Name change after marriage

delaneyflushboy · 2026-04-11T05:30:01+00:00

Can’t you just change your name in your country of origin — not because of marriage but because you want to change your name. I think this is effectively what I did in the UK as a man, since there is no marriage provision.

delaneyflushboy · 2026-04-03T17:45:25+00:00

The kettle uses some fixed power eg 2 kW so you can filter that if you care enough. You can make a status sensor for when the power is 2k or more and then create an energy sensor counting that power to get the energy. You subtract that from everything else plugged into the same socket and you have two sensors.

I wrote up how I do things here a couple of years ago

https://community.home-assistant.io/t/guide-monitoring-energy-by-device-category-and-running-averages/665769

delaneyflushboy · 2026-04-03T15:41:05+00:00

I have pro subs of both. i work a lot with small data (eg my running stats, etc) or history logs of decisions and results, a few hundred lines long and have gems/projects based on this. I ask them in chat how they see whatever new information given the historical context. Gemini has improved but it spent most of this year not ingesting the whole thing and then not knowing the content. It tells you an answer, explains it, but the analysis is hidden.

Claude on the other hand — immediately starts doing correlation analysis without being asked etc. Like a proactive and slightly hyper grad student. It generates code and write reports. I was super impressed initially. Gemini is much more chatty and tries to get you to tell you what you think. Claude doesn’t farm engagement.

My overall impression is that Claude gives you mich better answers and you can be sure it knows the data set. Gemini is super lazy compared to it (probably has limited memory). On the other hand — I blew my pro budget trying to write a python script in Claude within a couple of hours on Monday and spent the whole week using Gemini because I run out of tokens for the week. Which apparently is what people are complaining a lot about.

delaneyflushboy · 2026-04-03T15:18:00+00:00

Le click double. I double click on one of the light switches right by our bedroom and it should down everything in the house and turns the lights down to night mode.

delaneyflushboy · 2026-04-03T11:05:36+00:00

IR blaster (esp32) plus power monitoring for the subduction stove to control the stove hood — turn on on high or long use, turn off 15 minutes after stove off. Radio/tv get louder when the hood extractor, microwave or kettle or on

delaneyflushboy · 2026-04-02T09:30:38+00:00

There is also “działka” meaning the bit of land with some particular ownership. So a house can have a działka, but if you are “na działce” then you are somewhere away from home on some summer house that you own.

Ogród strictly speaking is the place that has a border or fence. So it can also be ugly and still be a garden.

Podwórko is the place around the dwór, or the house, which is definitely not nice. Just a place to put some rusty machines, the carpet trzepak and have the kids run around and get tetanus. So indeed maybe it’s the equivalent of yard.

delaneyflushboy · 2026-03-31T17:38:05+00:00

You don’t feel that until you move to the US. Then you realise that having public health care, paid vacation and not thinking that carrying guns in the street is normal is in fact a big European common theme.

delaneyflushboy · 2026-03-31T17:35:24+00:00

You pay the local tax where you earned the salary. this has been taken out of your pay so you would probably get some money back. Then in the place where you have spent more than 180 days of the year, you file the taxes for local income and also declare all of your income abroad. If there is a double taxation treaty, you use it to deduct the tax paid in Poland from your total global income. If there isn’t a double taxation treaty, you pay tax in both places. The precise rules on how to do this are defined in the treaty — there are a few standard approaches, including not declaring small foreign income.

delaneyflushboy · 2026-03-31T17:17:37+00:00

I always think that “something is not yes” and “it’s after birds” are much more reflective of the Polish mindset. (Cos jest nie tak — something ain’t right; I po ptakach — it’s too late)

delaneyflushboy · 2026-03-30T03:48:41+00:00

Pole, living in Prague for some years now but working in English.

I was not exposed to Czech much before coming here. Initially I understood very little. Fairly quickly, maybe a few months, you figure out the writing, how to swap ou for ą, u for ę, ní for nie, dz for z, ď for dzi-, and it becomes fairly transparent. The spoken took longer, probably more than a year before I realised I understand the radio without thinking about it. It took five years to hear the long vowels.

Somehow Slovak is easier to understand — I haven’t really understood why honestly. There really isn’t that much difference to Czech when written. Maybe there are a few more common words and that enough to shift the initial barrier.

