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Marching Events: What does iCalendar have to do with ray marching?

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Re: Marching Events: What does iCalendar have to do with ray marching?

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Post by Patryk27 »

hk1337 wrote: post #10
jchw wrote: post #4

> yes, this blog is a proud user of the european date format - if you don't want to see yyyy-mm-dd's, please press alt-f4 and go back to boycotting bud light or something Interesting to call this the "european date format", given that prior to ISO 8601 I'm pretty sure this date order was almost entirely used in East Asia and not Europe. To me day-month-year will always be the European date order.

1. where did you find that on the page? 2. it's, ironic?, because the post dates are in dd-mm-yyyy

I've redacted that part (https://github.com/Patryk27/website/commit/818c27967d7e6332c...), since it doesn't quite make sense if you think about it for longer than a couple seconds; it's 23:02 for me at the moment, maybe the night will bring me a new joke!

Re: Marching Events: What does iCalendar have to do with ray marching?

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Post by Patryk27 »

btown wrote: post #2

I've thought of this a lot! Lots of hospitality booking and pricing engines, for instance, require materialization of complex rules: if suppliers have rules that say "if the checkin is on these 3 days of each week add a price multiplier, which stacks with the holiday pricing event that happens every year, but only if you're a certain number of days out from check-in" you need to be able to render this for arbitrary d…

Curiously enough, I've used to work in hospitality! (https://pwy.io/posts/mimalloc-cigarette/ & https://pwy.io/posts/memory-for-nothing/)

Our dataset wasn't so large as to warrant experimenting with GPUs - `cost(extraCpu) I like when seemingly engineering-oriented problems turn out to be way more approachable once you apply / invent / adjust some math foundations, e.g. like with Feldera (https://sigmodrecord.org/publications/sigmodRecord/2403/pdfs...) - wouldn't figure something like this myself in a hundred years, I'd just probably apply maps on top of caches on top of whatever else I could pile until it works!

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Post by benjadolele »

LtdJorge wrote: post #8
jchw wrote: post #4

> yes, this blog is a proud user of the european date format - if you don't want to see yyyy-mm-dd's, please press alt-f4 and go back to boycotting bud light or something Interesting to call this the "european date format", given that prior to ISO 8601 I'm pretty sure this date order was almost entirely used in East Asia and not Europe. To me day-month-year will always be the European date order.

Yep, I knew it as the Japanese format

Not just Japanese, but I believe most East Asian countries as well.

Interestingly, not only with dates, but they order things from the “biggest” to the “smallest”

Like Year-month-day for dates.

Family name - personal names for names.

And for address, they start with country, city, street name, then house number. Opposite of what is more common in western countries. I actually find it more useful as very often I remember which street my friends live in but not the house number, and I can type it in and expect google maps to give me the result based on my search history. Not so useful with house numbers if you can’t remember them.

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Post by VoodooJuJu »

Patryk27 wrote: post #5
jchw wrote: post #4

> yes, this blog is a proud user of the european date format - if you don't want to see yyyy-mm-dd's, please press alt-f4 and go back to boycotting bud light or something Interesting to call this the "european date format", given that prior to ISO 8601 I'm pretty sure this date order was almost entirely used in East Asia and not Europe. To me day-month-year will always be the European date order.

Ah, you're right - I wanted to include a dunk, but forgot to actually fact-check it! -- gotta figure out something better.

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Post by emchammer »

ctippett wrote: post #3

One of the few remaining ubiquitous open formats of the web. Unfortunately Apple still refuses to recognise *.ics files unless they're included as a Mail attachment.

Apple Intelligence now scans the entire email and sends me its best guess of the event date, time and location, which causes me to second-guess it and contact the organizer again anyway.

Re: Marching Events: What does iCalendar have to do with ray marching?

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Post by reaperducer »

jchw wrote: post #4

> yes, this blog is a proud user of the european date format - if you don't want to see yyyy-mm-dd's, please press alt-f4 and go back to boycotting bud light or something Interesting to call this the "european date format", given that prior to ISO 8601 I'm pretty sure this date order was almost entirely used in East Asia and not Europe. To me day-month-year will always be the European date order.

To me day-month-year will always be the European date order.

If you're a fan of digging through old letters in British antiques stores, you'll find that the "American" date format that people on the internet like to complain about was inherited from Britain (along with the imperial measurement system).

It was only after the American Revolutionary War that Britain switched to putting the day before the month. Probably during one of its many Francophilia phases that seem to come and go throughout its history.

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