Cosmo: In prison I learned that everything in this world, including gender, operates not on reality...
Martin Bishop: ...but the perception of reality.
Cosmo: Posit: People think their gender might a bit off.
Martin Bishop: Consequence: People start to consider transitioning.
Cosmo: Result: Pretty soon they do transition.
Martin Bishop: Conclusion: You can make eggs crack.
Cosmo: [imitates buzzer] I've already done that. Maybe you've heard about a few? Think bigger.
Martin Bishop: Kemi Badenoch?
Cosmo: Yes.
Martin Bishop: Tucker Carlson?
Cosmo: Yes.
Martin Bishop: Elon Musk?
Cosmo: Yes.
Martin Bishop: Entire islands?
Cosmo: I might even be able to crash the whole damn system. Destroy all records of gender. Think of it, Marty; no more cis men, no more cis women, everyone's trans. Isn't that what we said we always wanted?
Martin Bishop: Cos, you haven't gone crazy on me, have you?
Cosmo: Who else is going to change the world, Marty? Greenpeace?
There are two schools of thought when it comes to using a frame saw. #woodworking
One is "get good" and the other is "use jigs".
Why not both?
I knocked together a kerfing plane out of scraps (it's unfinished) and bought some cheap lumber to practice on. Next week I'll be re-sawing all the boards.
Kerf plane was a bust, but then I remembered that Japanese pull saws have a "back tooth" that makes it easy to kerf a board, if you have a steady hand. Maybe I'll make some fences for common thickness to help keep the line straight, but it worked well enough on a short scrap of 2x4. #woodworking
One of the newer core devs has asked for an info dump on the pipeline. Gotta admire the courage (or stupidity) of asking an autistic person "tell me everything."
Just once, just once, I want a big CGI infantry battle to involve actual formations and tactics, not just two crowd sims running at each other at full speed.
I'm so tired of teenagers being "the chosen ones" in fiction. please, let a middle-aged woman save the universe! she's seen some shit and dealt with it. she's tired of it all. she doesn't give a fuck. she's angry. she will get this shit done.
@reginasbread Sounds like The Owl House. The bright eyed teenage protagonist is throughly disabused of her fantasy of being The Chosen One by the story right away, and the grumpy middle aged woman protagonist has seen (and done) some shit and is ultimately part of the team that saves the world.
Today's objective, time permitting, is to figure out how to evaluate a USD layer and programmatically remove "inert" prims (which contribute no opinions), ideally without having to traverse the hierarchy several times.
Times like this I wish I had a CS degree because "traverse a tree and prune it based on a predicate in O(1) time" is probably a solved problem.
I think this could work: traverse the stage and build a map of whether each prim is "inert" (ignoring children). In reverse depth order, remove active prims and their ancestors from the map. What remains should be inert prims. Remove those prims from the layer.
Is this the most efficient way to do this? Fuck if I know.
Will it work? Probably.
Why do it? Because DCCs write out "everything and the kitchen sink" layers and we modify then after to fit our spec, and sometimes that leaves behind empty/inert prims and we want to remove them.
@flipsideza A single layer at export time, no need to worry about LIVRPS. And the SdfPrimSpec.IsInert method informs me if a prim spec has no opinions.
What learning path should someone follow if they work in #python but feel they spend most of their days learning other #software APIs (controlling them with python) but now wants to start writing stand-alone software at this level: https://github.com/PrismPipeline/QuiltiX
ps. that someone is me 😋 and I am self taught
pps. I have written a self contained app with python & QT but its just a single .py file
@flipsideza Given those requirements, run the simulation and print out the events. For example.
Ryan arrives at Coffee Shop at 8:00am
Ryan enters Coffee Shop at 8:00am
Ryan leaves Coffee Shop at 8:15am
Fred arrives at Bookstore at 8:30am, but it's full
Fred gets in line at Bookstore at 8:30am
Fred leaves line at Bookstore at 9:00am
Fred arrives at West Hall at 9:00am
Etc, etc...
@flipsideza it may seem simple, but it gives you practice in several areas like: parsing inputs (this was before serialization formats like XML/YAML/JSON), managing state, and doing an event queue. Also a chance to write tests, since all the events of the "game" should be testable in isolation.
There's also a variety of ways to structure the code. Do you go OO, functional, procedural? Is your state mutable or immutable? Etc. /5
@flipsideza Sure it's not as sexy as a material authoring node graph mini-DCC, but it lets you focus on the fundamentals, and that's how you learn.
Other things you could do is pick a specific aspect of the pipeline and implement it, like path templating given an asset management model, loading composable configs given a schema, etc.
tl;dr start small, keep it simple, write tests, read Design Patterns by the gang of four.
There's a wealth of information to be found in the PyCon talks, although it skews more towards "how to Python well" than "how to write software at scale", but the lessons are applicable.
