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astroalex

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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.