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GravityWell

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About GravityWell

Interested in cosmology, programming, and PC gaming. Not necessarily in that order.

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    Comment #9836667

    Thank goodness! Looking forward to the Pluto close-ups, which will hopefully include the dark spots.

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    Comment #9363749

    Care to share some examples of dark energy evidence? If the evidence is a measurement of expansion, then it doesn't necessarily support the existence of dark energy.

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    Comment #9053599

    > The number of compiler bugs is a bit scary. I see similar lists for GCC when a branch is underway. I'm actually impressed with the number of active contributors, and I find the d…

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    Comment #8366858

    This is extraordinarily useful and unique. My compliments to Backblaze for making this available. This is the type of empirical data I would love to have for as many things as poss…

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    Comment #7535817

    I just fired up a NodejsConsoleApp project in VS 2013, created a few simple functions, set a breakpoint, and started stepping through. To be fair, I assumed Edit and Continue would…

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    Comment #7535098

    Note for those visiting the thread, I found one of the big things with this release is the support for Edit & Continue: http://nodejstools.codeplex.com/releases/view/104141 https:/…

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    Comment #7534432

    I'm hardly an MS fanboy, and I'm not sure what announcements you're referring to, but it's hard for me to see a downside to this.

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    Comment #7534185

    I had to see it to believe it, but here it is. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAroJmb6XY4

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    Comment #7105459

    Interesting move by Valve, and another positive step in support of Linux.

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    Comment #6530955

    The fact that #1 and #2 are Chromebooks is worth mentioning. I found that surprising.

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    Comment #6387102

    One of the mysteries of HN and how stories do and don't make it to the top. It seems to me there is more attention to tabloid type stories lately.

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    Comment #6377620

    From the article: "..It turns out that far from being a minor initiative to keep MariaDB alive, Google is actively patching and upgrading MariaDB 10.0 to be fit enough so that Goog…

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    Comment #6377378

    It doesn't. In this context, "...that I believe all living things" , the words "I believe" can be directly converted to "I have faith without any evidence" .

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    Comment #6377209

    Aptly named or not, a google search for sigil shows the epub editor as the first result. The project has been around a long time: https://code.google.com/p/sigil/

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    "Navigant Research forecasts that autonomous vehicles will gradually gain traction in the market over the coming two decades and by 2035, sales of autonomous vehicles will reach 95…

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    Comment #6229244

    Not sure what the objective is, but using the "before" example 475kb lena pic, a subsequent jpg at 61k looks very close to the original, and much better than the 61k blurred png. T…

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