Think Different by Jakub Jirák: latest posts
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How to Make Money with Affiliate Without Running an Affiliate Blog
Learn how to integrate affiliate income into your content without turning your platform into a review mill. Subtle monetization that respects your.
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GitHub Copilot: Switching models mid-conversation when reasoning quality starts to degrade
A field-tested take on switching models mid-conversation when reasoning quality starts to degrade with GitHub Copilot: what it rewards, where it breaks, and how to keep the workflow honest.
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The Apple Accessibility Settings Everyone Should Know About
A plain-English tour of the Apple accessibility settings worth knowing in 2026 — Reduce Motion, Hover Text, Back Tap, Live Captions, Voice Control and more, sorted by what they actually fix.
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Google's TPU Strategy: Vertical Integration and What It Tells Us About AI Compute
Google's TPU program spans over a decade and five chip generations. Its economics, performance advantages, and strategic implications reveal how AI compute power concentrates.
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The Economics of Medieval Grain Markets in Northern Europe
Grain markets were the foundation of the medieval northern European economy and its most difficult management challenge. Price data from the thirteenth century onward reveals how trade, storage, and state intervention interacted to produce the food security outcomes that determined whether populations lived or starved.
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iPhone 18 Pro Max research review: the bigger battery
An iPhone 18 Pro Max research review focused on screen size, same-method battery evidence, shared cameras, handling and euro prices before an upgrade.
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Mac Studio Ultra: Performance That's No Longer for Benchmarks, But for Peace of Mind
Exploring how the Mac Studio Ultra represents a shift from performance chasing to cognitive outsourcing, and what we lose when machines become too.
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Local LLMs with Ollama: Pairing Ollama with Continue or Cline for a private IDE
A field-tested take on pairing Ollama with Continue or Cline for a private IDE with Local LLMs with Ollama: what it rewards, where it breaks, and how to keep the workflow honest.
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How Tobacco Became a Colonial Currency in Virginia
Tobacco determined Virginia's economic structure for 150 years — functioning simultaneously as cash crop, monetary medium, and political foundation. The story of how one plant reshaped a colony's institutions is the canonical case of the commodity trap in American history.
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Samsung vs. TSMC: How the Foundry Duopoly Controls the AI Hardware Stack
TSMC and Samsung Foundry together manufacture almost all advanced AI chips. The geopolitics of this duopoly shapes the entire AI industry in ways most analysis misses.
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Mac mini for video editing: M6 or M5 Pro
Choose a Mac mini for video editing with a research-based M6 and M5 Pro guide to codecs, proxies, storage, memory and a fair test using your actual footage.
