Hacker News: pragmatic

New comment by pragmatic in "Claude Desktop spawns 1.8 GB Hyper-V VM on every launch, even for chat-only use"

pragmatic — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 13:34:29 +0000

Yes, two decades ago.

Docs was acquired (writely)

New comment by pragmatic in "When AI Builds Itself: Our progress toward recursive self-improvement"

pragmatic — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 20:31:15 +0000

Somebody read/watched too much Casey Muratori.

New comment by pragmatic in "American capitalism has taken an apocalyptic turn"

pragmatic — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 13:58:36 +0000

It happened over Covid.

All those checks to business owners and farmers. Huge slush funds.

Californians used it to buy houses in smaller cities across the country.

Not doubled but a windfall of cash into accounts for the wealthy none the less.

New comment by pragmatic in "USDA Projects Smallest US Wheat Harvest Since 1972 Due to Plains Drought"

pragmatic — Thu, 14 May 2026 15:01:46 +0000

Wheat isn’t grown in the same places that beans grow.

If you can, you’re rotating beans and corn every year. (“Roundup ready” of course)

Wheat is on the marginal drier land. Not that they couldn’t plant wheat there but beans are way more profitable and so they don’t.

The plains is by definition more arid, marginal land a step up from pasture/grazing.

A lot of traditional wheat/sunflower/barley/oats has gone over to beans and corn bc roundup and GMO.

On my family’s farm I don’t remember the last time we had wheat crop but that was our staple for like 50 years.

New comment by pragmatic in "USDA Projects Smallest US Wheat Harvest Since 1972 Due to Plains Drought"

pragmatic — Thu, 14 May 2026 14:54:49 +0000

No.

New comment by pragmatic in "U.S. Debt Tops 100% of GDP"

pragmatic — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 15:10:57 +0000

The US is All Keynes All The Time.

New comment by pragmatic in "CEOs admit AI had no impact on employment or productivity"

pragmatic — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 02:29:25 +0000

Reducing opex to invest more into capex (at least for companies that can like MSFT etc)?

New comment by pragmatic in "Microsoft hasn't had a coherent GUI strategy since Petzold"

pragmatic — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 03:08:11 +0000

How is he dunking on .net?

I think one of his main points is server .net was (and is) great.

But the UI part of it was cloudy.

I see it as complimentary to the post not contradicting it.

New comment by pragmatic in "Microsoft hasn't had a coherent GUI strategy since Petzold"

pragmatic — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 02:15:09 +0000

The guy getting std’s from Russian girls who Warren Buffet doesn’t talk to anymore.

That Bill Gates?

Seems he might have other priorities these days?

New comment by pragmatic in "Decisions that eroded trust in Azure – by a former Azure Core engineer"

pragmatic — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 18:04:42 +0000

Lot of SMBs run sql server and .net

lift and shift into the cloud used to be the path of last resistance on Azure.

New comment by pragmatic in "Decisions that eroded trust in Azure – by a former Azure Core engineer"

pragmatic — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 18:02:46 +0000

I still remember the day the disks dissappeared on the prod db running on gcp.

New comment by pragmatic in "Untaxed Wealth of Richest 0.1% Is More Than Assets of World’s Poorest Half"

pragmatic — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 12:44:43 +0000

What is property tax?

New comment by pragmatic in "Figma's MCP Update Reflects a Larger Industry Shift"

pragmatic — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 18:46:06 +0000

The stock is tanking. Their moat is small to non-existent.

Kind of crazy considering how while teams (even dev) were forced into using it be the designers.

I haven’t even seen it mentioned at work recently.

New comment by pragmatic in "Why are executives enamored with AI, but ICs aren't?"

pragmatic — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 14:48:28 +0000

It’s manager speak for “less than.”

The manager class sees worker units as fungible.

New comment by pragmatic in "Should QA exist?"

pragmatic — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 14:00:24 +0000

Should Accounting exist?

Should Legal exist?

Should Facilities exist?

Surely your average employee could own each of these functions.

New comment by pragmatic in "Regular army and reserve components enlistment program: Summary of change"

pragmatic — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 13:07:35 +0000

And the worst job market maybe ever for that age group?

New comment by pragmatic in "Regular army and reserve components enlistment program: Summary of change"

pragmatic — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 13:03:16 +0000

But that decade includes the first Trump administration also.

I don’t think that supports your argument.

What is probably happening is the job crisis for young people.

The army is once again an attractive job.

New comment by pragmatic in "404 Deno CEO not found"

pragmatic — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 18:07:02 +0000

Is Deno a classic second system syndrome project?

Seems so. All the breaks from the first system in the name of “we’re doing it right this time” probably killed the momentum.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second-system_effect

Even the best and brightest of us are still human.

New comment by pragmatic in "An industrial piping contractor on Claude Code [video]"

pragmatic — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 15:10:40 +0000

How is a mechanical engineer a “trade worker.”

Most engineers have to take at least one programming class in college.

New comment by pragmatic in "Show HN: Claude Code skills that build complete Godot games"

pragmatic — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 20:55:13 +0000

I don’t think the web output works with c# currently.

Be happy to find out I’m wrong.