Несколько лет назад я выпустил Polyglot: Listen & Speak — универсальное IOS приложение для изучения языков через прослушивание и проговаривание фраз. Оно живёт и развивается до сих пор, им пользуются очень разные люди с самыми разными целями, в том числе и мы сами (я и члены моей семьи). Приложение проверено годами, очень нам всем помогло.
Но со временем я заметил отдельный запрос: человеку, который едет работать сиделкой в Германию или маникюршей в Испанию, часто нужен не "язык вообще", а конкретные 300-500 фраз, которые он услышит и скажет в первую неделю на новой работе. Общий курс это тоже даёт, но не сразу и не в такой концентрации.
Поэтому в дополнение к Polyglot я стал делать узкие приложения — каждое под конкретную профессию и язык. Каждое содержит не одну тысячу самых необходимых слов и выражений по нужной вам профессии. Ниже — зачем, для кого и что внутри каждого.
Всё, что описано ниже является строго личным мнение автора, который работал с продуктом. По всем описанным пунктам я обращался в поддержку, получил официальные ответы и привожу их тут. Ни для одной из описанных проблем не было предложено обходного варианта решения, только "это такое архитектурное решение"
EvaProject позиционируется как замена Jira. Рекламные лозунги, описания, презентации - это всё хорошо, но хочется сказать о проблемах, которые пользователь получит, когда начнёт пользоваться продуктом. Зачем? Эти проблемы не лежат на поверхности, не указаны в описании, не присутствуют в рекламных буклетах и, скорее всего, даже при первоначальной оценке EvaProject, будут упущены.
Manuel Hernandez charged with 13 counts of reckless endangerment after boat overturned in New York harbor
The captain of a boat that capsized in the New York harbor on Saturday evening has been charged following the deaths of a 27-year-old woman and five-month-old girl.
Manuel Hernandez, 46, was arrested and charged with 13 counts of reckless endangerment in the early hours of Sunday morning, a New York police department spokesperson told the Guardian.
Manuel Hernandez charged with 13 counts of reckless endangerment after boat overturned in New York harbor
The captain of a boat that capsized in the New York harbor on Saturday evening has been charged following the deaths of a 27-year-old woman and her five-month-old daughter.
Manuel Hernandez, 46, was arrested and charged with 13 counts of reckless endangerment in the early hours of Sunday morning, a New York police department spokesperson told the Guardian.
В новом выпуске применение для .fixedSize и (не)слежка в приложениях Яндекс для Android, погружение в One‑Time Events в Android и регрессионное UI-тестирование для iOS, Shipaton 2026 от JetBrains, offline‑first PWA, сканер для слабых смартфонов, идеальный телефон для цифрового детокса и многое другое. Заходите!
Detectives working on the cold case of a woman who was murdered 32 years ago have renewed their call for information, saying people at the time may have kept silent out of "loyalty or fear".
Rage-baiting efforts of Trump accounts silenced after posts such as a video linking her Red album to Republicans
Some of Taylor Swift’s songs have been removed from videos posted on social media by Donald Trump’s campaign and the White House, silencing efforts to mock the pop star.
A video posted 3 August featuring the US president and the first lady, Melania Trump, watching fireworks was posted this month on TikTok with Swift’s song August.
Imports this year now account for 14% of the market amid claims vehicles are being dumped in the EU and UK
Chinese electric car sales have risen across Europe to a record high driven by strong demand and low tariffs in the UK and a surge in buyers in Italy.
Against a backdrop of claims that Chinese carmakers are “dumping” state-subsidised vehicles in the EU and UK to gain market share, the figures will give impetus to calls for quotas and higher tariffs to protect European manufacturers.
В последнее время традиционная бизнес-аналитика все сильнее пересекается с плоскостью аналитики данных (как в индустрии финтеха и банкинга, так и во многих других сферах). Некоторые профильные специалисты уже не первый год рассматривают Business Intelligence как супермножество Data Science, и все громче звучит мнение, что компаниям необходимо объединять оба направления.
