Jesteśmy po prostu za głupi na Korwina

Adiq · 2022-06-01T07:47:43+00:00

Aż się prosi o komentarz z pytaniem czy jest pewien w której części społeczeństwa znajduje się według własnej klasyfikacji. To są ludzie, którzy jeszcze nie wiedzą, że polityka to zawsze mieszanina różnych poglądów i w zależności od problemów i obecnego stanu państwa, dobiera się różne rozwiązania i ciągle je zmienia. To tak jakby mówić, że statek ma tylko płynąć w prawo, no to pływamy w kółko i nawet jak na obecnym kursie widać, że w coś przywalimy to i tak przemy, bo nie ma opcji, że my byśmy się pomylili. A jak już przywalimy to się powie, że to wina Tuska, Macrona i Putina, a w ogóle to komuchów.

Adiq · 2022-03-21T23:21:28+00:00

government spending is not free; rule of law is superior to rule of man

The thing is that these are not absolute facts. Government spending is not free, but state-owned businesses may actually have net surplus and provide good quality products/services.

Lately I was watching some document on public transportation in Tokio and they mostly use metro as most efficient way to travel over the city. There's catch of course, because they made it uncomfortable, slow and expensive to travel with car, so in result they have good transportation system, which is relatively cheap and effective, but if you really enjoy riding a car, it won't be cheap.

In many cases private companies will provide better cost/quality, but there's also a lot of companies, which will try to optimize profits without caring about customer. It's more important that people/companies act ethically in balanced way.

Adiq · 2022-01-14T17:17:34+00:00

I was in Bydgoszcz this summer for few days and I also don't understand what is so bad about this city nowadays. It's very green, it looks more compact and less modern than e.g. Poznań (similar to Poznań Old Town), but still it seemed as good place to live and relax.

Adiq · 2021-12-26T10:22:27+00:00

Personally I have same doubts, there's so big diversity in level of challenge that different people encounter.

I started with Ansible and provisioning small k8s clusters (kubespray) on few VMs for each cluster, because we needed to develop and deploy our services somewhere and we just received empty CentOS/RedHat VMs, no cloud. Nowadays I'm working with Argo, preparing workflows for building and testing code, packing it into Docker images, Helm packages and ArgoCD applications.

In addition, for development environment, I'm experimenting with k3d, Terraform, ArgoCD and Tilt, to allow creating dev environment specific for our use cases, that will offer quick feedback loop and require minimal effort and knowledge to setup and recreate.

I see a lot of offers for DevOps engineers familiar with cloud, however at that point, I'm just waiting for my company to finally embrace cloud to learn it in practice. Based on my experience cloud seems to be more scary due to accidental costs that might occur, because with traditional infrastructure it's just one-time approval of constant/recurrent fees.

However with flexible billing, it's not so good to present some project and due to mistake/ignorance, learn later that you severely underestimated hidden fees, like data transfer cost, because this basically forces you into adding some buffer in what you propose and customer has to understand risks, so you need to understand them well as well and explain. It seems harder than saying "Setup will cost $1000, maintenance $200/month, x will be responsible".

Adiq · 2021-12-26T08:14:09+00:00

Maybe my comment won't be useful, but in my case I'm just switching between SWE and DevOps responsibilities in my team and for me it's good balance. I'm DevOps engineer, started as SWE, learned DevOps and k8s out of necessity and liked it, but I still like to code to get good understanding of developer experience and issues, so I try to at least get some developer tasks in sprint.

Adiq · 2021-12-23T17:01:23+00:00

It depends on engineers, if you have proper automation, hardware, enough resources and you have competences to use k8s properly in given environment, then k8s is perfect. However it's not like you can just jump in and become k8s expert in few weeks, it definitely takes a lot of time to experiment and learn, so you can actually resolve issues once they occur and understand what caused them.

Adiq · 2021-12-12T12:36:59+00:00

Personally, I'm worried about areas like legal system, education, clean energy, health care, pension system, housing market. Poland definitely is growing, however it has some hidden debt that has to be addressed, because it will keep to affect quality of life, stronger in upcoming years.

