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" to select the text…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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 Middle Earth was impossible…
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's…
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 year 1900, cooking on coal was rather…
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…
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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
Or it could have been the point of crystallization of all the ammassed dissent of the 90s and free market reforms.
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…
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" to select the text…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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 Middle Earth was impossible…
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's…
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 year 1900, cooking on coal was rather…
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…
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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
Or it could have been the point of crystallization of all the ammassed dissent of the 90s and free market reforms.
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…