An interesting list of English words that can mean opposite things when taken out of context.
Such instances occur in Russian as well. For example, “чайник долго остывает” = “чайник долго не остывает”, and adjectives like “оригинальный”, “традиционный”, or “лихой”
https://www.dailywritingtips.com/75-contronyms-words-with-contradictory-meanings/
Can you explain why phones (both Android and iOS) sometimes connect to unfamiliar networks without my permission? It seems wildly like a security flaw. You set up a network which phones connect to automatically, displaying ads on the auto-login page. But since I’m not the only clever one, there are obstacles. What do you think they are? What causes these connections? Surely it’s not just identical SSIDs?
What a great idea
The caption for the painting “As the old sing, so shall the young Twitter.” makes one want to capitalize the word Twitter
This week and a bit of the next, I’m in Amsterdam. If you have any ideas for unusual things to see – let me know. I’m not interested in rainbow ponies
Very interesting about how to teach children https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gt6m7RwlYk
Apple should be killed for their engineering solution of gluing the battery into the little bath. To remove the battery, you can’t just pull it off without breaking the seal, which almost certainly leads to sudden ignition and/or explosion. Plus, it’s soft. It can easily be squashed in your fist. Unlike the usual batteries that you can only open with a chisel. To make it easier to remove, you need to heat the lid from the other side to make the adhesive less strong. That is, you understand, yes, with the risk of tearing the battery and getting a massive explosion/fire in your hands, you need to hold it over, say, a stove. Definitely check out what happens when it depressurizes https://youtu.be/2J-h6fC1GrU
In the end, I changed the battery. The new one works great. But I don’t want to repeat that ever again.
We’re running. It’s dark. 9:30 PM. At the former school, someone is changing letters on a sign, dimly lit by a yellow lamp. You’ve surely seen various signs in that blocky white font the size of an elbow. We exchanged greetings. It turned out to be the school principal 😳
Photo of Mars from InSight. Looks like a cardboard box after the rain, taped together. It’s a robot-geologist (more accurately, an areologist, since it’s Mars), now it will drill a five-meter hole in this desert and search for answers there
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