Canada has an educated population, large online presence, and many folks operate within both the US/Canada under dual citizenship. One can find them in every field from medicine to high energy physics.
If the Corporation is type S it is purely US citizen owned, but most are type C thanks to the great work by AMCHAM attracting global investment.
Notably, most science is done on UTC time... because politicians were always functionally ignorant about the collateral costs of arbitrary technology policy changes. Evey village usually has at least one idiot. =3
Out of an abundance of caution, please talk with AMCHAM, and a local tax lawyer first. In most cases, founders almost always want to form a type C corporate entity within their largest trading state.
People often do whatever they like, but whether it is locally legal is not a YOLO/LLM matter. Best of luck =3
If building a custom commercial game engine these days... A team is 100% focused on the wrong problem, as the game-play content is what sells. Customers only care about game-engines when broken or cheating.
Godot, Unreal, CryEngine, and even Unity... all solve edge-cases most don't even know they will encounter. Trying something custom usually means teams simply run out of resources before a game ships, and is unlikely stable on most platforms/ports. =3
Many of those "edge cases" lurk in the platform abstraction layer (driver or OS bugs which needs to be worked around), and many of those problems are also taken care of in cross-platform wrappers like SDL (and for 2D games this is completely sufficient, you don't need UE5, Unity or Godot to render a couple thousand sprites and play music and audio effects).
But even more complex custom/inhouse engines are usually not written from scratch, those are often mostly glued together from specialized middleware libraries which solve the tricky problems (e.g. physics engines like Jolt, vegetation rendering like SpeedTree, audio engines and authoring tools like FMOD or WWise, LOD solutions like Simplygon, etc etc...)
>Customers only care about game-engines when broken or cheating
Most game engines are broken by default. Modern customers just aren't very discerning ("It's for the pigs. Pigs eat slop."). You can feel holes and rough edges in the vast majority of new releases, including AAA titles.
Unreal is the worst for this and Unreal-based games almost always have two things in common: a very particular, soft, sticky and unresponsive look & feel (often alleviated but never fully corrected by turning off some combination of motion blur, AA and VSync), as well as a UI that mishandles mouse pointers.
Unity devs seem to rely on a (more diverse but still quite) small pool of subsystems and renderers; possibly some mix of baseline and Asset Store components. This gives each Unity game a specific subset of flaws from a wider common pool. That is, you can tell that game A uses the same movement subsystem as games B and C (but not D), that game B uses the same UI subsystem as games C and D (but not A), and that game D uses the same rendering subsystem as games A and B (but not C).
In my humble opinion, the difference between good and great was often whether the Shaders and pre-Baked work was done well enough to go unnoticed.
Forcing devs to use a mid-grade GPU also tends to reduce chasing performance issues later. For example, high frame-generation artifacts users often perceive as "floats" or "wobbly". =3
Julia collapses entire programming paradigms into single character syntax, and often will transparently handle clean parallelism or cluster instance batching.
Judging by Julia's Discourse, compiling actual production Julia code into a standalone binary is highly nontrivial and ordinary users don't really know how and why to do this.
In general, it is bad practice to touch transaction datasets in php script space. Like all foot-guns it leads to Read-modify-write bugs eventually.
Depending on the SQL engine, there are many PHP Cursor optimizations that save moving around large chunks of data.
Clean cached PHP can be fast for REST transactional data parsing, but it is also often used as a bodge language by amateurs. PHP is not slow by default or meant to run persistently (low memory use is nice), but it still gets a lot of justified criticism.
Erlang and Elixir are much better for clients/host budgets, but less intuitive than PHP =3
There are also PATA SSD that are a bit more reliable, and fit the standard mount on older laptops. Because some models include several workarounds for older equipment (automatic wear leveling), these can last quite some time even with an OS that never supported SSD (turn off swap when possible).
If it is something important like old equipment, a CompactFlash SLC card with a PATA adapter is a proven solution.
Usually it is better to drop an old OS image into a 86box, and make the recovered backing image read-only. =3
Indeed, I also went through the ddrescue trial-and-error process with USB adapters to avoid large file corruption bugs, BIOS specific setup quirks, and proprietary controller remapping (seagate.)
Ultimately, it was almost always better to pull the disk image on the original hardware when possible, or use a legacy 32bit x86 PC to direct access the drive controller when BIOS doesn't support the drive. Best of luck =3
I like a lot of Stephen Wolfram's work, but we must also recognize the questionable assumptions he made in many of his commercial projects.
