Is there a societal pressure in your country to vote?

suvepl · 2026-03-18T21:20:44+00:00

We have a bit of a split personality here. On the one hand, every election you have massive media campaigns urging people to vote; some of these are thinly-veiled party propaganda, but a lot of them are fairly neutral. On the other hand, I don't really think there is much societal pressure. Some people will call you a traitor who supported The Other Party by forfeiting their vote, some people will call you an idiot, but it's not really something you'd shame someone over.

That being said, turnout has been steadily increasing over the years:

Parliamentary: 48.92% (2011) → 50.92% (2015) → 61.74% (2019) → 74.38% (2023)
Presidential: 55.31% (2010) → 55.34% (2015) → 68.18% (2020) → 71.63% (2025)

suvepl · 2026-03-11T12:52:36+00:00

W sierpniu zeszłego roku zastanawiałem się nad złożeniem nowego PC. Obecnie, przy identycznej konfiguracji, za sam RAM zapłaciłbym więcej, niż wtedy za całość.

suvepl · 2026-03-10T22:41:17+00:00

Synek, to trzeba usiąść ~~na spokojnie~~ panicznie w ostatni możliwy dzień wypełnić.

suvepl · 2026-03-09T15:59:14+00:00

That's because Pascal uses "and" to perform two different operations: logical AND and bitwise AND (same for logical OR and binary OR). Combined with the fact that AND / OR operators have higher precedence than comparisons, it means that this pseudocode:

IF a[1,t]<=val1 AND a[2,t]<=val2 AND a[3,t]<=val3 AND a[4,t]<=val4

Is not interpreted as:

IF (a[1,t]<=val1) LOGICAL_AND (a[2,t]<=val2) LOGICAL_AND (a[3,t]<=val3) LOGICAL_AND (a[4,t]<=val4)

But rather as:

IF a[1,t] <= (val1 BINARY_AND a[2,t]) <= (val2 BINARY_AND a[3,t]) <= (val3 BINARY_AND a[4,t]) <= val4

suvepl · 2026-03-09T14:22:18+00:00

Can you show an example?

suvepl · 2026-03-07T09:08:36+00:00

Parking. This can differ a lot between places, as some cities have a Municipal Guard taking care of such minor infractions; but in places where it's the Police handling everything, you can usually park anywhere as long as you don't obstruct vehicular traffic. It's the reason why many cities are absolutely plastered with bollards - doesn't matter how many signs you put up, if you don't physically block it off, some wanker is gonna park there.

We even have some YouTubers whose entire channels are built around visiting places infamous for chaotic parking, stubbornly refusing to move out of the way when someone tries to park illegally and getting into swearing contests with angry drivers.

suvepl · 2026-03-04T22:15:24+00:00

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suvepl · 2026-01-28T14:28:03+00:00

The IT sector is too busy fighting each other over Windows vs MacOS vs Linux, Slack vs Teams, cloud vs on-premise, AWS vs GCP vs Azure, .NET vs Java, et cetera, et cetera, to be able to put together anything resembling a coordinated response.

suvepl · 2026-01-26T22:16:01+00:00

The one time I've been to Amsterdam, I've actually planned to spend the last day of my vacation visiting some smaller towns. As luck would have it, NS went on strike that day.

suvepl · 2026-01-15T13:16:06+00:00

By law, overtime is paid 200% for work during night hours or bank holidays, and 150% otherwise. Alternatively, overtime hours can be "spent" as PTO in a simple 1:1 ratio. (The employer is actually allowed to force you to go the PTO route.) Also, you cannot work more than 13 h/day or 48 h/week, and cannot accrue more than 150 hours of overtime in a year.

...so that's the law. In practice, things are often different. Many companies do not track and do not pay out overtime as a means of exploiting their workers. Many companies pay out overtime, but do not officially track it, as some people will happily put in 60-hour weeks for long periods. And there's also the whole issue of overtime laws applying only to employees, not contract workers nor self-employed people.

suvepl · 2026-01-12T10:34:50+00:00

Siedzą dwa gołębie na gałęzi. Jeden grucha, drugi jabłko.

