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It's answered in the article. The argument is not that giant creatures can't exist, but that they cannot exist as a simple scaled-up version of the otherwise identical smaller version.

You could have elaborated the way you did here to begin with.

> shame on you if it's your website, given that you've previously submitted content from there

How do you jump to such a conclusion without evidence? Has somebody hurt your feelings on the Internet?

Not to take away from the post, but "everyone is not" should probably be "not everyone is".

The math alone doesn't do it justice anyway because the context switch is terrible. Why can't I just think about the play that just unfolded and discuss with others? Basketball has the same clock mechanics too and it is nowhere near as tainted with ads.

For reference, soccer matches have traditionally been 45 min half, 15 min commercials, 45 min second half.

Somewhere in the docs they state that they must also recreate whatever bugs the API has, otherwise applications written with those bugs as an (implicit) assumption could misbehave.

I have always joked the Super Bowl was a long commercial with football breaks in between.

Guess they're going for soccer this time too.

Unlike your comment, which is the pinnacle of human thought?

You are also wrong.

I'm not sure about the standard part, but it does call out MS' STL in the sentence prior to what you quoted.

And why is the latter nonsense? lists have had terrible cache performance for decades now and vector is the better default choice of container.

<format> doesn't require iostream.

It is the point, precisely.

Indeed. It is rare to encounter a webgl/gpu visualization that doesn't rev up the fans at 100% while sitting idle, let alone to have this low latency handling input. Virtually all web demos I have seen run terribly because literally 0 attention is paid to actual rendering. The other day somebody submitted one here and admitted they didn't know backface culling was a thing. They also almost universally have no sort of frame pacing.

It may as well be outside our bounds and unverifiable, but that doesn't mean it doesn't matter or that it shouldn't be part of "practical" discussion, whatever you consider "practical" there. You still have a brain to think about these things.

I do personally believe the latter part. I did not mean to suggest the before/after experience was going to look anything like your current one.

I believe the fact that it is night time does a lot to it, since we're just wired for a healthy fear of the dark. Coupled with consciousness fading into sleep, it seems to open up a lot of dread.

Being a materialist and claiming that everything is the consequence of physical phenomena is great, but then you have a lot of homework to do. So I see no more strength in its claims than in the contrarian ones.