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New comment by beebmam in "If you are asking for human attention, demonstrate human effort"

beebmam — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 06:37:39 +0000

Human PR review is a process smell

New comment by beebmam in "I miss thinking hard"

beebmam — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 05:23:14 +0000

Comments like these are why I don't browse HN nearly ever anymore

New comment by beebmam in "Python developers are embracing type hints"

beebmam — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 16:27:01 +0000

I just don't see why people use Python in the AI era. Statically typed languages help AI reason about code enormously during compilation.

New comment by beebmam in "U.S. already has the critical minerals it needs, according to new analysis"

beebmam — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 05:34:40 +0000

Please say sike

New comment by beebmam in "Gemini in Chrome"

beebmam — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 04:13:34 +0000

Does Apple do this often? I've always wondered if iCloud is worth getting, given that it constantly spams me to use it with my iPhone

New comment by beebmam in "Linux phones are more important now than ever"

beebmam — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 05:31:01 +0000

We need something other than Linux on phones.

New comment by beebmam in "No One Is Working"

beebmam — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 14:54:55 +0000

I don't see any evidentiary basis for these claims (or narratives) in this article. What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.

New comment by beebmam in "Linux Reaches 5% Desktop Market Share in USA"

beebmam — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 13:45:36 +0000

I have a great computer, but it isn't compatible with Windows 11, so now I'm using Ubuntu on it. It's not ideal, but at least it's not a brick. I hate the requirements for Windows 11.

New comment by beebmam in "Reflections on OpenAI"

beebmam — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 17:49:37 +0000

Those that love the work they do don't burn out, because every moment working on their projects tends to be joyful. I personally hate working with people who hate the work they do, and I look forward to them being burned out

New comment by beebmam in "AI Agent Benchmarks Are Broken"

beebmam — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 15:59:58 +0000

I don't think "Benchmarks" are the right way to analyze AI-related processes, which is probably similar to the complexity surrounding human intelligence measurements and how well each human can handle real-world problems.

New comment by beebmam in "Reflections on 2 years of CPython's JIT Compiler"

beebmam — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 15:56:20 +0000

I don’t understand the sentiment of not wanting to learn a language. LLMs make learning and understanding trivial if the user wants that. I think many of those complaining about strongly typed languages (etc) are lazy. In this new world of AI generated code, strongly typed languages are king

New comment by beebmam in "OBBB signed: Reinstates immediate expensing for U.S.-based R&D"

beebmam — Sat, 05 Jul 2025 01:06:38 +0000

Extra $250 fee for visa applications: https://judiciary.house.gov/media/press-releases/big-beautif...

3.5% remittance fees on sending money out of the US: https://www.globalimmigrationblog.com/2025/06/what-are-the-i...

Also (in above source), no ACA subsidies for H-1B visa holders (and others), which likely means employers they will have to pay more for health care if they want to cover their immigrant workers

New comment by beebmam in "OBBB signed: Reinstates immediate expensing for U.S.-based R&D"

beebmam — Sat, 05 Jul 2025 00:54:47 +0000

There's also H-1B (and other worker visa) restrictions/costs imposed. Overall, quite good for the American tech worker

New comment by beebmam in "Sam Altman Slams Meta’s AI Talent Poaching: 'Missionaries Will Beat Mercenaries'"

beebmam — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 05:59:04 +0000

A company's mission is not an individual's mission. I personally would never hire an engineer whose main pursuit is money or promotions. These are the laziest engineers that exist and are always a liability.

New comment by beebmam in "How I Program with Agents"

beebmam — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 23:51:01 +0000

Thanks for this comment, i totally agree. Not to say this article isnt good; its great!

New comment by beebmam in "I live my life a quarter century at a time"

beebmam — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 05:48:29 +0000

I hope more people read comments like these and ask themselves: "What warrants these life suggestions? Are they justified? What would make them justified? What alternatives are there?"

New comment by beebmam in "Tokyo is set to introduce a four-day workweek for government employees"

beebmam — Sat, 07 Dec 2024 08:00:58 +0000

> It's actually that life is too good for childless people

I'm not going to idly sit by and let people who have children take my hard earned money from me. If you think increasing taxes on those without children won't cause a massive retaliation by the men who are not able to find female mates to have children with, you are in for a massive surprise.

New comment by beebmam in "Postmortem of my 9 year journey at Google"

beebmam — Sun, 18 Aug 2024 06:17:05 +0000

Regardless of these fields being separate departments/job titles: people are not getting promoted for doing QA, release engineering, continuing engineering, or DBA work. It's a huge cultural problem in tech.

New comment by beebmam in "Spending 3 months investigating a 7-year old bug and fixing it in 1 line of code"

beebmam — Fri, 21 Jun 2024 19:46:20 +0000

why is this not considered a compiler optimization and/or language problem? it seems to me that compiler optimizations for expressive programming languages should be able to handle something like this

New comment by beebmam in "Nvidia Warp: A Python framework for high performance GPU simulation and graphics"

beebmam — Sat, 15 Jun 2024 03:48:22 +0000

Why Python? I really don't understand this choice of language other than accessibility.