pawelk

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by pawelk 2y ago
I think it's the opposite of corporatization and consolidation. Computerization? Yes, of course, but it gave everyone the possibility to make music at a very affordable cost. A $100 MIDI controller comes with a license for a full blown
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by pawelk 3y ago
Thanks. I should have fact-checked the number before doing the math :)
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by pawelk 3y ago
Isn't it break even point, considering >60% of the gasoline energy is dissipated as heat, and <40% to make the wheels spin?
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by pawelk 3y ago
The reason to ban LPG cars from underground garages is that propane is heavier than air, and in case of a leak the gas has nowhere to go (other than drainage, which sort of highlights the problem).
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by pawelk 4y ago
Interesting. Lidl and Aldi in Poland (at least the ones nearby) have doorless fridges.
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by pawelk 4y ago
> ever use a power drill? 7 different battery types non compatible with each other. Battery is the proprietary part. The engine (battery + motor) makes it spin, but for the purpose of making a hole or driving a screw one can use a wide a
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by pawelk 4y ago
There's a purely visual Polish comedy artist Ireneusz Krosny, see e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYwuvil6cp0 Not sure if the gags could be considered stand-up in a strict sense, but he can capture and entertain t
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by pawelk 4y ago
Same here. I selected my real age and the algorithm thinks I'm 7 years younger than that (well, thanks I guess, but it is not me who's not telling the truth).
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by pawelk 4y ago
My oven has touch controls on the front that are rendered useless as soon as I open it and heat/vapor is released onto the front panel. Luckily the touch interface is only for secondary features like setting timers, the important ones
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by pawelk 4y ago
From the Wikipedia page on PEX (Cross-linked polyethylene) > It is also used for natural gas and _offshore oil applications_, chemical transportation, and transportation of sewage and slurries. So yeah, a bacteria capable of dissolving t
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by pawelk 4y ago
> They had also traditionally been a different plastic which sometimes was an issue. In Poland we set the caps aside then dump into dedicated containers, set up by charity organizations. This specific plastic is supposedly valuable enou
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by pawelk 4y ago
We used to have company sponsored drinks or other fun activities with co-workers every few weeks. And we still do, on our dime once or twice a year, despite the fact the company has not existed for five years now and everyone has moved on.
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by pawelk 5y ago
Agreed. From my observations of Polish Twitter and FB, tweet screenshots shared on Facebook generate more engagement than the original tweets.
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by pawelk 5y ago
> coffees at Starbucks I hate this argument. All the small fees priced in "Starbucks coffees" add up quickly and all of a sudden running a personal website to share one's hobby dries up the monthly coffee budget and then
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by pawelk 5y ago
Or just put on the invoice: domain transfer: $49.00 totally unrelated consulting services: $49,951.00
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by pawelk 5y ago
I opened this URL in my browser, and I was offered a `didomi_token` cookie that assigned me a user_id of 17d72dbe-d667-610e-ba58-323f0a33f7b1. When viewed in a browser as opposed to cURL it's actually a HTML page containing, among oth
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by pawelk 5y ago
GIF is just a concept here, but if you upload an animated .gif to just about any large image sharing platform, they will convert it to a video format and serve in a <video> element to save on bandwidth. I'm not sure who was the f
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by pawelk 5y ago
> I've never given polarization any thought and never had any problems, so I don't buy this being an actually a problem in practice. In my experience polarization has only became relevant once: when mounting a dedicated socket
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by pawelk 5y ago
I did this many times, usually on the verge of a burnout. Almost every time, except for the final one, it helped me identify the pain points as well as the highlights, find ways to fix the underlying issues then get back to speed and regain
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by pawelk 6y ago
I have three Soviet lenses (Helios 58/2, Mir 37/2.8, Jupiter 135/3.5). My father got them in early 1980s with a Zenit camera. I then used them with an analog Canon EOS, then Canon DSLR and now on a mirrorless EOS-M. I went t
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by pawelk 6y ago
Where in Europe? Cash and carry stores operated by Metro AG are not exactly the same, but quite similar. It may depend on the country, but it's not required to be a business customer everywhere, and where it is it shouldn't be too
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by pawelk 6y ago
I'm well aware that Paul Sellers uses machine milled / planed / dimensioned lumber. I am quite comfortable starting with rough sawn boards straight off the mill (I'm not crazy enough to re-saw logs by hand). Yes, it requ
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by pawelk 6y ago
I started when we bought our first house and there wasn't much money left for kitchen furniture. But we needed a kitchen, so I decided to get some big box store pine, hinges, drawer slides etc to build some temporary cabinets. I didn&#
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by pawelk 6y ago
This is very similar to my experience. I moved from an apartment complex in a city, where everyone was - and wanted to be - anonymous to a village, where people are way more open and genuinely interested in each other. Quality over quantity
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by pawelk 6y ago
Aside from the bar being set at completely different levels ("making the world a better place" vs building fancy web apps) I guess graduating from X means being spun off as an Alphabet subsidiary, while successful Area 120 projec
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by pawelk 6y ago
There are many possible reasons. For example lower cost of living, retiring in a place that has both lower costs and perfect weather or moving for business reasons only etc etc. It happens even on a very micro scale when people move from ci
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by pawelk 6y ago
I don't think it was silly, but it was probably too rushed. As I said when it was announced, there is a valid, IMO, line of reasoning: as a digital library you can lend one digital copy per one physical book you have in your inventor
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by pawelk 6y ago
It is, but at the same time music was never* the subject of interest of those in power and the crew enjoyed complete freedom in music selection. Some of the staff have weathered every change of power (and by extension the station and media
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by pawelk 6y ago
Ah yes, this is funny, because shipment from a warehouse in Poland to a customer in Germany, placing an order on amazon.de is considered "local", while shipment from this same warehouse to a customer in Poland is "internation
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by pawelk 6y ago
We can order from amazon.de, it even offers localized UI and (poorly auto-translated) product descriptions. But yes, I think it's likely that an order from amazon.de goes trough Frankfurt am Oder, as it probably originated from one of

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