michalskop

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by michalskop 3y ago
Can anyone explain how to see the images? All I can see is text, something like: ``` version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1 oid sha256:c113251a7c1a67eff152777018926de038c3a78723ec16b611a45a030b8b4d8b size 294284 ``
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by michalskop 3y ago
"Left side" and "right side" is unambiguous, because there is one given direction (forward). It is the same as "left bank" and "right bank" of a river (it is always looking downstream). For example, S
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by michalskop 7y ago
Just wondering how you would know that they do or do not do that?
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by michalskop 7y ago
Kvass is very uncommon in Slovakia or Czechia (it's only known as Ukrainian or Russian drink, one can buy it it shops with UA and RU products, which are oriented mainly on UA and RU expats)
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by michalskop 7y ago
Kofola originated as a by-product of pharma industry.
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by michalskop 7y ago
There was even a hackathon on Prague (Czechia) - Kosice (Slovakia) train a few years back. It's quite easy (but not very common, for sure) and not so expensive to rent a car or a whole train in CZ (from the train companies). There are
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by michalskop 8y ago
I was looking once (about a year or two ago) on Czech (EU member state) government websites and about 90% of them were using something from Google, usually Analytics. But some of them required even Captcha (so no way to access it without be
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by michalskop 8y ago
Being from Europe: Many more tourists from Asia, beginning of touristic boom from Africa. Many Europeans (and Americans) will be priced out from vacations they can enjoy now.
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by michalskop 8y ago
$125 for ISBN seems like a ripoff to me - the ISBN are given for free where I come from: the Czech Republic; and the system is administered by the National Library
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by michalskop 8y ago
I'm from central-eastern Europe and I feel the same. I've spent a few years in Latin America and I'd call both the regions "new" or "satellite" or "not-core" West. Germany or the US may be the or
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by michalskop 9y ago
Still better than "natural resources"
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by michalskop 9y ago
I use postgrest for several projects. I have an issue with crashing occasionally (once in months) for no obvious reason (to me). I solved it by continously checking the status and automatically restarting it if it's down. Otherwise gre
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by michalskop 9y ago
It depends very much on context, doesn't it? There are probably not many social circles suspending you for photos like this one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phan_Thi_Kim_Phuc (or those in the OP's article)
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by michalskop 9y ago
"The algorithm" should never be an excuse. There are many real people on many levels of responsibility behind "the algorithm". Facebook restored it only because the story gained a traction (it is even on HN, right?). Wha
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by michalskop 9y ago
One possible explanation is in the popular book Las Venas abiertas de América Latina (Open Veins of Latin America) by Eduardo Galeano.
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by michalskop 9y ago
We (very very small EU NGO) do it. I run an emailing of dozens of thousands emails about once a year - before some elections, we prepare some pre-election tools for people. I use simple php for that, so the setting is actually quite bad wit
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by michalskop 9y ago
Using DuckDuckGo is fine for let say 98% of my searches (most of them probably IT related). For the rest, I go to Google or Bing or others. Is there Britannica on flash drives? I should add it to those 2%.
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by michalskop 9y ago
Talking from experience from a "new" EU country with solid IT scene: the "cookie law" is not enforced at all. Google would be probably the only one theoretically enforcing it (most of websites do show a message because t
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by michalskop 9y ago
There are many languages in India, not just Hindi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_India
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by michalskop 9y ago
There are apps - e.g., "Mushrooms app" for Android. It is probably targeted mainly on (central/eastern) Europe, it is the region where mushrooms picking is pretty common. There are a few others, too.
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by michalskop 9y ago
Czechia. It's the EU country with the newest English name hard to beat (-; And after some 2 years you will be happy to move on(-; Just avoid Prague-this city hates itself
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by michalskop 9y ago
Shouldn't the next question be obvious? - "What is a REPL?"
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by michalskop 9y ago
I am using Telegram for such notifications. I made a simple Telegram bot, it does not do anything itself, I just use it as a sender of my messages to my phone. And I have a particular web address, which collects requests from any of my scri
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by michalskop 9y ago
Should be, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lp_space
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by michalskop 9y ago
I've never understood why people (particularly outside UK) care about some "sirs" at all. "Mr. Tim Berners-Lee" sounds just fine to me.
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by michalskop 9y ago
Carrefour in France was using it already some 10 years ago. More current photo: https://theworklife.com/graham-miln/files/2013/12/2013-09-ei...
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by michalskop 9y ago
What places do you have in mind talking about Eastern Europe? "Grocery market" for 99 % of people (from Eastern Europe) is a "shop"/supermarket/mall (think of Lidl, Tesco or Carrefour as examples) and even outd
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by michalskop 10y ago
Bulgarian or Bosnian currencies as well as many central African ones are pegged to Euro since the times of German mark and French frank. And suggered no "Sorosian" attack so far.
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by michalskop 10y ago
Not only KGB, there are such victims jailed in Guantánamo even tonight.
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by michalskop 10y ago
The point is that the US can arbitrarily keep the number of people who are refused visa as high as it wants. And than it can argue that this number is too high for visa waiver (and I bet the US is doing it for countries like Poland)

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