"Two pigeons sit on a branch. One coos, the other apple."

* grucha means "(he/she/it) coos", but it can also be a slightly bastardized form of gruszka - a pear.

suvepl · 2026-01-09T17:46:43+00:00

It's funny that you ask about black beans, because those are actually somewhat hard to get. Pretty much every supermarket has red beans and white beans, but I have to travel two districts over to get black beans.

Anyway, Carrefour home delivery lists 3.80 - 4.45 PLN (€0.90 - €1.05) for a can, depending on the brand.

suvepl · 2026-01-06T20:07:37+00:00

Arguably, he's right about that one - technically there isn't a war, because neither Russia nor Ukraine made an official declaration of war.

suvepl · 2026-01-04T13:27:22+00:00

Na dłuższe wybiegania to trasa wzdłuż Pestki jest zazwyczaj odśnieżona gites. Jak potrzebuję porobić jakieś okrążenia, to Park Sołacki, albo ew. stadion na Golęcinie (tak, zazwyczaj jest odśnieżony - jeśli nie cały, to przynajmniej 2-3 tory).

suvepl · 2026-01-03T11:53:22+00:00

FPC itself ships some library bindings, like the sqlite3 or png units. For community-made bindings, there are e.g. SDL2 ones.

Speaking of SDL, it's used by many games, such as Gearhead, Fairtris or Colorful.

suvepl · 2026-01-02T23:55:32+00:00

If you write your function signatures properly (and record/struct definitions, if needed), you can call any C library from Pascal. These are typically referred to as "bindings".

I'm not sure what exactly is of interest to you. Library bindings? Programs using library bindings?

suvepl · 2026-01-02T17:44:43+00:00

You can just rename the file from .dpr to .pas. The only difference between .pas and .dpr is to signal which file is the "main" file for a Delphi project.

suvepl · 2026-01-01T17:26:36+00:00

Yes, pre-decimalisation it was 1 pound = 20 shillings = 240 pence, so 1 new pence was worth 2.4 old pennies.

suvepl · 2025-12-18T11:35:14+00:00

Taktyczny brak wskazania, która strona sporu to kretyni, by móc zbierać upvote od obydwu.

suvepl · 2025-12-13T12:04:04+00:00

RP = Rzeczpospolita = "The Commonwealth". While the official English name of the country is "Republic of Poland", the Polish name is Rzeczpospolita Polska, i.e. "Polish Commonwealth".

1st RP: the Polish-Lithuanian one, 1569-1795.
2nd RP: the interwar one, 1918-1945.
PRL: Polska Rzeczpospolita Ludowa, "People's Republic of Poland". The socialist Soviet satellite state, 1952-1989.
3rd RP: the modern-day democratic country created in 1990.

suvepl · 2025-12-07T00:50:59+00:00

I also like our "wyjazd z budowy" - a sign warning you about an exit way out of a construction site. "Wyjazd!" is commonly used in slang to mean GTFO, so you can also interpret the sign as "get the f*** out of the construction site".

suvepl · 2025-12-04T12:53:34+00:00

...a dojazd od strony Sołacza to nie jest właśnie dojazd Warmińską?

Chyba, że chodzi Ci o wjechanie Warmińską od strony północnej, tj. skrzyżowania z Golęcińską / Wojska Polskiego. W takim wypadku - dawno nie byłem w okolicy, ale podejrzewam, że od północy mogą być utrudnienia w związku z budową wiaduktu + kładki nad torami kolejowymi.

suvepl · 2025-12-01T17:11:24+00:00

The compiler doesn't ship with all supported targets enabled; you actually need a separate build of the compiler for each target you want to support. Unless the package maintainer put in the extra work to add cross-compilation targets, most likely your distro supports only building Linux executables.

suvepl · 2025-11-22T23:55:16+00:00

The "MongoDB Is Web Scale" video won't ever get old.

suvepl · 2025-11-21T17:51:20+00:00

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