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The best politicians understand the value of being perceived as authentic. Pushing the VP at the last minute and pretending nothing was wrong just felt incredibly stilted and insincere. Politicians like Trump are popular because they "tell it like it is" and not the media trained evasive responses you typically get from politicians.

I would have voted for a partially sentient dung heap over Trump, which at the current rate is probably in the cards as a next GOP candidate.

Those points could apply to all and every political situations everywhere.

There's a Bresenham variant for thick lines. It's a bit hard to wrap your head around.

https://homepages.enterprise.net/murphy/thickline/index.html

http://kt8216.unixcab.org/murphy/index.html

Pebble beds are very safe but also very fuel inefficient.

Someone needs to implement LLVMPipe to target this isa, then one can run software OpenGL emulation and call it "hardware accelerated".

> Burnout was reported by 62 percent of associates and 61 percent of entry-level workers. Among C-suite leaders? Just 38 percent.

That can't be right?

This is a common excuse, but The Truth is Israel doesn't care they're housing anything in the basement, they'll bomb it anyway. The ethnic cleansing agenda is plainly obvious at this point. In fact they seem to prefer having Hamas in predictable places, easier to take out and a convenient excuse to cull a few hundred of a superfluous population -- the Palestinian birth rate is way above that of Israelis. The operational reality is that Hamas is simply the best advertisement for the political hacks in charge of Israel, the system perpetuates itself because the current situation provides leverage for both ruling parties. And it turns out when you have two antagonistic death cults, people die. Solution: don't get born a Palestinian in Israel? Depressing.

There really need to be better metrics about the state of an economy than GDP.

I usually set the sv_friction cvar in Quake to 6 or 8, by default it's 4 and it makes the movement feel slippery. It also has the instant airbrake when you hit the move backward button mid jump, which is useful but pretty strange.

Radix sort also seems to fit the bill?

Musks public meltdowns couldn't have come at a better time for his competitors.

Was reminded of this study which pointed to glutamate buildup leading to a similar effect.

https://www.science.org/content/article/mentally-exhausted-s...

"Nuclear command and control systems are not taken so lightly."

https://gizmodo.com/for-20-years-the-nuclear-launch-code-at-...

My history teacher thought me to use "8==3" instead, the Romans used it to sign their graffities.

Haha, I have the opposite problem, I sort of hate not starting from a blank page, to the point of wasting time rewriting previous work.

One theory is that since China "won" the green energy race, the current US regime plans are to keep others dependent on oil and hence US shale, which would explain Trumps asinine comments about EU wind power. Not sure I buy it, but it seems to fit the bigger picture.

A lot of it is also wrangling Big Tech, which is increasingly an existential geopolitical risk.

FTE barely qualifies as a pure Quake engine at this point though, it does tons of stuff.

My favorite genre of graphic design is when you take a logo and work backwards to show the "very deeply thought about" construction, completely made up after the fact. The golden ratio is useful in that with a bit of fiddling you can fit pretty much anything to it. This is like catnip for "spiritual" types.

Look, we can't just recreate the mining industry, it would crowd out all others, no more doctors and engineers, the children yearn for the mines!

Hippies would have been all over this.

I feel like there's a false dichotomy here where there's an inverse relationship between quality and cost. I know seen plenty of cheap goods that do what they're supposed to and last forever, and I know plenty of expensive projects, both in purchasing price and development cost that are just steaming piles. So you get all this sloppy jank and say "well but at least it's fast and cheap". I'm not sure that's the argument you should be making, why can't we have high quality cheap things in the first place?

I don't buy the features argument, there's plenty of bloated software today that ships with less features than a precursor and is a hundred times larger.

Last time I tried (admittedly two years ago), it was incredibly sluggish, several times more so than MS Office, which is also sluggish in general.

When SaaS was emerging I was always advocating for not putting all our eggs into one basket, everyone always suggested was suggesting I was just paranoid. It's just a basic tenet of resilient systems to diversify depenendencies and not outsource all basic knowhow and abilities, even if its more costly. The reason is that institutional knowledge is difficult to build and easy to throw away. Its for the same reason I was hesitant about supporting all those big free trade agreements, for which I was actually called a "national communist" a few times, lol. Funnily enough nowadays I'm the one more open to those free trade blocks in my social circles and everyone has always been against it. I wonder what the consensus will be twenty years from now.

There seems to be a lot of internal factionalism that's showing up in the final product. I think this is a chromic disease that flares up every couple of years and is then clamped down on... but for whatever reason the lessons are never learned for long.

> These days most programmers don't know assembler, and increasingly don't know languaes as low level as C either. And the world didn't fall apart.

Maybe the world didn't fall apart, but user interactions on a desktop pc feel slower than ever. So perhaps they should.

What does it feel like to ride on of those? Versus like a bicycle?

This kind of "epistemic collapse" via propaganda is an established method of subverting nation states, Russia has been doing it for decades.

Democracy relies on having a reasobaly well informed population. The problem today is that it takes ten times more effort to refute bullshit than to spread it. Information hygiene is becoming a very big problem in this anything-goes social media environment.

Traditional mass media had journalistic norms and standards, nowadays anyone can claim anything with no quality control.

It's the same age old story: there simply is no substitute for good governance, Italy doesn't have it and hasn't had it for decades, and "freedom of speech absolutists" wouldn't know what it looks like in the first place.

Iirc only businesses can buy that and you cannot upgrade hardware.