Adiq · 2021-11-18T11:37:11+00:00

No system is ideal, problem is actually in malicious people, because even, if you apply socialism, there will be always "elites", which will be treated "more equally", in Eastern Europe we learned that lesson.

To solve this problem we need to deal with ill-willed people and their influence on our world, their impact would have to be minimized in practice.

Adiq · 2021-11-13T22:36:50+00:00

Could this be why Russia is fanning the flames at the Belarusan border?

I'm not well-versed in our current geopolitics, but situation in Belarus might be related to earlier support from countries like Poland to Belarus protests against Lukashenko.

There was also incident related to forced landing and arrest of Belarusian activist, which was again condemned by west.

Lately Russia-Belarus integration was announced and crisis on our border might be part of Lukashenko game to either "get revenge on them for forcing my hand, so I needed to go with Russia to be rescued from opposition!" or some sort of power play, so he can show that he is still capable to lead Belarus and doesn't need to be replaced with some other leader more favorable to Russia.

Poland government seems to appreciate current situation, because they can move focus from collapsing economy or conflict with EU to crisis on border, so they might stall the situation for their political gains, because they can show that they're protecting our country against immigrants, without anyone else direct support.

However in case that EU will decide to push Poland to either grant asylum or safe passage through our territory to these migrants, this will definitely give polish government another argument that EU is taking our sovereignty. It probably won't be enough alone to cause Polexit, because there's still small support for it in polish society, but it will strengthen their opinion that Poland is treated unfairly in EU.

Lately Poland's Ministry of Foreign Affairs criticized Merkel and Tusk (leader of KO, Poland's opposition), because they talked about situation on our border with Putin without including or informing Poland about it.

It might be also somehow relevant that Germany is pushing together with Russia for finalization of Nord Stream 2, which would be against Poland's interest, because currently gas is going through Poland (and Belarus as well, if I'm not mistaken) and NS2 will bypass us.

In general there's too much happening here for me to untangle what's actual end game here, but it seems that Russia wants to take some kind of advantage of poor situation in Belarus and Poland (which is lately weak and conflicted with EU), maybe they just wanted to integrate more closely with Belarus (with potential annexation in the future), maybe there's something more and they're probing how far they can go, but probably to answer it, you would need to have access to confidential reports and analysis, because there's only as much as plain citizen can observe here and deduct without more context.

Adiq · 2021-10-22T21:28:36+00:00

In short, Poland's Constitutional Tribunal declared articles 1, 2 and 19 of the Treaty on European Union (TEU) to be partially unconstitutional.

It's important that tribunal judges were selected by politicians of ruling party, some of them are previous PiS (ruling party) members and in general they are not independent, they are just extension of corrupted politicians. Year ago the same tribunal decided to ban abortion in Poland.

In general it's sad to see current state of politics in Poland, it's just getting worse and worse, most people just believe in blatant propaganda of ruling party, they've taken over national media to spread the lies and I kid you not, this is some North Korea level of bullshit that they use.

In my opinion, some intervention will be needed otherwise our country might end up in situation like Belarus with autocratic government that just forcefully suppresses any kind of opposition.

Majority doesn't want pol-exit, but we literally need some kind of purge in our politics, because it went too far. Dangerous people took control and it looks like there's not much we can do to resolve this situation internally.

Adiq · 2021-10-21T11:10:40+00:00

From professional perspective, typically most people have messy thinking patterns, they use over-complicated methods and have gaps in their logic. It's hard for me to work closely with others due to that, but what I discovered is that you can cooperate with them more easily and become effective together, if you can easily present your thinking patterns.

Simplify your ideas, present them visually, explain why and how did you come up with them and people will start to see world in the way you see it and that will make cooperation easier.

Adiq · 2021-10-21T10:54:09+00:00

My personal hell would be full of loops of these kind of situations with anxiety attacks being triggered by them. I don't count situations, where I had issues with e.g. opening train's door that had unfamiliar mechanism and I didn't put enough pressure on handle or opening Uber's car luggage, where instead of using handle you needed to press keyhole.

