kravietz 🦇 @kravietz@social.privacytools.io

@vicorva This sounds a bit like "80% author earnings are absorbed by the shop" - took me a while to dissect this sentence :)

"The Useful Idiot" by John Sweeney - Well written historic thriller with very accurate historic background, revealing a lot of little known facts about the history of USSR and pre-war Europe. Being myself interested in this period of history I pay attention to details and I was impressed by the accuracy of the story. Style of of Party officials speeches and the overall atmosphere of the book remind of the best books of Arthur Koestler and Michel Heller. Strongly recommended.

@tolstoevsky
С начала прочитал: лови мачету

@thor

Well, NoSQL was a logical response to shitty data the world is full of. I've written a number of apps that ingest real-world sources whose format is variable and changing over time, and modeling this in SQL really sucks. NoSQL removes the time spent on changing data models and reindexing on data *ingestion*. Obviously this doesn't come for free because you still need to reindex when you change the *queries* but in some scenarios you still save time.

Simply stop using #Windows

“One very good one of a ship full of refugees being bombed somewhere in the Mediterranean"

https://www.euronews.com/2020/03/10/europe-in-2020-not-orwell-s-1984-the-language-we-use-to-talk-about-refugees-matter-view

At the same time Jean-Paul Sartre in France fiercely argues that people in USSR have "complete freedom of criticism" and repressed dissident writers "still had the opportunity of rehabilitating themselves by writing better books".

In 60's authorities of USSR promised #communism will be achieved by 1980, with almost everything available for free, 6 hours of work per day etc. This is literally written in this 60's textbook.

Reality: in 1962 workers of Electromotive factory in Novocherkassk organise a strike and protest against ever-inreasing work quotas and skyrocketing food prices. 26 are shot to death, hundreds arrested https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novocherkassk_massacre

Status of the investigation and position on the progress of the trial (10-3-2020)

https://www.prosecutionservice.nl/topics/mh17-plane-crash/prosecution-and-trial/status-investigation-and-position-on-progress-trial #mh17

"Infection of biological DNA with digital Computer Code" https://pastebin.com/9vN1ACMH

@Wetrix Beer crates make a great base for a mattress

Bonus track: acquiring toilet paper in conditions of total shortage :)

For anyone who hadn't had the pleasure to grow up in socialist shortage economy of 70's Eastern Europe I strongly recommend this 1971 comedy as it contains a number of useful daily hints on managing deficit of basic goods, queues etc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1M2386VX0Po (with subtitles)

@strypey
The last is about Yggrasil? Really great one, seen it a while ago and using Yggdrasil in prod since 😃