Have a spoonful of horseradish and tell me British food is all bland. Or Marmite.

Any UTC type is going to do native time and convert for display.

But with native time directly, you can just an int64 with loads of space for fine resolution via multiplication.

Storing time broken up into separate units is crazy.

The only code with timezones should be the bit squishy meat bags touch. Everything’s is should be UNIX time. Or it you are unfortunate enough to be on Windows, NT time.

Some unfortunate programmers already have to deal with the speed of time not being a constant. In a distant future, timestamps might always have a universal position (and speed), and is that much different from timezones?

Or we find some way of removing time distortion of physics. Find the universe’s real systick. 😃

On the PS3 cell processor vector units, any NaN meant zero. Makes life easier if there is errors in the data.

Reddit wasn’t my first or last news forum platform. (Newsgroups were my first)

Unfortunately this bit of Lemmy reminds me of gote/goat (whatever it was called), that turned into pit of Nazis kicked out of Reddit. Or Twitter as rules are removed.

Seams to be, were there is no decent code of conduct, you get Nazis. Be interesting to see how it plays out on a federated platform.

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Putin is too paranoid to ensure succession is in place. If he goes, and it will be bloody infighting until a new strong man arises.

But just insisting nations bend over when he decides he wants them is no mechanism for peace.

Giving up liberty doesn’t buy you security. You just end up with neither. Putin won’t stop with Ukraine.

Man, there is a lot of crazy and/or bots/trolls here.

Appeasing people like Putin doesn’t lead to peace.

That’s pretty neat. Game streaming isn’t that different. It basically loads the adjacent scene blocks ready for you to wonder in that direction. Some load in LOD (Level Of Detail) versions of the scene blocks so you can see into the distance. The further away, the lower the LOD of course. Also, you shouldn’t really keep the same origin, or you will hit the distort geometry issue. Have the origin as the centre of tha current block.

I just gave up fighting. There is no system that is going to both fast and infinitely precision.

So long ago I worked in a game middleware company. One of the most common problems was skinning in local space vs global space. We kept having customers try and have global skinning and massive worlds, then upset by geometry distortion when miles away from the origin.

I’m pretty sure they do, but the key word there is “old”.

As a programmer who grew up without a FPU (Archimedes/Acorn), I have never liked float. But I thought this war had been lost a long time ago. Floats are everywhere. I’ve not done graphics for a bit, but I never saw a graphics card that took any form of fixed point. All geometry you load in is in floats. The shaders all work in floats.

Briefly ARM MCU work was non-float, but loads of those have float support now.

I mean you can tell good low level programmers because of how they feel about floats. But the battle does seam lost. There is lots of bit of technology that has taken turns I don’t like. Sometimes the market/bazaar has spoken and it’s wrong, but you still have to grudgingly go with it or everything is too difficult.

Imagine thinking this is OK. The dehumanizing mental gymnasts to think this. I’d feel sorry for them and be thinking they need counselling, if it wasn’t for the whole supporting/committing genocide thing…

Separation of church and state.

Well good luck with that. I hope you guys don’t vote in Trump again, for all our sake.

Yer, was thinking of calling it to. I tried. Hope you guys don’t end to with Trump, for all our sake.

Well I guess we will see what happens and hope it’s not world war again. If it is, we all lose.

“The perfect is the enemy of thr good”