[bg/ru] Любимец на музата, но не на самодържеца

Изображение: Orest Kiprensky чрез Wikipedia

Не сме всички като Евгений Онегин:

„Везде поспеть не мудрено.“

(Онегин бил канен поне на две места всяка вечер и за него не било трудно да отиде навсякъде, а ние често успяваме само на едно.)

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„Онегин, добрый мой приятель,

Родился на брегах Невы.

Там, может быть, родились Вы

Или блистали, мой читатель.

Там некогда гулял и я.

Но вреден Север для меня.

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Писано в Бессарабии. [бел. авт.]“

(Където Пушкин е бил заточен за свободомислие; по сегашните мерки, леко се е отървал.)

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„У Пушкина жила, не выходя.“

(Музата, както пее Высоцкий.)

[EN] How Many Generations?

Social changes need many generations, as is well known.

To illustrate, here is a conversation that happened in Italy (some thirty years ago).

Italian:

"Don't talk to me about Pisans, they are unrefined peasants."

Foreigner:

"Why is that?"

Italian:

"There was a war, Pisa lost, its population was exterminated, and Pisa's current population are descendants of peasants from the surrounding villages."

Foreigner:

"Oh... And when was that?"

Italian:

"In the 14th century."

[EN] LLM "Knows" about `getpid'

Picture credit: Michelet B via Wikipedia.

Beware of the spoiler after the asterisks below, if you want to think about the answer first.

A process that retrieves and handles a large volume of data from a database, while making millions of calls to `read' and `write', also calls `getpid' a few million times interspersed with the former: why?

The program is written in Python and runs on Linux.

Embarrassingly I couldn't figure that out (and I didn't want to spend a lot of time on that), so I asked LLM, to test it, too.

Its answer was quite satisfactory.

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Answer (shortened):

A program or library that does or is prepared to do multiprocessing may need the pids of its processes or threads in order to manage mutual exclusion.

[EN;bg] November 11 before May 9 *** Единадесети ноември преди Девети май

Freiheit was censored, so Freude was substituted.

To remember how it is spelled, I use this mnemonic:

France — European Union — Germany: FR-EU-DE.

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Glossary: freedom; joy.

Just the fourth movement:

<https://youtu.be/hdWyYn0E4Ys>

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My grandfather was a prisoner of war in World War I.

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Bulgaria, Germany, and Hungary are the three countries that lost both world wars.

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Цензурата забранила „Freiheit“ и тя била заменена с „Freude“.

Помагам си да запомня как се пише чрез:

Франция — Европейски съюз — Германия: FR-EU-DE.

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Речник: свобода; радост.

Само четвъртата част:

<https://youtu.be/hdWyYn0E4Ys>

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Дядо ми е бил военнопленник през Първата световна война.

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България, Германия и Унгария са трите страни, които са изгубили и двете световни войни.

[bg] Софийски графити

(Около 2020 година; оградата на 120-то училище на десният бряг на Перловската река малко нагоре от улица Милин камък; забележете зеленото V върху F.)

(Около 2022 година; трамвайната спирка на улица Вишнева под Семинарията.)

За следващите нямам снимки, уви.

„Рангелова (по география) е курва.“

(Около 1991 година; мостът на Витошка над булевард България; скобите си бяха там.)

„All watmen are bastards.“

(Около 1988 година; стената на Семинарията до тогавашната трамвайна спирка.)

„Убий човек! Един по-малко ще ти диша въздуха.“

(Около 1988 година; навес на автобусна спирка на булевард Вапцаров.)

„Егеят и Вардарот бугарски ке са.“

(Около 1990 година; стената на тунелът под НДК.

Ядранот не беше споменат.)

„Truth remains.“

(Около 2010 година; стената на главната сграда на Софийският университет.)

[EN] Once Upon a Time in the Golden Age

Picture via Facebook group At the Controls.

Jet propulsion engineer Emma Davis

working with MATH-MATIC by Grace Hopper

to model gas flow in a turbofan aircraft engine.

Computer:

UNIVAC II by Sperry Rand (1959);

Lockheed Aircraft Company, Marietta, Georgia 1960s.

Word size: 72 bits (twelve 6-bit characters).

Clock rate: 2.25 MHz.

Speed: 3000 operations per second.

Hardware: 5,200 vacuum tubes consuming 190 kW, 1,200 transistors, 18,000 crystal diodes.

Memory: 184,000 bits, ferrite core (tenfold improvement over the mercury delay-line tanks of the previous model).

Further reading:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNIVAC_II

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Corporation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MATH-MATIC

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compressible_flow

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combustion_models_for_CFD

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pratt_%26_Whitney_TF33

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_C-141_Starlifter

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic-core_memory

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delay-line_memory

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNISERVO_I

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Hopper

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALGOL_58

[EN] Who Is Clever, Actually?

犬道

Finally I understand why dogs are our best friends:

dogs don't talk nonsense.

Canis sapiens.

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I took the liberty of constructing the Japanese expression above: inu-do, "the way of the dog", by analogy to bushi-do, "the way of the warrior".

I hear that the dogs of this breed are called "samurai dogs", because they are very faithful and trustworthy.

(The proper name of the breed photographed above, shiba-inu (柴犬), means "brushwood dog": they flush game out of undergrowth for hunters.)