Поэтому сегодня мы в МКБ подготовили подборку материалов для желающих погрузиться в тему BI/Data Science. Под катом — открытые книги, которые помогут разобраться в современном аналитическом стеке, а также профильные учебники. А еще блоги, авторы которых простыми словами разбирают вопросы и проблемы по теме: от борьбы с «фактором автобуса» до принципов работы в индустрии BI.
In an interview with Meet the Press, Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed says he “really enjoyed” his recent conversation with former President Barack Obama and hopes he’ll campaign with him ahead of the general election.
AI agents are escaping cybersecurity testing environments and reaching real-world systems, raising questions about whether safety infrastructure, industry standards, and regulation can keep pace with increasingly powerful models.
For more than six decades, Gay Talese has been a celebrated legend among writers and reporters – a leading practitioner of the "New Journalism." At 94, he talks with New Yorker writer Kelefa Sanneh of a career writing about the famous and not-so-famous (including mobsters, aging sports figures and nudists), and why his renowned 1966 Esquire article about Frank Sinatra didn't require his actually talking to the Chairman of the Board.
A legend among writers and reporters, and a leading practitioner of the "New Journalism," Gay Talese talks of a career writing about the famous and not-so-famous, from Frank Sinatra, to aging sports figures, mobsters and nudists.
Top Democrats, including Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, have lined up behind El-Sayed after supporting his rival in the primary.
Costs of security and removal efforts have reignited debate over whether work is vandalism or valuable public art
Three Banksy artworks have cost taxpayers almost £150,000 in removal efforts, security and other costs, with the bill expected to rise.
The largest bill relates to a mural painted on the Royal Courts of Justice in London in September 2025, where efforts to remove it and provide security have so far cost more than £85,000, according to the BBC.
Jurors hear from host of medical experts as defence says postpartum psychosis caused young mother to kill children
It’s been called “America’s saddest murder trial” and last week jurors in the Lindsay Clancy case listened to mental health professionals, counsellors, psychiatrists, and medication experts explain the circumstances in which the young mother killed her three children.
It has been a spectacle that has gripped America, not least because Clancy’s legal defense has been supported by her now divorced husband.
In the US, call or text Mental Health America at 988 or chat 988lifeline.org. You can also reach Crisis Text Line by texting MHA to 741741. In the UK, the charity Mind is available on 0300 123 3393 and Childline on 0800 1111. In Australia, support is available at Beyond Blue on 1300 22 4636, Lifeline on 13 11 14, and at MensLine on 1300 789 978
Two aviators will take off from Iceland to photograph the sun while flying at high altitude along solar eclipse’s path
After lunch on Wednesday, two Nasa aviators will climb into a research plane and take off from Keflavik airport on a western tip of Iceland. They will climb north towards Greenland and then bank to head south on a gently curving course 40 miles (64km) off the Icelandic coast.
Their mission can be described as chasing an eclipse, but in reality the eclipse is chasing them. As the plane cruises at 50,000ft (15,000 metres), the shadow of the moon will race up from behind, crossing the ocean below at more than 2,000mph (3,200km/h). The pilot will aim to reach the point of greatest eclipse, when the largest fraction of the sun is obscured by the moon, at the moment the shadow catches up with them.
In 50 years on screen, Tim Curry, star of "The Rocky Horror Picture Show," "Clue" and "It," has played roles campy, comical, and menacingly sinister, yet his most inscrutable role is still Tim Curry. The actor talks with Turner Classic Movies host Ben Mankiewicz about his memoir "Vagabond" (which is decidedly not a Hollywood tell-all); the stroke he suffered in 2012, and learning how to speak again; and why he never sought to curry stardom. (Originally broadcast Oct. 19, 2025.)
Мне было интересно узнать, какие байты бегают по моей домашней сети. Я не нашёл простого инструмента, который можно было бы собрать за вечер и понять от начала до конца — и пришлось написать свой, на C.
