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I assumed they meant a baseball at baseball speed.


Rather than relativistic speeds, which would be bad:

https://what-if.xkcd.com/1/


I think the GTA 3 family of GTA games did, yes. They were PlayStation 2 games first, and RenderWare was relatively common for PS2 games.

Source: worked in game dev using RenderWare on PS2 back then


Since you were in the industry, was RW the first big 3rd party engine?

I know it’s common now, and seems to have really taken off in the Wii/PS3/360 era. My understanding is it wasn’t in the PSX generation (at least early?).


It was everywhere in the 90s that I remember when I was a game dev. I don't know if you would call it a game engine? We just called it a 3D engine back then. Back then at least I only remember it doing the graphics, no physics, animation, sound, etc?

It must have started off as a purely software renderer as I can remember trying to compete with their published stats on tris/sec.


> RW the first big 3rd party engine

RW is RenderWare, it's not a game engine.

> really taken off in the Wii/PS3/360 era

No? RW have/had the immense success as an engine used in more than a dozen commercial games (compared to idTech1/2/3), but it's usage explodes in 2001, with 18 titles, compared with 4 in 2000.

> PSX generation

Too early.

https://en.everybodywiki.com/List_of_RenderWare_games


I think I read in one of the earlier Titan threads this week that density increases pretty slowly with water depth. Water isn't very compressible, after all. So, to your question, I would guess "yes, but not by much".


+1 to talking with a therapist. If you’re in the US, you may have access to Lyra through your FAANG job, entitling you to a bunch of free-to-you sessions… but even if not, if you can find a therapist you click with, it’s worth the money, IME.


Paper was submitted almost exactly 1 year ago, and last revised in Jan 2023.

Not sure if title needs a (2022), just pointing out the above in case anyone else like me read “19 May” and mistakenly thought it was a 2 day old paper :)


Probably not. The paper was accepted into NIPS 2022[0]. In case anyone is wondering I did a diff (add "diff" afer "arxiv" and before ".com") on V3 (16 Oct 2022) and V4 (latest: 14 Jan 2023) and the changes are just a few typos and a sign flip in the appendix (page 17: v3 has f - phi, now reversed)

> just pointing out the above in case anyone else like me read “19 May” and mistakenly thought it was a 2 day old paper

Is this common? Maybe because oldest is on top? But read dates at bottom for best results (obviously year helps too).

The almost exactly 1 year is probably because NIPS '23 submissions just closed (supp still open btw).

[0] https://openreview.net/forum?id=36-xl1wdyu


Yikes. What started the fire?


Still under investigation, alas. First guess was a popped lithium battery downstairs but the fire dept has ruled that out now.


I’m sorry you went/are going through that.

I know you said it’s been ruled out, but I sometimes wonder if I should worry more about aging lithium batteries in older devices… the oldest ones (e.g. 2000s handhelds) are now old enough to be retro-cool and therefore worth keeping for nostalgia, but they’re also a bit scary.


OP said “watched”, so probably this playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAqhIrjkxbuWI23v9cThsA9Gv... . It’s pretty good!


> nearly 20

Nearly 30. Sorry :-)


Height was probably something like mid-2021 to early 2022. But note that Apple (broadly, handwaving, obviously subject to stock price fluctuations, offer negotiation, time-in-role, etc.) pays their software engineers less than the other FAANGs. Substantially less than a few of them.


I get it - you’re mocking the parent’s framing of this as a security issue.

Perhaps it isn’t an issue for you, but in case it’s not obvious, calendar entry titles and descriptions can (and have) contained confidential information that would present various forms of business risk if leaked. BigCo corporate IT policy often forbids placing such information on untrusted third-party hardware/software/services.


Of course this is a security issue, I was just making a joke about how I hate meetings. If this is confusing see:

"Meetings are like lasagna without the cheese—dull, bland, and ultimately unsatisfying." - Garfield

"Garfield." Cartoon. Created by Jim Davis. Published May 5th, 1987. Garfield.com, https://www.garfield.com/comic/1987/05/05. Accessed 15 May 2023.

"Meetings: The art of keeping the people who need to work in a room too long so they can't get any work done." - Dilbert

"Dilbert." Cartoon. By Scott Adams. Published October 7th, 2003. Dilbert.com, https://dilbert.com/strip/2003-10-07. Accessed 15 May 2023.

(and yes both references and quotes are fake)


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