Scott Michaud

Graphics Software Engineer at LightTwist, Inc.
Mastodon: @[email protected]
Formerly: Eliot Research, @PCPer.

[Scott Michaud @scottmichaud]

@Warka101 @scionti_design @UnrealEngine @quixeltools The benefit is that, for the most part, the same object will work in various lighting environments. The lights (especially when you can afford real-time reflections) will pull the material in the right direction.

[Scott Michaud @scottmichaud]

@Warka101 @scionti_design @UnrealEngine @quixeltools It's a semi-broad category of 3D materials. Its top feature is that it respect conservation of energy. It's typically a calculation involving a material's base color, whether it behaves like a metal or a dielectric, how smooth it is (mirror vs diffuse), etc.

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@AndreElijah Oh no! Best of luck!

[OpenCV - Open Source Computer Vision Library @opencvlive]

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@unrealengine So the launcher said that an update was available for a bunch of engine versions, but it looks like it just re-installs the same version. Why did updates get signaled? The main concern is if someone got into your build system and pushed something.

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@ryanshrout Interesting design win for ARC!

https://t.co/fmL8VfFeB9

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@TylerGlaiel Gotta go fast.

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@vzverovich Build Systems> Why program with JSON when you can program with XML and YAML?

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@steveklabnik @kourge From a C++ angle, I appreciate that Rust (and Swift) values explicit end of life of type instances. Sometimes you need to express very important instructions (ex: stop recording video so it doesn't corrupt) at end of scope. With value types, less need to communicate with caller.

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@lizardengland Shirobako: If you're a creative, it will hit close to home. I mean that in both ways.

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@oschonrock @lefticus @odinthenerd @janwilmans I think the confusion is that Jason is saying there would be at least one instance of the side-effects, not 0.

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@CplusplusVille @ericniebler I mean that looks like one of the simpler solutions to me... unless a vector (possibly with an allocator) has some desirable properties.

[LightTwist App @LightTwistApp]

Recording some demo footage in one of the new LightTwist studios, but even on the virtual set not everything goes according to plan….

"Fuck it! We'll do it live!"

[Scott Michaud @scottmichaud]

@BishopBarron @GovTimWalz The assertion is that the parents of a 12-year-old should be allowed to force her to give birth.

The problem with legally preventing abortions is (as I see it) that it plays God. Tangible support for the mother is the better path. The rest is between God and them.

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@matiasgoldberg Because we need to get much better at software engineering. Unfortunately, it seems like people are more interesting in justifying awful than identifying and fixing it.

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@donasarkar @bdsams Nah it only kills you once. :p

[Scott Michaud @scottmichaud]

@AndreElijah @aras_p That said I've seen people talk about https://t.co/4KBjsTYcWP. https://t.co/hg4j9msjZ3 is probably the best general-purpose one if you can get in because it's run by the Mastodon devs. https://t.co/skURhq3Kz9 is another general one that's open. Don't know their admin though.

[Scott Michaud @scottmichaud]

@AndreElijah For the most part the server doesn't *really* matter. You'd probably want to avoid DMs for sensitive things because AFAIK the admins can read them. No end-to-end encryption. Consider it a public space.

I'm personally on https://t.co/p6Wi9Q0zXT, run by @aras_p (ex-unity).

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@br "The purpose of programming is to transform data that you have into data that you want."

[Scott Michaud @scottmichaud]

@SebAaltonen The problem is that they are assuming that I'm just holding on to memory, file handles, etc. I may not be. I may be using deinit to ensure that a video recording stopped without corruption on a critical error.

Now I need to worry where else they think they know better than me.

[Scott Michaud @scottmichaud]

@SebAaltonen Yeah, good they're a deterministic lifetime holdout.

One thing that concerns me, though, is that destructors are not called when leaving the entry point. The easy workarounds are to defer or wrap in a function.

https://t.co/aKj3JaDzdL

Reason: "Process will free memory anyway".