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strategarius··on Nintendo Lawyers File Copyright Complaints Against Super Mario 64 PC Port
Nintendo could lead such development and benefit both from royalties and free advertising of their products. Instead, they just want to kill the results of their fans (!) hard work. Can't say, how greedy and cowardly they look amidst this story.

If you don't sell your successful products legally in any way, there always would be one who can do it

strategarius··on Wanna Do Business in Pyongyang? Call Alejandro Cao de Benós
Which proves ancient statement "Greed and cowardliness rule the world". I'm sure, there are people even in Western democracies, who perfectly aware where their outsource projects comes from. Not to say about China and Russia - they use slave labor of North Koreans for decades. Slaves from North Korea built stadiums for World Cup 2018 [0] in Russia. Everyone there knew about it (I'm Russian as well), there was plenty of evidence. Did anyone boycott the games?

[0] https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/3205842/russia-2018-world-cup...

strategarius··on Three Russian Doctors Treating Coronavirus Have Fallen Out Of Windows in a Week
I am Russian, and our regime perfectly match the list. Do not trust Goebbels-like RT propaganda.
strategarius··on What would you do if you lost your Google account?
Answer is simple - do not trust all your digital life to Google. I would say, trust them as few as possible. Most of the content you created and saved under their account - your documents, spreadsheets, and photos can be accessed, modified and redistributed according to Terms Of Service.

Apply common sense and diversification. Use different services for your email, cloud storage, photos and videos. Have a backup of your every service - mirror of your cloud drive, reserve email, locally stored credentials in any offline password manager.

strategarius··on Death of the Office
I was working from home for the last 5 years, and really miss office environment. I definitely would not come back to 9-to-5, but I desperately need one day for collaboration in person, I miss socialization and coffee breaks with colleagues, and my home turned into office long time ago, whereas it should be my "fortress" of relaxation and quality time with the family. I seriously considered moving all operations to coworking, but COVID-19 stopped me for a while
strategarius··on YouTube bans coronavirus-related content that directly contradicts WHO advice
Should YouTube ban the interview with the President of the United States, where he suggests injecting desinfectant or hand sanitizer to treat COVID-19?

https://youtu.be/QtgVxGkrX1Y

strategarius··on Ask HN: What is your strongest argument against remote work?
A lot of things have been said, how communication is easier in person. I would simply add I miss socialization, chatting to colleagues during coffee break, extremely productive brainstorming during lunch and so on
strategarius··on SmileBASIC 4 for Nintendo Switch
That's not the first solution, when gaming console gave access to hardware through simple programming language for the purpose of entertainment and education. There was Sega Saturn Game Basic [0], published in 1998 and giving access to almost all console hardware capabilities.

However, 2020 is not 1998, and I personally consider Basic a bit outdated even for education purposes. Don't get me wrong, it's a great tool to introduce world of programming to kids, but Python would have been much more practical and extremely simple to learn.

[0] https://youtu.be/O_QU8eaMymo

strategarius··on Who’s behind the “reopen” domain surge?
Russia also advocating anti-vaccination movement [0] for quite a long time already, basically any conspiracy freaks, who can make US existence as a state more complicated.

I'm Russian national myself is any. I do not support our regime of course, and left Russia a while ago. But US being so defenseless in the face of that threat surprising me.

[0] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-45294192

strategarius··on Avatarify: Photorealistic Avatars for Skype and Zoom
This "audio deepfake" analog suggests totally realistic imitation:

https://justusthies.github.io/posts/neural-voice-puppetry/

https://youtu.be/VQgYPv8tb6A

strategarius··on The SF Anti-Mask League of 1919
We have huge fines here in South-East Asia, if you leave home without a mask. Even if probability of decrease transmitting 10%, on 1 million cases it's 100 thousand people.
strategarius··on In South Korea, a Protester’s Lone Fight Against Samsung
However, probably their candidates have to show some projects with electronics and FPGA. Again, Intel has lots of "pure software" development, for example their own compiler, profiler, debugger and rest of similar tools, bundled into IDE.
strategarius··on In South Korea, a Protester’s Lone Fight Against Samsung
It's Korean (probably also Japanese) thing. My friend attended their interview, said there were little to no technical questions, but he has been asked to create "self-presentation". He was hired. Samsung produces tons of software quite far from near-hardware level, for example Java and C++ applications for their own version of Android.
strategarius··on We've Built Cities We Can't Afford
I don't know, why no one mentioned remote work as a solution, at least for businesses who can afford it. I clearly know from my friends in HR industry, positions which never assumed remote options, now opened and filled without significant problems for business and new employee. Businesses are working in (almost) normal mode, apocalypse is postponed. So why pour money in expensive offices, require from you employees to rent apartments near your work, which cost like lux-class, or repeatedly spend hours of their lifes that accumulate in months in public transport or traffic jams?

