Comments by "Lawrence D’Oliveiro" (@lawrencedoliveiro9104) on "The VFD that isn't" video.

@maxwelsh6121 From the country that has the La Brea Tar Pits? Hint: look up what “La Brea” means ...
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Biological evolution is dumb, and the organic materials it has to work with are pretty crap, too. Just consider how many raw megapixels you have with the rods and cones in each eye, and then see how it’s just impossible to get all that bandwidth through the optic nerves into the brain, at any realistic frame rate. Most of what you see gets thrown away in the eye before your brain can even process it!
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5:21 You know the old saying: “Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practise to be technologically-historically-astute” ...
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3:25 A quick ferret around the dub-dub-dubs for “jvc rx-222” suggests late 1980s-vintage. Which would be consistent with my Sony VCR from 1989, which has similarly pretty displays.
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@bsadewitz Even the fovea is a compromise: increased detail and colour vision (more cones) means less rods, which means less light sensitivity right in the most important part of our visual field. And then there’s the blind spot ...
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@bsadewitz Saccades actually involve turning off your sight in the brain, so you don’t see everything jump around during the eye movement. Each saccade lasts about a quarter of a second, and there is typically one of these per second. You cannot see during a saccade, but you just don’t notice. So for a quarter of your entire waking life, you are blind without realizing it.
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@bsadewitz “Not seeing” = “blind”.
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