Hi, I'm Rauf Aliev.

This tree is already in spring!

MacOS has somehow become complicated recently. It’s impossible to share the desktop from Webex and Teams, because, damn it, they’re not in the list of applications that are allowed to access the screen, and you can’t add them there. Webex doesn’t have a proper uninstall; neither manual nor reinstallation helps. So, it turned out today that files moved from the desktop via terminal don’t get deleted in Finder. Here is a screenshot with an almost empty desktop on the right, and on the left – the same one, in Finder, with files. And they open just fine. Among them, there’s a receipt’s folder that I created on the right 🙂 Perhaps a restart will save the day, but Apple is no longer as good as it used to be.

I will be in Moscow for two weeks starting the 24th, I will need mobile internet + a plan, preferably with unlimited or inexpensive data. It should also have good coverage to work in Lobnya, Kolomna, Moscow. After two weeks, everything purchased will become unnecessary, so I am trying to minimize expenses.

Is it possible to rent or borrow a device for a couple of weeks, something like a modem, wireless (preferably) or USB?

Is it sensible to use mobile internet all day long from morning to evening over two weeks from a computer? Or will it end up being quite expensive or eventually slow due to traffic that at some point will exceed the limit?

Which providers should I consider – the big three or are there special companies?

A new beast has appeared at my home – Roborock S5 / S50. Right now, it’s running around vacuuming.

I’m not very knowledgeable about robot vacuums yet, but my first impression is very pleasant indeed. First, it has a lidar on its dome, scanning the room and understanding where it is based on the scenery. This allows it to always vacuum the floor parallel to the walls, with very high accuracy, without exceptions.

It remembers the map of the apartment, updates it during operation, and you can draw areas in the app where it shouldn’t go, etc.

At first glance, the wet mopping feature seems to be added just for show—as expected for mobile vacuums, it’s not great. But formally, it’s there, which helps marketers with sales. On the other hand, if the water tank were bigger, the vacuum wouldn’t be able to fit between chair legs.

Of course, it doesn’t get along well with wires and small papers on the floor that shouldn’t be sucked up. Also, it just pushed a clothes dryer and was compacting old fluorescent lamps to be thrown away in the corner (I quickly jumped up to help with those).

In general, it’s a fun little thing. It beeps and reports to my wife on her phone when you pick it up.

From my window, I currently have a view of the DARPA headquarters, “the Pentagon brain”, the US Department of Defense’s research agency. Kind of like our scientific units 🙂 This is where the internet started (ARPANET, TCP/IP), Unix (BSD), and also Boston Dynamics with their crazy robots. It’s a pity they don’t have a museum. Even the CIA has a museum here, though admittedly, they don’t let us in.

Just figured out the real differences between a bolt and a screw. Shame on me. “A bolt is much more functional. It can be not only screwed in but also hammered in. And sometimes even laid down”.

The difference lies in the strength characteristics. When calculating a screw joint, only tensile strength is considered, whereas for a bolted joint, both tensile and shear strengths are considered, which ultimately provides a clear classification of screws and bolts. All other differences have long ceased to be differences.

Wow, what a powerful movie Joker is. Even if it’s a one-man show, but what a man. Joaquin Phoenix is a genius, and I can’t even imagine how Leonardo DiCaprio (who was considered) would have played this role. And the director, Todd Phillips, after his “Hangover” series, suddenly started churning out masterpiece after masterpiece. With a budget of $55M, the earnings are already 20 times more, about $1100M. In the previous “A Star is Born” about Lady Gaga, the ratio of earnings to expenses was also of the same order. Awesome!

Beautiful

@[100010527398299:2048:Anton Karzhavin] and @[100000099676785:2048:Pavel Polyakov] will be speaking on the topic of choosing an eCommerce platform. I know both guys well and am confident that they will share many interesting insights. Join us on November 29 from 11 to 13 Moscow time. Registration is mandatory (via the link).

https://events.webinar.ru/5126393/eCommers