ExactoKnight

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by ExactoKnight 9y ago
Eh, yeah, I guess that's what I meant. Didn't know there was a distinction? This: https://www.visualstudio.com/vs/visual-studio-mac/
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by ExactoKnight 9y ago
No, just passionate about this issue. Sorry if that came off as spamming -- wasn't my intent beyond spreading its message.
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by ExactoKnight 9y ago
Bitcoin 10 minute block generation times is an inherent problem that unless changed, will doom the protocol to its eventual death. It's like trying to make a 56k modem work, when broadband is available. When litecoin came around a few
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by ExactoKnight 9y ago
I'm using the Mac version. Started with it today. It felt like getting all the benefits of RubyMine without the learning curve of needing to learn its non-Sublime macros, thanks to Visual Studio's option to automatically map key
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by ExactoKnight 9y ago
I dev on a Mac, I'm anti-Microsoft through and through, and I thought the same. But seriously, their Mac version of Visual Studio (which I use) is now mature and I think in parts thanks to Microsoft taking steps to support bash, the
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by ExactoKnight 9y ago
I'm afriad we've swung WAY too far in the other direction. Almost all forms of environmental manipulation is now shunned, only manipulation in the world of bits is okay. It's slowly us down to a tremendous degree. https:&#
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by ExactoKnight 9y ago
I'm in banking at a startup level and I'd have to disagree with this. There is tremendous fear in the industry right now over being seen as outdated or dinosaur, especially with all the blockchain hype. You can make simple technol
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by ExactoKnight 9y ago
Indeed. The mess we're in is one of crap upon crap. I wanted to use a CSS framework the other day, and I all but had to rip the project apart manually just to get the files without them stuffing a heavy build tool like Gulp down my th
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by ExactoKnight 9y ago
Honestly, the strongest text editors are those that integrate with an IDE that also syncs with your runtime. The kind of debugging and refactorings you can do in that kind of set up are mindblowing, and it took me years of doing it the old
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by ExactoKnight 9y ago
This may sound like heresy but I seriously encourage checking out today's version of Visual Studio. I dev on Ruby and I am a hardcore Sublime user, which is about as far away from Microsoft-friendly as you can get, and I have been real
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by ExactoKnight 9y ago
Honestly, coming from a Ruby dev environment of all things, I have been really impressed Visual Studio lately. Never thought I'd see the day.
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by ExactoKnight 9y ago
It's also becoming fricking obvious what happens when we allow environmentalism to make us deeply skeptical towards anything involving the physical manipulation of objects in the real world. https://www.youtube.com/watc
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Will Speech Syntax Markup Language (SSML) Become the New HTML?
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by ExactoKnight 9y ago
Do scaling issues really matter?! Bitcoin hasn't dealt with its scaling issues, and Monero is an extremely far way away from it in needing to deal with issues of scale. Many of Bitcoin's scaling innovations could be applied to Mo
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by ExactoKnight 9y ago
Monero's FUD was refuted. The privacy attack was patched and it's solid now.
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by ExactoKnight 9y ago
The brilliance of this service is they don't even need to do any real work in keeping their dictionary that up to date, and they've been given a license to print money.
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by ExactoKnight 9y ago
The cheaper price comes almost entirely from the driver making less. Love it or hate it, that's really the big difference now that most existing cab companies now have Uber-like dispatch technology.
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by ExactoKnight 9y ago
It was first mover in getting real identity on the internet right. Social network is not an accurate term for what made Facebook "right" over its competitors.
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by ExactoKnight 9y ago
Facebook was first in getting real identity on the internet right. The other social media sites before them never understood this well -- many had visions of people taking on avatars of other creatures, or defining their life around one my
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by ExactoKnight 9y ago
It's now estimated there are more Earth-sized planets than gas giants on most stars, and that every star has at least 1 planet, likely more. So that's 7 or more planets. That's many.
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by ExactoKnight 9y ago
Fascinating video, but honestly the only thought that kept going through my head is: they've overcomplicated this. Despite it's impressive number of steps, this does not look like good engineering. Instead, it looks like a de
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by ExactoKnight 9y ago
You're thinking about this wrong. As long as we can send probes and/or communicate within compressed timeframes than physical transportation of humans doesn't matter. E.g. Breakthrough Starshot can get us to many exoplanets
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by ExactoKnight 9y ago
What you're describing is actually a brilliant approach for increasing NASA budgets. Simply put, make astronomy a matter of national security. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Securitization_(international_...
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by ExactoKnight 9y ago
Not at all. I don't care about traveling there, I want to know about what other life exists. Once we find a good target, the Breakthrough Starshot program is one example of a promising project that could get us results within our li
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by ExactoKnight 9y ago
Promising developments, but christ, could they move any slower ?! We know what technology we need to build. Why must we wait a full two more years for a report to get finished before even beginning funding proposals on which path to p
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by ExactoKnight 9y ago
Watson's Natural Language Classifier, in particular its categorization API, is actually pretty impressive...
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by ExactoKnight 9y ago
Sure, it doesn't need to be all or nothing. The point is to grab perspective about how achievable these goals are, using money that's being wasted in such large supply right now on tools to kill people. If we found strong evidence
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by ExactoKnight 9y ago
The money is there. U.S. military spending far exceeds spending on science. By another commentators estimate, the 100 Metre Telescope would cost ~$15 billion to build. In comparison the F-35 fighter jet program cost $168 billion, and in 1
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by ExactoKnight 9y ago
No, something has come from it. We now have a growing massive list of habitable planets. What's lacking now is the extra tooling to study them more extensively.
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by ExactoKnight 9y ago
Having near certain evidence of life existing on another planet, due to seeing oxygen present in the emission spectra of an atmosphere of another planet, would be a true game changer for space probe and exploration funding. Astronomy fundin

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