jacekm

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Jacek Maciejewski is a QA Engineer living in Poznań (Poland). Loves traveling, especially around Japan.

Currently: Lead QA Engineer at VML (after series of rebrandings Cognifide -> Wunderman Thompson -> VML) Poznań, Poland (Feb 2017-present)

Previous positions:

    * Senior QA Consultant at ThoughtWorks London (Oct 2014 - Mar 2016)
    * Senior QA Engineer at Cognifide Poznań, Poland (Feb 2011 - Sep 2014)
Education:

    * Hokkaido University (Sapporo, Japan)
    * Adam Mickiewicz University (Poznan, Poland)
website: https://maciejewski.eu

[ my public key: https://keybase.io/jacek; my proof: https://keybase.io/jacek/sigs/3XArjWFBqBHtwB0NujKq9C9x-t4hAmLa9ntXBFHMCsM ]

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Recent submissions

Comment · 10 days ago
Yeah, at some point I gave up and asked AI to do patching for me. It was a good call because it found affected certificates in places where I wouldn't look (e.g. aws-cli or Libre Office).
Comment · 16 days ago
> Asking for a second opinion sucks. A lot of us are preconditioned from birth to trust our clinicians.

I wonder if it's a cultural thing. I live in Poland, here we ask for second, third and sometimes more opinions in cases far more trivial then cancer. We do this before any kind of surgical procedure, painful treatment, anything that could be even unpleasant. I saved myself from a couple of root canal treatments just by consulting different dentists. We don't trust doctors at all.

Comment · 26 days ago
These ones are from BYD, however Poland is constructing another, smaller BESS in parallel where the batteries will be supplied by LG Energy Solution and manufactured near Wrocław, Poland.
Comment · 26 days ago
To be fair, in Europe, we largely rejected the russian COVID vaccine. In theory we had good reasons, the vaccine was a bit shady, but I always wondered how much geopolitics played the role and how much it was really the problem with russian manufacturing standards.
Comment · 2 months ago
> The project was met with significant legal challenges from authors and publishers which was eventually overcome

I don't think they were overcome. As far as I remember Google couldn't make the books available so they abandoned the project. They possess the scans (if they didn't delete them) but they won't be made public.

Comment · 2 months ago
> People are getting loans for their education

In some countries they do, in some they don't, in others every PhD student even gets a scholarship. Every person I know who did the PhD did it because they loved the topics they were studying. The author of the blogpost is from Russia, I bet he didn't have to pay for his PhD.

Comment · 3 months ago
Thank you for such detailed answer!
Comment · 3 months ago
How will this affect the newly build data centers? What effect do you think it will have on memory prices?
Comment · 3 months ago
Pretty well, to the point where the US administration complains that there's a trade imbalance. (which is true for manufactured goods, false when we count in services)
Comment · 3 months ago
Comment · 3 months ago
I remember one Polish diplomat recalling that his boss told him "I am sending you to the safest outpost in the world" when offering him embassy in North Korea.
Comment · 3 months ago
I think I've read somewhere that JIS was phased out after Philips standard included some of JIS features and that theoretically modern Philips screwdrivers should be compatible with JIS.
Comment · 4 months ago
For me the biggest problem was never memorizing the suffixes but determining whether the verb belongs to group 1 or 2. While you can tell immediately that some verbs belong to group 1, the others (e.g. kaeru mentioned in the post) are not so easy (as far as I know there's no algorithm for that and you just need to memorize with every verb to which group it belongs).
Comment · 4 months ago
And they're not just hiding, Jan Marsalek is allegedly actively managing FSB operations against European states.

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