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David O'Neil wrote: and make everything into privatized businesses
And what's wrong with that? FedEx and UPS run tight ships. The private sector can usually do a better job than the govt.
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Richard Andrew x64 wrote: The private sector can usually do a better job than the govt.
Our current health care system pretty much invalidates that assumption, when compared to almost any other 1st world country.
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Are you serious? Our healthcare system is over-regulated (by govt, of course), and That's what causes the problems.
Make health insurance available across state lines and competition will bring the price down.
If govt run health care is so great, then why is the VA such a disaster?
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Richard Andrew x64 wrote: Our healthcare system is over-regulated
Because that is the way our 'capitalist oligarchs' want it to be, so they can make buku money. Fundamentally, our entire system needs to change. Capitalism is good, but there is a reason Lincoln believed government should do things individual communities were incapable of doing themselves.
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Slacker007 wrote: The manager said there are only 2 full time employees now at the post office (there used to be 20 he said).
Out sick or fired?
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He did not say.
So on the way home I was thinking of possible scenarios
Postal workers are Federal employees. Federal employees are mandated to get the vaccine.
So,
1) if you are an anit-vaxxer and don't want the vaccine then you no longer work for the postal service.
2) quit
3) out sick with covid, etc.
Its not just my local post office that is like this, I have read that many post offices around the country are suffering greatly from reduced employee head count.
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Slowing mail delivery does not equate to no mail delivery, I would think.
I was not aware of some of the bullet points in this article. Interesting, thanks for the link.
It would seem to me that Amazon needs to stop using the USPS for deliver then, if packages are not going to make it their intended recipients. Use UPS or higher more Amazon delivery persons.
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Fortunately, no. I live on the east coast. LA is on the west coast. My packages this time originated from the east coast warehouses.
I do feel very bad for the owners of those stolen packages in LA, though. That is big news here as well.
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Makes voting by mail seem like a really good idea.
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USPS lost an $800 air purifier I shipped to an ebay purchaser , in particular to wit i.e. the Molekule . They refunded me $37.23 despite promising $50.00 insurance
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FedEx shipped to the wrong address (as per customer service), still waiting for them to "recover" it and ship it.
CI/CD = Continuous Impediment/Continuous Despair
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For those old enough to remember the arcade games Battlezone, Tail Gunner, Tempest, Star Wars:
Where has all the vector graphics gone? Is it possible to have vector graphics on a modern PC? Do CAD programs use vector graphics? Or is that only something for CRT displays?
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Thanks to a certain Mr. Bresenham we have been able to render vector graphics on raster displays for a long time, if that's what you mean. The modern incarnation of that can interpolate a little more than the edges between vertices, but understanding these algorithms still begins with Bresenham.
In the strict sense, both vector display hardware and vector displays ( = CRTs) are extinct.
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Very interesting. Thanks for your input. I used to love games that used the vector graphics.
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Real vector hardware like it was used in these old games controlled the electron beam of the CRT like an oscilloscope. Even oscilloscopes use raster displays now, so real vector graphics really are extinct. However, the resolution of raster displays and interpolation algorithms (antialiasing) are so common now that you can emulate all these old games in reasonable quality on almost any PC.
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I see what you mean.
I would probably pay a fair amount to get my hands on one of these old arcade machines.
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How about MAME[^] and some ROM images?
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That's great!
I might download that.
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Just played a round of Asteroids, Star Wars and something called Galaxian. 
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Cool! Galaxian was one of my favorites, back in the day. I always got a high score on that.
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You might be interested in this YouTube video, which shows a vector graphics game (specifically Tempest) in slow motion, showing you how the graphics are built up over time. And then there's this one that shows how a 'normal' video game's graphics are displayed on a CRT.
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CodeWraith wrote: controlled the electron beam of the CRT like an oscilloscope
Tektronix[^] was known for those displays. I remember seeing an aircraft HUD (heads-up display) simulation on a Tektronix terminal back in the day.
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They are still there, just better hidden these days - you are using them right now, in the form of a scalable font to read this text. Font data is stored as vector info and "drawn" at the right size.
Many games still use vectors below the hood with a skin over it to make the visible surface - it makes clipping and collision a load simpler to calculate. Which is why Battlezone et al used them - the processors just weren't up the demands of modern games!
And GPU's can be thought of as vector processors at their most basic level.
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