There is a difference between cashing-in and selling-out... but often fame destroys peoples scientific working window by shifting focus to conventional mundane problems better left to an MBA.
I live in a country where guaranteed health care is part of the constitution. It was a controversial idea at one time, but proved lucrative in reducing costs.
Isaac Newton purchased the only known portrait of the man who accused him of plagiarism, and essentially erased the guy from history books. Newton also traded barbs with Robert Hooke of all people when he found time away from his alleged womanizing. Notably, this still happens in academia daily, as unproductive powerful people have lots of time to formalize and leverage grad student work with credible publishing platforms.
The hapless and unscrupulous have always existed, where the successful simply leverage both of their predictable behavior. =3
'I live in a country where guaranteed health care is part of the constitution.'
In the light of ' Almost half of the 6 million people needing treatment from the NHS in England have had no further care at all since joining a hospital waiting list, new data reveals. Previously unseen NHS England figures show that 2.99 million of the 6.23 million patients (48%) awaiting care have not had either their first appointment with a specialist or a diagnostic test since being referred by a GP.'
- Assuming it's successful in its goal, can your country tell Britain how to do it? Please!
Over a human lifetime, the immediate economic decisions do change macroeconomic postures. For example, consider variable costs of dental services for braces, fillings, crowns, root canals, extraction, bone loss, dentures, and supporting pharmaceuticals/radiology. Then consider a one-time standard fixed cost of volume discounted cosmetic titanium implants with a crown. People would look great, have better heart health, and suffer less treatments over time.
Rationally, the more expensive option ends up several times less expensive than a sequence of bodges. Yet no politician in the world could make that happen due to initial costs, regulatory capture, and rent-seeking economic policy. Note, GDP would contract slightly as cost savings compounded, and quality of life improved.
In general, one could run integrated education, emergency care, and disease control diagnostics like assembly lines. Routing patients though 24h virtual sorting for specialist site clinics on fixed service rotation.
Some have already imagined efficient hip and knee replacement services that make sense in other contexts:
the historically underfunded NHS took a massive hit to its funding at the start of the credit crunch, and then again in covid. neither cut was restored, whilst patient numbers have steadily risen (UK needs population growth to fuel property prices to avoid recession - 20% of gdp is construction).
people are dying because hospitals cant afford to operate. getting deals on volume purchases is irrelevant
>people are dying because hospitals cant afford to operate
In general, around 24% of health care costs are spent in the final year of life. It is also legal here for folks to request a painless early exit from palliative and end-of-life care, but depends on individuals faith and philosophical stance.
1. How many local kids do you personally know made it into medical school?
2. Is your national debt and %debt to GDP ratio growing?
3. Is your middle class job market in growth?
If the answer is 0, yes, and no... than the core problems may become more clear. Best of luck =3
Currency requires trade to generate tax revenue, and is like holding a bucket of water with a hole in the bottom.
Folks could nationalize gold reserves >1oz like the US did to exit the depression, publish holding-company investment owners, tax investment properties at 6% of assessed value every year, and pass a right-of-first-sale to citizens regardless of bid amount on residential zoned estates like Singapore.
One may wager any such actions are unlikely from the hapless. =3
Part of the inferred problem is a lack of respect for others, because some simply don't respect themselves. This was part of the PSA workable measures video.
Note, we also still buy inexpensive private insurance coverage mostly for travel, as it is tax deductible unlike the public coverage.
You should get outside for a walk, and meet real people. =3
Sounds like a great product, but a tough name in a business messaging context. The Customer Acquisition Cost for people that missed business culture fit rules can be extraordinarily high.
Maybe some sort of additional corporate alias name with "Biocomposite" or "Sustainable" packaging related messaging. Also, one may want to contact Uline with a set of product sku that already fit generic shipping boxes for high-value items like wine bottles and laptop screens.
Prior to the DMCA, copyright violations were a grey area. In most countries, in order to seek damages a company had to show users were selling copies or using IP for promotional purposes.
Now... people are using the same RIAA/DMCA laws to hijack youtube channel content from legitimate creators. The damage to publishers is done by the time it is sorted out.
As a business, it has always been better to go after distribution channels rather than squeezing customers. =3
If the Corporation is type S it is purely US citizen owned, but most are type C thanks to the great work by AMCHAM attracting global investment.
Notably, most science is done on UTC time... because politicians were always functionally ignorant about the collateral costs of arbitrary technology policy changes. Evey village usually has at least one idiot. =3
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