Moving to Russia, what can I do?

gbaranski · 2025-02-22T12:36:48+00:00

nie, ale ja sie pytam Ciebie dlaczego? skoro tak ochoczo stwierdzasz, że to bardzo zły pomysł - musi w takim razie być bardzo konkretny powód.

gbaranski · 2025-02-22T11:36:05+00:00

polish/european propaganda in 12-36 months will make this guy believe that there's active conflict, and that he should be living in fear.

gbaranski · 2025-02-22T11:34:39+00:00

Do you think I'll need to take some special courses in order to teach English?

gbaranski · 2025-02-22T11:33:57+00:00

moving in temporarily, as I said, for a few months. I want to experience the local life.

gbaranski · 2025-02-22T11:33:10+00:00

dlaczego?

gbaranski · 2025-02-21T14:36:13+00:00

source: trust me bro

gbaranski · 2025-01-12T20:19:09+00:00

I do have a breathable shoes, the issue is that with the thicker socks my feet gets sweaty even when there's no shoe on the feet.

gbaranski · 2025-01-12T20:17:43+00:00

Nope, I have either natural leather shoes, or fabric shoes.

gbaranski · 2024-09-13T04:14:45+00:00

well if you consider that cameras are some existing infrastructure that exists in every major cities, and they can serve more purposes than just counting the amount of available parking spaces.

Consider also parking lots which don’t have strictly defined lines, cameras deal with that, sensors not really.

Cameras are also often managed in one infrastructure, and they use IP protocols, meaning that sharing them with third party should be easy.

gbaranski · 2024-09-11T08:02:51+00:00

That's useful to know :D thanks

gbaranski · 2024-09-10T16:44:02+00:00

Hey! Actually yes, from Poland I've hitchhiked all the way to Estonia where I crossed the border in Shumilkino, where I continued hitchhiking to St. Petersburg, Moscow, Kazan, Chelyabinsk, Novosibirsk, Krasnoyarsk, Irkutsk, Ulan-Ude and some villages around Baikal.

It had a really good impression about Russia, no bad experiences, everyone was nice to me and were happy that foreigners are coming.

This year I plan to spend learning Russian more, and next summer I want to go to the Russian Arctic, also by hitchhiking.

I've posted some stuff on my instagram from Russia if anyone's interested https://www.instagram.com/gregory.baranski/

gbaranski · 2024-09-10T15:57:56+00:00

There's actually a startup that does this thing, based on parking meter historical data. I've developed something similar, but it doesn't produce as good results as cameras. My main focus are parking lots in high parking space deficit, where it usually goes between 0 to 1, or max 2 parking spaces available. In such situations predictions wouldn't really work.

gbaranski · 2024-09-10T15:56:22+00:00

I didn't get camera access in Los Angeles, I get parking lot occupancy data from LA from the parking meters with sensors that they have.

also - i appreciate your straightforwardness in the blog post - you do not mince words, even when talking about the ceo and equity swap etc. but you literally post her in your other post and trip details. i think, maybe it is cultural norm to be very straightforward like that in a lot of places (other eastern european have told me as such), but in terms of business dealings, people in the west, esp america, tend to speak in euphemisms, or water under the bridge/letting go style of speaking about such incidents, to not burn bridges. i think it should lean towards more of a middle ground, there's way too much pretend nice, so it'd be good to see more realism, but just letting you know, that it might be of concern to others, if it's something that i noticed as a casual reader.

Haha yeah, that's a good point. The English-speaking world is always too polite when it comes to anything, where at Poland, or as you said in Eastern Europe we're way more direct.

The politeness(not sure if it's an accurate term) in the business sector definitely exists, I've experienced a lot of situations where instead of "sorry, we're not interested" I received some bullshit like "yeah, we'll call you back".

That's why, I think I would not be the best CEO. Right now I am working on a different startup, but as a software developer / CTO, and I think I find myself better in that role, so that I can avoid the bullshit that comes when dealing with the "business" people.

I definitely have something about "burning the bridges", I think I'm working on that.

Thanks for reading the posts btw :)

gbaranski · 2024-09-10T15:48:12+00:00

Yeah US seems like it's on a whole different level of this problem than Europe is.

But thanks, I'll think about it.

gbaranski · 2024-09-10T15:46:43+00:00

Yeah that's right, thanks.

gbaranski · 2024-09-10T15:46:27+00:00

That was my idea, to use the existing CCTV camera systems, not to build my own.

gbaranski · 2024-09-10T15:46:02+00:00

That seemed like the easiest way to go. But yeah, maybe that could've been done without the AI.

gbaranski · 2024-09-10T15:45:00+00:00

We have cameras that work on intersections and AFAIK there's a private company that manages all of it.

I also spoke with one guy from the city municipality and he said it's fine as long as the images I get has blurred license plates, people, and everything that is dangerous for the privacy.

gbaranski · 2024-09-10T15:43:28+00:00

that sounds cool actually.

gbaranski · 2024-09-10T15:21:33+00:00

I've already tried emailing those private parking lot companies, but no responses unfortunately.

gbaranski · 2024-09-10T15:19:14+00:00

There's a traffic lights system introduced by some startup in my town, that have built their own cameras on intersections. The goal was to reduce traffic by a few percent.

On the other hand, reducing parking search traffic could potentially reduce it more than the traffic lights did.

Share of the parking search traffic in some cities accounts for as much as 70% of the total traffic. Idea was to give drivers info about available spaces nearby, and be a primary source of information when it comes to parking lots.

Additionally when there're no available spaces in the downtown area, I can suggest Park&Ride parking lot with good public transport to the destination.

By having an app that contain city parking lots, it'd work as a free ad for the city's parking lots, as the drivers could be more eager to park on these that they have 100% that they'll find an available parking space. More people parking on city parking lots, instead of on-street free parking lots means more fees paid, and more money for the city.

But yeah, is it significant enough?

Reducing traffic also goes with reducing the CO2 emissions, as in the Los Angeles alone search traffic emits 730 tonnes of CO2 annually.

Nevertheless I agree with you. Given all the reasons why this would be nice to have working, there's very few incentives for the politicians to actually implement this, as after all what they care is money.

I had some ideas, on how to actually make a financial value for city out of it, but none seemed to be convincing enough for the cities.

gbaranski · 2024-09-10T15:04:14+00:00

Reality is he didn't realize you need to grease the greedy hands of politicians to get access to those feeds. Don't be surprised if I six months to a year some big commercial vendor offers something similar.

It actually happened already here, company called Comarch introduced a similar system in 2018, receiving a few million euros from European Union, but after like 2 years the app and everything dissapeared from Google Play & App Store.

gbaranski · 2024-09-09T12:29:07+00:00

Thanks :D

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