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The best used thing
Recently, we decided to sell some old household items, like a couch, a cabinet, bathroom mirror, and so on. Some sold quickly, some not, but one item was special. It was at least 5 years old, suffered a lot from the cat, was subjected to direct sunlight and cold, and still was sold for 70% of what a brand new one costs. Two months later, we still ( Read more... ) -
Job titles
Dear Russian Government,
while it's generally known that you're the best government in the world, and only do exceptionally good things, I wanted to specifically thank you for:
- Declaring that a contract between two non-government parties may only use job titles from an officially approved list, and
- Failing to include "Sorcerer" in the said list.
- Declaring that a contract between two non-government parties may only use job titles from an officially approved list, and
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SVO changes
SVO-D appears to be rather nice. Also, there's now a free shuttle bus from the D-E-F cluser to the B-C cluster. However (i) it runs on the airfield itself, so you have to pass via security and (ii) our attempt to get from C back to E was denied for "security reasons". It's OK to take paid shuttle to E, and then board the free shuttle and get back ( Read more... ) -
Wifi ifconfig statistics
Dear lazyweb,
suppose I have a Linux box, with Wifi card, and Wifi is not working too great - in that supposed bitrate is already low at 5Mb/s, and actual bitrate is 0.25Mb/s. Why is there's 20x difference? Also running "ifconfig wlan0" reports:
RX packets:22942 errors:5 dropped:30378 overruns:0 frame:0 ( Read more... ) -
Energy cost of infections
It's apparent that the immune system, while fighting an infection, needs some energy, and some folks have tried to measure how much energy exactly. The figures from different sources are:
- Between 4 and 7 kcal/kg per day. source.
- 14 percent increase in resting rate for respiratory tract infections without fever. Between 7 and 15 pecent increase for ( Read more... )
- Between 4 and 7 kcal/kg per day. source.
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Real Estate Prices
It appears that many folks believe that real estate prices in Moscow are higher that pretty much everywhere. In particular, a few I have personally asked said that prices in Moscow are equal or slightly higher than those in New York. This public opinion is not surprising - given a lot of articles stating the same - but appears to be totally wrong, ( Read more... ) -
The American
[IMDB entryThe main character is an assassin, named Jack, who hides in a small town and pretends to be a photographer making a travel album. This legend, whether intentionally or accidentally, describes the entire movie. Directed by Anton Corbijn, best known as photographer, it is a sequence of photographs. There are nice landscapes. There are ( Read more... ) -
Прогноз погоды
Похоже, честные прогнозы погоды существуют:
Кратковременные изменения погоды с 12:00 до 21:00 (9:00-18:00 UTC):
Ветер хрен поймешь куда, 10 м/сек
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Office chair
Dear lazyweb,
does anybody have recommendations for a good office chair? The requirements, pretty much are:- Mesh back
- Adjustable armrests
- Some lumbar support, ideally adjustable
- Not falling apart too soon.
- Mesh back
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Inception
[IMDB entryPretty good. Not-to-bad idea that was well executed (including effects, actors and pacing). Not something extraordinary IMDB comments suggest, but a solid work. The only flaw, in my opinion, is relatively weak logic of the dream worlds. For example, why can one easily build entire world from scratch and roll it at will, but when faced ( Read more... )