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WhaleBasketball

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Increase the peace, everywhere.
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WhaleBasketball··on China insists Genghis Khan exhibit not use words 'Genghis Khan'
How I wish they would respond:

"Genghis Khan traveled to Taiwan, where he searched on Google for information about the Tianamen Square protest."

WhaleBasketball··on Memory Reordering Caught in the Act (2012)
The C++ qualifier 'volatile' is a good tool to have in the toolbox.
WhaleBasketball··on Ask HN: Modern office life has become unbearable to me
"I very content, even happy with everything in my life except work."

Are you sure about that?

This link might provide some perspective. Disclaimer: I assume you are a man (a risky assumption in 2020).

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-strongest-predictor-o...

WhaleBasketball··on Ask HN: What life means to you?
“It’s just a ride” - Bill Hicks

“Buy the ticket, take the ride” - Hunter S Thompson

WhaleBasketball··on Researchers attach cameras to orcas, revealing a marvelous underwater world
Reminds me of the dolphin hacker in Johnny Mnemonic
WhaleBasketball··on Reversing the technical interview (2017)
If I was motivated by money I’d be on an entirely different career path.
WhaleBasketball··on Reversing the technical interview (2017)
Sorry
WhaleBasketball··on Raspberry Pi 4: Hardware accelerated video decoding (GPU) in Chromium
looking forward to vulkan support on the pi4
WhaleBasketball··on Fooling Around with Foveated Rendering
As long as you don't sample outside the fovea it should be ok.

TAA implies a velocity buffer, and that velocity buffer may cause you to sample outside the fovea (of a previous frame), for which you will not have enough samples to do a decent reconstruction of the image.