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New comment by geraldwhen in "Trump administration is suspending Microsoft from a green card program"

geraldwhen — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 16:34:21 +0000

PERM is an employment based green card that requires a labor market test. In my own experience, I’ve been part of fake job postings and interviews.

Effectively you put the persons role up as a job ad, then fail a few people in the interview and that’s all it takes for PERM.

They weren’t real interviews. The job postings wasn’t real. I interviewed people so someone on the team already could get a PERM.

New comment by geraldwhen in "Trump administration is suspending Microsoft from a green card program"

geraldwhen — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 16:25:19 +0000

Hmm? Green card fraud is pretty easy and very common. You put out an ad for the job role. Then you sort the fake resumes to the top and fail them in the interview.

Boom, perm green card. Every big company does it.

New comment by geraldwhen in "Google Playground: Create and play custom games"

geraldwhen — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 15:05:03 +0000

If that were true, they would release Gemini 4.

New comment by geraldwhen in " prevents me from logging into Vanguard"

geraldwhen — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 23:48:16 +0000

Vanguard needs a full tech overhaul, a clean sweep. The website is legitimately amateur hour and has been for decades.

New comment by geraldwhen in "How to keep enjoying programming in a world of LLMs"

geraldwhen — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 10:10:18 +0000

It's over. LLMs can produce any algorithm, any tech stack, any concept in seconds, minutes, or hours.

Writing code is like trying to build a house without powertools. Could you do it? Sure. But no one ever will, for most values of no one.

New comment by geraldwhen in "Rails World 2026 Opening Keynote [video]"

geraldwhen — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 22:09:19 +0000

The premium models are worth 10% of your income at least.

There is no future without these models. They truly are an entirely different league than the cheap stuff. You can move mountains with Astra or Opus 5.5.

New comment by geraldwhen in "Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking"

geraldwhen — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 00:17:02 +0000

Ai pitch accent is not correct with most TTS systems for Japanese. I’ve tried many.

New comment by geraldwhen in "Tell HN: OpenAI brings back 5 hour limit for plus and business standard users"

geraldwhen — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 17:55:38 +0000

They won’t be able to. Open models exist and run on a Mac you can buy now or in October.

New comment by geraldwhen in "Xbox goes down. You can't play games you own on disc"

geraldwhen — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 14:40:20 +0000

They ruined Minecraft in the same way. Microsoft login tied, emails, captchas, losing auth, losing purchases because it can’t tie auth to the system.

Microsoft is a joke.

New comment by geraldwhen in "Scriptc by Vercel: TypeScript-to-Native compiler, no JavaScript engine in binary"

geraldwhen — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 09:38:18 +0000

“Better”, maybe or maybe not. But there’s an underlying truth here. If you’ve ever LOOKED at the open source libs you use, some of them are very very rough.

Going in to a project hoping to make a change and seeing no tests and spaghetti used to be soul crushing. These days I’d have Claude go refactor and add tests and make pull requests for me to look at to fix it.

New comment by geraldwhen in "Write code like a human will maintain it"

geraldwhen — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 15:28:09 +0000

The change is exponential and happening daily. The future is smaller teams spending a lot of money on AI credits.

New comment by geraldwhen in "Write code like a human will maintain it"

geraldwhen — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 15:24:39 +0000

It’s a new form of development. The thing that the author didn’t state is that to work the code base at all, you must also use these tools and workflows.

Manual edits literally aren’t possible. You can’t grok the code growth and the new patterns fast enough to be productive.

This does work. I’ve seen it in real products. Nobody has a real mental model of the code flows. But with enough money in Claude credits it doesn’t matter.

The spend to support this development model is something like $50/day/developer.

New comment by geraldwhen in "PostgreSQL and the OOM killer: Why we use strict memory overcommit"

geraldwhen — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 16:40:09 +0000

Is this an AI response?

New comment by geraldwhen in "Japanese verb conjugation the simple hard way"

geraldwhen — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 09:40:58 +0000

This is so obviously incorrect that I have to wonder if it was an AI response.

New comment by geraldwhen in "What the fuck happened to nerds"

geraldwhen — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 20:26:07 +0000

There’s an app on the App Store that only has the purpose of YouTube without ads.

Can’t get more layman.

New comment by geraldwhen in "What the fuck happened to nerds"

geraldwhen — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 16:37:40 +0000

There are currently multiple trivial ways for a layman to block all YouTube ads.

New comment by geraldwhen in "The newest Instagram “exploit” is the goofiest I've seen"

geraldwhen — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 19:42:30 +0000

Residential proxies won’t get flagged and are easy to obtain, if expensive.

New comment by geraldwhen in "Measuring Claude 4.7's tokenizer costs"

geraldwhen — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 21:43:39 +0000

It seems clear that it was a money spending machine, not a money printing machine.

New comment by geraldwhen in "LÖVE: 2D Game Framework for Lua"

geraldwhen — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 13:05:04 +0000

I’ve 100%’d Balatro and wheel of fortune is quite strong. It’s never worth taking before you’re at max interest though.

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

geraldwhen — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 22:04:18 +0000

Business bros will not pay high salaries to maintain software. Software maintenance will always end in India with developers making $20/hr. Or less.

AI makes it look like these developers can do the same job the Americans did building the product to begin with. Even if things fall apart in the end, it won’t stop the attempt to order of magnitude reduce the cost for maintenance.