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U.S. Military Archbishop Timothy Broglio

U.S. Military Archbishop Timothy Broglio

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While the US government’s way of handling of foreign affairs may be changing dramatically, the Church’s stances on these topics are not. US military Archbishop Timothy Broglio gives a great summary of the Catholic Church’s long-standing moral teaching principles regarding just use of military force including Just War doctrine (which goes back to St Ambrose and St Augustine).

OOP’s impact on data arrangement was a 35 year mistake

OOP’s impact on data arrangement was a 35 year mistake

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Casey Muratori at the Better Software Conference walks us through how data in game development (and other systems) started with simple coherent structures that were best for cpu and cache coherency layout and then morphed into hierarchies of objects that following the in-vogue trend of late 90’s programming.

This lead to changing the compile-time data arrangement from what’s best for the computer to compiling data into arbitrarily arranged memory locations that matched the real-world things you’re trying to model.

He does a great job of breaking down the history and effects of what has happened in the 20 years since. I remember going to a GDC talk in which a game developer building a racing game struggled and struggled to get performance from his OOP arranged data. In the end, he realized that he should simply lay out the data in memory linearly and got multiple times more speed.

Today, developers from racing games to AI are re-discovering that laying things out linearly and adhering to cache consistent access (ex: GPUs) is where the highest end performance is unleashed.

Horseshoe politics – so open minded your brain fell out

Horseshoe politics – so open minded your brain fell out

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Despite being a supposed bastion of progressive liberals, Portland has been globally lambasted for it’s anti-science stances. Firstly, for voting down fluoride in it’s water not once or twice, but 4 times in a decade.

Portland is also so progressive as to not believe in the evils of the chemicals in vaccinations. Oregon now has the 2nd highest nonmedical vaccination exemption rate in the country. Starting 2 years ago in 2024, now Portland is seeing a regular occurrence of measles outbreaks. Here’s some of the 11 statewide outbreaks from just the last few months. The CDC can give you even more.

I no longer believe those cute little signs people in Portland put in their lawns that say they believe in science. They clearly do not.