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I can only speak for the USA, but the first-past-the-post voting plus a very strong bias towards rural areas and former slave-owner states, results in a government that poorly represents any of its constituents.

I don't know if even right-wingers like this age verification crap, maybe they put up with it from Republicans so they can vote against abortion and I put up with it from Democrats so I can vote for abortion.

Of course, if you vote for a third party, you're spoilering your side. Every country is a group project run by underpaid people to try to please millions of uninformed haters. Still better than dying of dysentery, I guess.

People don't seem really engaged in politics. They find it a frustrating waste of time because the news doesn't bother explaining anything to them, so they don't see the results of elections. They say both sides are the same. They don't take part in local elections. A mix of taught helplessness, learned helplessness, laziness, and the fact that if you're a white guy gas prices might affect you more than foreign wars and death squads

No, inequality is bad because money buys political power. Using some made-up numbers:

Say a typical cost of living is $50,000 per year. If you make $100,000 per year after tax, you can spend that extra $50,000 per year on political efforts - Lobbying, propaganda, political campaigns, soft power, hard power, land-grabs, etc.

If you have a billion dollars, you make about 30 million per year in returns. Cost of living is a rounding error.

Every billionaire is capable of outspending 600 six-figure software engineers, while sitting on their ass all day every day, or networking, or playing tennis. I think they realize this.

Do you think it is dangerous for a civilization when someone can dedicate all their waking hours to amassing power through any means possible, while they have more financial power than 600 middle-class people?

Here's a freebie:

- $30k for anything that helps my community / humanity

- $100k for anything harmless that I just don't give a damn about

- 3 million per month after tax to work on weapons of war

Wikipedia agrees with you: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winchester_Mystery_House#Labyr...

One of my guilty pleasures as a software engineer is that working on my Winchester House is way more fun than working on someone else's Cathedral, or Bazaar.

"The purpose of a system is what it does"

Someone is weakening America for a takeover

The US sits in a strange incentive landscape.

Since the government and corporations aggressively spy on everyone, and since government programs are often incompetent or overfunded or underfunded or corrupted or evil, there is (justly) little faith in the government.

Cash works fine. It can't be censored easily, it can't be tracked easily. ATMs have it.

When I trust the phones, I'll use phone payments.

Someone mentioned environment maps. Anything that's done with framebuffers or render-to-texture might benefit. e.g. Water reflections and refractions, metal surfaces reflecting the world, mirrors in bathrooms, panini distortion for high-FOV cameras, TV screens like the Breencasts in Half-Life 2

It's true.

There's no one silver bullet, it will have to be a multi-front push:

1. Just build more

2. Zone for multi-family housing

3. Get rid of minimum parking and minimum lot size requirements

4. Allow mixed-user residential and commercial buildings

5. Shift property tax towards taxing the land and exempting buildings from tax, to force speculators to sell vacant land and derilect buildings for development

6. When things start moving, invest in walkability and public transit to support dense urban cores. Cars are great for low-density, but paying for miles of road and polluted air in dense city cores is silly behavior

Just like Superman 64

Ohh like property tax on a vacant building

Android has a debug tool that flashes colors when any composed layer changes. It's probably an easy optimization for them to not re-render when nothing changes.

Not GP but I assume the fixed prices have to be fairly high to account for people using lots of power during peak demand when most people use lots of power?

Yeah I remember hearing that SOTC's "SuperLow" LOD was a 2D image. Trespasser also did that, but only for trees and props, not for terrain objects. Trespasser being basically a heightmap with dinosaurs dropped in

> After I found out I could also link to the real Wikipedia

It's magical watching people learn about hyperlinks. Even technical people don't always seem to know the power of a string that says, "Go to this server and fetch this document". Love it

async is simply a difficult problem, and I think we'll find irreducible complexity there. Sometimes you are just doing 2 or 3 things at once and you need a hand-written state machine with good unit tests around it. Sometimes you can't just glue 3 happy paths together into CSP and call it a day.

Maybe "moral hazard" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_hazard

The Slack notification flowchart is an old favorite: https://slack.engineering/reducing-slacks-memory-footprint/

I've never ever run into this. I haven't seen currying or partial application since college. Am I the imperative Blub programmer, lol?

> ADB installs are not impacted by the waiting period

"If you don't like the food we're serving, you can always buy a farm"

The Android example is a bummer. After this many years and generations of GUI frameworks, you should not have to experiment nor dig into source code to learn how to do something as simple as laying out your widgets.

The docs should have examples for that kind of thing.

Readers might also enjoy this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=il-TXbn5iMA

"I'm making a game engine based on dynamic signed distance fields (SDFs)"

That project is for GPU and it works by caching SDFs as marching cubes, with high resolution near the camera and low resolution far away, to build huge worlds out of arbitrary numbers of SDF edits.

So it probably wouldn't stack with these CPU optimizations that directly render the SDF at all.

Holy crap! The demo is hitting 30 FPS from certain angles, on my decade-old CPU

ADR = "Architecture Decision Record" https://github.com/joelparkerhenderson/architecture-decision...

One issue with SQLite is that it's _not_ rewritten every time like JSON and XML, so if you forget to vacuum it or roundtrip it through SQL, you can easily leak deleted data in the binary file.

It's free, but it's a dependency.

I don't have sharp rhetoric for it, but I could find bipartisanship with right-wingers if they apply the "big government giving you welfare means they can take it away from you" to free web services.

OpenStreetMap is always behind on business data, but it has data that Google doesn't have, and it can't be taken away near as easily. And requires no account at all.

Infinite patience is what I call it. It would be great for a tutor

That's good. I want to keep some institutional knowledge and photos in "cold storage" and cloud subscriptions with a credit card and password are completely inviable.

I'll probably get a spinner and a flash drive and hope one of them survives the years.

I've had that same experience. On new systems I install earlyoom. I'd rather have one app die than the whole system.

You'd think after 30 years of GUIs and multi-tasking, we'd have this figured out, but then again we don't even have a good GUI framework.