When business people talk about remote job in the team, it's usually outsourcing to India. Why not to let your employees present at the office, say, 1 time a week, to deal with the customer or attend weekly meeting for those who miss socialization.

strategarius··on Working from home on the //c+
I saw Apple II, however I also don't understand from the article, what's the author work with? No even brief project description, no code, no usage context... Maybe the article is just a beginning of some bigger story. Everything is too unclear. Would be nice to hear comments from the author.
strategarius··on Folly – Faceboook’s open source C++ library
Folly has Boost as a dependency and do not repeat features that already present in there. Not a problem if your project already uses Boost. Abseil seems to be self-sufficient.
strategarius··on China to ban online gaming, in-game chat with foreigners outside Great Firewall
Comrade Xi: so many exciting things to borrow from North Korea or Russia!
strategarius··on KolibriOS – operating system written entirely in assembly language
I think, sinse he's working on internet search and knows targer architecture in advance, he meant x86_64 assembly, used probably for platform-specific fine-tuning
strategarius··on KolibriOS – operating system written entirely in assembly language
As noticed above, creators admitted that creating OS written in Assembly was a challenge for them. However, I totally agree about optimizing capabilities of modern compilers. Interesting fact on the topic, my friend, Principal Developer of well-known tech giant has a practice of picking up candidates, who mentioned "fluent Assembly" skill in their CV, and challenge them by suggesting to create a small, highly optimized application. After that he compiles the same application in C++ with maximum optimization, and in 90% of cases generated code is more optimal, that written manually. However, before becoming all sceptical about obsolete skills of learning Assembly, I would point out on the rest 10% of his candidates.
strategarius··on My Code Was in the Original Terminator Movie
HR: tell me about the most exciting project you did. Me, Senior Developer in Cyberdine: actually, T-800, despite of our customer insisted on using Cobol
strategarius··on IBM will offer free COBOL training
I would not have attended one even if I got paid for it. Why should I flush my career in toilet, sentencing myself to dig into piles of 50 y.o. crappy code. Stop riding dead horse.
strategarius··on ReactOS 0.4.13
Maybe it never meant to be used? Its development started soon after Windows 95 release, as we all see in 20+ years of progress not even close to beta
strategarius··on Japan to fund firms to shift production out of China
It should have been done years ago. Otherwise one day you may wake up and realize all your critical supplie chains (including not only iPhone, but also medicine and medical equipment) could be broken by communist totalitarian state, so you grip your teeth and love Communist Party and Comrade Xi, so as average Chinese citizen.
strategarius··on For 11 Years, the Soviet Union Had No Weekends (2018)
In Soviet Russia, weekends have you.
strategarius··on Ask HN: What are you learning?
Currently I'm learning video editing on Davinci Resolve.

https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve/

I collect examples of advanced C++. Noticed the lack of educational content at this subject, and planning a short course, something like "Exceptional C++" style, but on video.

In our distributed team we have a practice to make video presentations for colleagues, so I have experience of delivering visual content to tech audience. However, I see that particular course like a high-quality content, with diagrams, animations etc.

That's how I found Davinci Resolve, and you know, it's fun to learn it (even it crashes more than production-ready application supposed to). The only thing that buzz me, is not to forget about the initial goal:)

strategarius··on New Jersey needs COBOL programmers for their unemployment claims system
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z/OS Wikipedia: "However, z/OS also supports 64-bit Java, C, C++..." Managers: "Why do we need budget spendings for that Java, everything works fine..."
strategarius··on Trolls break into meetings on Zoom
I guess. After all, there's Telegram, fortress of privacy
strategarius··on Trolls break into meetings on Zoom
4 chan exist like 20 years or something. Does anyone ever thought about a legal way to shut it down and lock up couple of admins? I'm sure their stupid troll raids cost billions since it started.
strategarius··on “C is how the computer works” is a dangerous mindset for C programmers
Is someone thinking so? Really? THIS is how computer works: https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-sdm

I remember we started our University course of low-level programming from writing in machine codes. No jokes, took binary representation of assembly instructions from that manual and wrote in HEX editor. Then we disassembled simple C applications, understanding unfolding our high-level instructions into x86 assembly. Passing parameters through registres, through stack, two models of stack restoration (yeah, cdecl and stdcall, that moment I realized what does it mean), and other stuff you won't be ever bothered to think about writing in C/C++. And only after that started writing in actual Assembly. THIS is knowledge how computer works. If you know only C, you know nothing.

strategarius··on Apple to debut multiple ARM MacBook, desktop models in 2021
Interesting info, thanks. I also missed the point that Apple is going to design new CPU, they are definitely able to add any hardware virtualization instructions
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