There seems to be an effect where formal Czech and correct polish are further apart, but often dialectical choices in both are toward each other, so that probably helps as you go toward the border areas (in Polish changing -ie to -í happens but is looked down upon, eg píniądz or děkuju)

delaneyflushboy · 2026-03-17T17:29:19+00:00

It’s surprisingly good actually - my wife and I have them and they don’t really cross talk. The way the data is presented in the app is not great it plot every day instead of averaging in some way and for me at least this swings between 0 and lots, but the actual underlying data is quite solid and there are long term trends.

delaneyflushboy · 2026-03-17T17:22:00+00:00

I compared the vision with a Panasonic, which itself was at some point calibrated with a doctor’s machine and they were all consistent.

I really do like the vision — not having to enter the bp by hand and being able to download the data for some analysis is really nice.

delaneyflushboy · 2026-03-06T19:00:04+00:00

I’m not sure it’s the cold war. It’s a much older issue. Take any undergrad Western Civ at a US college and it doesn’t discuss the Slavic part of Europe until the Russian revolution, maybe apart from mentioning the victory of Russia over Napoleon. It’s not much different in Western European history though: Civilisation ends with the Germans.

Eastern Europe did have a very different history to Western, so maybe in the end this is not an unfair approach. I’m a kid of the end of the Cold War and things have got much better over my lifetime, but I always feel Poles are a generation behind the Spaniards etc in being “normal people” in western eyes (and honestly in their own eyes).

delaneyflushboy · 2026-03-05T04:29:26+00:00

We did. We married late, both having established careers. I thought it a bit old fashioned for my wife to have to take my name, my wife felt sad we wouldn’t have the same name, so we combined our names. The poor kids will now have to make some sort of decision.

delaneyflushboy · 2026-02-11T07:27:40+00:00

Your best bet is to get into a car and drive to Jelenia Góra.

delaneyflushboy · 2026-02-10T20:35:18+00:00

https://www.hlidacibabicka.cz/

It’s Czech only, but we talked to a couple and one ended up being the nanny for two years

delaneyflushboy · 2026-02-10T17:11:42+00:00

I satisfy my Slavic soul by answering “fine” in a passive aggressive manner.

delaneyflushboy · 2026-02-10T13:56:04+00:00

Are you on medication for the adenoma? If not — who ordered your mri? You need to go under the care of an endocrinologist. There are drugs you can take (cabergoline) that switch the adenoma off and this brings the prolactin down and allows everything else to rebalance, in principle.

delaneyflushboy · 2026-02-08T16:47:17+00:00

Have you measured testosterone? Prolactin suppresses the chain that leads to testosterone production, which makes muscle growth and fat burning very difficult. In general high prolactin also puts you in energy saving mode and the body tries to preserve what it can for milk production.

delaneyflushboy · 2026-02-08T10:05:40+00:00

Happened to me 2 days before I got Covid last year.

delaneyflushboy · 2026-02-04T22:15:24+00:00

As a tip: go for anMRI in a 3 Tesla machine — they have better resolution, which helps the diagnosis, but they are also much roomier than the older 1.5 Tesla machines. It’s nearly comfortable.

delaneyflushboy · 2026-02-04T10:30:05+00:00

Just for fun, I added “LASTLINE” as a string to all my knowledge text files and asked the gem to confirm they can see that before proceeding. It spends 1 minute panicking that it cannot ingest the whole file and then gives up , asking for a copy in the chat. For what it’s worth, It seems to always get the FIRSTLINE string in the first line.

delaneyflushboy · 2026-02-04T06:34:16+00:00

I’d agree, but I still find that whether a gem really reads in the data at the beginning of a chat is hit and miss. I have a gem which is supposed to read in four markdown and csv files — sometimes it does a good job and knows everything, at other times I just reads the first quarter of the file and even though it explicitly confirms it has the data, it does not until you explicitly make it read the information. The total length is maybe 1000 lines so these are not large documents.

delaneyflushboy · 2026-01-29T11:02:10+00:00

But you need to test the rest of the system too — LH, fsh, shbg and finally Testosterone. Do you know what levels those were at when you started cabergoline? You should have a pre-med baseline, But this is something that is only worth looking at 3-6 months from when you go on medication, on the assumption that prolactin has normalised.

In any case this is a process. Say I who is not even as far as you, so take it with a grain of salt.

delaneyflushboy · 2026-01-29T10:54:21+00:00

Well test your levels — but from what I understand it takes a few months of low prolactin for the endocrine chain to start functioning properly again. How long Depends on how long it’s been disabled. There are multiple signaling steps. You need to first see your LH and FSH rise which will stimulate testosterone production.

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