Andrew_nenakhov

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   by Andrew_nenakhov 4y ago

   Many adults take pride at working several remote jobs simultaneously, slacking off and faking productivity at every one of them, check news from a few months ago. Doing it from the office is far more difficult.
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   by Andrew_nenakhov 4y ago

   Some people are extremely sensitive to the issue of the remote work, like it is some kind of inalienable right, and any (perceived) threat to it makes them want to grab a pitchfork and proteat. I don't get it. Things are simple. The em
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   by Andrew_nenakhov 4y ago

   This is great. Add shaking, and it'll be perfect.
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   by Andrew_nenakhov 4y ago

   Played with the Yubikeys a couple of days ago. Rather nice thingies that are very easy to lose somewhere.
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   by Andrew_nenakhov 4y ago

   This is breathtaking, couldn't stop reading until finished. It'll be my go-to example of the best possible educational material.
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   by Andrew_nenakhov 5y ago

   How is 3:2 'significantly better' than 16:10? It's 15:10 vs 16:10! To continue this line of thought, would 14:10 be even better than 15:10?
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   by Andrew_nenakhov 5y ago

   Full throttle had a fairly grounded art style.
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   by Andrew_nenakhov 5y ago

   If you loved The Dig, you'll badly want a remake after this https://youtu.be/xHJlIhpNS2I
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   by Andrew_nenakhov 5y ago

   > that didn't require fast user clicks It absolutely did! Curse that seagull in MI1 tavern, ugh.
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    by Andrew_nenakhov 5y ago

    > Monkey Island 2 is a masterpiece. My mileage certainly differs. I loved how it looked, but to me it is by far the weakest of the lucasarts games I played (and I played all but the first Maniac Mansion and Zac McKraken). It is far too d
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    by Andrew_nenakhov 5y ago

    I find it interesting that sequels in gaming are way easier than in movie business: game designers don't have to deal that much with stars ageing or dying, and voice actors are far easier to replace than on-screen ones. Though with dee
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    by Andrew_nenakhov 5y ago

    To me, Grim Fandango looked fantastic. What made it difficult to play were the cursed keyboard controls. I still did beat it, but never wanted to come back to it because of those controls. A couple of years ago, I replayed the modern remast
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    by Andrew_nenakhov 5y ago

    Conan is the best type of character to deal with terror-inducing beings like shoggoths or Cthulhu. His extremely uncomplicated conscience coupled with high intelligence makes him totally immune to fear that suppresses 'civilized'
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    by Andrew_nenakhov 5y ago

    > No one tells you this but Conan stories are basically Lovecraft Mythos stories. Never thought of this, but it makes a certain sense. Now I want a Conan at the Mountains of Madness crossover book.
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    by Andrew_nenakhov 5y ago

    For that specific goal, maybe, no. Sketch really excels when doing vector designs that are going to be presented in a raster displays, so a lot of its features revolves around a pixel grid. Inkscape does not care about pixel grid, being an
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    by Andrew_nenakhov 5y ago

    If you know Inkscape, you'll feel right at home with Sketch. The extra functionality I'm talking is usually unlocked with additional hotkeys and visual helpers that appear by themselves when dragging things around. I'm not ex
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    by Andrew_nenakhov 5y ago

    I love inkskape, but I wish it took some interface tips from modern graphical software like Sketch. Inkscape's interface hasn't changed much in the last 15 years or more, and since then a LOT has changed in the UX world. Tools lik
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    by Andrew_nenakhov 5y ago

    I, for one, very much prefer the aesthetics introduced in iOS 7. The first version was rough and sometimes inconsistent, but that can be expected when the changes are so radical in such a big project.
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    by Andrew_nenakhov 5y ago

    > because the scrolling is so much better Unless you use any application that requires more or less precise scrolls. Like any game, or any map in the browser . The experience of using Google maps / Apple maps / Openstreetmap
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    by Andrew_nenakhov 5y ago

    Telegram also used Apple's emoji, and what's unclear to me how they got away with it: I did search hard and could not find any information on Apple Emoji licensing or whether they can be used on other platforms at all.
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    by Andrew_nenakhov 5y ago

    Back in the day when they were standard in Androids we received tons of complaints about our chat app from users, "why do you use these fugly blob emojis? Can't you have nice ones like on iPhones?"
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    by Andrew_nenakhov 5y ago

    Apple's emojis are fine. What's not fine is their treatment of them: apps can be rejected from the AppStore if they feature emojis on a screenshots, or have them on some button. What's worse, this rule is applied very inconsi
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    by Andrew_nenakhov 5y ago

    I came here to comment that it'd be better to build lichess of speed cubing (whatever this is), but you beat me to it.
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    by Andrew_nenakhov 5y ago

    No.
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    by Andrew_nenakhov 5y ago

    Sounds like a job for Erlang.
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    by Andrew_nenakhov 5y ago

    My personal theory is that Fomenko had figured out the errors in his books pretty early, yet, they were very popular and he had established a very lucrative career for himself in the difficult 1990s, so he just continued to publish more boo
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    by Andrew_nenakhov 5y ago

    Oh, and if it is 10, 28, 2, 7, 25 it is also the same sequence with 8, 45, 9, 29, because 10, (28 + 2), 7, 25 looks similar enough. That extra number was a clear mistake.
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    by Andrew_nenakhov 5y ago

    Well, Fomenko attacks all methods of dating events for their drawbacks, but the core of his theory is very vulnerable to being self-contradictory. He doesn't trust the narrative sources when it comes to names and such, considering that
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    by Andrew_nenakhov 5y ago

    it is also very very liberal in interpretation of facts. so, 2 sequences of kings reigns, one is 10, 30, 7, 25 years, another is 8, 45, 9, 20. according to Fomenko's methodology, these are copies of the same event, because it is a shor
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    by Andrew_nenakhov 5y ago

    I had a friend once, who really went nuts on this 20+ years ago, so I've dug pretty deeply in this nonsense. However, no arguments were able to convince my friend that this 'chronology' is crap. He believed that all archeolog