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Comment #47722722
One obvious difference I can see at a glance is that Maker.js doesn't support 3D models, while FluidCAD does. I assume Maker.js is a lower level library aimed at interfacing direct…
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Comment #47419078
I used Slug at a previous job. It is an excellent, artfully crafted library; really the pinnacle of software engineering in my opinion. Thanks to the author for donating the algori…
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Comment #44594839
This is exactly right. I taught myself coding, but struggled through some of my CS computer science classes because I hadn't learned some (important) boring details. My peers who h…
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Comment #44056202
I found the preamble at the beginning of the announcement charmingly dated: > The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on co…
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Comment #43921015
In my personal experience I couldn't use Zed for editing python. Firstly, when navigating in a large python repository, looking up references was extremely slow (sometimes on the o…
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Comment #43694345
This is tragic. It's one of favorite games of all time--heck, one of my favorite media experiences, period. It's worth pushing through until you get hooked.
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Comment #43623062
If you are trying to advance your career, I feel prepping for interviews is probably the number one most important thing you can do, unless you are freakishly gifted at acing inter…
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Comment #43430047
I took 2 years off where I made 0 income. Insurance was covered by the government and my healthcare was quite good. I didn't pay taxes because I didn't make any income. Getting bac…
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Comment #42707715
> Have been to the DMV? It sucked? There is a human being whose job it is to be in charge of the DMV. They do not care that it sucks. Maybe I'm just lucky, but I've actually never …
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Comment #42483472
Fascinating game that is unlike anything I've played. Nice work!
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Comment #42425052
What prevented you from reading the page?
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Comment #41506271
DNA is how you serialize flowers!
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Comment #41315932
Cool! Will this work for multi-GPU inference?
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Comment #41231711
Love what you're doing at Depot, keep up the good work!
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Comment #41223501
The creator of this tool also recently collaborated on making an experimental weaving version: https://weavescape.net/
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Comment #40970671
One major difference I’ve seen in shader graph type tools is that they are stateless, or almost stateless. The output of the shader graph is a function of time and some fixed param…
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Comment #40957724
Some[1] think that things are trending in the opposite direction: away from clever manipulations and hard coded domain knowledge, and towards large scale general models. [1]: http:…
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Comment #40720704
I've used it. It's been blowing my mind.
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Comment #40095046
This was very enjoyable. A glimpse of the future of gaming IMO, and just plain fun! Some of the situations had me cracking up hard. Well done.
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Comment #39136855
You can't spam a thread if there is no "thread" feature implemented?
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Comment #38932774
I totally agree. The video does actually show the product, and it looks interesting, but the other parts of the website are a big turn off.
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Comment #37894629
Yes! A friend pointed that out to me. I hadn't heard of Midinous but it seems like a much more sophisticated version of my idea.