Author: Rauf Aliev

We are selling Hodor’s autobiography

https://www.amazon.com/North-Winterfell-autobiography-Hodor/dp/1520400837

Somehow, I ended up reading the December issue of “Red Star”, just out of curiosity. People there speak in some strange language.

For example, in an article on the link, a guy is asked a rather specific question, “What should be our, or rather, your – Strategic Rocket Forces’ – response to the US deploying their missile defense systems in Eastern European countries?”. The response, when translated from this incomprehensible language into Russian:

“A number of measures have been developed to reduce the effectiveness of the USA and to accomplish the set objectives. These measures involve the creation of missile complexes. It is planned to develop scientific and technical groundwork and continue the efforts to create means of attack for the developing missile defense system” (I’m not lying, that’s exactly how it was written: “continue the work on creating means of fire and functional destruction of reconnaissance, control, and strike means of the developing missile defense system.”)

The printed version of the article contains two more paragraphs about nothing. Mentioning that inspections showed a high level of preparedness and everyone did a great job.

Let’s take another specific question. Journalist: (simplifying the question) In 2016 you mentioned that UAV models were not autonomous but controlled, which is bad. Is anything being done?

Answer: “Indeed, it required additional research. The research is being conducted successfully. The approval of the research results showed that most of it will be completed by next year.”

And so it goes there!

http://redstar.ru/nash-yadernyj-shhit-ostayotsya-nadyozhnym/

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.

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?

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.

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.

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

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/

“Surveillance in the restrooms is for your own safety.”

Birdhouses