I can only offer an emphatic YES. I think that there are enough geeks out there that would like to see this monopoly broken that I predict a Kickstarter would be a rousing success.
This discussion hearkens back to the current investigation into John Swallow, the former Attorney General of Utah who resigned less than a year into his term and is currently the subject of multiple investigations.
I too experienced a plethora of lucid dreaming through my early twenties. Sometimes I would have a few a night for weeks. They tapered off gradually and I have maybe a few a year now (I'm 35).
Many were tied with sleep paralysis, which didn't give me the fear that most people associate with it. Sometimes I could extract my preceptual self from my body and experience walking around the room in a weird lucid dream world. All while simultaneously being aware of my pysical body lying in bed.
As a C/C++ and graphics programmer, I love NaN. It allows saving space by not having to carry an extra is_valid boolean for uninitialized values or regions of data that are masked.
For textures, they are great as they don't interpolate w/ nearby neighbors and properly discard fragments & vertices without the aforementioned cost of an extra boolean attribute.
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