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by maciejw 18d ago
I don't think this view is especially controversial. Many past infrastructure and industry projects make the drought worse today - dams, channels, mines (especially open-pit). In my area (eastern Poland) single communist-era irigation
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by maciejw 19d ago
To go with 2026 zeitgeist, OpenAI should buy the letters, scan them, feed them into their training data and drop them into a shredder.
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by maciejw 1mo ago
Changing email providers was easy. But replacing gmail address in all my accounts with my own domain based address took me 2 years to complete. You only have to do it once though, and then you can change providers at will.
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by maciejw 3mo ago
I noticed it too, but for Teams. Is it because they are both MS apps?
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by maciejw 3mo ago
I was referring to some factual errors and omissions that make other historians angry. But the narrative is captivating.
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by maciejw 3mo ago
Based on demographic reports, permanent underclass will soon be getting smaller each year. In fact in 4-5 generations the problem will solve itself completely.
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by maciejw 3mo ago
I recommend a book 'Silk Roads' by Peter Frankopan. It’s an attempt to show world’s history as a continuous movement of center of civilizational gravity. It’s not without flaws, but interesting nonetheless. Frankopan describes mos
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by maciejw 4mo ago
I recently moved one of my boxes from Mailfence to Infomaniak. It works, but their product/pricing strategy is really hard to understand (my ksuite vs ksuite pro). Their AI is not helpful in explaining the differences. Also their UI op
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by maciejw 1y ago
I also switched to cheapest Mac Mini M4 Pro this year (after 20+ years of using Intel CPUs). MacOS has its quirks, but it provides ZSH and it "just works" (unlike manjaro I used in parallel with Windows). I especially like the pre
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by maciejw 1y ago
I don't have means to verify this at all, privately I consider it blunt propaganda. HN is not the site to discuss politics. I'm more surprised it's possible to post ads on such loaded issues on YouTube. I would appreciate com
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by maciejw 1y ago
Ads like the one in the link appear before unrelated videos on YT.
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by maciejw 1y ago
Thailand invested in Swedish Gripen recently.
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by maciejw 1y ago
I own both AC and HRV and HRV is not enough for cooling. Single split unit has max air flow of around 500m3/h for a single room. My HRV has max air flow of 350m3/h for the whole house - it's not able to substantially cool any
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by maciejw 1y ago
Growing in Poland I'd say Eastern Europe was until recently too poor to afford AC, but also the climate was indeed less extreme just 30 years ago. Nowadays most new detached houses do have AC in at least one room (bedroom or living roo
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Unknown object explodes in cornfield in eastern Poland(newsweek.com)
2 points by maciejw 1y ago|0 comments
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Home Assistant Connect ZWA-2(home-assistant.io)
2 points by maciejw 1y ago|0 comments
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by maciejw 1y ago
Lonely Planet. In 2013 we've done a Morocco backpacking trip with just a Lonely Planet guide - no phones, no Internet access, no pre-booked accomodation or transport. The guide contained maps, hostel suggestions, POI, transport options
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by maciejw 1y ago
Maybe something as simple as turnover tax would work
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by maciejw 1y ago
On "impoverishment": the difference between private sectors in Europe and US are of course important, but I'm referring to a challenge on much lower level. Lagging country that wants to increase pace, must find resources to i
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by maciejw 1y ago
How do we make it more competitive? Work 996 like the Chinese? Have no maternity leave like Americans? It would certainly make us more competitive...
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by maciejw 1y ago
Europe's problem in this area seems to be inability to build a mechanism to realize large, unprofitable projects. It looks like the whole continent operates on thin margins, and has no resources set aside to pursue strategic initiative
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by maciejw 2y ago
CBOR started as a complimentary project to previous-decade IoT (Internet of Things) and WSN (Wireless Sensor Networks) initiaties. It was designed together with 6LoWPAN, CoAP, RPL and other standards. Main improvement over message pack was
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Ridiculous DSC Neo <-> Home Assistant Integration(community.home-assistant.io)
2 points by maciejw 3y ago|2 comments
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Air pollution increases allergenicity of tree pollen(journals.plos.org)
2 points by maciejw 3y ago|0 comments
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by maciejw 5y ago
I also had an opportunity to design control systems using their products in Poland. The sensors were very accurate, and competitively priced (although maybe a bit fragile, compared to Sick or other European products - it was visibly differe
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by maciejw 5y ago
Few years ago I worked on an biomass tarehouse project for one of Poland's power plants. One of supported kinds of biomass was palm kernel shells. Palms do not grow neither in Poland, nor within 500km from its borders. Yet someone cons
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by maciejw 5y ago
Europe not only lacks military power, but also ability to reach consensus to use its military.
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How America fell out of love with Europe(politico.eu)
3 points by maciejw 5y ago|3 comments
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by maciejw 6y ago
Some months ago Delta Chat [0] trended on HN. I think in a perfect world email based chat would solve a lot of the problems with current apps like Whatsapp or even Signal. But based on Gmail popularity I assume it would just mean that Googl
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by maciejw 6y ago
Following the advice to look for "fakeness" markers I would mention a few recurring ones: 1) unreal background (like monsters or distorted images) 2) strange-looking moles or birthmarks (white, very round or else) 3) distorted tex

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