[EN] N-player Games

It has been noted that Trump seems to view all politics as zero-sum games.

I don't know whether he actually does (or whether he actually knows game theory), but he also does seem to view politics as a solitaire.

[bg;EN] Неразумна поговорка *** Unwise Saying

На харизан кон зъбите не се гледат.

Грешка.

Знаете какво станало, когато не погледнали най-известният харизан кон в историята...

***

Don't look a gift horse in the mouth.

Wrong.

You know what happened when they didn't look at the most famous gift horse in history...

[EN] Which Year: 1938 or 1939?

Ribbentrop, Stalin, Molotov.

People have been recalling an event in Munich in 1938.

It is more important to recall an event in Moscow in August 1939.

Specifically, the secret agreement how Berlin and Moscow would divide Europe between themselves.

And then they started with Poland in September.

Next was the Soviet-Finnish War in the winter of 1939–1940.

Later in 1940 came Moscow's capture of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.

[EN] Not Quite Like Roses and Violets

If iron, it's red,

If copper, it's blue:

Blood carries oxygen

And nobility, too.

[EN] "Guide the Future by the Past"

An impressive portrait of a top-ranking politician.

Thomas Cromwell, Henry VIII's chief minister,

painted by Hans Holbein circa 1534.

(Henry VIII of England.)

[bg] „Dark Horse“?

Изглежда, че не е съвсем лесно за хора с майчин език български да кажат кратък израз на своят език, който да значи същото.

Част от трудността, разбира се, е в това, че буквален или близък до буквален пренос на смисъл не работи в този случай.

Google Gemini обаче успя да предложи:

„скрит коз“,

а също така

„неочакван победител“,

„неизвестен кандидат“

и още две.

ChatGPT се справи малко по-зле:

„неочакван фаворит“;

„тъмна коня“ [sic].

_________

За речниково определение:

<https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dark+horse>

[EN] Data Center ≠ Data Warehouse

Peter Norvig told this one, about the difference between a data center and a data warehouse, some fifteen years ago at a public lecture.

Substitute the next prefix if you find it appropriate.

They wake up the manager of a data center in the middle of the night when the amount of used storage reaches one petabyte.

They wake up the manager of a data warehouse in the middle of the night when there is only one petabyte of free storage left.

[EN] A Proverb, Illustrated and Illuminated

The Bulgarian equivalent is less carnivorous:

"an early bird sings early".

Maybe this is merely the short form of:

"Early to bed, early to rise,

Work like hell and advertise."