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by chewz 2y ago
My friend and I we are fixing old bikes for fun. And often the only way to figure out how to do certain things is watching YouTube videos about fixing bikes. And bikes are rather simple devices. I guess NASA had lost all YouTube videos abou
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by chewz 2y ago
800 billion euro per year and that on top of other needs like green initiatives. How are they going to finance such investments? EU banks don’t have capital and foreign borrowers will ask steep rates which will impact European borrowing cos
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by chewz 2y ago
Agile isn't killing inovation. Corporations are. Agile is just a tool to do so. Want to stay creative as a programmer, be a lone wolf... Do what you like and whenever you like, follow the creative spark...
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by chewz 2y ago
pyMuPdf and pyMuPdf4llm https://github.com/pymupdf/PyMuPDF https://github.com/pymupdf/RAG
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by chewz 2y ago
This (the amounts of drugs pushed to US) is still very, very small in comparision to Opium Wars and what was pushed on China. But if you understand the impact of drugs on Chinese Century of humiliation you could understand a lot about what
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by chewz 2y ago
Decaf is bad business becuase processed beans are loosing taste more rapidly. You should drink it freshly roasted, buy more often but smaller packs and if this is not the case decaf simply tastes less good. So as a producer you have more ex
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by chewz 2y ago
Warsaw is surrounded by suburbs and peripheral small towns that have predominantly single family housing which usually have fireplace as secondary heating source and often coal/wood as primary heating source. If you follow for example
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by chewz 2y ago
> I've heard the same polite euphemisms refering to Arabs and Gypsies from the mouths of members of the Front National. You know, before 1945 it was said in Europe that Jews weren't able to integrate fully with the host society
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by chewz 2y ago
alias wget='echo "using httpie as wget";http -d'
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by chewz 2y ago
+1 Getting out of caffeine is the most important. Regular exercise, daily walk in a forrest, good sex and right diet also helps but it’s the caffeine that keeps you anxious and tired. You should be getting 7-9 hours of deep, regenerative sl
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by chewz 2y ago
When I was a boy scout (so 16 -18 yo) we were walking as a team 50-70 km per day and could sustain that for 2-3 days. More perhaps, but there was nowhere to go any further. We were wearing 20 kg in rather uncomfortable backpacks. On forced
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by chewz 2y ago
Travels With Myself and Another by Martha Gellhorn is acctually one of my favourite books... https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/925368.Travels_With_Myse...
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by chewz 2y ago
I haven't typed or viewed anything on any Windows PC in like 15 years. And I think anyone shouldn't.... Keep pushing chaps...
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by chewz 2y ago
https://www.google.com/finance/quote/HGW00:COMEX?sa=X&ved=2a...
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by chewz 2y ago
THC is damaging mitochondria and damaged mitochondria creates negative loop with testosterone production… So this is to be expected from smoking…
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by chewz 3y ago
It seems that humans got Ruminococcus hominiciens (bacteria that is pivotal for brealing down celulosis) only after domesticating cows etc. > Our evolutionary analysis strongly suggests that R[uminococcus] hominiciens likely originated i
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by chewz 3y ago
> People have been making this argument to me about Linux for more than 25 years. The most cutting version that I ran across was: > > Linux is only free if your time is worthless! But it is exactly why I quit Linux and returned to
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How much do 155 mm artillery rounds cost now? And how many are fired in Ukraine?(technology.org)
5 points by chewz 3y ago|4 comments
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EVs Can't Fix a Global Epidemic of 'Car Harm,' Study Finds(bloomberg.com)
3 points by chewz 3y ago|1 comments
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by chewz 3y ago
The lesson is that is you befriend a bully, you might save billions.
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Europe's Heat-Pump Bubble Is Sadly Deflating(bloomberg.com)
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by chewz 3y ago
KAS is under government control MoF, not an independent institution, right?
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by chewz 3y ago
Thank God we have Apple to uphold civic society and due process in Poland
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by chewz 3y ago
Just bear in mind that this is the same Polish PM whose former government set World record making requests to Apple for data from 241 509 iPhones in 1H2015… (out of 300 thousand total request from the entire World)… Quarter milion iPhones i
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by chewz 3y ago
> Countries like Poland will no longer buy US weapons but increase European defense spending - they fear just like Ukraine that US congress just turns around This isn't how it works. You buy expensive and unnecessary weapon system f
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by chewz 3y ago
The key to spice trade is TINA - There is no alternative - in financial terms. The largest form of investment in Middle Ages had been farmland with average ROI of c.a. 7-8 percent but no guarantee (wars, diseases, crop failure). The ROI of
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by chewz 3y ago
It is expected nowadays. But the fact that younger cohorts cannot expect some sudden reararangement of wealth aka revolution, war, disease is pretty disturbing and unusual (for recent history).
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by chewz 3y ago
> Its more like 10% of those under 40 who have 2.5%, 40% who share 2.4% between them and the other half have enough to pay rent. Well I have read about Central Asia in Middle Ages. Wars and diseases have regularly cleared places at the
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by chewz 3y ago
Also please read about Harvard connection to brown shirts. Brown colour comes from Harvard football team and Nazi lyrics also come form Harvard... Ernst “Putzi” Hanfstaengl https://www.historynet.com/hitlers-harvard-man-erns
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by chewz 3y ago
China is simply better at playing the long game. And good at engineering too. Blame it at short attention span of democracies.

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