At the Institute of Experimental Medicine, they decided to “thaw ancient viruses to make antibiotics.”
“We are interested in obtaining practical results as soon as possible,” explained the head of the laboratory
I don’t know anything about antibiotics from ancient viruses, but it sounds a bit scary
I have long noticed that many doors have a reinforced lower part so that they can be opened with feet without spoiling their appearance. However, this only works in a “push” mode. Today, I noticed that there is a special device to open doors “pull towards yourself” with your feet.
Discovered that vobla and taran are the same fish, the roach. “… Roach, which spawns in fresh waters and feeds in brackish waters, is called the semi-anadromous roach. Caught in the Caspian Sea basin, this little fish is called vobla. The fishing of semi-anadromous roach in the Black and Azov seas – that’s taran.”
By the way, note that no one bothers to sell fish here without specifying the producer at all — well, except that taran is Caspian, and it should supposedly be like vobla. At the same time, here the taran, as it should, has reddish fins, while vobla does not. And what do you prefer?
I don’t know how long it will last. I kind of like it, but… Bought it out of nostalgia, to make up for the eight packs of cottage cheese for my daughter 😉
If anyone could recommend a caregiver for Nadina’s mother, either through a company or directly, you would be of great help. Lobnya.
Ideally, of course, in Lobnya itself. Although I don’t know, maybe companies handle this somehow, transporting caregivers closer to their workplaces. The best option would be a caregiver from our own building, who suddenly disappeared a few days ago.
It’s unlikely, of course, that any of you have such contacts, especially in Lobnya, but not asking at all is definitely a worse option. Perhaps through the theory of six degrees of separation, we might find the right person. It has worked before, and right now we really need it.
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The level of crime in our small town
In cold weather, it’s faster to ride at 32.3 km/h on a 20 km track
In every online store I’ve worked with, it takes some time for the management to understand that you can’t sort products by two criteria at the same time, no matter how much you’d like to. Simply put, you can’t make it so that the first page of search results simultaneously includes popular items and cheap ones. #screamofthesoul
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Back in the early 2000s, I had a “business” which involved selling the internet retail-style – on CD discs. I made agreements with content providers – sites like algolist, openbsd, and culinary recipes, to place a banner on every page saying “buy this site on CD”, and in return, I invested time in creating a static version with search functionality and disc recording. The links from the pages led to .nadiske.ru, where there was a big “order” button and up-selling from other projects, related and not. A percentage from each disc went to the content owner. Delivery was done via COD (Cash on Delivery) through Russian Post (meaning, I sent CDs without a pre-payment) and I received the money at the post office. The site effectively had two pages – a product list with checkboxes and an order form. Yet, there were as many subsites as there were partners – on each, the main product was listed first, and the rest were offered as upsells. The gamble was that since “if we’re ordering already, let’s add something else”.
Now, there arose several interesting problems then. How to match money from posts with orders? For each order, I dynamically generated a price – added cents to make the price unique. For the end customer, there was no difference whether to agree on a price of 150 rubles or 150 rubles and 12 kopecks, but it was convenient for me to match. Along with the date, this was quite reliable.
The second problem was where to manage orders with statuses and other details. Eventually, I chose Microsoft Access. It pulled XML with new orders from the website. I developed the whole system on Access in just a couple of hours. It was ideal. By the way, has Access died already?
Interestingly, the best-selling discs were the ones I just mass-produced to fill the assortment – Unix and Linux systems. Clearly, these didn’t have any links from partner sites, but they were often bought as add-ons, and eventually, they topped sales charts 😉 and were the simplest and cheapest to produce.
I closed the project when it became clear that decent internet would eventually be brought to regions and the demand for the discs would someday dwindle. And it was all heading there. Plus, the discs required updates, and it was necessary to invest effort and time, which were regrettable to spend (especially considering the first point).
Hi, I'm Rauf Aliev. 