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Comment Re:My first PC (Score 1) 80

Personally, I would say somehing like...

My first PC had an Intel 8080 CPU and had 64 KiB of RAM (in those days called "64K" because people were stuck in the mindset of small powers of two back then, and it just so happened that 2^10 is close enough to 10^3 that nobody much cared; the notion of a gigabyte or a terabyte was decades in the future).

Comment Re: My friends wonder why... (Score 1) 222

I sit 36" away from my 43" 2160p monitor (a 4k UHD HDR television that I don't have connected to the Internet). My vision is still good enough that I can *almost* see individual pixels at that distance (I definitely can at 24").

I'll never go back to anything less than a 4k monitor.

Comment Re: Only a camera? (Score 1) 95

They may not be 100% accurate, but they are "good enough" to make reasonable predictions about things like where a ball in flight will end up, or how far away an object is.

Indeed. A classic example is the approximation of a thrown ball being modeled by a parabola, when in fact the path actually travels along an elliptical path, not a parabolic one.

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