Carissa Véliz drew my attention in this video, whereupon I looked her up, and watched all of her TED talks listed on her website.
I plan to increase the view count of other videos featuring her (1, 2, 3, 4), too, but before that I have to admit that I already downloaded a pirated version of her book.
Краткая биография Сэмюеля Морзе (из серии ЖЗЛ) побудила меня перечитать “Голос через океан” Артура Кларка. Я скачал (и прочел) сетевое издание русского перевода этой книги в 2014 году, с подачи познавательной статьи на Хабре o трансокеаническиx подводныx кабелях связи. На этот раз, в свете относительно недавнего (и, откровенно говоря, запоздалого) решения читать англоязычные книги в оригинале, я добыл пэдээфку “Voice Across the Sea”, но решил также параллельно перечитывать русский перевод, с целью проверить, насколько добросовестно он был выполнен. Я допускал возможность политически мотивированной правки текста, но оказалось, что перевод в большей степени пострадал из-за недостаточной компетентности переводчика.
[Read More]From the 1974 edition of Arthur Clarke’s “Voice Across the Sea”:
[Read More]Once a barber moved to another town and chose to open a barbershop in the vicinity of two other barbershops on the same street.
The sign above the first one read:
The best barbershop in town
The second one advertised itself as
The best barbershop in the country
The newly opened barbershop entered the competition as
[Read More]Back in 2018 a friend of mine asked me to assist with a project that required some expertise in C++ programming. I had to work on-site in their office. They provided me with a dedicated computer with a user account for which the initial password was set to 111. I changed it to a much stronger password of my own invention derived from the trivial fact that 111 is a product of 3 and 37. I completed my task within a few weeks and they were able to continue with the rest of the project on their own.
[Read More]The following is a lecture by Nicholas Humphrey delivered on February 2, 1997. I was referred to it from Richard Dawkins’ book “A Devil’s Chaplain”.
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