My name is Evgeny, I live in Moscow, Russia, work as a software developer, and no longer teach at a medical university. This is my website.
Having bought myself a new computer, I was tempted to make a change not only in hardware, but also in the software environment.
My work laptop has Ubuntu on it and while I don’t like Ubuntu that much (snaps are evil), the desktop itself feels somewhat refreshing after 10-ish years of KDE usage. Debian (that I use at home) installs with GNOME by default, so I tried to give it a go.
Dog people are strange.
They have pointers, setters, and getters, too, but they call their getters “retrievers”.
Евгений Кузнецов написал Забавно, что префикс «Убедительная просьба», как правило, заменяет, собственно, этой просьбы убедительность. Ни разу не видел, чтобы следующая за ним просьба действительно была убедительной в хоть сколько-нибудь заметной степени.
Получается этакий шорткат: говоря «убедительная просьба»1, говорящий расписывается в том, что убедительной просьбу сделать не смог, но просит считать её таковой, потому что ну очень хочется.
Интересно, если к рекламе добавлять префикс «Побуждающая к покупке информация» — сработает?
На самом деле, вероятно, этот кусок канцелярита мутировал из «убедительно просим Вас» — это тяготение к обезличиванию (ergo, снятию персональной ответственности) в канцелярите забавляет особо. ↩︎
Evgeny Kuznetsov wrote on There are things that are nice and interesting to do, yet there are things you’d rather not spend your time and effort doing. People are different, and my categorization may not match yours, but on average, there are a lot of things in today’s life that one would like to delegate to some extent. Hiring a person or a team for this is something very few of us can afford, but technical progress gives some hope to wide audience, too.
Owning your own data is great. I’ve been using this website as the central IndieWeb point of my online life for over five years, and I love it. However, the joy of owning your own website comes bundled with great responsibility: as the website owner, I am responsible for what’s on my site and for what’s stored “under the hood” to make this website work.
It’s not a huge issue as long as I only post my own content on my site, but the cool thing about the IndieWeb — as opposed to “regular” Web — is its social aspect, the ability to interact with other people running other websites. To do that I usually need to put some of the data that belongs to other people onto my website. And that always makes me uncomfortable.
Evgeny Kuznetsov wrote on This post is about obvious things, but it looks like they aren’t that obvious to some people.
Many messengers allow to send voice messages instead of text. These messages are problematic: you can’t read them in a meeting, you can’t skim through them later to remember what the conversation was about, you can’t search the contents of these messages… The fact that the voice messages are possible to send doesn’t mean you should. You shouldn’t.
Evgeny Kuznetsov wrote on Some things are international.
Evgeny Kuznetsov wrote on I recently learned that the foundations of the audiophile world are being rocked, shaken and uprooted by a horrifying scandal that has already been dubbed MoFi-gate. Everything about this scandal is so hilarious I can’t stop giggling.
