Month: December 2020

December 15 2020, 15:57

This is what six-story (5+parking) wooden buildings in the USA look like. It’s the building next to mine. It’s being constructed quickly; recently, a building marked on Wikimapia as something secretive from the CIA was demolished there.

The only interesting thing here is that before moving to the US, I didn’t know that such large huts could be built out of wood. Turns out, they are also durable.

Here are various technical details outlined https://www.awc.org/pdf/education/des/ReThinkMag-DES515A-MultistoryWoodConstruction-140210.pdf

https://www.bizjournals.com/washington/news/2018/07/06/houston-developer-pitches-400-apartments-in-place.html

December 14 2020, 00:30

“Flash support will be completely phased out of all browsers by the end of 2020.” Interestingly, an online school machine uses Flash for part of its materials. And in general, quite a lot of educational software for schools still requires Flash. I wonder, will all this just be scrapped outright? Or will there be a special browser build where Flash is supported? Or has someone already hustled and created a converter to some technology that can still be supported, like something based on JavaScript? Flash downloads will disappear from the Adobe site, but people won’t stop Googling and downloading installers from the first places they find online. It’s interesting, why didn’t Adobe just sell this technology to someone who could have sustained it?

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/announcements/adobe-flash-end-of-support

December 10 2020, 02:57

It feels like I’ve been dealing with English for so long, yet only today in class did I realize that an entire major topic had slipped past me.

Many sentences don’t translate well directly into Russian.

“I won’t have you say such things. Where did you have them send the check?” — “Where did you ultimately arrange for them to send the check?”

What would you have me do? – What do you want me to do?

I won’t have you say such things. – I will not allow you to say such things.

We got our friends to come to dinner. – We persuaded our friends to come to dinner. / We managed to get our friends to come for dinner.

Another example from this group is “Let’s” – a contraction of Let us . Let us finish with it

https://engramm.su/grammar/causative_verb#refnotes:1:note4

December 09 2020, 11:36

“Google from June 1, 2021: We can remove your content from Gmail, ‘Drive,’ or ‘Photos’ services if you have not used them within two years (24 months).”

This means no more free search through a multi-year email archive and no more free storage for photos.

I wonder how soon they will release software that emulates “using content older than 2 years”?

December 07 2020, 23:24

Here’s an idea for you: create an AI generator for Japanese fonts. To do this, you need to train a system on all existing fonts and graphics and develop an algorithm for creating a new font based on the acquired knowledge. This new font could have random characteristics, but it is important that these characteristics are harmoniously used across all 18,000 characters. For ordinary fonts, such experiments are ongoing, but a regular font has only a few dozen characters, and there are already millions of ordinary fonts, so their value is not the same. And there are few Japanese fonts available (at least, that’s what my observations and Google searches suggest). It would be an interesting challenge.

https://process.studio/works/aifont-ai-generated-typeface/

December 07 2020, 21:34

I implemented autocomplete in the SAP Hybris HAC code editor – specifically for FlexibleSearch, and I restored the unfinished part for the Impex Editor. SAP or its predecessors simply abandoned this piece unfinished, and it has been drifting from version to version as dead weight. To “wake it up” for Impex, you only need to add one line to the code. For FlexibleSearch, I had to write almost from scratch. Here’s what I got https://hybrismart.com/2020/12/07/autocomplete-and-suggestions-in-impex-and-flexiblesearch-hac-consoles/