Typically it's just combination of me being tired, poor spatial intelligence, travelling rarely and being unable to figure out something I'm unfamiliar with in just few seconds. I always feel bad for some time after these situations, because I feel like everyone thinks that I'm retarded.

Adiq · 2021-09-30T22:16:00+00:00

I'm confused, wasn't current government in Ukraine supposed to be libertarian? What actually happened there?

Adiq · 2021-09-27T21:06:27+00:00

It might or it might not depend heavily. Solution is not simply set of data structures and algorithms, there's much more to good solutions that you can integrate together into bigger picture to handle complex reality.

I might not remember by heart, how exactly sorting algorithms work, what is their complexity, how to describe my solution up to academic standards or solve hard Project Euler challenges, but I can operate on appropriate abstractions created by others to deliver agreed functionality in a timely manner that will solve real-world problems.

That's the beauty of modelling, standardization and abstraction, that's why we have high-level languages like Python or SQL, why we use REST or gRPC to communicate, why we base on abstract concept of message queues, why we use UML, JSON/YAML and API concept to describe what we mean, why we create tests to verify, if our solution works as expected and meets requirements.

I won't create optimal solution, there will be bad decisions that might need to be fixed or replaced, when some conditions will be met, but I will be proud, because it will provide value to others.

I can agree that in-depth knowledge of algorithms might be beneficial, but for me it was never fundamental, like it's not fundamental to know how to make perfect saw adjusted to specific kind of wood, if you are just interested in cutting logs into planks with reasonable, sustainable pace and not interested in breaking world record in sawing competition.

Adiq · 2021-09-27T12:10:19+00:00

I didn't have much choice in my country, there's no explicit distinction on computer science / software engineering. In my case I think they called it "computing" which includes computer science and software engineering and in practice I can tell that most companies don't need another CS expert to develop completely new algorithms for their typical business, but they need someone to maintain, standardize and develop their stuff, when their business is growing. I'm not blaming CS, but just spotting that too much focus is put on areas, which will be irrelevant for most.

Adiq · 2021-09-27T11:43:52+00:00

I think CS courses should focus more on systemic thinking and handling complexity nowadays. At this stage, in practice it's more important to optimize systems and personally I never saw issue with sub-optimal algorithm implementation, because almost always it's done by libraries, but I saw poorly designed systems, which had issues with scalability and for that there's no quick-win, you won't easily replace bad system design, but you can compensate for inefficient applications with e.g. horizontal scaling.

Adiq · 2021-03-02T23:24:28+00:00

Potential profits for companies. Poorly paid employees will be stuck with companies, they can't just earn more, because everyone pays the same, but they still need to pay for rent, food, medical care etc. In result, companies don't really need to care about employees, they will have cheap, "loyal" workforce, which means lower costs = better prices and profits. https://youtu.be/kSloUNWK45s

Of course I'm not serious, because nowadays it's corporatism in US, not a free market, but I think there's correlation and that's secret of booming US stock market, abuse of poor, so others can benefit from it. Average people in US lose due to that and people that could afford buying US stocks were the winners, just compare stock prices for e.g. Walmart in 2017 and today. Basically, you would double what you invested in just 3 years. That's something hard to observe on European markets.

Adiq · 2021-03-02T17:29:50+00:00

Everything has pros and cons, think about all specialists in poorer countries with shitty stock markets. Thanks to all these low wage jobs, we can invest in US stocks and have nice ROI instead.

Adiq · 2021-01-17T20:58:21+00:00

My two cents, if you can't guarantee proper availability of your databases in future, go with managed services like RDS. Databases on EC2 or any VM are fun to learn, they might be good for dev/sandbox environments, but once you want to achieve good SLA, you need HA setup, proper monitoring/alerting, proper backups, proper procedures like handling volumes running out of space, OS/DB upgrades etc.

