Artlav

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by Artlav 10y ago
Not that bad, actually. Just tried converting the sound to 8 bit, compressing it as a monochrome image, then back. You can't really hear much difference at higher quality settings, and as you turn it down it sound like there is more an
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by Artlav 10y ago
No. Why would you even use Windows in 2017?
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by Artlav 10y ago
Me, i just happen across an education gig in Chile a couple years ago, and have been doing education gigs (hardware prototyping and general science) a few times a year in South America and Europe since then. Doesn't pay much, but havin
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by Artlav 10y ago
As someone who made his own OS, i feel like this would be an exercise in futility. Making one is a good learning experience, but you can't keep up with the world completely on your own. So for it to be worth working on, there should be
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by Artlav 10y ago
Russia, bestchange.ru keeps track of all the exchanges and their reviews. Despite all the noise, it's actually easy and fast to get the coins sold.
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by Artlav 10y ago
Define "novel" please? Unless the code is i an unusual language, i can't quite think of anything that would fit the common definition of that word.
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by Artlav 10y ago
Ah, ok. From the Reddit thread it sounds like you were using a 20MB file for the 2s result? From the article it sounds like the 2s result was for the 90Kb file, which would have been rather odd.
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by Artlav 10y ago
I feel like i'm missing something. In the "Why" section he claims that Rust is a performant language with a low-level feel. In this part, he claims that decoding a tiny JPG image took 2 seconds with his code. How is that &quo
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by Artlav 10y ago
The problem is that often there is something you made that would be appreciated by, say, a million people worldwide. These people are mostly unconnected with each other and are not aware of your existence. Even if a few would find you, ther
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by Artlav 10y ago
I wonder who would buy them at such ridiculous prices. Most NOS nixies are in the $0.5 to $5 range, excluding delivery costs. Only exceptions are a few weird and rare ones.
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by Artlav 10y ago
The saddest part is that no one cares and no one does anything. No protests, no rotten tomatoes into MS manager faces, no uproars or boycotts, not even pathetic stuff like lawsuits. At best a few educated people complain on the internet or
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by Artlav 10y ago
That we will be a sphere of xenocide expanding at near lightspeed.
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by Artlav 10y ago
Having made a similar game over the last decade [1], i suspect that if NMS didn't have all the marketing and polish, no one would have known what to do in it. The most asked question about Spaceway i got is what to do in this infinite
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by Artlav 10y ago
Not sure that it would be any better than Linux. At one point i needed to port a game to iPhone, which, for context, requires MacOS and their whole stack of locked-up tools. At first i tried to run MacOS in a VM (VmWare), which kinda worked
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by Artlav 10y ago
TortoiseGit, for example. Makes Git usable for a visual person. Nothing even remotely as good exists on linux, sadly. All the file handling is done by Total Commander. MC is kinda close on linux, but lacks a lot of features. But yeah, i gue
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by Artlav 10y ago
Let me guess... Wait, no. MS stopped that in July, right?
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by Artlav 10y ago
Mostly the default one. Never had too much need for command line on Windows - it's beauty is in the great GUI tools, and build systems can be handled by simple bat files.
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by Artlav 10y ago
Back at the start of the decade, i followed a certain startup in Moscow closely [1]. They wanted to provide 4G to the city. For perspective, back in 2009 there wasn't even 3G in Russia - the frequencies were all owned by the military,
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by Artlav 10y ago
In simple words, you should work for money/salary, not for promises/equity. This way you'll always get a fair compensation, regardless of what happens to the company.
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by Artlav 10y ago
"Pre filter" is kind of like a rule of thumb. There are exceptions for stuff like drivers and for big corporate programs that just don't come in other ways. But a lot of smaller programs are available in the zip form, or have
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by Artlav 10y ago
Yeah, that's the reason why i have a "got installer? not worth using" pre-filter for Windows software. Not sure how things are these days, but i'm talking about the Win 9x to Win 7 days.
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by Artlav 10y ago
If it's ISP injecting stuff, then there is a handy site [1] that would check for these. If you don't speak Russian, then just wait for the countdown to finish, then it would be either a green V meaning no injection, or something r
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by Artlav 10y ago
Perhaps it's about expecting to have program locality? I.e. you download a zip file, you unpack it into a directory, and here is your entire program. Right there, in that directory, not splattered around the filesystem by the package m
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by Artlav 10y ago
Russia kinda does. However, they are more like cruise missiles.
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by Artlav 10y ago
If "self-hosting" means "web hosting" these days, then my blog/portfolio site [1] is on a regular web hosting ($45/year, got a few other sites there as well), and runs on the code i wrote myself (PHP, no DB). I
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by Artlav 10y ago
Hm, aren't there 2 directly visible pieces of evidence (at least for anyone who travels)? One is talking to someone on the other side of the planet, where the time would be different (and so day or night instead of night or day). The o
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by Artlav 10y ago
I guess it was a bit out of the wrong context. I did a lot of fixing/building computers back in the school days, and that left a bad impression - a lot of people don't care to learn even the simplest things, or stop to think for 5
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by Artlav 10y ago
> They weren't trying to make me angry, they were trying to learn. Yeah, these are the easy ones. The hard ones are the "why should i think what to do? I have my job, just make this thing work!" kind that doesn't tr
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by Artlav 10y ago
Hm, i find this kinda hard to port over to a typical chaotic/radial european city. In Moscow, for example, there are wide radial and circular roads, from which branches of small roads diffuse into the meat of the city under pretty much
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by Artlav 10y ago
No idea how this one works, but the idea itself is rather plausible. Firmwares in all sorts of consumer hardware are often quite lousy and weren't, until recently, even considered as vectors for exploits (and therefore seriously secure

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