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blarg1··on Show HN: Fleet – Experimental build tool for Rust that’s up to 5x faster
I installed it via the cargo install method, do I have to do anything else like modify cargo config files?
blarg1··on “Can it run Doom” will never be the same, thanks to new ray-tracing mod
Been waiting for someone to do this for a while. Really want to see this section in e1m2 https://youtu.be/lNT0fHva724?t=62 raytraced. That place really scared me when I was a kid.
blarg1··on Buttons as Finite Automata
I vaguely remember when I was a kid our hifi system had buttons like that, they were all round cylindrical buttons
blarg1··on Australia’s Clever Birds Did Not Consent to This Science Experiment
We had this super aggressive magpie that we fed occasionally, it would sometimes swoop me, sometimes clip my head with its wing tip and then land in front of me, expecting food.

Not sure if it didn't recognise me at first and aborted its bombing, or if it was messing with me.

blarg1··on Stainless steel leaches nickel and chromium into foods during cooking (2013)
Yep I'm going back to my mercury and lead alloy pot.
blarg1··on The decline and fall of Java on the desktop
I still have nightmares from back then.
blarg1··on Russian-manufactured armored vehicle vulnerability in urban combat (1997)
> some kind of projectile distance-sensing tech

I'd assumed it would be a timer.

blarg1··on A Vicious Cycle: The Dangerous Dehumanisation of Cyclists
Here in Australia, I was once riding down a main road, nearly keeping up with the few cars on the road, someone drove past me and blasted the horn for about 10 seconds.

Don't know what their problem was.

blarg1··on Cassowary – Run Windows Apps on Linux using a VM as if they were native apps
Cool I'll give it a try.
blarg1··on Cassowary – Run Windows Apps on Linux using a VM as if they were native apps
Probably because people like me can't be bothered figuring out how to setup libvirt/Kvm/Qemu.
blarg1··on Man found guilty of ‘grossly offensive’ tweet
He's probably a German.
blarg1··on How bad is QWERTY, really? A review of the literature, such as it is
Could try a ball mouse, the one I use, has the thumb on the ball, and the normal fingers for the buttons.
blarg1··on Geometry from Another Universe
I wish someone had told me about these dreams before I went to school/uni, so I wouldn't have ever slacked off causing me to have these worries in the first place.
blarg1··on My out-of-body experience in a sensory deprivation tank
eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
blarg1··on Ask HN: Why does Cloudflare/hCaptcha care so much about buses, boats and trains?
it keeps asking me to click the images with john connor.
blarg1··on Chemical emitted by babies could make men more docile, women more aggressive
Ha I see my brother doing that to his youngest, grabs him as he's walking by and smells the top of his head, which really annoys him :)
blarg1··on How to help a programming student get unstuck
we had a teacher that would type our questions into google (or whatever search engine we had back then) for us :)
blarg1··on Jeff Varasano's NY Pizza Recipe (2008)
I've done it on the grate, just don't use oil, it's not necessary and will make your often smoke+smell and will blacken the grate
blarg1··on Why SteamOS Switched from Debian to Arch Linux
I use to have arch break a lot because I only updated every couple of months, fixed it every time by looking at the forums.

I don't seem to have those problems any more though.

blarg1··on Vboxsf fixes for 5.14-1
I had an external harddrive with exfat that lost all its partition information.

Worked one day, then few days later plugged it in and it was all gone.

blarg1··on Open 3D Engine
Ah I got excited for a second, I'll stick with ue4 if its only EC
blarg1··on RenderingNG: Ready for the next generation of web content
how fast they bang their keyboard
blarg1··on Crazy Conclusions in Early Childhood
I vaguely remember when I was less than 4 years, where things had a dream like quality.

A butterfly landed on my shoulder and I didn't see it take off so I thought it had gone through my skin into my body. Freaked me out a bit :(

blarg1··on Your CPU may have slowed down on Wednesday
Does anyone know what could potentially be accessed through these exploits?

Like could we just not use the browser's password manager or use a separate browser for sensitive websites (eg banking)?

blarg1··on Japan's government plans to encourage 4-day workweek, but experts split
1 to paint the line and 7 to make sure it's straight
blarg1··on Spectre mitigations murder userspace performance
I wonder if I would be safe to use this if I removed all my sensitive passwords from the browser's password manager and/or harddrive?

Does anyone know what is at risk from these exploits?

blarg1··on Avoid News, Part 2: What the Stock Market Taught Me about News
During the run up to iraq war, our history teacher would bring in the newspaper and deconstruct the headlines.
blarg1··on UFOs Are Real
This channel is pretty good at debunking a lot of these:

https://www.youtube.com/c/MickWest/videos

blarg1··on Developers Who Use Spaces Make More Money Than Those Who Use Tabs (2017)
What if I use both?
blarg1··on Is your son a computer hacker? (2001)
Might as well boot from the linux drive and add a grub entry for windows.
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