Получилось ~500 строк кода, 95.6% распознавания протоколов и отличная возможность разобраться, как работает Deep Packet Inspection изнутри.
Без фреймворков, без зависимостей — только C, libpcap и алгоритм Ахо‑Корасик.
Exclusive: Analysis shows 55% of accounts were located overseas – and seven of 12 most-read posts came from US
More than half the accounts that posted on Elon Musk’s X about the rioting in Belfast and the civil disorder in Southampton in June were based outside the UK, an analysis by the Guardian can reveal.
Of the 8,672 accounts whose combined posts about the events exceeded 1,000 views, just 45.3% were shown as from the UK, according to the social media platform’s own location function.
Editor’s note, August 9, 8 am ET: We’re bringing you some of our best-loved Your Mileage May Vary columns while Sigal Samuel is on parental leave. The one below was originally published in April.
This unconventional advice column offers you a unique framework for thinking through moral dilemmas. It’s based on value pluralism: the idea that each of us has multiple values that are equally valid but that often conflict with each other. Submit your own question here.
I’m trying to decide whether to keep my elementary school-age kid in the neighborhood public school or move him to a more exclusive private school. Our public school is okay, but my partner and I feel that he might be more challenged and ultimately better off moving to a private school.
But I’m very aware of the increasing flow of students around the US out of public schools, and the effect that is having on the children who remain there. For one thing, since public schools get more funding the more students they have, every family that leaves effectively takes money with them. I worry that by taking my child out of public school, I’m contributing to that problem, but I also don’t want my child to bear the personal burden of my politics.
Dear Public School Parent,
The way you’ve framed the question makes it sound like keeping your kid in public school means imposing a burden on him. And if that were the case — if we really were talking about sacrificing your child’s well-being — I know exactly what I’d tell you.
I’d tell you not to be bullied by utilitarian philosophers. They argue we have to consider everyone’s well-being equally, with no special treatment for our own kids, so they’d probably say it’s wrong to give your child a fancy education while consigning other children to a school with fewer resources. But the 20th-century British philosopher and critic of utilitarianism Bernard Williams argues that this sort of total impartiality is an absurd demand — and I agree.
Williams points out that moral agency — the capacity to act on values and commitments — always comes from a specific person. And as specific people, we have our own specific, individual, core commitments. These “ground projects,” as Williams calls them, are the commitments that give a life its meaning and continuity. A parent has a commitment to ensuring their kid’s well-being, over and above their general wish for all kids everywhere to be well. Williams would say any moral theory that requires you to ignore such personal commitments severs you from the very things that make your life recognizably yours.
So if keeping your kid in public school really meant hurting him, I wouldn’t say you have to do it.
But you said your neighborhood school is okay. It sounds like it’s not bad and not unsafe. So I don’t have reason to think that it is actually hurting him. In fact, it might be helping him in ways you’re not fully accounting for.
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Education is complicated. If I were to get into all the details about school choice and vouchers and charter schools and magnet schools, I’d have to write a whole book. So let me just stick to the main points relevant to your dilemma, starting with this: There’s a popular narrative that says private schools are better than public schools, but the evidence does not support that — especially if we take a broad look at what we mean by “better.”
Although studies do show private school students outperforming their public school counterparts on tests, the studies also show that private school advantages disappear mostly or entirely once you control for family background.
Longitudinal research led by Robert Pianta and Arya Ansari at the University of Virginia tracked more than 1,000 children from birth to age 15 in 10 locations nationwide. After controlling for family income, parental education, neighborhood socioeconomic makeup, and other background variables, the private school advantage…vanished.
“If you want to predict children’s outcomes — achievement test scores, the things we care about socially — in high school, the best thing you can use to predict that is going to be family income — regardless of what high school you go to,” Pianta said.
Pianta’s was a modest-sized study with some methodological limitations. But another analysis of two large, nationally representative datasets also found that public school kids did just as well in math as private school kids — or even outpaced them — after accounting for demographic differences. (Math is considered a particularly robust indicator of school quality writ large because, unlike reading, it’s a subject learned mostly at school and not at home.) The researchers suggested that might be because public school teachers have to do stricter certification and can be required to do more frequent professional development, so they may be more reliably up-to-date on the latest pedagogical approaches, like those developed by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics.
