time"

beastman82 — Wed, 13 May 2026 16:20:20 +0000

This is an ethical disgrace and everyone involved should be ashamed.

New comment by beastman82 in "The Rise of the Bullshittery"

beastman82 — Tue, 12 May 2026 19:49:37 +0000

I simply cannot click such a domain name

New comment by beastman82 in "If AI writes your code, why use Python?"

beastman82 — Tue, 12 May 2026 14:53:23 +0000

"sbt --client" is really fast for me, and I'm using derivation and implicit scope etc. super warm JVM, incremental compiles.

New comment by beastman82 in "Boris Cherny: TI-83 Plus Basic Programming Tutorial (2004)"

beastman82 — Thu, 07 May 2026 14:28:56 +0000

he and I share the same favorite programming book and until now I didn't know anyone else in this boat:

Functional Programming in Scala

New comment by beastman82 in ""People who don't use AI will be left behind""

beastman82 — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 13:21:02 +0000

I love python and go, not sure what you're inferring. I'm not excited that people wrote their widget with it.

New comment by beastman82 in ""People who don't use AI will be left behind""

beastman82 — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 21:13:28 +0000

True. I think I'm ready to accept it. I guess I should have given up when everyone was bragging about writing rust and go.

New comment by beastman82 in "A new spam policy for “back button hijacking”"

beastman82 — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 12:45:17 +0000

They've been crawling the web since inception

New comment by beastman82 in "Maine is about to become the first state to ban major new data centers"

beastman82 — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 20:32:59 +0000

I'm guessing the population of Lewiston would welcome an employer of 30 jobs

New comment by beastman82 in "AI has suddenly become more useful to open-source developers"

beastman82 — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 15:39:17 +0000

gotta love a site that hijacks your back button and makes you hit it 3 times.

New comment by beastman82 in "Newly purchased Vizio TVs now require Walmart accounts to use smart features"

beastman82 — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 15:09:20 +0000

Buy an Nvidia shield and never look back

New comment by beastman82 in "A Eulogy for Vim"

beastman82 — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 16:34:53 +0000

Perhaps an argument against LLMs should acknowledge its awesome power could be harnessed for good, if only nominally

New comment by beastman82 in "You are not your job"

beastman82 — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 17:08:23 +0000

I want to thank everyone who hates work, is mentally checked out of their jobs and quiet quitting etc.

It makes it much easier for me to distinguish myself as a hard worker who cares about the business being successful. It also helps me keep my job during layoffs because I can assure you the managers have noticed.

When you are old and have lots of formative experiences that are not work-based, we can shake hands and mutually appreciate each other's motives and respective outcomes.

New comment by beastman82 in "John Carmack about open source and anti-AI activists"

beastman82 — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 19:49:47 +0000

The assumption here is that the people who maintain something in a painstaking manner did not intend people to take it and do whatever they want with it in accordance with its license?

New comment by beastman82 in "PC processors entered the Gigahertz era today in the year 2000 with AMD's Athlon"

beastman82 — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 17:39:14 +0000

Agree 100%. the compute was always bottlenecked by insanely high i/o latency. SSDs opened up fast computers like no processor ever did.

New comment by beastman82 in "Global warming has accelerated significantly"

beastman82 — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 20:19:05 +0000

the good news is that nuclear power is coming soon

New comment by beastman82 in "Tech employment now significantly worse than the 2008 or 2020 recessions"

beastman82 — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 20:10:53 +0000

I think that's a very good plan FWIW. I'm going to consider cabinetry which I predict will be a semi-retirement in terms of income

New comment by beastman82 in "Get free Claude max 20x for open-source maintainers"

beastman82 — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 15:35:54 +0000

Ugly is subjective. I'd happily accept these terms