You do realize that it's not the kids who are implementing these projects right? This smells of a boomer complaining to kids about the participation trophies that the boomer invented and gave out because they were too weak to have the emotional talk with their kids about winners and losers.

The game does.... But it uses these techniques to do it. That's why you have lots of antialiasing options, including super sampling.

Rendering higher resolution for your display, but turning anti aliasing off. Is just kind of manually doing what is built in

Rendering more information, than what can be seen. Allows the system more spaces to decide where edges fade and the different combinations of colours should work.

Then once you take this information and squish it down to your monitor again, it can take that info and merge it down into a smoother and more accurate representation. So that instead of each pixel getting a twig color or sky color. It could be a shade in-between.

They also made great throwing stars..

Could you imagine having the same cognitive abilities, but language hadent been invented yet. That's wild to me.

Correlation vs causation.

You assume that the 4.9 time spike at the end of the year is due to managers frivolously wasting their budgets to pad it out. And I have no doubt that some do this.

But there is also an equally plausible and much more rational explanation that would also explain the spike in spending at the end of the year.
The department has some low priority spending goals that their employees identified during the year, maybe things like upgrading keyboards, or even starting a new project that would be beneficial but is just low priority. Management does not know exactly how the year will go, so they delay committing to these things as long as possible, so that they have some money in case of an emergency. But as the deadline of the fiscal year approaches, they can get more confident that they can spend this money on the lower priority things, and not expose themselves to a risk of IL-liquidity in their budget, because it will be refreshed soon.

Businesses are not families, and I know lots of families that do spend their budgets like that. In fact my wife and I realized that we came in $5000 under our annual budget and are looking at things we could buy that would improve our life that we didn't think we could afford earlier.

Companies generally already have cash stores, but cash sitting is cash wasted. Cash can and should be invested, either back in the company, or elsewhere, used to pay down debt, or used to pay shareholders.

So if your budget is reduced because you didn't spend it. That money will not just sit for a rainy day, it will be transferred to another place where it can do work for the business.

A last example. Microsoft purchased Minecraft, because it had too much cash in the bank, and the interest return on that cash was less than they would get by buying Minecraft, so they did.

My answer also explains why you can use copied disks with genuine hardware.. because someone figured out the key.

Locks are strong against an unskilled opponent. But if you give your friend a locked box to use, you have to provide them with a way to get the key at some point so they can open it.

If you sell these boxes to millions of people, someone you sell it to is going to have some skill and know how to copy or modify a key, and then start giving keys out to other people do that they can also open the boxes, even unauthorized ones.

Ah.. yes, I suppose having custom units for those specific equations where the constant is 1 would be handy.

This feels like a Pi vs Tau argument. Constants can be moved around in equations and units can be changed if enough people wanted.

I get why they don't change now, but I wish they would have. /shrug

I guess so.. but AU doesn't even make sense. Considering the Earth does not have a constant distance from the Sun. So don't you still need a conversion factor somewhere?

Yep, that makes sense to be. I am still on team make it all metric though haha.

Did they make sure to flip the baby upside down before giving it to the mom? If they did, they owe her a free second baby.

I think that the practical use for the knowledge of the difference between a MiB and a MB, is much more limited than the knowledge of the difference between a M and a G.

Thus, even if they don't understand that MiB is 2^20 and that MB is 10^6, they will understand that Gx is near enough 3 orders of magnitude larger than Mx. Which in the case of stellar distances, is good enough, IMHO anyways.

You might be able to take the gift card to a competitor and they might offer you a discount if you then shop in their store. Mom and Pops are more likely to do this than say Walmart, and stores in the middle sizes are kind of a coin flip.

I will say that every retail store I worked for, big or small, we were told to ALWAYS take competitor coupons, even if they were expired. I have never taken in a competitor gift card, but exceptions are always on the table to gain a new customer.

I wish we would have just embraced the metric system the way that computers have.

For example 1AU is approximately 150 Gm (Giga-metre)

Because we live in a world that is effectively wide, and not tall. Most of the human population lives in the Northern Hemisphere, and Most of the human capital exists in the Northern Hemisphere. It will be very unlikely that a band of northern countries would say, start to posture on Argentina and Australia.

That being said, there were some Pan American actions that the US took in South America that may be considered to be North vs South geopolitics.