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squaresinger

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  • There are two kinds of people.

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  • In 2D games X is right, Y is either up or down. I haven't seen any engine where X is inverted, but Y can be either direction. Interestingly, I haven't seen Y as down in any 3D environment yet.

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  • Nowadays you just google for other patents and done. But back then, I guess that searching for prior art was quite a lot more difficult. Gifting the patent to an university so that they defend open access to the patent sounds like a more reliable plan.

    I mean, even nowadays patents are greenlit my patent offices even though there's clear prior art (Nintendo's recent patent for catching monsters in a ball in a game comes to mind, which Nintendo would have to have patented before publishing their first game with that mechanic around 30 years ago), and even today it's really difficult and expensive to get such a clear nonsense patent invalidated.

    So difficult that e.g. Palworld opted to change the mechanic instead of fighting the patent.

    So I do understand why someone would instead gift the patent to an university under the condition that they keep access to it open, especially 100 years ago.

  • Zero Trust Architecture

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  • Sounds like the network people at my company. They are asking us to spend more time in the office, but they don't provide enough desks, they don't provide working wired LAN and they only provide semi-working Wifi. All with proxies that don't work and filters that don't let me access the webapp I am supposed to maintain, which is blocked for "being a commercial website". Thanks, I know, I have to program that crap.

  • There are two kinds of people.

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  • Technically, there's a lot more options. Any axis can have any name. The reason why these two main systems exist is because of 2D coordinates.

    A 2D coordinate system can either be viewed top-down (piece of paper on a table) or from the front (pixels on a screen). So while X stays the same in both of these options (and thus isn't contested in 3D coordinates), Y is either up (on a screen) or ahead (on paper), and Z then gets whatever axis is left over.

  • There are two kinds of people.

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  • That's basically what it comes down to: Is your XY plane a piece of paper that you look at from the top, or is it the pixel coordinates of the screen you are looking through?

    That's why X is usually not contested, because it's the same on a piece of paper that you view top-down and on a screen that you view from the front.

    Y is then one of the two potential axies for either a top-down or a side-scrolling view, and Z is the remaining axis.

  • TIL that it's even possible to make a kazoo sound good

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  • Yes I do :)

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  • Remember, the 1920s is long ago. Giving the patent to the equivalent of a non-profit organisation was probably better than disclaiming it, since it's easier to have one large, well-known entity that will fight off people trying to re-patent it than to disclaim it and hope that no patent clerk ever lets a fraudulent re-patent go through.

    In 1920 you couldn't just google for prior art when fighting a fraudulent patent.

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  • They stopped eating meat 3 million years ago. That's longer ago than the appearance of the first animal of the genus Homo.

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  • Pandas stopped eating meat about 3 million years ago. That's before the first being of the genus Homo appeared. Not Homo Sapiens (that was 300 000 years ago), but Homo Habilis (2.5mio years ago).

    If evolution can take us from something that's barely an ape to humans in that time frame, you'd expect that it can fix an omnivour's digestive system to work with plants.

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  • Google tells me that pandas started eating bamboo 6-8 million years ago and stopped eating meat 3 million years ago.

    That's not exactly recent.

    For reference, the first Homo appeared 2.8 million years ago and the first Homo Sapiens 300 000 years ago.

    The last common ancestor of humans and chimpanzees lived 5-10 million years ago.

    So if evolution can evolve humans in that time frame, you'd expect that it could also adapt an omnivour to a herbivour.

  • TIL - the recorder can actually make decent music. Ralf Bienioschek performs BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY a Recorder Cover of the song by QUEEN. And it's a good cover.

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  • TIL - the recorder can actually make decent music. Ralf Bienioschek performs BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY a Recorder Cover of the song by QUEEN. And it's a good cover.

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  • This. Pretty much any music instrument can be made to sound really good if you put in enough time and skill. The recorder, being a beginner's instrument, just hardly ever gets this amount of love while getting a ton of kids who can hardly hold a note.

  • Nostalgia

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  • Music of the (insert decade) is generally better than music of today largely by virtue of having a decade to choose from, versus picking over the most recent year or two

    That's a really good point. The most of the crap that was played in the 80s didn't make it into the "top 100 songs of the 80s" list, hence what's left over today is not the crap.

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  • Nature has proven over and over again that it doesn't like neat categories :)

    Evolution happens and it follows whatever works, and it certainly doesn't care about any clever categories and rules we humans come up with.

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  • The same holds true for a lot of animals. There aren't many purely "vegan" animals. A horse will snack a mouse too if it gets the opportunity.

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  • Pandas as well. Non-predator but clearly front facing eyes.

  • xkcd: Fifteen Years

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  • No, that's not it.

    It would be it if @Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org would have said "I hate how they are able to afford the medical care they need, and I don't", which is exactly the opposite of what they said.

    You can genuinely be happy for Randall Munroe's wife, while still being critical that people need to be able to afford life-saving health care. That's not a contradiction, and the original comment did exactly explore that.

    And I'm pretty sure that if you ask Randall Munroe and his wife, they would have preferred to not pay for her treatment either, and I'd be very surprised if they'd be like "We were able to afford it, so we are good, and people who can't afford it should just die, because they are bad".

    There's no need to turn people against each other when the fault lies with a broken and corrupt system and with billionaires enriching themselves on the suffering of all the others while outright buying politicians for their cause.

  • xkcd: Fifteen Years

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  • Have a look around this thread. There's people right here who didn't have the money and had relatives die.

    It's got nothing to do with virtue signalling when people are literally dieing because health care is too expensive for them.

    And being offended by other people talking about dieing because of a failed system doesn't make you anything but a smug asshole.

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  • They sold the patent to the University of Toronto, so they didn't exactly sell it to a for-profit patent troll.

    But also, that was in 1923, so the patent has long since expired.