Hacker News: pragmatic8

New comment by pragmatic8 in "RPG in a Box"

pragmatic8 — Wed, 14 May 2025 13:19:08 +0000

This has been bothering me for a few days; I’m 99% sure that my parent is a bot. If you take a look his profile, _all_ of his comments share a remarkably similar structure.

New comment by pragmatic8 in "Heap-overflowing Llama.cpp to RCE"

pragmatic8 — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 17:01:21 +0000

Why do you presume that the intelligence gap would converge to zero?

New comment by pragmatic8 in "Spline Distance Fields"

pragmatic8 — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 00:46:17 +0000

I looked at the Star Machine repository and it looks like its using SDL_gpu [1,2], so I am a little confused about where the 'CPU' rasteriser designation comes from.

[1] https://github.com/Aeva/star-machine/blob/excelsior/star_mac...

[2] https://wiki.libsdl.org/SDL3/CategoryGPU

New comment by pragmatic8 in "I went to 50 different dentists: almost all gave a different diagnosis (1997)"

pragmatic8 — Sun, 06 Aug 2023 20:57:41 +0000

The dental and vision “care” industry is rife with fraudsters to the extent that they are more akin to rackets.

New comment by pragmatic8 in "The Password Game"

pragmatic8 — Wed, 28 Jun 2023 00:42:44 +0000

Thanks for letting us know that you don’t waste your precious time with such frivolities as Wordle.

New comment by pragmatic8 in "Texas professor failed half of class after ChatGPT claimed it wrote their papers"

pragmatic8 — Wed, 17 May 2023 22:00:25 +0000

If I were a university student, how might I protect myself from being falsely accused of using ChatGPT?

New comment by pragmatic8 in "This site was styled by YouTube comments"

pragmatic8 — Thu, 09 Feb 2023 16:56:47 +0000

Interesting way to fuzz web rendering engines

New comment by pragmatic8 in "Show HN: Shite – little hot-reloadin' static site maker from shell"

pragmatic8 — Tue, 24 Jan 2023 01:41:25 +0000

Could you please expound on why you believe that to be depressing?

New comment by pragmatic8 in "Revisiting KDE"

pragmatic8 — Mon, 16 Jan 2023 01:30:02 +0000

Wait what? KDE & Gnome are only desktop environments and have no bearing on gpu / kb rgb drivers.

New comment by pragmatic8 in "Rigs of Rods: free and open source vehicle simulator that uses soft-body physics"

pragmatic8 — Tue, 27 Dec 2022 00:14:30 +0000

Link to the actual source code: https://github.com/RigsOfRods/rigs-of-rods/

New comment by pragmatic8 in "Visualizing Delaunay Triangulation"

pragmatic8 — Mon, 11 Jul 2022 23:36:54 +0000

Thanks for writing this article. I tried to implement this algorithm a few years ago, but had trouble wrapping my head around the quad edge data structure.

New comment by pragmatic8 in "Microsoft explains why you can't move Windows 11 Taskbar"

pragmatic8 — Mon, 11 Apr 2022 20:20:50 +0000

Did you bother to read the post? This does not work in Windows 11.

Furthermore, I suspect grandparent is either similarly confused or using registry hacks.

New comment by pragmatic8 in "Ask HN: Which algorithms based on biological ideas do you know?"

pragmatic8 — Fri, 08 Apr 2022 13:39:49 +0000

This should not have been downvoted; parent’s criticism is not unfounded. Take a look at the second section of this Wikipedia page:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_metaphor-based_metah...

New comment by pragmatic8 in "Ray Tracing for the TI-84 CE"

pragmatic8 — Thu, 10 Feb 2022 19:49:43 +0000

…but Arduino code IS c++ code. I don’t believe a distinction would make much sense.

New comment by pragmatic8 in "More than 1M fewer students are in college, the lowest numbers in 50 years"

pragmatic8 — Fri, 14 Jan 2022 19:53:12 +0000

I wouldn’t consider the rates here [1] low at all. Parent PLUS loans are sky high at 6.28%. I suppose you are talking about private loans but they have their own set of downsides.

[1] https://studentaid.gov/understand-aid/types/loans/interest-r...

New comment by pragmatic8 in "Yo mama's mama's mama's mama: our understanding of human origins"

pragmatic8 — Sun, 19 Dec 2021 20:36:05 +0000

Surely the same can be said about religions.

People start believing stories made by and they become facts all of a sudden.

New comment by pragmatic8 in "Show HN: Dear Intern"

pragmatic8 — Wed, 28 Jul 2021 17:32:28 +0000

It was just an email, no?

I’d feel a little weird if people that took down entire services were telling me that it’s “ok”.

New comment by pragmatic8 in "The worst volume control UI in the world (2017)"

pragmatic8 — Wed, 14 Jul 2021 15:08:53 +0000

It’s a plain bug expected of beta quality software.

No need for any drama.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Windows11/comments/ogchx7/volume_ba...

New comment by pragmatic8 in "Ask HN: Is Reddit working for you? (or is it down)"

pragmatic8 — Thu, 24 Jun 2021 22:03:15 +0000

Is it just me or has Reddit been down much more frequently than any other social media?

New comment by pragmatic8 in "iPadOS 15: Hands-on with Apple’s Weather app for iPad"

pragmatic8 — Thu, 17 Jun 2021 23:21:55 +0000

There is no actual weather app. This is a satirical article.