Artlav

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by Artlav 10y ago
Depends. In my case, i moved from a job where i worked on high-performance computing/driver-level stuff and got to play with some TOP500 machines unconstrained, which was rather fun. The new job was in telecom, and i worked on a somewh
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by Artlav 10y ago
Something like three fail-safe systems have failed or weren't installed in this case. All to generate a bit of neat smoke?
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by Artlav 10y ago
Sure, and it's much faster too. But the former is a rigid industrial process needing complex machinery, while the latter is a fully configurable process with machinery you can make out of assorted scrap at home.
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by Artlav 10y ago
> 3D printers have terrible quality. They are for prototyping. You'd be printing out replacement parts every month. You might be confusing appearance and durability. The appearance of 3D printed parts is usually far from designer&
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by Artlav 10y ago
While neat in theory, this have zero practical possibility. It could be improved a bit if they used a smartphone instead of a card, but that still leaves the problem of there being no "base stations" around. Perhaps a better idea
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by Artlav 10y ago
Huh? "Lost art"? That's, like, programming 101 grade material, not some "lost art". Then again, i worked in telecom and HPC, and play with uCs, so perhaps i'm wearing the wrong googles...
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by Artlav 10y ago
Am i the only one who finds it more fun to try to get all the squares the same color, rather than into a chessboard? Neat game.
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by Artlav 10y ago
As someone who can barely remember faces, i find this quite amazing. Another thought is - how long before AI recognition would eliminate this job. 20 years they give sounds like an enormous over-estimate.
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by Artlav 10y ago
Ah, i had an impression that the article was talking about the one-on-one case, and so assumed you were too. Makes more sense now.
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by Artlav 10y ago
Hm? Understanding is important. It opens up possibilities for change and/or improvements. You might call someone who deny evolution a thickhead or a zealot, ignore, and that's the end of it. Or you can try to ask "why do you
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by Artlav 10y ago
Am i the only one who gets irked by having to read half an article of "how you should feel about this" crap to get an answer to the "WTF is this and how it works" question, which should have taken one line at the start?
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by Artlav 10y ago
> If I'd bought bitcoin, or ethereum early on, or if I'd invested in Apple in 1998 what would my life be like... A constant regret of having only bought/mined X instead of 1000*X. Seriously, back when i first heard about
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by Artlav 10y ago
Not all people are visual thinkers or have large visual bandwidth. Also, if asking one question at a time adds a % or two to the user base of something as big as Google, then that's a lot of new users.
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by Artlav 10y ago
Could you explain how "password managers" are a good idea? I can't seem to grasp the concept, or what makes it more secure to have one password for all your passwords and/or to store all your login credentials on someone
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by Artlav 10y ago
Ternary logic actually happened - a bunch of Soviet computers used it [1], and it was somewhat faster/more cost efficient, but not decisively so. In the end, the party decided that code compatibility with the west was more important th
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by Artlav 10y ago
Interesting. I thought "equity" meant just giving stock to the employees after they worked X years, not the mess of complexity, taxes and spending your own money that it actually is...
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by Artlav 10y ago
Not really. I never found anything "playable" for Oculus Rift i bought a year ago. I use it for VR development and show-offing at various events, which in my case are various experience sims like base jumping from a space elevator
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by Artlav 10y ago
Time to buy. :) Seriously, there is a curious coincidence with the BTC-driven pump and dump currently going on at the Etherium's dead chain. Another curious coincidence is that the price started falling before the closure, as if someon
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by Artlav 10y ago
Sounds like someone ran a script without thinking too much.
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by Artlav 10y ago
In all my worlds, there are no people. They have shape, structure, geometry, the physics and the backgrounds. Places, regions, cities and borders, architecture and machinery. But there is no one. No characters or villains, no random strange
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by Artlav 10y ago
How common is this question? Over here in Russia asking how much you make is often considered a taboo, or a bad tone. I've never been or heard about this being asked at the interviews.
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by Artlav 10y ago
Interesting, i thought this sort of research was done after the offer, when you are in process of doing the paperwork to get in? And AFAIK a lot of people don't have any credit history, so this does not sound useful anyway.
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by Artlav 10y ago
Uneven sinking is not good - doors/windows won't close, walls would crack, and so on. It does not take much to seize things, however buildings are usually designed to take a little of it. The rate at which it's sinking is the
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Ask HN: How would you solve case mis-match in C++ includes?
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by Artlav 10y ago
The scariest thing is, it's only a matter of time before some biohacker would make this a reality.
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by Artlav 10y ago
Correct me if i'm wrong, but wasn't "insurance" a criminal activity a mere century ago? If so, why is it bad for it to disappear again? Can't read the full article, since wsj have a competently implemented "To
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by Artlav 10y ago
Makes sense even on the naive level. The heart has to work harder, so the heart problems. Body volume is larger, therefore more chances for cancer.
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by Artlav 10y ago
Interesting. I read previously that tallness is fairly dependent on good nutrition, which would correlate with overall increase in welfare/quality of life.
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by Artlav 10y ago
I wonder if someone invented the "modular" programming yet. Judging by the UNIX paradigm of the command line tools, the idea is clearly out there. Instead of objects, do modules - things that do one thing, and carry minimal depend
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by Artlav 10y ago
Huh, i was going to say that wget won't fix the links in the downloaded files, but turns out they thought of it too. Nice, that means the tool does exist already.

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