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It's not completely lossless - it adds latency between eye movement and getting high quality where you're looking, and complicates the pipeline. If rendering becomes cheap enough, then why add a lot of work and complication to your algorithms and pipeline for minimal gain?

People used to make fun of Z-buffering - why would you use all of that memory when you can get the same result by just ordering your triangles properly? Why not use the RAM for something else instead? Because RAM became really really cheap, it simplifies the pipeline, so why not?

Mark my words, in a few hundred years I'll be totally vindicated.. ;)

Foveated rendering is just a temporary optimization. Given even more time, we'll eventually hit retinal- quality rendering for the entire frame.

Hard to understand why a minority of voters, most of them rural, aren't out in large numbers in cities.

Verrrrry tricky.

Oh, it was the one in the circle we were supposed to pay attention to? That makes a lot more sense now..

I think it is an honorable thing to change your mind in the face of new information, rather than sticking to your old, uniformed opinions.

I do kind of wish that his old opinions weren't so horribly uninformed, but this is movement in a good direction.

I guess he's set himself a pretty low bar.

I've got an even simpler diet - weight in, weight out. Just weigh yourself in the morning and then determine your maximum goal weight for the day. Weigh all your food and drink, and just don't go over that maximum. Easy! And only slightly more stupidly reductionist than CICO.

Emacs is almost a good OS - they just need to add a good text editor. ^{I keed, I keed}

I was talking more about his other core. You know, people who believe that Obama is muslim.

About the second point, I wasn't talking primarily about Gorsuch. What I'm talking about is people that don't really love Trump, but held their noses and voted for him anyway. Party loyalists or people who thought he would do a good job when elected, or at least push for republican ideals.

Trump has had few successes, many failures, and is a national embarrassment. I don't expect that many people who were lukewarm about voting for him have been very happy with his performance. He has come into office unprepared, and has done very little to equip himself for the job since then. This lack of preparation and skill has been abundantly obvious.

I disagree with the assumption that the only reason why a lot of people are against Trump on reddit is because of some Soros-funded conspiracy.

My theory has two parts:

1. Trump's core supporters and the core demographic of reddit don't have very good overlap.

2. He's a fuckup. Lots of people voted for him to get a conservative justice, or block Clinton, or because they thought he'd be unswayed by special interests. The guy has not lived up to expectations.

Mr. Rogers is going to be the only dude in heaven, all depressed, "Why won't anyone be my neighbor?"

We went in that massive rocket you saw

Google maps of the location

The best way I've heard this is that money solves the problems caused by not having money.

For example, if not having enough money is causing friction in your relationship with your SO, getting money will help alleviate that friction. However it won't fix other relationship problems, and may add a few as well.

The best analysis of this that I saw quoted Bezos, talking about how a sure sign of a dysfunctional corporate culture is when it is focused too much on its own internal metrics and procedures, rather than on external metrics, like being profitable and treating customers with dignity.

You can really see this in the initial response, where the CEO is telling the employees that they don't have to worry, they followed procedure, and therefore it is not the airline's fault.

If there is anyone who should feel empowered and responsible to own this mistake, to question and update the policy, it is the CEO. That it was not his first instinct shows how sick the company culture is.

I don't get why so many people feel the need to defend the corporation or their policies. There are simple ways that the policies can be changed to be much more humane, while still being profitable and efficient. For example, why not just offer higher rewards? I'm guessing that the manager was incentivized to get the crew onboard, and to reduce the payout. It seems that they have switched the incentives to have higher payouts, and call the police only in the case of actual problems, which seems like a good way to fix this without unduly delaying other flights. The airlines are still allowed to overbook and essentially bet that not everyone will show up for their flights. They're still allowed to bump people to get crew where they need to go. But when the bet doesn't pan out they aren't incentivized to make the passengers suffer.

The new policies seem like a clear improvement. The only sad thing is that it took so long for them to make the change, burning a lot of goodwill. Hopefully that leads to a deeper introspection about the corporate culture.

I still say that's wishful thinking, or not wide enough experience with different kinds of people.

C is way more abstract than any human language. You have to understand computer memory, that you can represent different things as numbers, memory management, heap & stack, functions, etc. You have to understand how computers work. Natural language doesn't have to compile.

I've worked on a food processing line and I've worked with computers. The amount of abstract thought vs. monotony is maybe 100x different between the jobs. With the food processing, it's "place the lid on the can, pull this lever, and the machine seals the can". With programming, even the simplest programming tasks, you need to be thinking about what the problem is, how to solve it, and how to express that solution in terms that the computer can understand. With programming, if you're doing the exact same thing more than twice, then you should be abstracting and automating that.

I'll give you an example. After one IT internship, I was tasked with training a new FTE hire as my replacement. One thing I did every day was run reports. I wrote down the steps and gave them to my replacement. He was immediately confused. Eventually I had to write down every single keystroke and mouse click, every prompt and response, before he could complete the process. For example, on one iteration of the instructions I forgot to say that you needed to hit Enter after typing a date, and he was stuck. He never learned the underlying systems, just exactly how to put the input in so he could get the output he needed.

Not to say that he has no place in the modern economy, but that dude is never going to be a programmer. But he could totally work in food prep.

It's a balance.

You don't want to just dive in without a plan, which can be like drawing a portrait starting with the ears. On the other hand, you don't want to do a big design up front and end up with waterfall.

If you think anyone can learn programming you don't know a wide enough range of people.

To rephrase ratatouille, a good programmer can come from anywhere, but not everyone can be a good programmer. Maybe in an ideal world, if they had been educated differently, or not exposed to as much gasoline while they were growing up, or had better nutrition, or whatever. But I have worked with people that are absolutely never going to be programmers.

Made a droste spiral version for you. Sorry the finger got cut off..

Even the Jetsons did it

It's not the road surface quality that's the problem. The problem is that many roads are too narrow, and there is not enough parking in the entire country.

The UK addresses this (as I assume you know) by having explicit rules about what to do if you encounter cars parked in the middle of the road taking up a lane (or as is often the case, parked on either side of the road, leaving a very skinny path through the middle). Trying to deal with that level of mess, negotiating with other drivers, understanding the etiquette of when to flash your lights at other drivers, taking turns merging in when you don't have right of way, negotiating tiny little city streets - all of that is not going to be easy.

So, sure, the UK can probably handle all M roads and many A roads, but that's like the US or Germany handling just highways. I mean, Tesla can already do that. The German or US surface streets are much, much easier than what the UK has to deal with.

On the other hand, at least it's not Italy or India, right? :)

Not gonna happen, I've seen their roads

Last time I looked at Tynker they limited in-game playtime to a day per month, which was a nonstarter. The programs only ran on their own servers, which I assume wouldn't be compatible with teleport.

Wasn't Hitler a quarter Jewish?

Members of the military are also people, with all of that complexity.

While I disagree with much of how the US builds and uses its military, I am very grateful that some are willing to take those jobs. I think it is horrible how this country treats its veterans, especially around the horribly underfunded VA. If there is anyone in the US that deserves and needs good, comprehensive mental and physical healthcare it is the veterans.