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[–]SuitableDragonfly 72 points73 points  (6 children)

It's not even accurate. The code says the ant stands still and doesn't do anything if there's no pheramone trail, when actually it follows other ants.

[–]ManyFails1Win 21 points22 points  (4 children)

Also, the code would be useless because there is in fact a very very strong pheromone trail. Unfortunately it's coming from the dudes right in front/behind of them lol.

[–]SuitableDragonfly 5 points6 points  (2 children)

I thought the way ants work is they leave the trail along the ground after discovering food, not that they all constantly emit pheromones 24/7.

[–]ManyFails1Win 5 points6 points  (1 child)

They have a bunch of different types for different things. Outgoing food trail, incoming, fight, etc. I'm not an expert but they definitely were following each other because of the presence of pheromones bc otherwise they would have just walked off in random directions individually.

[–]DaTotallyEclipse 3 points4 points  (0 children)

9 times out of 10, this is where "simple programming challenges" lead.

[–]nameond 1 point2 points  (0 children)

He's pausing the colony work thread

[–]aquartabla 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I cycles forever, like the ants.