Admittedly, the very fanciest of private schools do offer some special advantages. Network effects are real. Maybe you want your kid rubbing elbows with a future senator. And maybe if you send your kid to ultra-elite Andover or Exeter, he’ll have a leg up if he applies to a fancy private college.
But that is not the same as ensuring your child actually thrives. I’m sure you also care about your child’s psychological well-being. And here, some of the evidence about exclusive, high-achieving schools is worrying.
The most important educational institution in your kid’s life is you.
The unrelenting pressure to compete and achieve can be brutal in those schools. When students constantly compare themselves to others and peg their self-worth to achievement, the results are alarming. Studies conducted over decades by psychologist Suniya Luthar and colleagues found that students attending high-achieving schools are at significantly higher risk for anxiety, depression, and substance use. (These are often private schools, though hyper-competitive public schools can also fall into this trap.) In fact, the National Academies of Sciences now names these students an “at-risk” group for mental health problems, alongside kids who live in poverty or in foster care or who have incarcerated parents.
In addition to potentially providing a less stressful environment, public schools can confer other important advantages. For one thing, your local public school can help you and your child be part of the neighborhood community, which is incredibly valuable for social development and countering loneliness. And being in an environment that’s more diverse in terms of race, ethnicity, or class can teach your kid to empathize and get along with a wide variety of people.
As the American philosopher John Dewey pointed out, these are essential skills and capacities for a flourishing adult life and for a flourishing democracy. Democracy is a way of being in community with people unlike yourself; that’s a mode of life that has to be cultivated, and public schools are great grounds for learning to navigate a shared world.
Plus, public education is free! (Well, “free” — you’ve already paid for it with your taxes, whether or not your kid uses it.) So you could save all the money you’d spend on private school and instead use it on enriching opportunities to expand your child’s horizons. Personally, I’d take my kid to Italy and teach them about Ancient Roman gladiators and Renaissance art and the many flavors of gelato! Or you could collaborate with your child to decide where to donate some of that money to fund education resources for kids elsewhere.
On balance, since the evidence suggests that a child at a decent public school, with involved parents, probably won’t gain meaningful advantages from switching to an exclusive private school — and may face real psychological risks in a hyper-competitive environment — I don’t see a compelling reason to make the move. If you’ve got the resources to even consider private school, then your home life will probably play the biggest role in your kid’s academic trajectory, regardless of which building he sits in during the day. The most important educational institution in your kid’s life is you.
That said, I’m not arguing that parents should never pick private school. To some extent, this depends on the unique needs of your kid and your family. Maybe your kid is absolutely in love with music and the private school nearby has an amazing music program. Maybe your kid is being bullied at his current school but has a couple great friends who attend the private school. Or maybe a religious education is very important to you, so a private parochial school makes sense.
If you do make the choice to send your kid to private school, you’ll have to grapple with the collective action problem you hinted at: Any single family’s departure from a public school barely registers, but when every family with options reasons the same way, the cumulative effect on the school’s funding — and on the kids who remain — can be devastating.
Here, the American political philosopher Iris Marion Young can help you. She points out that our usual model of responsibility — the “liability model,” which says that when something bad happens we should assign blame to a particular individual — is inadequate when we’re dealing with situations of structural injustice. In these situations, it’s a whole system that’s producing predictable patterns of disadvantage.
Just look at the complex web that breeds educational inequality: Historical housing segregation has concentrated poverty in certain neighborhoods. Poorer neighborhoods generate less property tax revenue, which means less money for local schools. States can try to offset that, but schools in poorer areas still tend to end up with fewer resources. Families with options leave for better-resourced schools, enrollment drops at the local public school, and the school loses even more funding. The kids who remain get less of the materials — from textbooks to counselors — that would have set them on the path to success. There’s a clear downward spiral, but no one person or decision is the villain.
