[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].

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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."

[EN] Complex ⊃ Expensive

Just repeating the well-known: why complex implies expensive.

Complex is...

... expensive to design;

... expensive to document;

... expensive to implement;

... expensive to maintain;

... expensive to modify;

... expensive to support;

... expensive to troubleshoot.

[EN] A Bit of Elegant Propaganda

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The immediate reference, of course, is to the Soviet-Finnish War of 1939–1940.

[EN] Any Similarities to Actual Events

Been there, done that...

One Benito Mussolini, also known as Il Duce (The Leader), had ambitions to Make Italy Great Again.

Apart from everything else, he embarked on several conquests in Africa and the Balkans.

They ended badly; he ended badly, too.

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By the way, Venetian doge (looks familiar?) and Italian duce are cognates (both come from Latin dux, leader, whence English duke as well).

[EN] What's in a Name... Again

Thou shalt not pronounce the name of thy Gulf in vain.

In the Middle East:

Arabian Gulf

Persian Gulf

Now:

Gulf of America

Gulf of Mexico

Make Vespucci Great Again...