Month: July 2018

When all the world’s alphabets, arrows, and circles were placed into the Unicode table, and there was still a ton of free space left that needed to be filled, since it exists. There is space for 2 million characters, and font designers are doing their best)

I also learned that the Noto font (the default Android font from Google) includes renderings for as many as 65,000 characters.

And in Unicode, there are cool ligatures. for example, the following text is one “symbol” ﷽ (Basmala). It doesn’t display quite right here on Facebook due to the fonts, you can see the full version here: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=%EF%B7%BD

By one order of magnitude – it’s ten times. By two orders of magnitude – it’s a hundred times. And what about one and a half orders of magnitude?

“Russia’s contract for maintaining the toilet in the American segment of the ISS has been extended”

Could someone tell RBC News that this isn’t the way to report ‘breakthroughs’ in the space industry 😉

https://www.rbc.ru/rbcfreenews/5b3b92829a79475ba0c7a25a

Is there anyone here living abroad who has had to apply for a Schengen visa through a Russian embassy or visa center?

They require original bank statements and employment verifications with a “wet seal.” I can just imagine the face of a Bank Of America banker when I ask for an account statement with the bank’s seal…

My new article on hybrismart.com. It’s about how the management of “assets” – images, uploaded documents – is organized. They are stored in the file system in a rather unusual way, and the article discusses this format and what surprises one might expect from it.

Well, yes, if you’re not from the Hybris world, you might not find it very useful – almost no use at all 😦

https://hybrismart.com/2018/07/01/sap-hybris-data-folder-structure/