So instead of blaming any one individual for their personal lifestyle choices, Young says that in cases of structural injustice, we should adopt the “social connection model” of responsibility. Under this model, you don’t bear blame if you send your kid to private school, because systemic problems shouldn’t rest on one family’s shoulders. Young doesn’t think you need to discharge your obligations through personal lifestyle choices.
But that doesn’t mean you owe nothing.
You do still have a political obligation: to work toward changing the structure that produces injustice. As a participant in the political system that shapes education in this country, you have some power to act on it. You can vote and organize and advocate. You can pressure decision-makers and support reform movements. The more power you’ve got, and the more privileged you are by the current system, the greater your obligation to take action.
Make the effort to act on that obligation. Let your child watch as you do. Better yet, involve them in the process. Kids learn from seeing what their parents do: Show them that you’re bent on enacting your values, and you’ll be giving them an education for life.
Bonus: What I’m reading
This is a fun piece in Asterisk about how high-school science fairs have become so ridiculously competitive that they no longer give students a chance to do real independent research.
This week’s question prompted me to listen to the podcast series “Nice White Parents.” It’s a fascinating look at what happens when parents think that choosing public school would mean sacrificing their child’s prospects on the altar of their own political ideals. Spoiler: Practically no parent is willing to sacrifice their own child. But they often don’t realize they’ve constructed a false trade-off.
Living life requires making choices. It’s unavoidable that we’ll feel regret about some of the paths not traveled. But this Aeon essay explains how “living in closer alignment with our values and authentic preferences may help us avoid the worst pain of regret.”
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За четыре дня с перерывами я собрал XENOFARM — кооперативную космическую ферму‑выживание, где игрок вообще не дерётся. Модели генерировали нейросети, код писала Claude, звук синтезировал Python. Это не история успеха и не реклама инструментов: это подробный отчёт о том, что реально сработало, сколько заняло и где нейросети просто перенесли работу из моделирования в отладку.
Ладно, шучу, это не вся заметка. Просто недавно франшиза «Звездный десант» пополнилась добротным бумер-шутером Starship Troopers: Ultimate Bug War!. Игра сама по себе хороша, но дело в том, что это не первый шутер от первого лица по вселенной: есть еще старичок 2005 года от студии Strangelite, и пока я проходил «Окончательную жуковойну», то постоянно ловил себя на том, что сравниваю ее с той самой игрой из своего детства. Закончив прохождение, я вдруг понял, что Ultimate Bug War! в разных аспектах работает одновременно лучше и хуже, чем Starship Troopers 2005 года, именно как шутер по «Звездному десанту». Тогда и родился замысел этой статьи: подробно разобрать и сравнить два шутера по вселенной, чтобы определиться, какой из них все-таки лучше. Так сказать, где по жукам стрелять хорошо? Признаюсь: начиная этот разбор, я еще сам не знаю ответа.
Barley, the golden retriever, lost her spunk once she started taking medication. But when Justin and Tori Cannarelli, of New York, brought Louie, a duckling, home for a short visit, the bird and the dog immediately bonded – and Barley was once again good as gold. Steve Hartman reports on a healing friendship that transcends species.
A security researcher has designed an algorithm that can create computer-generated patterns capable of hiding people, faces, and vehicles from detection by surveillance cameras.
In more than 40 states, marijuana is now a legal method of relieving pain. But in Idaho, more than a thousand new mothers have ended up on a child abuse registry after testing positive for THC – a chemical found in marijuana – following childbirth. In other states, women have even been sent to jail. The findings of a joint investigation by "CBS Sunday Morning" and the Marshall Project raise hard questions about who gets punished, and who doesn't. Erin Moriarty reports. [This story was produced in partnership with The Marshall Project, a nonprofit news organization covering the U.S. criminal justice system.]
