More specifically when the user clicks on a specific point on the planet and moves the mouse cursor you want that point to still be under the cursor when the mouse button is released. You can extend this construct outside the central sphere into a camera control that works across the screen and feels very intuitive at any zoom level.

Google "sgi trackball" for some interesting code to point the way.

Thank you - I'll look that up.

YMMV. My first memories start as a trickle before the first year growing to a torrent starting from 12 months and forward. My sister hardly remembers anything before the age of 10. :-)

Yes, for some I have distinct memories of a particular event from when I was about 18-24 months. It was climbing into a 'fort' made of a disassembled fence made by my older siblings.

I don't remember anything else at all from before I was five.

All I can think of was that it must have been very exciting.

I'm actually interested in a bit more detail as well.

I've seen a few different fabrics in production (including proprietary non-public ones) and while I'm not sure IB is the answer Ethernet certainly has quite a few performance limitations.

Does Ken count as a Systems C programmer?

Most of the systems C programmers I know, who admittedly work on large distributed systems, like Go.

Can you elaborate on this? Having split a lot of wood it's not clear this design is affected by handedness.

My immediate and apparently wrong assumption was that since it is asymmetrical, the improvement of the design was somehow tied to an optimisation for handedness, which in practice is always for right-handedness.

> And the most advanced algorithm family for indexing point-like data is not in the literature at all.

Don't leave us comp geom geeks hanging.. Which one are you referring to? :-)

It works fine. When I did the initial implementation of the Go ARM compiler I mostly used my phone as a debug environment. Android was probably the only Linux distro where the compiler worked when 1.0 was released.

This is subtle but extremely interesting.

Input for computer graphics is very very hard. I've seen some great design work up close (Tinkercad) and this is one of the most interesting concepts in a while.

Having been raised in a cold and isolated country (Finland) I think you incorrectly assume that means a lot of time spent indoors. This can be true, but does not have to.

I do think you are on to something with the idea of pods, most farmhouses where I come from are arranged in a number of small separate buildings.

Sure you went outside plenty, but did you go outside at night? Personally, where I live, when the temperature drops below freezing at night, I stop going outside when it is dark, and as the nights get longer that means at least 14 hours a day indoors.

I go out every night and mostly only at night when it's -20C. I do stay in when it goes below that usually, you just need to get used to it and dress properly.

This is just something you need to change yourself and get used to, it won't get any easier if you just ignore the cold.

The problem isn't being cold; I have good clothing and don't mind 40F in the slightest. The issue is I haven't really discovered reasons to even be outside- good activities I can safely enjoy among the ice & snow and in the extra-dark of winter

Buy a pair of Icebreaker merino wool leggings, some smart wool socks, and a good fleece layer. If you're cold at 32 degrees F, then you are having a clothing fail.

I would actually like to know if we could hire him.. :-)