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Quenty

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About Quenty

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    Comment #39345782

    The point of the parent system is to prevent knowledge from being lost to humanity. It encourages disclosure on how unique and novel things work in return for a limited monopoly. I…

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    Comment #37588856

    I mean, they’re using knn underneath. You can apparently get 97% accuracy with normal knn, at n=4 if you compare pixel distance. So another way to frame this might be that gzip cos…

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    Comment #34644773

    This is why a lot of younger people just search stuff on tiktok.

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    Comment #34295408

    The Midwest would be great. It’s right next door and the largest piece of arable land in the world.

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    Comment #32256716

    Not to comment on the rest of the comment, but apparently the Economist is not right leaning? Do you have a source for that? https://www.allsides.com/news-source/economist

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    Comment #32154371

    Have they not already been financially compensated for this?

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    Comment #29555899

    Just because the knowledge exists in the world doesn’t mean that you know it. Consolidating knowledge is a non-trivial exercise.

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    Comment #28405322

    While you are correct, this is not what I was referring to. To be exactly clear, there are actually 4 staging areas within what you referenced as the index. This is indeed a detail…

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    Comment #28393692

    This article presents an accurate picture of how things work at a high conceptual level. It glosses over certain details, because git is very complex. For example, git has, if I re…

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    Comment #28218272

    It’s useful to have as a shader which can help define the visual style of your game. Additionally you can highlight the model from any angle, which is a useful hint to users. Since…

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    Comment #27723270

    Azure DevOps has this concept, it’s called “semi-linear merge” where it will rebase your PR on top of the branch being merged into, but then create a 2 parent merge commit with the…

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    Comment #27438746

    From another perspective, consider it probably did not cost $90 million to execute this plan. So overall, this is a net profit, and most likely cost effective.

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    Comment #27066424

    Could be survivorship bias too.

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    Comment #26638174

    Those computer classes were actually really useful for me, let me explore power point and was a way to make a video game within PowerPoint, which was super cool.

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    Comment #25815215

    Turns out, about 10x less than Bitcoin, (this article seems to imply 25 million GJ per a year of energy mining/processing gold, and the Twitter thread implies 280 million GJ per a …

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    Comment #25609015

    We’re also missing TypeScript and C#, both of which are quite popular.

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    Comment #24735855

    Very cool that it’s based off of RDF triples. I’m really curious about your product. What does performance look like? The TerminusDB website says it’s in memory? Can you have a dat…

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    Comment #23744022

    Try Coup!

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    Comment #23486489

    VSCode effectively has this feature.

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    Comment #23449755

    Lua has significantly better performance than Python, but the big reason is that Lua has a very nice C/C++ API that makes it easy to integrate with other programs. Combined with a …

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    Comment #22384163

    The article states the bots were on the side of denialism.

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    Comment #22282852

    At the end of the article, it says “However, despite the rumours of a Gates investment, the Aqua is still just a concept.” It’s unclear what exactly is the truth.

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    Comment #22212625

    Lua isn’t really a prototypical language, it’s a build-your-own-class system. Metatables help facilitate this. You can do classic OOP if you want.

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    Comment #22011999

    Have you tried Roblox?

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    Comment #21639207

    Notably both C# and TypeScript are developed in the same Microsoft division as Visual Studio and VSCode. :p