Artlav

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by Artlav 9y ago
The one that runs the NSA's servers policing the internet.
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by Artlav 9y ago
Why are buildings built with 3 times the structural integrity than they need? Why are wires several times thicker than they need to carry the power the house needs? Why are hammers much harder than nails? It's called redundancy - you c
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by Artlav 9y ago
That is familiar... I'm 30 and i tend to think of my savings in terms of lasting the rest of my life, even though i don't plan to live on them. I quit a falling apart job a year ago, and was staying above break even on odd opportu
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by Artlav 9y ago
Perhaps it all goes down to lifestyle inflation more than any inherent expense scaling with income opportunities. I've heard of people in SF spending $1-$2 a day on food, living in a trailer and showering at work, while making 6 figure
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by Artlav 9y ago
Why is it painted as a problem? Why should you spend more than you need? Why is "enjoying a retirement" supposed to only be achieved by spending more money? I don't get the point of the article.
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by Artlav 9y ago
Hm? Win 10 one was released in March, but XP's one wasn't released until WannaCry was rampaging in May. The fishy part is that they prepared an XP update well in advance, but didn't release it until after the rampage.
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Ask HN: Anyone noticed the odd timestamps on latest Windows XP patch?
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by Artlav 9y ago
It certainly depends on the industry. I.e. here in Russia if you work in the oil industry you would be making mad amounts of money. It is hard to get into, however, and you would have to live in middle of nowhere, Siberia for years. Not qui
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by Artlav 9y ago
Well, people who make $200k tend to live in places when you spend $40-80k on rent or mortgage, $10-$20k on food and utilities, god knows how much on medical insurance, and all after 30%-40% taxes, leaving you with about zilch to save. Or so
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by Artlav 9y ago
Hindsight is 20-20 but does not swivel forward. One strategy is to make a habit of staking odd, unusual or long-sighted ideas. You would lose 9 out of 10 stakes, but hopefully the tenth would cover the losses. I found out about bitcoin arou
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by Artlav 9y ago
Not again... We can't we just summarily execute all designers? It would save so much diffuse suffering.
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by Artlav 9y ago
Huh? It tends to be the opposite - government places like schools or hospitals run on tightly reglamented software and processes, and updating ANYTHING is a hard, long struggle. You would often find computers running XP or less around such
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by Artlav 9y ago
It is.
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by Artlav 9y ago
So, if it says "Error: IOCTL_MEI_CONNECT_CLIENT receive message. err=-1", what does it mean? Tried it on i5-6260U, should be new enough to have the thing.
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by Artlav 9y ago
I've been doing it for a decade [1]. Not a lot of success on the big one - before FPV it was notoriously hard to fly, and after FPV it turned out it was unstable on sharp turns (see crash videos). Haven't gotten around building a
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by Artlav 9y ago
TortoiseGit-like GUI for Linux. Surprisingly there is nothing even remotely as comfortable as it was.
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by Artlav 9y ago
I used to set the alarm to 7:45 and 8:00 (to be out of the door by 8:10). The ability to lightly sleep the last 15 minutes is very refreshing. These days i'm self-employed, so pretty much gave up on alarm clocks and go to sleep and wak
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by Artlav 9y ago
The need to sleep. Not really soluble with software, at least not yet.
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by Artlav 9y ago
Varies wildly. It's like trying to measure a driver's performance in degrees-of-steering-wheel-turned-per-hour.
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by Artlav 9y ago
How often does this actually happen? Never been to the states, keep hearing rumors of illegal device searches like that.
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by Artlav 9y ago
At 30. Active, never contributed much having been burned several times early on. For me programming is akin to a work of art, so i keep doing various projects for my own fun. Not sure how one can become "inactive", barring a disab
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by Artlav 9y ago
> Ballpark, you make about $100k a year in your 20s I'm green with envy... With that much money i could have probably retire right now at 30, and i'm half way there. Then again, i live in a country with free medicine, free educ
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by Artlav 9y ago
Thinking is quite a bit faster. I have caught myself altering phrases mid-pronouncing because i was thinking more about it while talking and thought of a better thing to say. In practice that tend to produce garbled words. You can probably
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by Artlav 9y ago
Altcoins are like pokemon - just collect 'em all. Drop $1000 into each with an original idea, $100 into each that sounds legit and $10 into each of the remaining ones (ignoring the ones which are just a fork with a couple lines of code
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by Artlav 9y ago
Once upon a time a kid me realized that anything he put in autoexec.bat gets executed when the computer boots. Soon after i figured out how to do branching and input and made a start-menu-of-a-sorts thingy. It only went downhill from there.
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by Artlav 9y ago
This is all eerily familiar. I never experienced a conflict like that, but i have experienced the pressure of other people's wants on what was own project made for my own fun. > This experience also highlights that ownership can be
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by Artlav 9y ago
Depends on how personally is personally. I've seen a lot of places like McDonalds replace most of their cashiers with self-order stands over the last few years. I've seen parking app and terminals replace parking fee collectors ov
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by Artlav 9y ago
Interesting. Never really noticed any effects of that, however. On the other hand, in Russian there is no distinct time metaphor - it can be a short pause, it can be a small break.
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by Artlav 9y ago
Well, it was for a project that deals with distributed low level high performance data processing. Not something a JS or even a typical application level programmer need to know about these days.
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by Artlav 9y ago
Big ass city on seven hills, one of the top 10 most expensive cities by housing costs, got an excellent public transit system and horrible traffic (it's rare to get somewhere faster by car than by subway unless it's sunday). The o

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