dnovatchev

Developed 3 Pluralsight training courses, FXSL 1,2, the XPath Visualizer, Finger Tree in C#. Expert in XSLT, XPath, C#. Member in W3C XSLT WG 2011 - 2013

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The Bad Place isn't tampering with points. They don't have to.
Because every day the world gets a little more complex and being a good person gets a little harder. #TheGoodPlace

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“The Stories We Reach For First” by Rebecca Bowen https://t.co/Fur9Rx2JDA

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“There’s a cringe army of AI bros who are seemingly convinced that AI is going to become superintelligent and save us from ourselves — they think that AI companies are creating god. But the hundreds of billions being pumped into AI are not…” — @doctorow https://t.co/tQt0YGFMbp

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You can literally mark your thesis with blood, sweat, and coffee. ☕
This coffestrains package lets you add realistic coffee rings and splashes to your LaTeX documents. https://t.co/vMim1fvmx4

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https://t.co/HjbW5juOU8 :The original recordings of the 1969 Moon landing are gone.NASA admitted that the tapes were reused in the 1980s — part of a batch of 200,000 magnetic tapes that were wiped and recorded over to save costs. The reason? Budget cuts. https://t.co/uWB3xlMTJe

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With its 3.2-billion-pixel camera, the first images revealed galaxy clusters 55 million light-years away, nebulae with young stars, and 2,104 newly discovered asteroids — seven of them near-Earth, though none currently pose a threat.Rubin will scan the entire sky every 3- 4 days.

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The hexagonal structure of honeycombs is nature’s engineering answer — maximum density, minimal waste. The same principle applies in data compression. In 2016 Maryna Viazovska solved it in eight and 24 dimensions — earning a Fields Medal for the breakthrough

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Beyond Euclid #182 https://t.co/KZL8lJybpZ
The hexagonal structure of honeycombs is nature’s engineering answer — maximum density, minimal waste. The challenge of packing spheres most efficiently. Maryna Viazovska solved it in eight and then 24 dimensions

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“The US federal system is a big, gnarly mess, but by design it leaves a lot of power in local hands. That’s bad news when local power is being used to ban trans people from peeing, or to attack school librarians, or to ban masking. But it’s…” — @doctorow https://t.co/dNPYoB1ojM

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“The new bill, SB 951, passed out of the legislature and was signed by the governor earlier this month. It is now good law in Oregon which means that corporations can’t operate medical practices and that medical personnel can’t be subjected…” — @doctorow https://t.co/dNPYoB1ojM

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“As icing on the cake, Unitedhealth’s Oregon operation screwed over multiple, cancer-fighting lawmakers who were serving in the state-house as the bill was under debate. Combine this with testimony from doctors who described how they were…” — @doctorow https://t.co/dNPYoB1ojM

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“In the midst of all this, another Unitedhealth monopolist, Change Health, got hacked and virtually no one in America could get a prescription filled — worse, the hack exposed the health records of almost everyone in America, the largest…” — @doctorow https://t.co/dNPYoB1ojM

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“The bill passed anyway, thanks to a combination of two factors. First, during the bill’s legislative adventure, Unitedhealth’s Optum bought out the Oregon Medical Group and made working conditions so terrible that dozens of doctors quit…” — @doctorow https://t.co/dNPYoB1ojM

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“The Oregon bill closes this loophole, and not a minute too soon. Giant healthcare monopolists — most notably groups associated with Unitedhealth, the largest health corporation in America — have embarked on a statewide buying spree, buying…” — @doctorow https://t.co/dNPYoB1ojM

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“This is called the ‘corporate practice of medicine’ (CPOM) and it’s already banned.The American Medical Association has a longstanding, absolute prohibition on medical practices that are run by anyone except a doctor. Oregon has had a CPOM…” — @doctorow https://t.co/dNPYoB1ojM

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“Working people can't rely on Trump’s federal government and the Republican Congress to protect us from these vampires.But this is America: when the feds fail, that creates an opportunity for state legislators to step in and act. And that’s…” — @doctorow https://t.co/dNPYoB1ojM

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“But while Trump sometimes talks a good line about fighting private equity looters, he does not, has not, and will not lift a finger to them.He dares not.The carried interest tax scam is preserved in the Big Beautiful Bill, joined with many…” — @doctorow https://t.co/dNPYoB1ojM

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“Donald Trump sometimes panders to anti-elitist elements in his base by threatening the private equity racket. For example Trump has frequently railed against the ‘carried interest’ tax loophole that allows PE bosses to pay half as much tax…” — @doctorow https://t.co/dNPYoB1ojM

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“PE doesn’t even have to buy the whole hospital — for a long time PE groups bought out anesthetist practices affilated with hospitals and pulled them out of the hospital’s insurance affiliation. Unsuspecting patients who went in for routine…” — @doctorow https://t.co/dNPYoB1ojM

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“As bad as leveraged buyout (LBO) is is, it’s ten quintillion times worse when applied to healthcare. When PE buys your hospital, people die. A lot of people” — @doctorow https://t.co/dNPYoB1ojM

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“Private equity firms are the demon princes of the hellspace that is the imploding, life-destroying, plutocrat-generating American economy. Their favorite scam, the ‘leveraged buyout’ is a mafia bustout dressed up in respectable clothes and…” — @doctorow https://t.co/dNPYoB1ojM