March 09 2019, 09:59

Done! Strava showed a total of 22:08 for 5K with an average pace of 4:41 or 23:24 for a 5K distance. I don’t understand why its total differs by 01:16… The screenshots show more for the entire distance because I turned off the tracker late, and I surely ran in zigzags. The official result is 24:06 / distance, 4:46/km. Apparently, the actual distance was more than 5K, including due to inevitable zigzags.

March 06 2019, 22:15

At work, they upgraded the fitness center, now you can run through the flooded meadows of Ireland on a Precor and socially pedal on a Peloton. I seem to have missed the moment when treadmills became so advanced. Recognizes me by the phone I left on the shelf. Darling.

Just can’t find a way to ride through the alpine meadows on a peloton. Is it just for classes? Does anyone know?

March 06 2019, 20:30

Hooray! Green card obtained! A journey of two years and two months and some amount of money. Now almost on normal terms in the USA. The family already celebrated it in December, but it kept not being sent to me, and because of this, I was also unable to leave the country from January (meaning, I could leave, but re-entering would be problematic). And finally, I got it 🙂 I wish my colleagues successful completion of their cases too, as I am the first swallow from our cozy group.

March 06 2019, 19:37

Does anyone know if there is a service something like an online NoSQL database where one can dump data from the front end of a website or some real-time system, which would quickly save it into an unlimited cluster, and then allow aggregation and reporting from it using a relatively simple programming language? Essentially, like Google Analytics but without the analytics, yet with the appropriate tools to write it? Supporting map/reduce, distributed processing, etc. The main feature here is a) not to host it yourself but in the cloud, b) pay only for resources, c) not to bother creating proprietary solutions and maintaining infrastructure.

March 05 2019, 00:46

Very interesting about the fish that creates sand paintings in search of a spouse. All episodes are available on Netflix. The video at the link is just a tiny piece (apparently, one of the most interesting) and each episode is 50 minutes long.

// BBC Earth, Life Story, Ep.5 Courtship

March 03 2019, 12:44

I’m reading a book about SAP Commerce Cloud. I noticed that the authors consistently use she instead of singular they. At first, I thought it was a typo. But when I encounter it for the tenth time, there’s clearly something behind it 🙂 can someone explain what’s going on? :)))

Of course, there are articles by different authors claiming that “…The singular they is ear-hurting, eye-burning, soul-ravaging, mind-numbing syntactic folly.” However, even they all write that it is correct to rephrase the sentence, but I have never seen them write she.

https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2013/01/singular-their-affront-good-writing/319329/

March 01 2019, 15:52

Folks, who knows – what are the actual chances of getting a US visa for my mom (72 years old), living in Moscow region? I am worried that after paying the visa fee, one might wait for an interview for six months. Secondly, I’m not sure about how the situation is with visas for retirees. I have a green card, and mom owns an apartment (it seems like both points could be important for the process).