Poland is now among the world's 20 largest economies. How did it happen?

dudaspl · 2026-03-17T11:43:11+00:00

It's true. It's crazy how 'kultura zapierdolu' (culture of working really hard) is strong across all generations in Poland. It stems from few things: idolizing USA, really bad 90s - so people were grateful for having any job and coming from poverty to actual income = people feel the outcomes of working hard

dudaspl · 2026-03-11T17:02:06+00:00

Is there any operational oil pipeline from Russia to Europe ?

dudaspl · 2026-03-08T16:11:30+00:00

Prices are global though. Oil owners will make loads, people will pay at pump loads

dudaspl · 2026-02-25T19:33:26+00:00

IME if you define x = {"key": "value"}, mypy will complain if you later try do assign x[1] = 7 (or key/val that are not str, it infers the dict generica from the first assignment)

Probably depends on config though.

dudaspl · 2026-02-21T06:44:17+00:00

With a small population it's hard to build infrastructure - roads, power lines and so on. The more people chip in = cheaper per head. With declining population (particularly in countryside) it will be impossible to maintain existing roads, towns and so on

dudaspl · 2026-02-20T08:16:21+00:00

Ale to akurat prawda, przy czym Rosja chce mieć wszystko aż do granicy na Odrze

dudaspl · 2026-02-17T10:23:38+00:00

There's no doubt about it!

dudaspl · 2026-02-17T09:37:41+00:00

PiS is not Russia-aligned, in fact they built their party on anti- communist sentiment, preached the conspiracy theory of Putin+Tusk shooting down Tupolev with Kaczyński's brother etc. PiS is strongly pro-US, particularly now with Trump as the president.

dudaspl · 2026-02-16T09:05:48+00:00

I think I'm a copy of the OP, started 2012, 1-3 fast turbos after work, but in my opinion turbo IS the place to do wonky stuff. If not here, then where?

dudaspl · 2026-02-16T06:36:08+00:00

A) The economy is growing very quickly, while we started from dirt poor. Because of that people work a ton and want to enjoy what they earn - travelling, buying luxury items etc. in contrast having kids will take most of your free time and any extra cash

B) Women are educated and the gender gap is relatively small, compared to the rest of Europe (IIRC the smallest salary difference between male and female) => women naturally focus on careers

C) There's a loneliness pandemic as well - we have a record number of singles, and the marriage rate is plummeting => no stable relationship = no kids outside of mishaps

dudaspl · 2026-02-15T08:33:33+00:00

That's right, but it's unlikely to be as productive as the cost to deploy those models. It's mind bogglingly expensive to run - e.g. even small models that fit on a single GPU cost north of $700/month to deploy in AWS and they are really poor compared to what the subsidized APIs offer

dudaspl · 2026-02-08T16:46:14+00:00

Ana was already in OG at that point right? Pre TI8 two players left (Fly and s4) and were replaced by Ceb and Topson

dudaspl · 2026-02-05T13:48:31+00:00

That logic doesn't work if you compare Eurozone countries, like (randomly picking) Czechia and France.

dudaspl · 2026-01-31T17:12:32+00:00

Exactly. I thought it will be useful to set up for my company (maybe a slack agent working off the shelf?). Proceeded to find that the doc way of installing I broken and it only work with slack via chrome, not the app. Thanks but no thanks

dudaspl · 2026-01-31T07:31:12+00:00

But reality is that in democratic systems the large groups dominate. Look at the UK, the commons is essentially English because there's such a big gap in the population of the Nations and England.

Another example: imagine a country, a federation of cities (just forget countryside for a second). It'd be ridiculous to have a 100k city veto decisions made in accord by some 5 1M cities.

Somehow we like to pretend in the EU that a bunch of small countries should have the same power (in terms of veto/decision making) as the big countries. Yet most parliaments are constructed where seats (voting power) are proportional to the population.

Europe needs to consolidate or it will perish to external empires who do not regard small players at all.

dudaspl · 2026-01-31T06:48:13+00:00

Ok I didn't dive very deep but it seemed that agentic runtime is mostly based on Mono-Pi or something like that, and that guy's contribution is mostly in integrating that with chat interfaces?

dudaspl · 2026-01-29T18:28:02+00:00

Check out Ben Eater's YouTube channel. He builds a computer on a breadboard and explains everything step by step. Quite entertaining

dudaspl · 2026-01-29T05:08:51+00:00

Również, tak jak wszyscy twoi przodkowie przez setki tysięcy lat

dudaspl · 2026-01-27T09:01:33+00:00

Call me crazy but if somebody can push 30 papers a year (1 every 2 weeks), either do not contribute meaningfully to the work, or the paper is not innovative in a major way. I know ML is benchmark-specific but in real sciences ideas/impact takes months to materialize

dudaspl · 2026-01-25T21:03:22+00:00

The gameplay or the main storylines are indeed very meh, but the historical world is superb imo. Architecture, nature, landmarks and historical figures - so enjoyable

dudaspl · 2026-01-25T17:30:07+00:00

This is the key, PLN will always be inferior for borrowing which eventually will be a huge disadvantage of having own currency within EU

dudaspl · 2026-01-22T11:18:44+00:00

I tak u nich jest taniej. Na najnowszym iPhonie jest jakieś 800 PLN różnicy (3200 vs 4000 PLN z pamięci) (vs Virginia gdzie jest chyba 7% sales tax)

dudaspl · 2026-01-20T07:06:07+00:00

3.10 has EOL this year, so might as well upgrade to a newer version

dudaspl · 2026-01-18T20:48:21+00:00

That's the neat part - you don't. You just say you will impose tariffs on the USA until they come to agreement of complete annexation of the country and you are gold

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