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nightowl_games··on Anthem BCBS calls off surgery anesthesia cap after UH CEO murdered
Even using the term "We" here seems so casual and sick to me.

"We" vs "Fascists". Wow.

Reading your final statement "the center is okay with fascists' makes me think maybe you are a troll farm member trying to stir up anger and division.

nightowl_games··on Training myself to run farther with Strava's API and an IoT dog feeder of M&Ms
I started intermittent fasting where I would only eat breakfast after running on an elliptical for an hour.

I got my butt to the gym pretty quick in the day because I was hungry

nightowl_games··on Valve dev fixes 3D lighting, exposes flawed graphics card math
I wish this article explained the specifics of the problem and solution in a little bit more detail. Like show me the actual math!
nightowl_games··on History of rat control in Alberta
So you'd see rats as a kid? Honestly I don't even know how big/scary they are. I feel like I'd find them frightening.

Only harmless Gardiner snakes here. My dad always hated em tho. His childhood house was infested with em.

There's mountain lions roaming the plains here and they are scary AF. I find them even scarier here because you can see them from a long ways away, and you can tell when they are stalking you. It's safer, because you can see em and they know you see em, but it's scary when it's following you from 500M away.

And yeah, it's extremely cold here. Cold here today. It gets colder here than in the Arctic some parts of winter. It's life threatening. There's a kind of fear of nature present with everyone for about 4 months every year, November - February.

In the US, northern Idaho and Montana are beautiful, people in the states are sleeping on that part of their country.

The best part about growing up on a farm was probably watching my dad wake up every day at 5 and work until sunset with no boss and only his own brain and braun.

Really made me a fiercely independent person.

nightowl_games··on History of rat control in Alberta
I'm also from Saskatchewan, cheers
nightowl_games··on History of rat control in Alberta
I grew up on a farm in Saskatchewan, and have never seen a rat in my life. I've seen plenty of mice, and I've seen a handful of rat traps, but I've never actually seen a rat.

And I grew up on a farm in the 90s, no TV, no video games. I was outside shooting pellet guns, catching snakes, feeding kittens, riding dirt bikes my whole childhood. No rats.

nightowl_games··on Khronos Group adopts the Slang shading language
I usually agree with this sentiment, but for some reason I think this language might just need time to become more known. I like it more than "HLSL" or "SpirV" for instance... Idk maybe I'm just biased
nightowl_games··on Long Fatigue: The exhaustion that lingers after an infection
You sure you don't have sleep apnea? Try heavy doses of vitamin D? Like 4x daily recommended? Ice baths/wim Hoff breathing techniques? I feel for you, I'm just brain dumping all my tangential knowledge.
nightowl_games··on Intel gets up to $7.9B award for U.S. chip-plant construction
This was extremely well said. I'm impressed by your eloquence here. Are you primarily a communicator at work? I'm curious... Bravo
nightowl_games··on Long Fatigue: The exhaustion that lingers after an infection
There is some evidence that Omega 3s lower cardiac inflammation. If I was you I'd think about self experimenting with sauna & cold baths as well.

I think you'd want to eat an extremely clean diet to lower inflammation and get your immune system to turn off. I'm no expert, but that's the way I'd think about it

nightowl_games··on Both KDE and GNOME to offer official distros
Fedora and Ubuntu have felt like the official distros for a long time.
nightowl_games··on [dead]
The Guardian has run so many anti Musk articles that at this point it's sus.

Musk is wild and I get disliking lots of aspects of him, but I think Musk Derangement Syndrome is a real thing.

Some people are simply way too black and white in their thinking.

Like "embarrassed to drive a Tesla" because of Musk is imo too far down the rabbit hole. Evaluate the car as a car. Or at least that's how I approach the world.

nightowl_games··on Ukraine has become a breeding ground for lethal drug-resistant bacteria
Are you serious? Jeffrey Sachs is not just some guy... I think he's about as qualified in geopolitics as anyone can be.
nightowl_games··on Ukraine has become a breeding ground for lethal drug-resistant bacteria
From what source do you base your certainty?

