The task is to find groups of 5 English words in which each letter appears at most once, i.e. 25 letters total. These must be “real” English words from the […]

I bought a laptop with Windows 11 preinstalled, and ran into too many usability issues. They are not critical, but annoying, and it looks like I can downgrade my laptop […]

I was too busy with my job to post anything here. Besides, for some time I was working on proprietary stuff, so I could not really post about it, and […]

TL;DR: Python type cast looks like an assertion: # Python x = expression_returning_Base assert isinstance(x, Derived) This corresponds to Java or C# // Java Derived x = (Derived)expression_returning_Base; In languages […]

I needed an IRC client for Windows, and mIRC came up in searches as #1 recommended. It said something about “registration” during the installation, but I ignored assuming that registration […]

I am using a MacBook for work now. Got a stuck installer, trying to restart the computer. Messages (not exact quotes). The system: cannot restart, please exit installer [Cancel], [Try […]

Found first hiccup: LiveJournal cross-post plugin did not work on the new site. The error was somewhat misleading: something like ‘message from www.livejournal.com: malformed, unable to parse’. In fact it […]

Iran is all over the news these days, however this post is not about politics. On a photograph of a press conference in Tehran, I noticed something curious: the backdrop […]

Instability is bad, but letting me specify a combination of template parameters that cannot possilby work is much worse. In VS 2019 with dotnet core 3.0, I created an ASP.NET […]