Getting started w/ @solana using @_buildspace!
The plan is to:
โ๏ธ write a custom Solana contract using Rust
๐ฐ build a web app to let users interact w/ it
๐ deploy it to Solana
Let's do this!
Bluetooth technology was named after Harald Bluetooth, a Viking king who died over 1,000 years ago. He unified factions of Denmark with those in Norway, similar to how today's technology unifies different electronic devices. The Bluetooth logo combines Nordic runes for his initials - H.B. The origin of his nickname is debated; some sources suggest he loved blueberries, staining his teeth, while others speculate a dead tooth caused a dark blue/grey hue.
Love the Philippines.
Bat ang daming self proclaimed intellectual sa Earth? Hindi nalang i-appreciate yung effort to promote the country. Lahat naman tayo madumi diba. So tired of pleasing other people.
Love the Philippines. Love the Filipino people mula Batanes hanggang Jolo.
Hedy Lamarr was a Hollywood actress in the 1940s and 1950s, and she was considered "the most beautiful woman in the world" during her time. She began her acting career in Austria and became notorious for being the first woman to simulate an orgasm on screen in 1933. It was during this time that she also got married to Friedrich Mandl, a Vienna-based arms dealer with ties to Mussolini and later Hitler.
The marriage did not last long. In her own words, she wrote, "I knew very soon that I could never be an actress while I was his wife... He was the absolute monarch in his marriage... I was like a doll. I was like a thing, some object of art which had to be guarded and imprisoned, having no mind, no life of its own." According to her autobiography, she disguised herself as one of the maids and managed to flee to Paris. Others say she convinced her husband to wear all of her jewelry for a dinner party and then disappeared afterwards.
She eventually booked a liner to New York, where she met the head of MGM, who was impressed enough to offer her a $500-a-week contract to work as an actress. In 1938, she arrived in Hollywood and went on to star in several movies, working with the likes of Clark Gable and James Stewart.
Beyond her acting career, Lamarr was also a scientist and co-patented spread-spectrum technology during World War II to prevent the Nazis from jamming navy torpedoes. However, her invention was rejected and wouldn't be implemented until the Cold War in 1962. The technology would eventually be used in developing Wi-Fi and Bluetooth technology.
Pale Blue Dot is a photo of Earth that was taken by the Voyager 1 space probe in 1990 from a distance of about 6 billion kilometers (3.7 billion miles) as it was leaving our solar system. This is what Carl Sagan said about the photo:
"Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it, everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor, and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every 'superstar,' every 'supreme leader,' every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there โ on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand. It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.โ
The Girl Who Forgave Death - 1945. Eva Kor, a survivor of the Holocaust with Romanian/American roots, was taken to Auschwitz concentration camp in 1944. Tragically, upon their arrival, her mother, father, and two sisters were immediately separated and condemned to death. Despite the unimaginable pain she endured, Eva courageously expressed the following sentiment:
"I never even got to say goodbye to her. But I didn't really understand that this would be the last time we would see her"
Eva and her sister Miriam, both twins, were spared and taken by Josef Mengele, the Nazi Angel of Death, for experiments. They endured months of medical torture, enduring injections of unknown substances that even modern doctors cannot identify. As a result, both girls fell gravely ill, with Eva suffering from a debilitating fever for five weeks. Despite being given only two weeks to live and unable to walk, Eva summoned the strength to endure the experiments and the pain, constantly reminding herself of her will to survive. In 1945, the Soviet Army liberated the camp, allowing Eva and her sister to return to Romania.
In 1950, Eva relocated to Israel and served in the army for eight years. Eventually, she moved to the United States in 1960 and married a Holocaust survivor named Michael Kor. As Eva aged, she experienced various health problems. Meanwhile, Miriam faced intricate and severe medical issues during her three pregnancies. It was later discovered that Miriam's kidneys had ceased growing since she was 10 years old. Subsequently, her kidneys failed, and Eva believed this outcome was a consequence of the experiments they endured as children. Without hesitation, Eva selflessly donated one of her kidneys to her sister, stating, "I have one sister and two kidneys, so it was an easy choice."
Regrettably, Miriam succumbed to kidney cancer in 1993. Filled with anger towards the Nazis for the suffering inflicted upon her family, Eva dedicated herself to advocating for Holocaust recognition. However, in a remarkable display of forgiveness, Eva embarked on an emotional journey and forgave Mengele and the Nazis for the pain they had caused her. This transformative perspective took hold during the 1990s.
In 2019, Eva passed away. The photograph mentioned above captures Eva displaying an image of herself and her sister Miriam taken in Auschwitz, with Miriam standing beside her on the left in the hood.
Python Object-Oriented Programming - Part 2
(with code snippets)
In this thread, we'll learn these concepts with examples
1. Method Overriding and Super()
2. Multiple Inheritance
3. Abstract Base Classes
4. Class vs. Instance Variables
5. Class and Static Methods
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