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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 "ct…

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 …

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. …

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 l…

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 …

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 w…

no, just my mistake, corrected, ty

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...

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 M…

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 arbitrari…

He probably means what the osm2pgsql import tool creates.

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 yea…

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 t…

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.

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 w…

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…

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…

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 …

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 di…

Or it could have been the point of crystallization of all the ammassed dissent of the 90s and free market reforms.

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…

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, …