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Yandex Navigator listens to an audiobook in English along with me and every five minutes thinks that it was all said to him

Robots are everywhere, even in Yandex

About books. In recent years, I’ve found that the amount of interesting/useful information in the form of books, articles, documentaries, as well as opportunities for development around has become so abundant that, with our time limited to 24 hours a day, I have to force myself to choose one over another, which is very difficult to do – I want this and that, and everything together.

Reading a book in your field, you constantly ask yourself if it’s worth continuing when there are even more interesting books on the same or sometimes different topics pushing it aside from both sides. Each book shouts with its announcements that you should read only it, and the one you are currently reading must hold the reader’s attention from the first to the last page. In this battle of books, the winner is the one where the author delivers what is needed and useful throughout all its pages.

Unfortunately, in books on IT and especially management, many American, and Russian authors are guilty of turning a small set of ideas into a whole book, enriching them with examples, numerous repetitions in different words, and discussing why other ideas on the same topic are worse. On the other hand, there are many people who can’t perceive information any other way – repeating the same thing in different words drills the idea deeper into their brains.

I am currently reading “Code Complete” by McConnell, a couple of books on Spring and JAVA, “Pines” by Blake Crouch, “The Elements of Style” by Strunk. These are the electronic ones. Plus, various drawing books are waiting, and I just can’t seem to get around to them.

When I was still studying, in school and university, it was different. There was little information, and there was no feeling of losing out by giving up on some information. Books were re-read several times.

Lisa by age 9-10 has definitely read more than I have in my entire life.

We live in good times.

I did it! 10 km in 49:30!!

But how?

I realized that for many years I haven’t been using Yandex search at all, as almost all of my queries are global, and all about Mail.ru services. From Yandex, only the Navigator and the Market are invaluable. I never had Kaspersky installed because it slows down the system. I don’t use abbyy products. I can’t bring myself to like 1C.

Somehow, I’m a bad patriot.

A circus in the Moscow metro – that’s something new. I can’t remember where they are from, the Duma maybe?

The games one plays barely awake

Interesting material about a working prototype of an electric bicycle created in Russia, capable of moving at speeds of nearly 100 km/h and above. I wonder, what are they not mentioning in the video?

Thank you @[100001981064147:2048:Victoria Shintekova] for the tip: “I recommend reading. The Russian translation is a very cool series of articles about natural resources, Earth’s energy balance, climate change in the next 10-50-100 years, the impact of current energy extraction methods, and about Tesla and Elon Musk.”

An interesting experience. I’m at the Savelovsky market. I need to connect my two tablets to the internet. In two buildings, where electronics are sold, I barely found a place selling SIM cards – it’s a real rarity (going out to the metro was inconvenient and far). Found Yota cards at “Startmaster.” The complete setup took 1 hour 15 minutes (!) and 1000 rubles (500 each).

Firstly, you can’t buy a card without registering it. The registration has to be done only on the devices where they will be used. To register, you need apps from the app store/market, but to download them, you need the internet. To have the internet, you need either an un-purchased card (oops) or Wi-Fi. The sellers don’t have Wi-Fi. I shared the internet from my phone. For registration, you need the Yota/Megafon network. It doesn’t catch inside the store, so you need to go outside. Additionally, you need to manually configure something called an access point in Yota – the sellers went to look up the settings on the Yota website. The apps connect to Yota servers intermittently.

Now I understand why no one sells Yota cards there. But I still don’t understand why they don’t sell ready-to-use kits from other providers.