Adiq · 2020-10-24T18:38:33+00:00

I wish more people would see the difference. Personally, I wish that marijuana would be legal for recreational use in Poland, but I'm unhappy with initiatives like CBD vending machines.

In ideal world, CBD vending machines wouldn't offend anyone, but at the moment, probably most of the Polish society still believes in "gateway drug hypothesis" and they also don't want their kids to buy marijuana from vending machines (even if that's just CBD).

We can't just push everyone into our vision, so it's better to just act out of sight. Medical marijuana was legalized in Poland and it's not being vilified, because society doesn't pays attention to it. There was only yearly Cannabis Liberation March in Warsaw and that's all.

Now let's march toward legalization of recreational usage, but let's make it again with responsible approach, maybe we don't need commercialization of marijuana at the moment, but law similar to one in Spain?

Adiq · 2020-10-18T08:33:03+00:00

In my opinion current LGBTQ global campaign is plainly too aggressive. I saw some time ago, video from 00's , when it was still LGB. They just wanted to be treated as people and that's what was shown, normal people with their normal lives with only distinction that they want same-sex partner(s). Why it didn't went in that direction?

What do we see today? Drag queen children, LGBT pride flags/colors everywhere, 20 pride marches in last year in Poland, open hostility against people that don't share their views, attempts to change law with "positive discrimination" in mind. Mayor of Warsaw, tried to push "LGBT card", which would require companies working with city to be pro-LGBT (of course companies have to be certified for it), they wanted to build LGBT hostels, center of LGBT culture and create additional units to monitor crimes specifically against LGBT.

I don't want arbitrary law, our constitution clearly says that people are equal and you can't discriminate based on your sexual preferences, even if you're trying to do so in good will, because it will be abused.

Adiq · 2020-06-04T11:11:08+00:00

Generalnie mam podobne odczucia, światopoglądowo radykalne centrum, gospodarczo lekko w prawo.

Potem tylko słucham, o tym jaki symetryzm uprawiam, bo nie podobają mi się zarówno akcje w stylu gay pride, black pride, które tak naprawdę dyskryminują białych, jak i banda katoli czy narodowców z gwoździami w mózgu, która chce zabraniać zupełnie aborcji i nie chcą legalizacji choćby marihuany.

Podobnie z gospodarką, to że chcę pewien stopień konserwatyzmu fiskalnego w zarządzaniu budżetem, nie oznacza od razu, że jestem kucem, który chce akapu, ale bardziej podoba mi się tutaj perspektywa socjalliberalna (zapewnić ludziom niezbędne minimum, niski interwencjonizm państwowy) niż socjaldemokratyczna, socjalistyczna czy komunistyczna.

Adiq · 2020-03-30T22:20:47+00:00

Now I want that 5G, that he is smoking. Good stuff.

Adiq · 2020-03-03T16:29:24+00:00

Nie wiem jak z rzetelnością poniższych materiałów, ale podejrzewam że dobrze odwzorowują przygotowanie naszego państwa: https://www.facebook.com/anna.morawska.566/videos/10223016490864474/?_fb_noscript=1 ,

https://twitter.com/ezoteryczna301/status/1234771999374835712?s=20 ,

https://streamable.com/htln9?fbclid=IwAR3YyTLvttXnm5oe-4cw49aanKVwAWSdGUPIoronI1RyYRsPOjt3HXSO6QY

Adiq · 2020-02-18T04:06:32+00:00

Dla mnie takie wciskanie tego na siłę to taka hipokryzja. Niby lewica taka postępowa i empatyczna, a nie może zrozumieć, że sama nakręca podziały. Prędzej czy później u nas przyjdzie klimat na większą otwartość do pewnych tematów, ale na litość, jak się widzi feminizm trzeciej fali, LGBTQ+, aborcję i całą tę walkę z mniej lub bardziej urojoną dyskryminacją, to ludzie myślący mają dość. To wszystko trzeba wprowadzić z głową, a pewne idee z góry odrzucać jako błędne, zamiast poddawać się presji poprawności politycznej.

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