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That's why I do all DIY myself, incliding plumbing or electrics. Craftsmen cost money and they try to finish in one session, so they do lots of compromises. Examples: under a sink,…

This is about the journalism that is serious. That tells stories, reports, and goes deep into subjects. My impression is that most media today is nowhere near this. They're just ch…

I must say that already in the early 2000s web developers were tired of hand-coding everything, and many sought some sort of automation -- a framework, a CMS. Already in 2004 I mad…

I worked mostly on frontend in 2012-16, in plain HTML+CSS, and then quit, because React was required everywhere, and I tried and hated it. But before React, I don't recall frontend…

There was an article here, 18 years ago, called The Gospel of Consumption. It also noticed that since 1950s, the productivity had gone so far, it would have been enough to work jus…

I had similar problems. Compilation got 10x faster once I split one crate into workspace with crates inside. The checks are only done on the compiled one. Then, I got rid of serde,…

I split into subcrates and also reduce the number of proc macros (e.g. got rid of Serde).

> Many languages of Russia got their alphabets already in the late nineteenth century or around the 1906 rebellion. If you look at publications then in Mari, Chuvash, Ossetic, etc.…

Oh, yes, the alphabet is used to write texts to convey evil empires' messages! Why am I so strangely defensive, really? Well, it's the most ridiculous argument people use here. Som…

I wonder, what's your take on your alternative scripts. Latin was enforced by Roman catholic church. Poor Germanic peoples! Muslims enforced their Arabic abjad on Indo-European Far…

They're just 3 states, and they have 0 texts from pre-Cyrillic period in the Latin alphabets they came up with. Azeri language is similar to Turkish, it's an easy job, and they can…

No, you're wishfully thinking. What made people absorb the Soviet version of history and politics, was school curriculum, and central TV, and teaching Russian to keep them in orbit…

Funnily, you don't know or omit the details yourself. Russian Empire didn't give the conquered nations the alphabet, but USSR did, as part of supporting local nationalists (surpriz…

Oh, I see. Good point, thanks.

> The adventure genre was what people liked before the mentioned Don Quixote, not by reading, but from folk tales, which are older than dirt, especially if you lived by the coast a…

Селищев А.М. Старославянский язык, 1951, страница 39 https://maxbooks.ru/images/slavimg/52.jpg Selischev A.M. Old Slavonic Language, 1951. Page 39. https://www.academia.edu/1262418…

Interestingly, it was also a derivative of Greek, but the cursive version. It's harder to write, but apart from that, I like it. Ⱂⱃⰺⰲⰵⱅ, ⱂⰺⱎⰺⱅⰵ Ⰳⰾⰰⰳⱁⰾⰺⱌⰵⰻ!

This author is suggesting that Cyrillic is a sort of tool or weapon in the arms of the authority, and is imposed upon the people for purely political reasons. This is just false pr…

I guess, there's another set of tranformations in stories. At least in European culture, stories lost their religious part in the modernity. Probably people stopped understanding i…

Interesting read, wouldn't have thought this of Pinocchio. Sadly, when I was learning Italian, I was reading more sophisticated things like Il Fu Mattia Pascal, with quite superfic…

I wonder, how much of the discussions on the results of agentic coding is just LLM slop.

Sadly the imperative is, as often, a call to everyone to be good guy and make less noise. Unfortunately, it doesn't work, neither at personal level, nor at global. One may be quiet…

...just noticed it's 16". Toshiba did the same on 14" laptops.

I feel the opposite -- with half-size up/down keys, it's too easy to mis-press them. I guess it's a matter of habit.

Finally someone made a laptop with PgUp/PgDn/Home/End column, like Toshiba! Thank you!