For example, Jeffrey Sachs has a very different opinion than you. From whom can I hear the steel man case for your statements?

nightowl_games··on Goodbye, Rust. I wish you success but I'm back to C++ (sorry, it is a rant)
Kinda.

The vast majority of c++ I encounter is simple orthodox c++.

No one I know cares about new features in c++ and bemoans having to ever write a template.

No one really cares about bulletproofing types, ie: copy/move constructors and all that stuff.

I'm sure it's different at big companies but the vast vast majority of c++ is just simple procedural code.

nightowl_games··on Goodbye, Rust. I wish you success but I'm back to C++ (sorry, it is a rant)
"Few decades".

Im thinking more like at least a century.

nightowl_games··on Most American farmers have second jobs to stay afloat
As someone who came from rural Canada, and who's dad is a farmer, and whose father in law is a farmer, I don't think this is true in Canada. That being said, your smart to do something in the winter time, trucking is an easy pickup for those cold months...
nightowl_games··on Show HN: I'm making a spiritual successor to Ski Free that runs in a browser
Glad to hear it.
nightowl_games··on Slouch: Posture panic in modern America
Yeah I've been lifting consistently basically my whole adult life - with coaches, and squatting your body weight with proper form is difficult. Maybe 1/10 people I see regularly go to the gym actually squat at full depth. I can squat my body weight, but it took me a very long time and multiple coaches to get there with proper form.

People need to set realistic goals, like squatting _no added weight_. Seriously, squat with no bar and get your butt below your knees. That alone is a serious movement, you can get fit with just that.

nightowl_games··on Ask HN: What are your most regretted tech purchases?
Dang I almost bought that machine but got an XPS instead. Worked great with Linux.
nightowl_games··on Show HN: I'm making a spiritual successor to Ski Free that runs in a browser
Ahh. I can iterate on that, thanks.
nightowl_games··on Show HN: I'm making a spiritual successor to Ski Free that runs in a browser
Try it again! I added 'pixel perfect' camera & player position snapping, as well as interpolated player movement between the tick rate and your monitor's refresh rate.
nightowl_games··on Show HN: I'm making a spiritual successor to Ski Free that runs in a browser
I see. There is a 'skid' where you send some snow flying, you gotta turn hard and exceed some kinda internal max angle between your 'skis' and your desired turn angle. I think that skid logic could be improved. Try turning really fast!
nightowl_games··on Show HN: I'm making a spiritual successor to Ski Free that runs in a browser
Carving feedback eh? Can you give me some more ideas on that?
nightowl_games··on Show HN: I'm making a spiritual successor to Ski Free that runs in a browser
That means a lot to me, thank you.
nightowl_games··on Show HN: I'm making a spiritual successor to Ski Free that runs in a browser
That sucks! It's hard to find an Ad Network that works inside of our games. Our games are normally featured on poki.com or crazygames.com which have their own systems without that aggressive popup. Sorry you saw that, I've never seen that before.
nightowl_games··on Show HN: I'm making a spiritual successor to Ski Free that runs in a browser
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xo3z9IjGRSo

My colleague made this 3 years ago before we released our first game.

Basically we forked Godot, setup VSCode to compile it, and add new classes to a <repo>/modules/<project_name> folder and it works great. Since this video we've made a suite of macros that allow us to bind variables and methods to the ClassDB in 1 line each. Way nicer than default godot technique for adding new variables/methods.

nightowl_games··on Show HN: I'm making a spiritual successor to Ski Free that runs in a browser
Wtf

I've never seen that before.

Are you in the EU?

nightowl_games··on Show HN: I'm making a spiritual successor to Ski Free that runs in a browser
Yeah I have a node for Godot that does that. I think I'm going to use CPU side stuff for the particles instead of shaders instead... And the audio you can load ahead of time as well
nightowl_games··on Show HN: I'm making a spiritual successor to Ski Free that runs in a browser
1. Yeah your probably right but I want to make the chairlift "good"/"real" somehiw.

2. Yes.

3. Yes!

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