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New comment by blarg1 in "Solitaire simulator for finding the best strategy: Current record is 8.590%"

blarg1 — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 11:49:54 +0000

my brother who never really had much interest in computer games, could always get the high score in any game I was playing eg pinball, racing

I'd spend ages to get a point above his score, and he'd come back and get an even higher one.

He did the same thing to my dad with solitaire, my dad plays it everyday and was proud of his high score. Then my brother who was just visiting, beat my dads highscore by a huge margin, and years later my dad is still annoyed he can't beat it.

New comment by blarg1 in "IDF killed Gaza aid workers at point blank range in 2025 massacre: Report"

blarg1 — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 19:22:42 +0000

> The British Army was very upset that ragtag riflemen in the American colonies kept running into the woods and shooting from behind cover instead of standing in a Proper Formation

didn't skirmishers always do that though?

New comment by blarg1 in "Will Americans Get over Their Fear of Eating Animal Blood?"

blarg1 — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 19:11:56 +0000

The idea of eating pudding made out of blood sounds gross to me, but I love dipping chips in the juices that pour out of a cooked steak.

New comment by blarg1 in "Man accidentally gains control of 7k robot vacuums"

blarg1 — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 10:54:17 +0000

i dont want any smegging toast!

New comment by blarg1 in "How Lewis Carroll computed determinants (2023)"

blarg1 — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 17:23:16 +0000

That explains Major Zero and his organisation Cipher in the metal gear series

New comment by blarg1 in "Jonathan Blow has spent the past decade designing 1,400 puzzles"

blarg1 — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 16:52:39 +0000

What did you think of the puzzles?

New comment by blarg1 in "Jonathan Blow has spent the past decade designing 1,400 puzzles"

blarg1 — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 16:44:09 +0000

> women were a huge population of programmers

wasn't that there were a lot of women working as operators, but that job went away along with the punch cards.

New comment by blarg1 in "Steam Machine"

blarg1 — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 04:48:42 +0000

> You still cannot play a game C from my library while I play the game A from my own library.

I just tried it, and I could.

New comment by blarg1 in "Yt-dlp: External JavaScript runtime now required for full YouTube support"

blarg1 — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 13:35:15 +0000

I started after channels started removing their own videos because they either didn't think the videos were good enough or they had a mental break and deleted their channel. So good stuff just gone.

New comment by blarg1 in "Pain Points of OCaml"

blarg1 — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 16:39:44 +0000

A recent one I had was needing to include lifetimes to having to atleast specify the anon lifetime with the underscore. I forget what the actual circumstance was.

New comment by blarg1 in "Over $70T of inherited wealth over next decade will widen inequality, economists"

blarg1 — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 16:36:22 +0000

I wonder what would happen if your parents didn't leave the house to anyone, and you don't claim it but squat it.

New comment by blarg1 in "Four-year wedding crasher mystery solved"

blarg1 — Sun, 14 Sep 2025 14:39:54 +0000

I was going to my cousins wedding, and accidentally went in the wrong building hosting a different wedding party, and a bunch of people near the entrance looked like slightly off doppelgangers of my cousins and uncles. Like I walked in on an alternate reality.

New comment by blarg1 in "Shallow water is dangerous too"

blarg1 — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 14:43:15 +0000

Even without the board, it's just understanding the water, and knowing all the tricks for swimming in the surf.

Like you hear people become exhausted and drown, when it is just so easy to relax and float around, even with waves washing over you.

New comment by blarg1 in "Show HN: Ten years of running every day, visualized"

blarg1 — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 07:02:45 +0000

I started walking everyday 1-4km, and then switched to jogging 1-2.5 km everyday. It built up the muscles in my back so I no longer slouch, also fixed constipation issues I was having.

New comment by blarg1 in "Is an Intel N100 or N150 a better value than a Raspberry Pi?"

blarg1 — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 16:36:06 +0000

Currently with the latest pi os version, moonlight streaming's video hardware support doesn't work.

While it's the the fault of the moonlight devs (also you can compile it yourself to get it working), the binary package version has been broken for 2+ months now.

If I was using archlinux on x86 I wouldn't have problems like this.

New comment by blarg1 in "The 90% Gravity Problem: Why We Tend to Quit Right Before the Finish Line"

blarg1 — Sat, 28 Jun 2025 03:44:57 +0000

Solving problems even if it's not fun seems to motivate me, but once they're solved, I find it hard to finish the implementation.

New comment by blarg1 in "Ovld – Efficient and featureful multiple dispatch for Python"

blarg1 — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 09:54:49 +0000

Makes naming functions easier, eg multiply(mat3,vec3), multiply(mat3,mat3), etc

If the language is dynamically typed, you can use it for polymorphism.

New comment by blarg1 in "How a hawk learned to use traffic signals to hunt more successfully"

blarg1 — Tue, 27 May 2025 15:55:02 +0000

I once threw a tennis ball straight up, just as a bird happened to be flying past, it rolled right and dodged it by a cm.

New comment by blarg1 in "Sleep apnea pill shows striking success in large clinical trial"

blarg1 — Mon, 26 May 2025 19:15:37 +0000

> 3) Losing weight — YES, sleep apnea is worsened by excess weight

That solved it for me.

New comment by blarg1 in "“There are people who can see and others who cannot even look”"

blarg1 — Mon, 19 May 2025 15:58:53 +0000

same, here in Australia