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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