In this web exclusive, Dr. Stephen Patrick, a newborn ICU doctor and researcher on how the opioid crisis affects pregnant women and infants, talks with CBS News' Erin Moriarty about what happens after a mother tests positive for a substance during pregnancy. Patrick argues that automatically referring mothers to child welfare or law enforcement over a single drug test - even for substances like marijuana, which are legal in much of the country - can create more harm than it prevents: driving women away from prenatal care, disproportionately affecting Black and Native American families, and separating moms from newborns without evidence of harm.
In Idaho, new mothers have ended up on a child abuse registry after testing positive for THC – a chemical found in marijuana. An investigation raises hard questions about who gets punished, and who doesn't.
Добрый день, я хотел бы поделиться историей из 2013 года как обычные разговоры коллег на курилке через полгода привели к разработке СРМ и удвоили продажи компании.
Прежде всего, историю следует воспринимать в контексте времён когда Skype был не только главным мессенджером в бизнес-процессах, но и главным файлообменником постсоветского пространства, ИИ воспринимался как научная фантастика из далёкого будущего и сайты на Flash всё ещё были в моде.
Офлайн-хранилище со сложным графом и outbox: быстрый старт в MAUI и в браузере, базовые операции и почему в этой роли EF Core только мешает.
Курьер спустился в подвал склада — связи нет. Кладовщик третий час принимает поставку в зоне, где вайфай добивает через раз. Пользователь заполнил форму на четыре экрана и нажал «Сохранить» в момент, когда сервер уехал на деплой.
Приложение должно продолжать работать. Значит ему нужна своя база на устройстве: не кеш ответов, а полноценное локальное хранилище, где живут незавершённые документы, локальные состояния и очередь изменений на отправку — тот самый outbox, который дошлёт всё, когда связь вернётся.
While there are fears that people harvesting their food could put pressure on habitats, some ecologists suggest responsible foraging can boost conservation and biodiversity
Angus Morton crouches behind a cricket pavilion in a London park to snip stinging nettles from an unkempt patch of greenery.
“They’re so abundant and they’re so good,” says Morton, a regenerative gardener who pops out once a week to forage bits for dinner. “I use them in pesto, tea … I’ve even seen someone putting them in croquetas.”
Using ‘spy glasses’ made by Facebook owner leads to floods of negative comments, say content creators
It was hardly an offensive video. Amid the buzz of the Tour de France finale, Oliver Hooson filmed himself whipping up a delicious-looking flat white for a fellow cycling enthusiast. But after posting the footage on social media, the comments that soon rolled in were a real shock. “PERV,” read one. “Out here pushing creep glasses,” said another. His mistake? Documenting the moment with Meta’s “spy glasses”.
Despite being marketed as the latest must-have gadget, Meta’s smartglasses, which can record video footage while being worn, have faced a vicious backlash, particularly relating to concerns about surveillance. There are widespread fears about the glasses being used to film people, especially women, without their consent, and the resultant footage being posted on social media. This has earned them the label of “pervert glasses”, and content creators, no matter how they are used, have faced a flood of negative comments for deploying them.
Jeanne Gibson, who at age 18 joined the war effort by becoming a "Rosie the Riveter" to help build Navy destroyers as a welder, died July 29, 2026 at age 100. Seth Doane looks back on the life of a woman who stepped up during World War II. Gibson later earned a Ph.D. and worked as an educator, while continuing to tell the story about the contributions of millions of Rosies during World War II.
Early prison release policy is still under review as the government considers options available to block the release of PC Andrew Harper's killers, Sky News understands.
The Iowa 80 Truckstop, on Interstate 80, claims to be the world's largest truck stop – and who would argue? Luke Burbank pulls up to the Walcott, Iowa truck stop larger than 150 football fields, catering to those who keep America moving, which features everything from 24-hour restaurants and maintenance shops, to a dentist, ministry office, and movie theater. (Originally broadcast Aug. 31, 2025.)
The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical concepts
I’ve heard that in Germany you can buy sausages in vending machines. What should be sold in machines that isn’t offered at the moment? Sybil Freestone, Oregon
