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1) Most software gets its timestamps from the system clock 2) If you have a mismatch between the system time and the application time, then you just have log timestamps that don't match up; it's a nightmare - even more so around DST/ST transitions


Common, but not universal - from 2005 to as late as 2014 I worked for companies that used Pacific time on their servers.


StageCraft WAS Unreal Engine; it is not anymore.


StageCraft: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StageCraft

What is Helios?

/? Helios StageCraft https://rebusfarm.net/news/ilm-stagecraft-a-virtual-producti... :

> StageCraft leverages Helios ILM’s real-time cinema render engine. It is a set of LED screens that work as a 360 extension digital set, allowing filmmakers to explore new ideas, communicate concepts, and execute shots in a collaborative and flexible production environment.

Is there a way to vary the [UE] AutoLOD for longer shots? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38160089

That's not even cinematography! Because there aren't lenses, there are presumably Camera matrices.

Cinematography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinematography

Computer graphics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_graphics

"Ask HN: What's the state of the art for drawing math diagrams online?" (2023) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38355444 ; generative-manim, manimGPT, BlenderGPT, ipyblender, o3de, how do we teach primary math intuition with the platforms that reach them, how do we Manim in 3 or even 4D?

Manim > "Render with [Blender and/or od3e]" https://github.com/ManimCommunity/manim/issues/3362

FWIU Disney Games are often built with Panda3d, which works with pygame-web/pygbag in WASM now

Research: "Fabric of the Cosmos", "Cosmos", "How the Universe Works",


> Is there a way to vary the [UE] AutoLOD for longer shots?

UE5 (and other 4d graphics and physics simulators) automatically reduce the LOD Level-of-Detail for objects in the distance.

Is that LOD parametric with StageCraft software?

(For example, reportedly Cities Skyline 2 is bad slow because they included meshes for characters' teeth and expected AutoLOD to just make it work on the computers kids tend to have. It doesn't work on reasonable machines because the devs all have fast pro GPUs to develop on, so they don't know what the UX is for the average family (that would be happy to turn down the polygon count themselves for what we can learn from the gameplay). Having game devs dogfood with real-world devices that families afford would be good for these firms too.).

Hopefully they'll continue to sell games through non-Epic stores that people have already invested in.

And hopefully, they'll make sure their products work with Proton and thus popular Linux-based handheld gaming devices.


Apply [StageCraft (UE5),] computer graphics to STEM education.

A HUD-like [spinning ball trajectory] with observations and symbolic model fitting

Hopefully they will invest in Games that cause STEM (and SEL) learning;

And hopefully they will apply great CGI tools for STEM education


Deaths are currently at around 2,000 PER DAY in the United States. That is not in any way, shape, or form "extremely lower" than earlier waves. The Omicron wave was equal to the initial wave in severity, and we're still not out of it.


Interesting. Deaths in the US are still a lot higher than I realised. I was basing my thoughts on UK data which I’m more familiar with and I thought would be relatively similar to the US but surprisingly not.


No politicians and news channels in the UK telling people not to get vaccinated.


Deaths from COVID is different from Deaths with COVID.


If they're not dying from COVID then why are they dying in such excessive numbers? Because whether you believe it's COVID or not, you're stacking up ~1500 more bodies per day than you were three years ago. What's the cause?


Dragging Anish Kapoor never, ever gets old.


That's, I think, a deliberate facet of Kapoor's art.


That's nearly 1% of the population of San Francisco. It's already shockingly high.


Oh, the irony of publishing this on Medium.


2016 IS very recently. Three years ago does not count as "many years ago". Richard Stallman is 66 years old. To have only realized that pedophilia is bad at age 63, only when other people had to convince him..welp.


You seem to be arguing with some other point than the one I was making. Also, you are not responding to what I wrote, and seem to be determined to argue your other point. You are welcome to do so, but please find someone else, who actually holds an opposite viewpoint, to argue with.


How is that different than, well -- anything? In the United States all 50 states can make their own laws; it's a fundamental part of our legal system.

As for every country making their own laws - well, yeah? That's what sovereignty is all about?


In cases where the Feds have decided there should be a uniform standard, states can’t make their own law. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_preemption


I don't think that works quite like you think it does. The Federal government generally does not restrict states from making stronger laws than the equivalent Federal law. Take the Federal minimum wage, for instance: they set one level, but states are free to set a higher minimum wage.

This case follows the same pattern: whatever meager privacy protections in place at the Federal level will continue to apply, but California law will take precedence in the case where it's stronger.

There are certainly exceptions, like how currently Trump and the EPA are attempting to disallow CA's higher vehicle emissions standards, but, again: exceptions. (In this case, the relevant law has specific language that makes the EPA the final authority on this sort of thing, and requires states to get waivers for going their own way. That's not a general, common thing, though.) And I expect that bit to be tied up in court for a while.


Actually, I think you're the one that's incorrect here. California can set a higher minimum wage because it's explicitly allowed to by 29 U.S. Code § 218.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/29/218

That's an exception that's written into the law, while federal preemption is the usual rule.


It depends on whether the federal government has decided to preempt or not.

In this case I don’t think there is a national privacy law that preempts CA, but companies are lobbying now for one to be created. I think it would be a good idea, a national sales tax and a national privacy law are a natural fit for the Internet age - needing to know different laws and regulations for 50 states is only going to hurt small businesses and startups.

FTA:

> Since the law passed, tech giants have pulled out their last card: pushing for an overarching federal bill.

> In doing so, the companies would be able to control their messaging through their extensive lobbying efforts, allowing them to push for a weaker statute that would nullify some of the provisions in California’s new privacy law


> There's a big difference between standard styling and optional styling.

THIS.

This is not stated enough in the value of gofmt - it's the standard formatting style for everything. I've worked in Java and C++ for a couple of decades, and while every team has had its own style guidelines, and occasionally tools to enforce them, even different teams in the same organization would have difficulty understanding each other's code.

The value of gofmt is that it's the only formatting standard, thus I never have to learn a new formatting style when reading the code for an open-source library, or coming in to a new job. It's exactly the same as what I've been reading for the last 3 1/2 years of working in Go.


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