Can any kind strangers here share some reads (or anything) on heat dissipation in space? My understanding is that there is virtually no medium to carry away all that energy, but I remember reading something about satellite and space stations actually cool off and there being some sort of a solution to heat. I just wanna learn more.
Russian here.
For the most part, it’s all English. Not even romanized Russian in variable names, although that happens sometimes. Comments are mostly in Russian, though. Depending on the company and whether it has to deal with countries where Russian isn’t as widespread, which is not a lot these days, that English can be a little difficult to understand once you start applying English language logic to it as opposed to basically writing Russian poorly translated to English. It’s fine if the variables, classes and method names are short and offer little room for stringing words together, but anything complex poses risk of producing something that will be difficult to read without heavy Russian background and developed English skills (at both comprehending and producing).
However, there is a number of Russian-based programming language. I am fortunate to have never worked with any one of them. One of them is 1C:Enterprise, which is also a sizeable business for automation software and such.
Here’s what it looks like. I can spot a couple of English words there, though. And having learned programming through English and English only, I actually find it more difficult to read, because Russian-native developers still often refer to things in English, even if there’s a word for that same thing in Russian - it’s just that much part of your programming work.
My backyard is across the ocean. Not really sure why would you assume me to be American for defending an institution that to political action is what softer drugs are often to harder drugs - a gateway.
I agree with you on being political, organizing, taking action towards the better future, even if that future is not for us to enjoy. But it just doesn’t happen from scratch: people must start somewhere, they must start taking any political action, no matter how small, rigged, insignificant, “complacent” or whatever. This is what gets them going and what sets things in motion, eventually leading to enough inertia and momentum that lets people take action that I assume you would see as more desirable.
That’s especially important for countries where voting is not as much of a farce as it is in other places. USA is far from perfect, but it is an influential part of the world’s state of affairs, so it kind of is important to have Americans voting for the person that might not be as hostile to your interests if you’re outside the country. This attitude towards one of the simplest civil, political actions one can take and can hopefully make a difference is one of the things making people not bother voting at all, making so much easier for people like Trump to end up or stay in power.
Again, if you want to see the alternative in people literally starting revolutions and burning tires, cars, police stations, killing politicians, seizing power, etc., it cannot start from nothing. That takes a lot of political momentum, which voting - especially failed or rigged or stolen - helps build tremendously, even if it’s not enough on its own.
And just calling for action without ever specifying the action, or especially calling for the action that involves a lot of risk and sacrifice and pain without the prior action having taken place, without the right political momentum, is definitely more useless than voting, if not harmful in its tendency to turn off people by the numbers large enough that make your desire to see unionization, organization, being political, unrealistic and juvenile.
Then maybe stop mocking the institutes that have more chance at changing things than assuring people voting doesn’t matter, only contributing to the problem in the long-term.
The tools and mechanisms of democracy may be faulty and not work 100% of the time, less so in some places, but it is worse without them.
Even if they don’t matter, truly, for some time, people taking part in the ritual stay way more politically active as opposed to not doing even as little. This makes them more likely to continue, like maybe rally or contact their representatives or maybe get more people involved. None of this is perfect or guaranteed, but the alternative is letting the more politically active opponent win.
I myself live in a place where voting means more than people actually realize, but still think very little of it, only making it easier for the status quo to prevail through lies, propaganda and rigging, because if nobody voted, then nobody feels as screwed over, and that energy doesn’t flow in the way that may actually have some positive change.
You may not believe in voting or take part, but at least don’t be discouraging people from as little. Especially if you believe in something more immediate and reactionary - that just can’t come from nowhere, certainly not from “Nothing I do will ever matter”.
Not sure about other languages, but Russians are more likely to give their name as FIO, familia imya and then ochestvo (family name, given name, and then patronymic), especially in official settings. I’m given to understand the practice was even more common in Soviet and Tsarist Russia.
Very much this.
Today, the more English-like way of listing first name first, last name last in a context where the Western influence is just stronger and more prevalent, like YouTube, social media at large, git commits, etc. I think I’ve also seen it on TV, but I haven’t watched it for over a decade, really.
Generally, it seems like this order is become more and more popular thanks to globalization. which I actually like, but yeah, the more official something is, the more likely the traditional order is to appear.
That said, I think for the Russia-speaking context, last name first seems to be better in some cases, because the first names are not as varied.
Nice article, thanks!