My name is Evgeny, I live in Moscow, Russia, work as a software developer, and no longer teach at a medical university. This is my website.
Evgeny Kuznetsov wrote on I missed out on a rather good movie today.
My wife was watching, and I was doing some housekeeping on one of the non-work-related projects. I could have joined her on the couch, but I chose to turn my back on the TV, so I didn’t watch. I listened through the whole story, and I turned around to watch several scenes, but I didn’t watch the movie. I think I would have enjoyed it if I watched.
In Russia, we have a lot of holidays. Some think we have way too many holidays, but I’m kinda used to it, so I’m not fit to judge.
Most of Russia doesn’t observe Christmas on December, 25 (the prevalent church here is the Russian Orthodox who never switched to Gregorian calendar, so Christmas is January, 7). However, the USSR legacy (they tried to make the church-related holidays obsolete by introducing the non-church-related holidays about vaguely the same dates) of celebrating The New Year on January, 1, combined with the modern Russian return-to-roots state-wide celebration of Christmas, results in the state-sanctioned holiday (think of it as “bank holiday” in Western terms) spanning most of the first half of January.
Today, in one of the Telegram chats somebody asked if anybody remembered what the limit of the filename length in MS-DOS was. That someone could not remember the 8.3 rule seems counterintuitive to me, but I can rationally persuade myself that there are people who never worked with DOS or that someone could forget. That’s not what triggered this post.
It was the answer. Someone just forwarded an reply to the question from one of the GPT assistant chats.
Evgeny Kuznetsov wrote on There are things that are nice and interesting to do, yet there are things you’d rather not spend your time and effort doing. People are different, and my categorization may not match yours, but on average, there are a lot of things in today’s life that one would like to delegate to some extent. Hiring a person or a team for this is something very few of us can afford, but technical progress gives some hope to wide audience, too.
Visitors of this blog might have noticed I’ve moved it from Known to Hugo recently. Doing it without losing IndieWeb features was quite a hassle, I admit, so I felt the need to document the process. Hopefully, my experience will be of use to someone, and even if not, bragging is half of the fun about blogging anyway, isn’t it?
Evgeny Kuznetsov wrote on This post is about obvious things, but it looks like they aren’t that obvious to some people.
Many messengers allow to send voice messages instead of text. These messages are problematic: you can’t read them in a meeting, you can’t skim through them later to remember what the conversation was about, you can’t search the contents of these messages… The fact that the voice messages are possible to send doesn’t mean you should. You shouldn’t.
Evgeny Kuznetsov wrote on Some things are international.
TIL that the Python programming language was named after the Flying Circus, not after any snake. This explains so much that I seem to no longer have any questions to Python whatsoever.
Even more: I must confess I’m starting to seriously like it.
