As an example, SF has the highest tax revenue per capita in the USA

https://www.usnews.com/news/cities/slideshows/us-cities-with...

So why is it so dysfunctional? My guess is the right would say because so much is wasted on the wrong things.

Note: I'm not saying the right is correct. I'm only suggesting a different interpretation of their POV.

Maybe I'm reading into this but I see this type of response a lot on HN.

> A: You need experience. Get some after hours

> B: I don't have any time after hours. It's not fair

Like gees! What do you expect?

B: I wanna be guitar player in a rock band

A: Well, if you don't play guitar, take lessons after hours

B: I don't have any time after hours

A: So what do you expect me to do about it? I'm not about to add someone who's never played guitar and can't demonstrate the skills as a guitarist in my band. It's not my problem that you can't play, don't have the time to learn, and yet want to be in my band.

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Same for any company: So what do you expect me to do about it? I'm not about to add someone who's never programmed games and can't demonstrate the skills as a game programmer in my team. It's not my problem that you can't code games, don't have the time to learn, and yet want to be in my gamedev company.

If you want control of every feature and no post processing then download a different photo app like https://apps.apple.com/us/app/halide-mark-ii-pro-camera/id88...

This to me is no different than the popular digital cameras vs the pro cameras. The built in app is targeting the masses. it can never make every choice perfectly and further it doesn't need to please everyone. That's the entire point of having apps

Many hardware manufactures are getting rid of it from their drivers and just using 3rd party libraries that emulated it on newer APIs.

If you still want to learn OpenGL there's https://learnopengl.com

https://github.com/rust-lang/docs.rs

Follow the build instructions, then you get to `cargo build` you'll see this message

    Downloaded 448 crates (44.1 MB) 

for config I used ini files, super simple to parser (and now json so always can use an existing solution)

Microsoft bought Softimage, one of the top competitors to Maya at the time. They charged iirc $4k or $8k and a PC to run it would run $4k-$5k

Softimage is long gone but it's what Valve used for the Source Engine and Half Life 2

It's not doing what I expect. Oh? Change the code

How is that different from now?

Scott Alexander posted something similar

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/whither-tartaria

And the response he got was arguably predictable..., others didn't agree that modern architecture is ugly.

Sure there are some ugly buildings. But, for example, for me. I went to some 1929 building that I'm sure this author and Scott would find beautiful

https://www.450sutter.com/

And it is. But it's arguably NOT functional. On the 25th floor the view would be incredible but the windows are tiny and so unless you walk directly up to the window you can't see the view. In pretty much any modern building the view would be front and center, full floor to ceiling, wall to wall windows.

I prefer that modern style. check out an old museum and a modern one. The modern one will have all kinds of amazing affordances. Places decided to highlight the view, places decide to give a sense of space, places designed for eating in unique space.

I'd much rather go to one of these

https://design-milk.com/10-modern-museums-youll-definitely-w...

Than one of these

https://artsandculture.google.com/story/the-oldest-museums-a...

Even if the contents was the same.

The Oscars are not decided by critics. They're decided by peers. Directors vote for best Director. Actors vote for best Actor. Composers vote for best Music. Etc...

I agree those limits are too small.

You say this with zero proof. Checking 100s of widgets to see if they overlap, updating their damage boxes, drawing the parts of the ones that got overlapped, computing clip bounds for each one, switching graphics contexts, to do all that adds up to "killing the battery"

Retained APIs are like using a binary tree where an Immediate mode GUI is like using a vector. CS principles say the tree should be faster as insert and delete are in O(1) but in reality, cache misses and similar things kill all the perf you supposedly gained by over engineering the solution.

The same is often true of retained mode GUIs vs immediate, especially with all the transparency effects in modern UIs. Computing the minimal amount of parts can requires a ton more CPU than just drawing.

As far as caching = retained, no. The difference between an Immediate Mode and a retained mode API is if you, the user, have to create and maintain a tree of retained API widgets. No one is going to implement an immediate mode API and try to have a text widget that word wraps and expect it to have to compute all the word wrapping every frame.