beebmam

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   by beebmam 17d ago

   Totally embarrassing
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   by beebmam 23d ago

   This has very little to do with public amenities. It has everything to do with toleration of homelessness and drug use. I don't understand why the west tolerates it at all.
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   by beebmam 1mo ago

   Not if the benefits of automating basically all forms of labor reach them.
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   by beebmam 2mo ago

   In both old-school and OSR RPGs, I've GMed quite a few (various early D&D/AD&D versions, DCC, OSE, Shadowdark, Mausritter), there's an enormous amount of work a GM needs to put into it ahead of time to make it fun for
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   by beebmam 2mo ago

   At least for me now, I'm quite older than I used to be, and I don't want to have to read a lot of information or setting details ahead of time to be able to run a game as a GM.
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   by beebmam 2mo ago

   I find OSR style games to be too much effort as a GM. I much prefer GMing RPGs that make it easy to GM
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   by beebmam 2mo ago

   99.9% of people complaining about AI making the world a worse place would be fully happy with AI if they shared in the economic benefits of automation.
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   by beebmam 3mo ago

   I think you missed the core point of my post. Writing software, like most sorts of logical and language reasoning, is diminishing in value as a skill in this world. Technology is making these skills obsolete. For example, being able to effi
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   by beebmam 3mo ago

   A skill which is now done better by a machine is no longer a skill, it is technology. It is just a matter of time before most of our logical and language reasoning skills are replaced by frontier model-agents, which will at some point be fa
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    by beebmam 3mo ago

    Ideological capture is an often socially enforced prison
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    by beebmam 3mo ago

    Human PR review is a process smell
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    by beebmam 8mo ago

    Comments like these are why I don't browse HN nearly ever anymore
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    by beebmam 1y ago

    I just don't see why people use Python in the AI era. Statically typed languages help AI reason about code enormously during compilation.
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    by beebmam 1y ago

    Please say sike
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    by beebmam 1y ago

    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
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    by beebmam 1y ago

    We need something other than Linux on phones.
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    by beebmam 1y ago

    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.
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    by beebmam 1y ago

    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.
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    by beebmam 1y ago

    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
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    by beebmam 1y ago

    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.
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    by beebmam 1y ago

    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
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    by beebmam 1y ago

    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
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    by beebmam 1y ago

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

    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.
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    by beebmam 1y ago

    Thanks for this comment, i totally agree. Not to say this article isnt good; its great!
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    by beebmam 2y ago

    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?"
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    by beebmam 2y ago

    > 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 caus
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    by beebmam 2y ago

    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.
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    by beebmam 2y ago

    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
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    by beebmam 2y ago

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