jacekm

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by jacekm 26d ago
> The project was met with significant legal challenges from authors and publishers which was eventually overcome I don't think they were overcome. As far as I remember Google couldn't make the books available so they abandoned
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by jacekm 27d ago
> People are getting loans for their education In some countries they do, in some they don't, in others every PhD student even gets a scholarship. Every person I know who did the PhD did it because they loved the topics they were st
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by jacekm 2mo ago
Thank you for such detailed answer!
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by jacekm 2mo ago
How will this affect the newly build data centers? What effect do you think it will have on memory prices?
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by jacekm 2mo ago
Pretty well, to the point where the US administration complains that there's a trade imbalance. (which is true for manufactured goods, false when we count in services)
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by jacekm 2mo ago
Chrome sends home the urls you visit together with the page performance data (and probably more). That's how they build Chrome User Experience Report (CrUX) for the most popular sites: https://developer.chrome.com/docs&
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by jacekm 2mo ago
I remember one Polish diplomat recalling that his boss told him "I am sending you to the safest outpost in the world" when offering him embassy in North Korea.
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by jacekm 2mo ago
I think I've read somewhere that JIS was phased out after Philips standard included some of JIS features and that theoretically modern Philips screwdrivers should be compatible with JIS.
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by jacekm 3mo ago
For me the biggest problem was never memorizing the suffixes but determining whether the verb belongs to group 1 or 2. While you can tell immediately that some verbs belong to group 1, the others (e.g. kaeru mentioned in the post) are not s
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by jacekm 3mo ago
And they're not just hiding, Jan Marsalek is allegedly actively managing FSB operations against European states.
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by jacekm 3mo ago
Yup, I signed last weekend, they asked me for a passport and I deleted the account immediately. Scaleway also asks for ID. I am gonna try OVH next.
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by jacekm 4mo ago
A fab takes years to build even when you have the necessary know-how. If you don't it'll take some additional experimenting before you can compete with the established manufacturers. By the time you can produce a usable chip the s
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by jacekm 4mo ago
There is a good article (featured on HN a couple of days ago) that explains the issue: https://davidoks.blog/p/ai-is-killing-the-cheap-smartphone
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by jacekm 4mo ago
Slack recently introduced this option where it can tell you what kind of animal you are (not kidding) based on the conversations you had. When I saw this I immediately thought "managers pushed poor folks at Slack to incorporate more AI
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by jacekm 4mo ago
In Poland it's on 26th of May.
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by jacekm 4mo ago
Anecdotal, but the company I work for offers to the juniors only +15% to what it used to offer 15 years ago. The salaries are growing mostly because previous government introduced huge increases to minimal salaries, but I don't feel th
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by jacekm 4mo ago
I know that Ukraine takes Polish experiences into account and consults with Poles on what went well and what not during our post-communist transformation and later the EU membership. They are keen on not repeating our mistakes. There were m
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by jacekm 5mo ago
https://aistudio.google.com/
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by jacekm 5mo ago
$60 has different value in other parts of the world.
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by jacekm 6mo ago
I'll use the opportunity to ask what's the cheapest cold storage in the EU? I am looking for an alternative to AWS Glacier Deep Archive.
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by jacekm 6mo ago
I was skeptical at first, but now I think it's actually a good idea, especially when implemented on company-level. Some companies use similar tech stack across all their projects and their engineers solve similar problems over and over
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by jacekm 7mo ago
A couple of years ago someone associated my email with their bank account in Santander UK. I tried to get in touch with Santander but turned out that the only way to do so is to either make an international call (I don't live in UK) or
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by jacekm 7mo ago
Long before AI era I read an article about homilies exchange online forum in Poland. The priests spoke how they struggle to come up with a fresh content every week for Sunday masses. AI is not the source of the problem, it's just an at
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by jacekm 7mo ago
Like the article mentioned many EU countries have their own payment systems. The challenge is not to build something from the scratch but rather to make existing solutions interoperable. The first talks about cross-border integrations start
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by jacekm 7mo ago
TBH many European payment apps use the phone number as an ID and people seem to love it. I share the privacy concerns but if I don't want someone to know my phone number I just give them my IBAN.
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by jacekm 7mo ago
It's here: https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/about-claude/models/over... Reliable knowledge cutoff: May 2025, training data cutoff: August 2025
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by jacekm 7mo ago
In Poland all transactions related to housing or land must be notarized with both buyer and seller present, the notary is supposed to check their IDs. Sadly it happened a couple of times that scammers presented a fake or stolen ID to a nota
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by jacekm 8mo ago
This is pretty much a standard salary range for a Senior Dev in Poland. Outside of Warsaw it can be even lower.
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by jacekm 8mo ago
Animals on tracks remain a problem, although they do not pose risk to human life (just damages to the trains). One of the attempts to protect animals include acoustic deterrents, here's a Polish one as an example [1] but they are manuf
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by jacekm 8mo ago
I am curious what are you using local RAG for?

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