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blarg1··on “About one-third of Basecamp employees accepted buyouts today”
> Most people are very respectful and libs and conservatives can debate.

Can you work on curing cancer next?

blarg1··on Let us now praise tiny ants
Nah, they're a small all black ant that looks like this:

https://www.aepma.com.au/PestDetail/2/Black%20House%20Ant

Don't know if they're a different species or what tho.

blarg1··on Let us now praise tiny ants
Can't do that with our ants, they don't walk in a long line anymore, instead they appear as individuals moving about randomly without any obvious source.

Some other ones are really tiny with light orange colour so you can't easily spot them, and another type had a really strong carapace so when you squashed them they'd play dead for a while before walking off like nothing happened.

Pretty sure they're evolving.

blarg1··on Deliveroo April Fools' joke backfires in France
April Fools isn't funny anymore.
blarg1··on Dr. Seuss books deemed offensive will be delisted from eBay
Good morning fellow earthlings.
blarg1··on Scientists talked to people in their lucid dreams
I did it twice ages ago, I noticed I was in a dream after realising things that didn't make sense, I was on a bus to school when in reality it was the holidays.

At the time I was also staying at someone else's house so I had that weird feeling of sleeping under a different roof.

Also the whole time I was on the verge of waking up, I could feel my body and had to be careful not to move it while moving in my dream.

blarg1··on The unusual ways Western parents raise children
Funny the next article after this one is actually about that.

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20201231-how-the-way-you-...

blarg1··on Taking a Fall
suddenly
blarg1··on How do you tag a jellyfish? (2017)
very carefully
blarg1··on Ask HN: What are decentralized Twitter alternatives?
I think there needs to be a way of filtering out posts by certain users. Allow people to make lists to filter out the crazies, so other users if they want can use them.

And/or use an algorithm to classify posts, and allow users to pick and choose what kinds of stuff they want filtered.

Then by default have most of these filters on, but you can disable some of them if they go too far.

blarg1··on YouTube to remove content that alleges widespread election fraud
During the run up to the Iraq war, my history teacher in high school showed us front page articles and headlines about it, basically reading between the lines and extracting information that the casual reader didn't pick up on.
blarg1··on YouTube to remove content that alleges widespread election fraud
I remember reading an article about a patreon competitor that had visa etc refuse to do business with them.
blarg1··on 30 years later, QBasic is still the best
you should've seen my programs before I learned about arrays.
blarg1··on Ask HN: How to Think Clearly?
Exercise (eg go for a walk) seems to help.
blarg1··on Good sleep, good learning, good life
If anyone wants an easy way to wake up early, go camping.

You are forced to go to bed early once it gets dark, and once it's morning even if you're tired, it's too bright to sleep in.

blarg1··on The global fertility rate is falling
> Unless you are talking about interplanetary immigration.

Sure as long as they aren't chest bursters

blarg1··on A Thousand Pounds of Dynamite (2014)
Hate it when they write articles like this, makes it hard to skim it.
blarg1··on Manned fighter to face autonomous drone next year
Fascinating!
blarg1··on Casual Shadertoy Path Tracing 2: Image Improvement and Glossy Reflections
Funny when I was learning raytracing, I thought it was going to look real fancy, but ended up with graphics no different to what I was already doing in basic opengl, except for the reflections and shadows.
blarg1··on LinkedIn Staffers Go All-Lives-Matter During ‘Dumpster Fire’ Meeting on Racism
> In 2017, Google fired an employee who argued against the company’s diversity hiring initiatives by circulating a memo claiming women are “biologically” less likely to succeed in tech.
blarg1··on Twitter Says CEO Dorsey Informed in Advance of Decision to Tag Trump Tweet
I hear trump doing a bunch of outlandish tweets, then suddenly this hits, seems like it was planned.
blarg1··on Executive Order on Preventing Online Censorship
or mayb they can't figure out what he's saying :)
blarg1··on Psychological effects of coding style (2016)
I've been using Upper Camel Case recently, been causing me problems with having to name my classes and instances differently.

eg previously I would do:

    MyClass myClass
blarg1··on Jianruiying, the Special Forces of the Qing Dynasty
Chinese actually fought there and won at one point.
blarg1··on Show HN: Top Fantasy Reads – Fantasy books Reddit is reading
I haven't been very impressed with any fantasy novels except for the Game Of Thrones series, and even that series has started petering out.

Only other one which I liked was The Sundering series by Jacqueline Carey, and mainly for the dialogue between two of the characters.

blarg1··on Early humans in Africa may have interbred with an extinct species: new research
I tried explaining that to the judge ...
blarg1··on Condors or Lead Ammunition? (2015)
just use depleted uranium
blarg1··on How to play with people who are better than you
I use to play during lunch at college, but sometimes there were only asians to play against who hold the bat upside down and hit the ball so fast you could barely see it.

After a while I managed to return the ball back and forth a couple of times, maybe they were going easy on me tho :)

blarg1··on Is virtue signalling a perversion of morality?
complaining about people complaining about virtue signalling is virtue signalling
blarg1··on Vulkan Progress Report #5
It does have vec3, mat3, mat3x4 and the camera does have things like raycasts.

It's been a few months since I tried godot so I forget all the missing math stuff that made me give up, but I remember there were a bunch of small annoyances due to the lack of mat4/vec4 like unable to use homogeneous coordinates

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