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by gnode 7y ago
Indeed. I avoided the term depth buffer for this reason. A depth test is still necessary on a per-pixel basis for a correct solution to the visibility problem in the general case - even if that's done by raytracing or some other method
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by gnode 7y ago
I'd say they have failed. Many outlets have gone out of business, many are unprofitable and propped up by ulterior interests (e.g. billionaires and nation states wishing to influence narratives). Quality has suffered in many ways. The
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by gnode 7y ago
In conventional 3D graphics each pixel is painted in 3D and a depth test applied. Here, 2D shapes are ordered discretely to create a 3D effect. Instead of the per-pixel z-fighting you conventionally see in 3D graphics, here we see entire sh
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by gnode 7y ago
They're unlikely to be competitive on capacity though. I expect, in most cases, these satellites would relay you to a ground-based base station with as few satellite hops as possible.
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by gnode 7y ago
> I don't know what ^ means here Logical conjugation ("and"). I should have used ¬ instead of ! to have been more conventional. > Is it [flawed to deduce (abnormal brain -> psychopath) from (psychopath -> abnormal
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by gnode 7y ago
Indeed. Thanks for putting this more succinctly than I did. I'd add that it's easier to observe the logical fallacy in the case of being male, because half of people are male, and being male is obvious. The occurrence of the PFC a
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by gnode 7y ago
> You are confusing implication with equality. No, I'm not. This is the very point I was making. I was using the example (psychopath -> male) ^ !(male -> psychopath) to show how deducing (abnormal brain -> psychopath) from
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by gnode 7y ago
I think it's easy to draw a flawed conclusion from research like this. While it can be shown that a majority of psychopathic serial killers have the prefrontal cortex brain anomaly, it's also the case that almost all such criminal
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by gnode 7y ago
> But wouldn't it be true then to say that he is no psychopath and a brain scan is insufficient for diagnosis? That question can't be answered without buttoning down the term. Generally diagnostic manuals don't recognise s
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by gnode 7y ago
Because it is prejudicial, which is unfair because it fails to take into account the person's individuality. Such traits do not simply equate to behaviour, the relationship is complex, incomplete and the mechanics not understood. A per
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by gnode 7y ago
I don't doubt that there may be a trend, but to me it sounds very unfair to allow people's immutable biological characteristics to enter into an adversarial debate about how they might act. Also, the mechanics of how macro-scale n
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by gnode 7y ago
I don't think any of these things are reasons to have the driver on the train. The train drivers could be located at a remote location and still be aware of these things. Loss of connectivity already means it's unsafe for the trai
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by gnode 7y ago
I don't see why this is an issue. If it fails, the train should stop. The train should be designed such that it only continues on its way if a continuous "okay to proceed" signal is received, gated on automatic safety systems
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by gnode 7y ago
Reacting to things is still important and time critical. You just can't react to anything in sight. Instead the things you can react to are data and camera feeds from far up ahead. What are the other trains doing? Did the next junction
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by gnode 7y ago
The cabin is interesting. There doesn't seem to be much visibility through the windows. I guess at such speeds the driver can only rely on information feeds from far up ahead, and there's little advantage to being able to see with
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by gnode 7y ago
I mostly agree with the sentiment about smart watches, but I like my watch to be a bit more featureful than this. Recently my Casio F-91W died and I replaced it with a somewhat more expensive but functionally simple analogue watch. I'm
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by gnode 7y ago
The scenario under discussion was the use of ablative surfaces to prevent damage. I'm not sure (I doubt) this is actually an effective countermeasure though. Compensating for damaged control surfaces isn't impossible in all cases
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by gnode 7y ago
> can't actually be used to take on anyone with any real firepower This isn't entirely true. Civilian firearm ownership can make occupations more dangerous for invading forces. Obviously, if an enemy wants to level your city wi
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by gnode 7y ago
My understanding is that due to the 8th ammendment, it's very unusual to refuse bail outright, and when it is, it's generally done on the basis of arguments that forfeiture of bail money would not be coercive to the defendant. Add
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by gnode 7y ago
The article is light on detail, but it doesn't seem like he was "arrested with a firearm". He was arrested later for making the threats, in his home state it seems, rather than police near Youtube HQ thwarting his attack.
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by gnode 7y ago
I don't see why such lasers would require high power. Couldn't an array of smaller lasers be used instead? It seems to me this would also counteract blooming and add redundancy. If using microwave / radio radiation instead, a
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by gnode 7y ago
This isn't much of a problem for a hypersonic glide vehicle; it can correct course.
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by gnode 7y ago
I'm not sure what the earth being solid or hollow has to do with this. If you're on the surface of a ball, you can only project a laser / straight line over the hemisphere above you; not through the ground. As an example, if
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by gnode 7y ago
> but I'm kind of surprised that at no point did they attempt to build another Perhaps because the existing implementation had already served its purpose - an educational exercise to understand CPU design, and not an instruction-lev
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by gnode 7y ago
> Democracy is the only system that has ever served any kind of majority of the population. I disagree. Sortition / demarchy, which is the selection of officials randomly from the population (much like a grand jury), has been used t
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by gnode 7y ago
Voting is a blunt instrument; it's effective, but it's a poor signal. It says only one thing: I want this entity to wield power. If you want to sue someone, you don't become a judge, you bring a lawsuit. If you want to cause
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by gnode 7y ago
From how you describe this, it sounds like a personality issue (rather than acute depression / anxiety), particularly in that your anxieties relate to your self-perception more so than your situational perception. The most prudent thin
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by gnode 7y ago
Most oil trading is done in US dollars, but by no means all. It's a convenient and popular unit of account for international trading, but the Euro and Yuan are used too.
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by gnode 7y ago
This is something I've been thinking about recently, although more in the context of why imagination appears to be more vivid in youth. I thought that it may be a cognitive side effect of learning. The more we learn, or more generally
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by gnode 7y ago
This isn't a defect in the traditional sense. The device is behaving to specifications, but a new method of attacking it has been found. Rowhammer is arguably more aptly described as a defect; in that case the RAM is not behaving to sp

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