[EN] First Time, Tragedy; Second Time, Farce?

Photograph: John Heartfield, 1932.

So, Karl, is it a farce this time around?

The millions are there now, in both senses...

Of course, Donald is no Vladimir, no Benito, no Joseph, and no Adolf.

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Adolf's own words in two speeches:

On 1931-11-13, "heute, mit 42 Jahren stehen Millionen hinter mir" ("today, at the age of 42, millions stand behind me").

On 1932-05-25, "13 Millionen Menschen hinter mir stehen" ("13 million people stand behind me"), referring to election results from 1932-04-10.

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References

Photograph:

<https://www.sfmoma.org/artwork/91.139/>

About the quotes:

<https://history.stackexchange.com/questions/63193/did-hitler-actually-say-millionen-stehen-hinter-mir>

[bg/ru;EN] Повеля не само от приказките *** A Command Not Only from the Fairy Tales

В някои приказки повеляват на героят:

„Отиди там — не знам къде.

Намери това — не знам кое.“

И в софтуерното инженерство понякога е така...

Да не говорим, че последното е и като в огледалният свят, където трябва много да тичаш, за да се задържиш на едно място...

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«Пойди туда — не знаю куда.

Найди то — не знаю что.»

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In some fairy tales the hero is given a command:

"Go there—I don't know where.

Find that—I don't know what."

It is sometimes the same in software engineering...

Not to mention that the latter is also like the looking-glass world, where you have to run a lot to keep in the same place...

[EN] Two "Numerical" Adages

"A double blessing is a double grace."

(William S.)

So:

A float blessing is a float grace.

(William K., in the domain of)

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Notes.

K., Kahan.

Float, short for floating point, is an important and much used representation of fractional numbers in computers.

Double, short for double precision, is a specific case of this representation used to reduce approximation errors in calculations.

William Kahan is a very prominent expert in the field of numerical analysis and calculations with computers in general.

Leaving as an exercise the well-known rule of the card game of bridge, "a redouble doubles the doubled value".

[EN] Heavenly Bodies by IAU's Book, or Pluto Is No Planet

Diagram via Facebook group At the Controls.

How astronomers see what they observe.

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(Mutating Arthur Conan Doyle's "You see, Watson, but you do not observe." while switching the meaning of "see".)

[EN] (Not) Calling an Excavation Instrument an Excavation Instrument

In today's news, "experienced a rapid unscheduled disassembly" is simply an euphemism for "broke up into pieces and failed".

Sapir-Whorf territory, rather than rocket science.

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This was prompted by today's test of a rocket made by the cosmic flavor of the antepenultimate letter of the alphabet.

[EN] The Importance of Being... Precise

What do some people take?

The path of least resistance.

The path of least immediate resistance.

The path of least immediate perceived resistance.

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Yes, Oscar Wilde was precise.

He had other good qualities, too.

[EN] Slicing and Dicing the Whole 2025 Yards

Picture source: Facebook

Furthermore, it is now Anno Mundi 7533 by the Byzantine calendar and the factorization of this number is 3×3×3×3×3×31.

The new Anno Mundi 7534 will begin on September 1 and that number has just two prime factors, 2×3767.