Month: April 2017

At the wedding. In the church, the wifi is named wififromthesky

This off-kilter welcome shatters my sense of beauty every day.

Music of the day – Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 by Franz Liszt, performed by Khatia Buniatishvili:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxx-10L9tWM

Decided to reread “Three Men in a Boat” by Jerome K. Jerome. Literally in the second chapter, I stumbled upon a sentence that seemed to me something very long. Here, my programming past kicked in, and without much thought, I dove into my laptop, downloaded the text, wrote a simple Bash+Perl script to find the longest sentence, and it turned out to be the very one I had stopped at. The author really outdid himself (see image). There was a sentence of 226 words!

Curious to see if the translators could not resist and created a single Russian sentence of 226 words. I looked. They couldn’t!

But it’s interesting to compare the translations themselves. Which one do you like more?

I think there’d be a demand for a service _in cafes_ for “professional cleaning of keyboards and displays of laptops, phones, and tablets.” Why in a cafe – see at the end.

Personally, my laptop is always connected to an external monitor, which causes dust to accumulate in the crevices of the keys and display, and the display itself gets stained – it’s hardly used, and it’s in an “aggressive environment” (I’m nearby).

Keyboards are a story of their own. It’s virtually impossible to clean them properly. You might say – just buy a new one, but that depends on the person. I bought my keyboard almost six years ago https://geektimes.ru/post/132977/ (160$).

Cleaning a laptop keyboard is even more challenging. Just blowing air is… first, not very effective; second, you need to use cans with low pressure, otherwise, it will rip out the keys. And dust tends to accumulate under them. Well, it’s worth removing at least the dust you can see.

The screen – similarly. If it’s matte, like on my DELL or Lenovo, there is always a gap between the screen and the frame where dust gets compacted and you can’t pick it out with wipes. Plus there are stains. They are visible on a black screen and invisible on a lit one. You end up noticing them at the most inconvenient times to wipe them off.

Well, it’s the same story with tablets and phones.

Cars get washed by their owners, right? Why not the same with tech equipment?

So I’m thinking. If there were such a “cafe” where you can bring your laptop, hand it over for cleaning, have a coffee or breakfast with a tablet that they provide in the meantime, and then pick up your laptop again. I see many such services, but they all seem like a service center. Technically, whether it’s a cafe or a service center, it’s the same behind the scenes, but it’s somehow more comfortable to go to a cafe. Isn’t it?

If you google “Observer Effect,” most of the search results will lead to some quasi-scientific mumbo-jumbo where it’s even linked to psychology and religion. In reality, it’s simpler: no measurement (and observation is a form of measurement) can be made without affecting the system being measured, and at the photon level, this influence becomes stronger than the phenomenon being measured. But in truth, almost no one fully understands it yet 🙂 I came across a very articulate article on the topic. Highly recommended, the subject is incredibly complex, but everything is explained very clearly in the link.

http://djames.livejournal.com/1200.html

In January this year, SAP released the second version of the Travel Accelerator. This article aims to acquaint the reader with the concept of Travel Accelerator 2.0, its capabilities, and limitations.

I believe there are few companies with hundreds of specialists worldwide who can build custom solutions using the Travel Accelerator.

Understanding this topic should expand the circle of knowledgeable hybris experts.

Some documentation comes with the installation package, however, the documentation from version 2 only explains the updates in 2.0.

For some reason, the majority of the documentation written for the first version has not been included in the second version.

I hope this comprehensive article will help you to see the big picture and understand how the Travel Accelerator works.

https://hybrismart.com/2017/04/16/travel-accelerator-2/

A well-known joke comes to mind (slightly updated):

“Trump:

– We have real democracy! Anyone can step onto the lawn in front of the White House and shout: “Trump is a goat!”

Putin:

– In our country, anyone can also go to Red Square and shout: “Trump is a goat!”

Today, a massive demonstration about Trump [and Putin 🙂 – check out the photos] took place. The demonstrations occurred in a multitude of cities across the USA, but we specifically came across the one in the capital. There were a lot of people: the procession moved past us for no less than forty minutes. Police cars were bringing up the rear of the march.

Russia is mentioned almost every half hour on the radio in various contexts.

http://taxmarch.org/local-marches/

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This is us at the Museum of Fine Arts.