dejv

8 ms·

31.
by dejv 4y ago
Yes, but opening UK bank account is not that easy without your presence there.
32.
by dejv 4y ago
I had a modest success when I was 19, struck a gold as an early employee and got rewarded nicely, quit the company, droped out of the school and started to create small side projects. Then when 4HWW book appeared I started travel around the
33.
by dejv 4y ago
Czech Republic
34.
by dejv 4y ago
I am just about to start construction of 750 sqft home this year. We decided to go with cross laminated timber building. Manufacturer builds walls inside their factory, bring it to construction site and put it together within day or two. Th
35.
by dejv 4y ago
There is also Trail Break Farms channel[1] that document his experience with growing inside this greenhouse. [1] https://www.youtube.com/@trailbreakfarms/videos
36.
by dejv 4y ago
Inheritance tax force many to sell. Still it is not like a lot of plots hits the market.
37.
by dejv 4y ago
Unless they are in Burgundy. 10million an acre for some nicer, but not top, parcels are not uncommon.
38.
by dejv 4y ago
There are very few wines that could be aged , most commercial bottles are good for 1 to 3 years bo matter how well you store them. Even wines from respectable producers are often going to start being broken in 10 years or so. Wine is living
39.
by dejv 4y ago
A lot of people here recommend fast.ai which is solid, but not really that useful if you want to do research. I would start with math foundations: basic linear algebra, stats, probability and some analysis. CS undergrad level is plenty of m
40.
by dejv 4y ago
If you want to get some serious machine I would look for NirScan Nano. It is not cheap (~1,5k) but the performance is solid. Another possible route is getting mems based spectrometry sensor from Hamamatsu (~600) but building well performing
41.
by dejv 4y ago
Guards! Guards! is great. I would also add Interesting times for more prototypical Discworld and also Truth is pure gold.
42.
by dejv 4y ago
There are many ways: in past it was mostly nets and people walking around field and making noise when flock come close. Now it is combination of automatic noise guns installed inside the vineyard and even computer vision systems that aim fl
43.
by dejv 4y ago
They are pretty, but also nightmare for us wine makers. They come every autumn just in time of harvest and they can eat half hectare of grapes in matter of minutes.
44.
by dejv 5y ago
They do have great Youtube channel: https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCuSlFJbBUIj1zfJLRnGXSow Unfortunately it is not as active as it once was, but their old videos are very interesting.
45.
by dejv 5y ago
We are same age and we were on similar trajectories, I just made the jump few years ago and got the job, quickly took a tech lead role and currently flirting with being mid level manager. Well, the jump was easy. If you were able to survive
46.
by dejv 5y ago
I guess it depends, I used to travel a lot when I was in my 20s (I guess it would add to about 5 years spread over 8 years period) and now after close to 10 years being home it just feel like it never happened: sure I do have some memories,
47.
by dejv 5y ago
No, Czech republic. Tech lead/architect doing stuff for banks. I guess the market is so hot right now that companies have to be more flexible.
48.
by dejv 5y ago
There are few articles on 0fps blog: https://0fps.net/2012/01/14/an-analysis-of-minecraft-like-en... Readable implementation (in C) is this: https://github.com/fogleman/Craft
49.
by dejv 5y ago
Maybe thats European thing, but this is quite common offer for developers. I guess companies do not advertise this option, but more often than not they will accept it. When thinking about my team (8 developers) I think there are maybe two p
50.
by dejv 5y ago
What I want to say, there is poverty and poverty. It is very different being poor in functioning community of similarly poor people, where people barther among themselves and being poor in developed country, where you are isolated from wide
51.
by dejv 5y ago
I was born on perifery of comunist country during at the time when regime started to colapse. All the people worked either at local state farm or one of few factories that were around. We all were equaly poor and even if you had money there
52.
by dejv 5y ago
Yes, he actually explain that during tasting: when you smell white wine you start to be describing it by white wine vocabulary, when you smell red wine you start using those. The case of being skilled taster is being able to recognize when
53.
by dejv 5y ago
My pet peeve with all of those studies is who they consider as an expert. It is usually adhoc random group of enology students. There is great video of guy trying to reconstruct red wine from whites + coloring and serving it to master of wi
54.
by dejv 5y ago
There is "Building Prototypes" [1] series by Dan Gelbart on YouTube which is pure gold for anybody that wants to learn how building mechanical things, mostly precision/instrumentation things. Part 12 for plastic forming and c
55.
by dejv 5y ago
When Capek created word robot using robotnik as a base, the term was not used for close to 200 years. Czech translation of robotnik in Polish would be delnik.
56.
by dejv 5y ago
Robota was involuntary work for feudal lord during middle ages. The class of people required to do such work were called robotnik (in singular).
57.
by dejv 5y ago
My good friend is owner of artisanal bakery (as well as baker herself). What I can see she is happy to hire people without prior experience and teach them on spot. Is that good career? It depends on who will ask. Baking is blue collar job:
58.
by dejv 5y ago
This brings back memories. I grew up around smallholding farming during comunist regime when time was plentyful, but it was near to impossible to buy tractor for personal use. Almost every familly owned DIY home-grown tractor built from som
59.
by dejv 5y ago
Yeah, got lyme disease one month ago and there was no rashes as well. Good idea is to send the tick to laboratory for testing, it will take quite some time (week or two) but better than nothing.
60.
by dejv 5y ago
Well, there are very few careers that pay as much as being quant and all of them are going to be somehow similar. So lets be honest, you either get over it or take paycut be it permanent by switching careers or temporal as it is going to ta

More ›