Author: Rauf Aliev

Trying out Pulse

Who knows why I don’t have that third button, publish a post, on LinkedIn to write in Pulse?

Do you have it?

UPDATE: It’s there in the English interface. Idiots.

In “Your Home”, marketers conjured up some kind of hell. Midway through the process, the cashier says, “If you want a 26% discount on school supplies, you need to find out the password at the service center (which is 100m from the cashier) and bring it to me. I ask, do I go now? It’s no trouble for me. Yes, she says, you can go now. I went. The line waited for me a bit. Brought to the cashier the phrase “Your home – all the best in it.” Got a discount of 48 rubles on a nearly 4000 rubles bill. I ask the cashier who came up with such a thing. She answered something about fools.

Soon this should turn into closets. Not much saving, but it’s fun

Morning run, 14 km, 75 min (5.3 min/km). From Bibirevo to Los platform and back.

Is anyone else running the 10k at the “Moscow Marathon” on September 20th?

Now I’ve seen it with my own eyes. Prospekt Mira towards the region, right after VDNKh. On Saturdays, you can no longer drive in the designated lane here.

Found something wonderful – an emulator for Radio-86RK. That was my first computer. In the emulator, at the bottom, there are ‘Load & Run’ buttons where you can load games and programs with just a couple of clicks. Did anyone else have such a challenging childhood, what did you play?

Here’s a catalog of games with screenshots and “Start” buttons – in the JavaScript emulator.

Notice how much you can fit into 8 kilobytes (that’s a million times less memory than a typical modern laptop).

All the games were written in assembler or even directly in machine codes. If you press the letter V in the emulator, you can see a table, which I always had printed out. These are the processor’s instruction codes. It was loaded and saved through a cassette recorder connected to the computer.

From the games, I vividly remember Xonix, Volcano, PVO, KLAD, Chess.

What were your first games?

Funny, Sapsan’s contract for broadcasting TV programs in the carriages has expired, and now passengers can see the picture but can’t hear the sound. At first, I thought something was broken. Turns out that’s how it is.

They would be better off broadcasting old Mosfilm movies that are already in the public domain rather than breaking the service like this.

In the Square of Uprising, entertainment abounds, not a single Caucasian can pass calmly. Hang on the bar for 2 min – 2000 rubles, three – five thousand. Girls stand in the second row, cheering for both their own and others.

The horizontal bar spins, yes.

In Saint Petersburg, there is an unusually tumultuous microloan market. It feels like they were banned in Moscow and all moved here. “Money now”, “money with just a passport”, “borrow until payday”, and so forth.