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by dejv 6y ago
It is local company from Czech republic called Freedomky. One example: https://www.dwell.com/home/freedomek-no.061-ce8de0e1
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by dejv 6y ago
We are buying house from company that is building them fully assembled: house is assembled indoor and include all electrical, plumbing, HVAC, insulation. Whole system is based on few types of modules that you can connect together and it sca
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I am currently in the process of buying prefab house and after visiting couple of local factories it seems like most of them is doing just framing and competing on price only. We are going with company that actually assemble full house insi
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by dejv 6y ago
After years of being against all of those visa-runners and digital nomads of all kinds I am a bit skeptical of Thai goverment actually wanting long-stay tourists.
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by dejv 6y ago
So, I am actuall winemaker and wine grower myself and I am a bit sceptical about all of this. Did you actually get any fruit already? What is the yield per plant? What are you going to do with the wood after the fruit is set: are you overwi
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by dejv 6y ago
It works both ways, you can sometimes see weird colored ducks in flock of wild ducks. These are most probably crossbreeds with domestic animals.
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by dejv 6y ago
Well there are many great scientists that should won Nobel Price. My favorite was Antonin Holy [0]. Very humble guy who invented a lot of modern drugs, but who didn't like to go conference circus road which is required to get the prize
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Genuine answer: it depends. I guess you just have to be present and observe what is going on and try to get closer to what you try to achieve. What works all the time is to not cut the whole place at once: so insects have another places to
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by dejv 6y ago
Or maybe just stop cutting your lawn so often. With proper management it will get colonized by local species in a few years.
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by dejv 6y ago
I've seen two type of compensation schemes during my agency years: ~60% take home, but zero during my downtime and around ~15% when I was salaried developer, which make sense as utilization of around 60% was expected.
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by dejv 6y ago
20 USD/hour is not what developer earns, but what you pay for developer time. Overhead (buildings, managers, computers, toilet paper), sales commissions, taxes, and off time and eats big big part of that money.
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by dejv 6y ago
Well I guess when you invest in purchasing fab you want it utilized as much as possible, so you might want to add batch here and there when you dont have contract work.
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by dejv 6y ago
I did that 7 years ago. I was 28 years old and by that time spent all of my adult life chasing startups (both my own and helping others) without much to show for. After living abroad (London, Berlin, Kuala Lumpur) I got back to small villag
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by dejv 6y ago
Well, it seems to be working very well, but I am still in development mode with one customer and very little scripting going on. I will know more after general public is going to use it and will try to use things I haven't think about.
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by dejv 6y ago
I am building tool for generating PDFs ( https://docula.app ) and I am using Wren to allow user scripts: things like show/hide label on some value or maybe display number in red when the value is > 0 and green otherwise. I
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by dejv 6y ago
Machines like these exists in all scales you can imagine. I had new vineyard planted two years ago. Big tractor with automatic planting station arrived and with GPS base station they were able to plan in around 2cm accuracy. There was no au
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by dejv 6y ago
decide what kind of agriculture you want to do and check what is time and money requirements and seasonality is. Next step could be doing internship to see what it it feels like. There are many options from wwoofing to more job like situati
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by dejv 6y ago
I've written SAAS called Docula (document generator that doesn't suck). I've been programming professionaly for close to 20 years and no matter what I always ended up writing PDF generator for one case or another. This time I
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by dejv 6y ago
I was born in post-communist country to the familly of blue collar workers, where nobody around me didn't even finished high school (fun fact, those more distant family members who actually had university degree or even hold profesorsh
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by dejv 6y ago
Reminds me adapter plugs that filter out electricity generated by nuclear power plants.
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by dejv 6y ago
I am still using it for few legacy apps. I don't really love it but it it is rock solid for that payload: mostly just storing simple events. For new projects I just use Postgres, especially after they've introduced json datatype I
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by dejv 6y ago
For me it is rock solid USB and known quality. I use them as a bridge between analog/ADC board and USB, doing some buffering and signal processing for my spectroscopy projects.
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by dejv 6y ago
Good luck importing any animal species to Australia. Also keeping bees alive and prosper would add another layer of complexity.
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by dejv 6y ago
Cool concept, trellis system seems interesting, but getting one tonne out of 200 vines sounds quite optimistic, also as far as I know each flower had to be hand pollinated and window to do that is very short. I am a farmer and there is one
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by dejv 6y ago
For things like industrial robots or UAVs latency is biggest problem. I've worked on fruit sorting machine and there was about 20ms to make decision if the object passed or not + there was continuous streams of 10000s of objects per se
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by dejv 6y ago
Check out Corovent, its somehow open source (they have to hide their exact BOM for now, because of companies buying full stock of those parts). It is build by university team that actually design ventilators for 25 years and is certified to
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by dejv 6y ago
Proper Czech spelling is "Koláč" and it is universal word for round type of pastry with some filling in it. There are hundreds of variants depending on area and even familly.
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by dejv 6y ago
Sorry but it is not allowed to make spirits at home in Czech Republic. You can use certified distillery to make spirit from home grown fruit and pay taxes (although not as much as for commercial alcohol). This spirit is used for personal us
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by dejv 6y ago
I am really curious if we are going too see players adopting AlphaZero tactics. Games I saw goes so against current intuition and it would be interesting to see chess evolving. Current crop of GMs benefited greatly from short feedback loops
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by dejv 7y ago
The village I was born in sits on caverns like than which are used to store year worth of gas supply for whole country. Back in 70s one of the tower blow up resulting in huge huge gas burner/candle (100 meters tall). No damage or lives

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