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According to: https://emulation.gametechwiki.com/index.php/Nintendo_64_emulators

One of the biggest hurdles to emulating the Nintendo 64 was the Reality Display Processor (RDP), which used a custom design that had to be fine-tuned to get higher performance out of the system using microcode. To emulate the RDP accurately, one would have to execute said microcode the way the RDP did, which differed from the PC graphics cards of the day. To complicate matters further, API standards available on PCs two decades ago were nowhere near as flexible as they're today. If you wanted to make an accurate GPU-accelerated RDP plugin in 2003, you simply couldn't with the APIs of the time (OpenGL 1.x and Direct3D 9).

Accurate low-level emulation would only come to the GPU in 2020 when a new version of the Mupen64Plus-based ParaLLEl libretro core was released containing a rewritten RDP plugin using compute shaders in Vulkan.

You are actually allowed to add up infinite series like this.

Only that the infinite series have to be convergent, or else you get little of value. The series in your example oscillates forever (and the oscillation distance remains constant), therefore it diverges.

Take the infinite series 1 + 0 + 0 + 0 + ... and add it like you did:

1 + 0 + 0 + 0 + 0 + ...
\ ___ 1 + 0 + 0 + 0 + ...

And you just get 1 + 1 + 0 + 0 + 0 + ... which is just 2 * (1 + 0 + 0 + 0 + ...)

I had to look it up, it's the technical term for a certain firefighting vehicle.

In particular, what distinguishes it from a normal crew firefighting vehicle (Löschgruppenfahrzeug) is its equipment for "Technische Hilfeleistung" (technical help-providing) which basically means it carries equipment beyond basic extinguishing agents. If you're physically stuck in your car after a crash, a Hilfeleistungslöschgruppenfahrzeug has to arrive to cut open the doors.

A Hilfeleistungslöschgruppenfahrzeug

A (small) Löschgruppenfahrzeug. Note that it only contains firefighting equipment.

I meant to convey how so much of the existing green space was paved already that paving the entire green space wouldn't be much different at this point.

I would guess the paved paths make up like 20% of the image? That's far too much in my opinion, green space in cities is already severely limited.

You can also see how every time a desire path was paved, new desire paths sprung up - which were then also paved.

Your feedback is valued.

I don't think there's an issue with desire paths becoming unusable during certain times though. It slightly extends the time you spend walking around but I'd prefer this over having unnecessary pavement.

You might as well pave the entire green space in this example.

I can imagine little worse than doing what you just described although that is (in part) due to moderate social anxiety. I behave in the exact opposite way - ignoring people regardless of how much they stand out because I don't want to stare.

Though I can imagine what you've been doing has helped others.

Mud is messy

It depends. Some people view lawns that aren't devoid of all insect life messy or trimmed evenly messy. And if it is raining or has recently rained, hardly anyone would use a muddy path so the concrete sidewalk will remain reasonably clean as well.

wheelchair-accessible

That's important, though I'm not advocating for keeping an entire campus unpaved. I am arguing that only necessary pathways should be paved while desire paths should ideally remain unpaved. People in wheelchairs should still get around (quickly), but desire paths don't need to be wheelchair accessible in my opinion.

Is there an issue with muddy bisections? It might not look the most appealing but it's better than pavement.

To prevent the paths from getting ever wider you could, for example, plant flowers next to them. That's a pretty effective and unobtrusive way.

I'm not too well-versed with server-grade hardware but my concern is that it would end up somewhat like Intel's (consumer) CPU sockets: Changing every 2 years to ensure you need to purchase new motherboards when upgrading.

You would?

I use public transit daily and hardly ever interact with anyone. Maybe there is one interaction every 100 days? I don't frequently see two strangers interacting either, it's unheard of except maybe for retirees with effectively infinite time.

I can't really answer/reply to most of your comment but there is something about the last paragraph that I can respond to:

What about bi-/pansexual men? They exist [1][2] and there will be many that are attracted to people in between gender( expression)s.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bisexuality
\ [2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pansexuality

Not necessarily good though since it further seals the ground. There's nothing wrong with leaving desire paths untouched.

The issue with that design is that the PCIe standard would be replaced with something proprietary.

Thanks, just snatched it and will take a listen later.

I can only read this as int_j, like yet another annoying data type someone made up for C.

No band! It's a comment under the album Montero by Lil Nas X.

I haven't listened to it yet though and cannot vouch for its quality.

I don't really get your comment, what has enriched uranium to do with my post?

These two fire trucks have pretty much the same ladder length, despite one truck being nearly twice as long:

The wheels are presumably similar sized by the way.

I'm pretty sure that could be negated by having a dot appear somewhere in the corner if the screen is currently being recorded. That would prevent silent snooping at least.

That's at least what my phones does for certain sensitive permissions, like camera or microphone.