Indeed, this is one misleading title. The Soviets were really fond of Steinbeck and especially the Grapes of Wrath (the book) up until the moment he wrote positively of the American troops in Vietnam in the 60s. After that, all his books were pulled from libraries and weren't reissued/published until Perestroika, when 6-volume collected works were released in 1989.
I do indeed have those six volumes of 1989. 1,700,000 copies; that is some number. But I doubt Steinbeck was pulled from libraries or wasn't published since 60s. Here's what I can see in 1970-1989 when I browse an online library catalog here:
1977: volume #183 in the famous "All-world literature" series
1981: two-volume selected works, Moscow
1985: selected works, Minsk
1986: selected works, Kishinev
1987: selected works, Moscow
I also see publications in multi-author volumes, a book of Steinbeck letters (1985), Steinbeck in Azerbaijan language (1983), a book about Steinbeck (1984). Maybe there was a cooler period toward him, but a ban is unlikely.
Another approach that does not show up in comments here is to use a reference manager, such as Zotero. It integrates nicely with browsers, so that saving webpages or pdfs is only one click away. Data is stored locally, so if a resource goes offline, you will still have access to it. And it has full-text indexing and search, so you can lookup terms from pages that you previously stored, even if you don't remember the metadata.
> complete keyboard remapping such that macos keybindings work everywhere
I have some weird preferences in keybindings (alt-space=backspace etc), and Xkb could very easily handle everything I threw at it. If you are using X11, you should be able to get your preferred keybindings:
> complete keyboard remapping such that macos keybindings work everywhere
I have some weird preferences in keybindings (alt-space=backspace etc), and Xkb could very easily handle everything I threw at it. If you are using X11, you should be able to get what you want, too:
If you like playing with polyominoes, there is a really fun chesslike table game inspired by them called Blokus, and someone wrote an open-source engine for it:
https://pentobi.sourceforge.io/
Of course, as already noted in another comment, there's the ultimate tetromino game: Tetris (literally defined as tetromino tennis)...
There's tons of polyomino games that have come out in the past 8 or so years. I wouldn't necessarily say they do a better job than Blokus did (imo, I really like Blokus), but it's interesting to see what game designers have been doing with the concept lately.
Uwe Rosenberg in particular has designed a bunch of games playing around with the polyomino concept, starting with Patchwork, then a trilogy of games Indian Summer, Cottage Garden, and Spring Meadow, and then culminating in a rules-heavy game A Feast for Odin.
Phil Walker-Harding designed a very popular one called Barenpark, where you cover spots on a board which unlock different types of tiles and new boards.
A recently released game that's been well received that utilizes a lazy susan for tile selection is called Planet Unknown.
There's also a tile drafting game called Isle of Cats that's quite popular as well.
A game that combines polyominoes with roll and write games that's quite popular is Cartographers.
Patchwork kicked off this new trend in board games, and was released in 2014.
Annoying as it may be, this situation is somewhat ubiquitous in the history of human knowledge.
Transistors were invented by Lilienfeld, yet everyone knows about the work of Bardeen et al. at Bell Labs. Einstein in relativity is the Balto of Lorentz-Poincare, which is why his Nobel prize mentioned the photoelectric effect and not relativity.
Simple formulas of scientific credit tend to stick better; the path of scientific progress is usually anything but. This is ok. The main thing is the knowledge itself, not who came up with it after all.
> Einstein in relativity is the Balto of Lorentz-Poincare, which is why his Nobel prize mentioned the photoelectric effect and not relativity.
That doesn’t add up because there was no Nobel prize at all for relativity to anyone. Searching online the consensus seems to be a mix of things:
* general confusion that his photoelectric Nobel was for relativity.
* the experimental proof of relativity came at a time when anti-semitism was on the rise and so there was enough of a fig leaf of “there’s disagreement / dispute of it being proven”.
* Einstein didn’t attend the ceremony because of a prescheduled lecture tour in Japan (But also possibly because of a fear for personal safety as his name was on a hit list by the perpetrators of a successful assassination). This made it seem like he snubbed the prize committee (which maybe he also did because he probably should have had 3 Nobels for all his contributions and felt like that prize wasn’t handed out on merit).
Certainly by 1945 special relativity was proven as otherwise there wouldn’t be an atomic bomb and yet still no Nobel for anyone.
I was taught (in the 1980s) that the reason didn't win the NP for Relativity was because it was so controversial at the time and it took decades to be fully accepted.
The author seems to be unaware of the large market for travel data esims. Airalo and Ubigi are two examples of user-facing resellers of these, which make buying a physical prepaid sim near obsolete.
I would say that for travel, esim is much better than sim. Given that seamless data roaming is one of the main features of Google Fi, this opinion is not uncommon.
Eh, although the travel data eSIMs are better than travel data SIMs, it still doesn't beat local SIMs.
For example, anytime I go back to Romania I pick up a ~6EUR prepaid Orange SIM card which has 2000 minutes, unlimited texts, and 6GB data with a bonus 120GB data on activation.
I have found that having a local number when I go to a new place is a big convenience. Doing things like ordering takeaway food online or trying to contact a hotel or some other service is a lot easier when not having to deal with an international call.
Most of the travel eSIMs don't provide a local number (esim.net is the only one I can think of off the top of my head) but getting a SIM at a corner store after getting out of the airport always does.
Orange is a huge company that supports eSIMs already in their major markets. I'm not exactly sure about Romania, but this page does exist which leads me to believe they do support it. https://www.orange.ro/servicii/esim/
I'm not sure I understand your position. eSIM has been present in iPhones since the XS model. You were free to use it over a physical sim wherever supported. What's happening with iPhone 14 is they are upselling eSIM while reducing flexibility by eliminating the physical sim option. It's a feature reduction, not a feature addition. eSIM was there either way.
It's not a large market. I've used them myself on iPad when I travel (as they don't do voice or SMS, just data). Sometimes they work, sometimes they don't. Pain to move them to other devices or to recharge sometimes. Many are dirt slow as they're basically foreign carrier roaming SIMs rather than native local SIMs.
It works but I certainly wouldn't want it to be my only choice when abroad.
Travel SIMs are great but so are options. One issue with outfits like Airalo is they often give you an eSIM from a random third country carrier that happens to have a cheap roaming agreement in the country you are in, resulting in your data being routed around the world and 300ms+ pings.
There are countries either not available through Airalo et al or their offering is simply not price competitive with local SIMs (and in some cases even roaming prices with home carriers). I went to New Caledonia recently and looked into a vast range of eSIM options. Most could not offer access in New Caledonia at all (as the local telco seem to be very selective to whom they have roaming agreements with) and the few that did (IRRC) was priced in such a way that buying a local SIM was significantly cheaper. I did a quick look at pricing for other countries where they did offer service and I must say I was not that impressed with the prices compared to what I get via local SIMs and in some cases roaming agreements through my home carrier was cheaper. YMMV especially when it comes to smaller countries and destinations not usually frequented by tourists.
See, this is a really interesting point there: do we separate the speaker and the speech, or do we lump them together?
I.e., if a Hitler (you saw that coming) says something demonstrably true, while a Pope (yep) says something demonstrably false — who do we agree with? Working out an answer to this question in a clear form has repercussions for the cancel culture, institutions created by slave owners, etc, etc, etc. It isn't new either. People struggled with the oeuvre of writers who supported Nazism way back when: do we read them or do we forget them? Knut Hamsun comes to mind. Rolf Nevanlinna would be a similar example in mathematics.
