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pragmatic8··on RPG in a Box
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.
pragmatic8··on Heap-overflowing Llama.cpp to RCE
Why do you presume that the intelligence gap would converge to zero?
pragmatic8··on Spline Distance Fields
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

pragmatic8··on I went to 50 different dentists: almost all gave a different diagnosis (1997)
The dental and vision “care” industry is rife with fraudsters to the extent that they are more akin to rackets.
pragmatic8··on The Password Game
Thanks for letting us know that you don’t waste your precious time with such frivolities as Wordle.
pragmatic8··on Texas professor failed half of class after ChatGPT claimed it wrote their papers
If I were a university student, how might I protect myself from being falsely accused of using ChatGPT?
pragmatic8··on This site was styled by YouTube comments
Interesting way to fuzz web rendering engines
pragmatic8··on Show HN: Shite – little hot-reloadin' static site maker from shell
Could you please expound on why you believe that to be depressing?
pragmatic8··on Revisiting KDE
Wait what? KDE & Gnome are only desktop environments and have no bearing on gpu / kb rgb drivers.
pragmatic8··on Rigs of Rods: free and open source vehicle simulator that uses soft-body physics
Link to the actual source code: https://github.com/RigsOfRods/rigs-of-rods/
pragmatic8··on Visualizing Delaunay Triangulation
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.
pragmatic8··on Microsoft explains why you can't move Windows 11 Taskbar
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.

pragmatic8··on Ask HN: Which algorithms based on biological ideas do you know?
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...

pragmatic8··on Ray Tracing for the TI-84 CE
…but Arduino code IS c++ code. I don’t believe a distinction would make much sense.
pragmatic8··on More than 1M fewer students are in college, the lowest numbers in 50 years
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...

pragmatic8··on Yo mama's mama's mama's mama: our understanding of human origins
Surely the same can be said about religions.

People start believing stories made by <prophet/whomever> and they become facts all of a sudden.

pragmatic8··on Show HN: Dear Intern
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”.

pragmatic8··on The worst volume control UI in the world (2017)
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...

pragmatic8··on Ask HN: Is Reddit working for you? (or is it down)
Is it just me or has Reddit been down much more frequently than any other social media?
pragmatic8··on iPadOS 15: Hands-on with Apple’s Weather app for iPad
There is no actual weather app. This is a satirical article.
pragmatic8··on Mars Helicopter Lands Safely After Serious In-Flight Anomaly
Why would a smartphone CPU preclude the use of an RTOS?
pragmatic8··on FDA authorizes Pfizer vaccine for kids age 12 to 15
Yeah. Nil.
pragmatic8··on As U.S. schools shuttered, student mental health cratered, survey finds
Well, if the person is healthy and young, I can’t imagine why it’d be the latter.
pragmatic8··on GitHub, fuck your name change
I’m not sure pandering to their comfort is the right thing to do here. Why are they associating “master branch” with slavery in the first place?
pragmatic8··on Don’t blindly prefer emplace_back to push_back
Well, that piece of code is a perfectly valid way to initialize a variable in C++.
pragmatic8··on Deno v1.8 – support for WebGPU, private modules, Intl, and much more
Indeed. I find this to be a rather strange opinion; in terms of the language itself, I can’t really say one is better than the other for expressing mathematics.
pragmatic8··on 152kb WebAssembly interpreter that runs on six OSs with Cosmopolitan
Indeed. I am sincerely confused as to why people are so enamored with this.
pragmatic8··on I Miss My Bar
Indeed. It truly is mind-boggling that certain governments seem like they want to literally obliterate the virus and drive the number of cases all the way to zero. Heck, why don't they enforce a quarantine until the common cold disappears as well?
pragmatic8··on How to Get Startup Ideas
The thought of someone actually buying an _idea_ that you have for a startup is hilarious.
pragmatic8··on How Boston Dynamics Taught Its Robots to Dance
To all that are wetting their diapers at the _ridiculous_ thought of robots hunting you down (a rather pompous thought in my opinion — why would anyone expend any resources to kill _you_?): please remain in your bunkers for the sake of society.