Reading “All Quiet on the Western Front” by Remarque. It turns out that in literature, commas after introductory words are not used (at least by Remarque, and at least in the 1930s. “To me the front is a mysterious whirlpool”, all of these sentences starting with In the..
Here’s a post where I opened the topic:
https://www.facebook.com/raufaliev/posts/10156058721527368
Excel is somehow too smart. Googled that for SQL Server, they are identical too. By the way, there’s a great article about Unicode – I recommend everyone to read it: https://eev.ee/blog/2015/09/12/dark-corners-of-unicode/
Local Police Transport (T3Motion)
I can’t even imagine what that guy brought to the meeting with KCHI.
Great idea! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwticv9ai_Q and, most importantly, easy to implement)
Liza and I are friends!)
Very interesting material about rockets with nuclear engines. It was particularly intriguing to learn that the beer manufacturer “Coors” supplied components for the engine in the middle of the last century
https://topwar.ru/35496-pluton-yadernoe-serdce-dlya-sverhzvukovoy-nizkovysotnoy-krylatoy-rakety.html
I’ve been noticing for several years now that phones and tablets (various kinds) might try to connect or actually connect to a network that they definitely haven’t seen before. Could it be that the SSID of this network coincidentally matches something familiar to the phone? The network names are clearly non-standard. Any ideas?
Check out how the vehicle registration renewal works here. One of the conditions – passing an eco-friendliness test for emissions. You can go somewhere, and they’ll measure it for you in five minutes and give you a paper. Or you can go nowhere: RAPIDPASS will just send a letter to the owner of a randomly encountered vehicle on the road, via mail, stating that they ALREADY measured the emissions when you drove by the probe with a camera, and now for 28 bucks they’re ready to send this document to the local DMV. Or it sends info that everything is bad, and you need to go get treatment.
I just paid. And yes, you can also pay for the registration through the net, which I did too. And here’s the funny part: they give a ONE percent DISCOUNT on registration payment online. Not a surcharge, a discount!
In Europe from Washington fly Air France, British Airways, Delta, Brussels, United, Aeroflot, Austrian, and a few others.
For some reason, there is no information anywhere about which flights regularly go where from a specific airport. For example, let’s say I don’t care where to go on vacation, as long as it’s cheap. Which airline should I subscribe to?
In general, I couldn’t sleep at night, decided to quickly check manually what flies where from Washington. Not surprisingly, each airline flies home. Thought I would find examples when some, figuratively speaking, Aeroflot, regularly goes “left”. Didn’t find any)
I myself flew from Washington with United, Lufthansa, Iceland Air, Brussels Airlines, Air France, Emirates. Overall, they are listed in order of coolness. For instance, United has a terribly glitchy media system (important for a ten-hour flight). Lufthansa has a less glitchy system, but mediocre service, and weird planes. Air France surprised me with excellent everything. Iceland Air flies “not very far,” and they are budget, basically, they don’t even feed you.
Porter and Air Canada – to Toronto and Montreal.
Brussels – to Belgium (Brussels)
Air India – to Delhi.
Copa Airlines – to Panama (Panama City).
Qatar – obviously, to Qatar (Doha).
Aer Lingus – to Ireland (Dublin)
Virgin America, AA, JetBlue, Frontier, Delta, and Southwest fly throughout the USA
Alaska – also, to Seattle
Royal Air Maroc flies to Morocco (Casablanca).
Aeroflot – to Moscow
Emirates – to UAE (Dubai)
Etihad – to UAE (Abu Dhabi)
Saudia – to Saudi Arabia (Riyadh)
Aero Mexico – to Mexico (Mexico City)
South African Airways – to the Republic of Ghana (Accra), to Senegal (Dakar), and other cities in the region
Air China flies, of course, to China (Beijing)
Ethiopian flies to Ethiopia (Addis Ababa)
Air France flies to Paris
SAS flies to Denmark (Copenhagen)
Iceland Air flies to Iceland (Reykjavik)
Turkish Airlines flies to Turkey (Istanbul)
Ana – to Japan (Tokyo)
United flies everywhere. Throughout the USA, and to Europe, and Asia.
KLM flies to the Netherlands (Amsterdam)
Austrian flies to Austria (Vienna)
Korean flies to Korea (Seoul)
British Airways and Virgin Atlantic fly to England (London)
Avianca flies to Central and South America (San Salvador, Bogota)
Latan flies to Peru (Lima)
Lufthansa flies to Germany (Frankfurt)
