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by peace4all 4y ago
But how do you press "shift+home" or "shift+pg up" to select a line or page? I tried this on Asus laptop 10 years ago, and IIRC it didn't work. Another combo I use sometimes is "ctrl+shift+home/end" t
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by peace4all 4y ago
I like it being low-profile. That's why I didn't buy ErgoDox. So all the best wishes to the author. But there are some tradeoffs why I probably not buy it. 1) I'd suggest a column of home/page up/page down/end
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by peace4all 4y ago
It probably meant that the railway was for kids as passengers. But also, in Russian language, "child" doesn't imply someone younger than teenager, it does include adolescents too. There is a distinct term for "adolescent
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by peace4all 4y ago
It does. It's bought by the Russian Mail.ru group. In 2016, I went to an interview in their office, and the interviewer made me an excursion around it. At one place I saw big ICQ logo with sign reading "ICQ Project Department&quot
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by peace4all 4y ago
Maybe he was just sarcastic? It’s a no brainer that a person cannot be equally oriented both in linguistics and in geology. ... So it would be quite possible to declare an amnesty to the Professor at this place: they say, an offense undoub
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by peace4all 4y ago
He has written a big book on evolution of Earth and theories around it. [1] It includes a whole chapter on plate tectonics, the preceding theories, and how plate tectonics itself was gradually accepted. In the book, there's also a larg
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by peace4all 4y ago
no, just my mistake, corrected, ty
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by peace4all 4y ago
Here's Kirill Yeskov's own explanation how he wrote it, Google-translated: https://fan-lib-ru.translate.goog/e/eskov/text_0150.shtml?_x...
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by peace4all 4y ago
I should add that Kirill Yeskov is a paleontologist and science popularizer. Here's his own explanation how he wrote "The Last Ringbearer": one of the reasons he mentions is that Middle Earth was impossible geologically: htt
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by peace4all 4y ago
True for complex systems, but West Roman empire didn't "collapse" instantaneously, nor within a year/decade. If I remember correctly what I read on it, the actual date is arbitrarily taken for didactic clarity, and it&#x
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by peace4all 4y ago
He probably means what the osm2pgsql import tool creates.
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by peace4all 4y ago
I wonder how come gas stove, an artifact of the 20th century, became a "traditional" thing? The way people cook on gas stove is just one of many ways it can be, and I'm sure in year 1900, cooking on coal was rather different,
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by peace4all 4y ago
Back in 2007-2008 I, an economics graduate, was snubbed by developers, even though I showed a working prototype and examples of works since 1998! DB developers also snubbed, even though I asked to show a working database app made at analyst
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by peace4all 4y ago
Did I talk about forced labor in this comment above? I said: in later times, such clashes with bureacracy made people lose their entire career.
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by peace4all 4y ago
They weren't necessary sent to work camps. Some were just fired and couldn't get hired. Later, in 1950's & 60's, you would be effectively banned from career. Sometimes librarians would paint black their name if they
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by peace4all 4y ago
Note that in the USSR, political questions and false accusations were often used to torpedo career competitors or to have vengeance at those who were more successful. Almost nobody in this story or in other cases were political dissidents.
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by peace4all 5y ago
Ironically, this reform was started under the previous 30-year president, "father of nation" Nazarbayev in 2018 or '19, and was halted under Tokayev. Some signs in the streets were converted before the reform was finalized, b
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by peace4all 5y ago
I live in Russia, and I am really worried. De-professionalization of the defence and foreign affairs ministries are obvious to anyone with a bit of critical thinking. Just look at our negotiators: it's led by the ex-minister of Culture
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by peace4all 5y ago
Sociologist Greg Yudin explained what the leadership might think in an article[1] (he wrote the same on Facebook in Russian on January 19). TL/DR: Putin and the exKGB elites are dissentful of the cold war lost to the US, see NATO as a
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by peace4all 5y ago
Or it could have been the point of crystallization of all the ammassed dissent of the 90s and free market reforms.
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by peace4all 5y ago
Now, I forgot to mention that all this "they're bad" sentiment is part of so-called post-imperial syndrome. Many are really dissentful. Also, I'm old enough to remember the popular dissent with the USSR in the late &#x27
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by peace4all 5y ago
A Russian here under a throwaway account. I've seen very few open supporters of the military invasion on social media. But most Russians, reached by TV or social media propaganda, carry on 3-5 factoids regarding Ukraine that somehow in