M_bara

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by M_bara 3y ago
Pushing ice… a brilliant book - my first foray into hard sci-fi
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by M_bara 3y ago
Yeah, these fr*cking toasters are out to get humans. Ask colonel Saul
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by M_bara 3y ago
I agree. I was there a month back and the EV adoption is incredible. From small scooters, delivery vans to sedans. EV is roaring there and from the little I saw, innovation growth is crazy. Went into a small factory for making solar street
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by M_bara 3y ago
The mantra at aws is customer experience. Any time there’s an outage or impact, the first numbers to be stated are customer impact related. In fact, as an engineer you might be empowered enough to recommend a refund for a customer (even tho
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by M_bara 3y ago
On another note, hooting continuously will make a chicken shake its head. Use a tone similar to an owl.. (hoooooooo). Doing that in a coop with hundreds… you’ll have lots of chickens disagreeing with you. Wonder if it has to do with standin
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by M_bara 3y ago
Yes, I worked in FANG and one of my pals didn’t have a degree yet was highly regarded in the company. What really matters is what you know and whether you can execute…
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by M_bara 3y ago
Not a rocket scientist or even a physicist.. but if i remember right, the bulk of your energy in a rocket is expended on your horizontal speed not the height gain. I came across this when I was looking up if it made sense to launch a rocke
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by M_bara 3y ago
Yep, trying out a self hosted erpnext. It’s quite smooth and reliable especially when you compare it with Odoo. The cost for their cloud options is also way more economic to Odoo. Want to try out their integration with woo commerce.
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by M_bara 3y ago
The crazy thing is that the tax policies put in place by African governments push folks to buy old cars at crazy prices. A typical 8 year old second hand import car will cost more than the same brand new in the west. For example, a 2013 maz
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by M_bara 3y ago
Anyone know what’s the fuel combination of Estes? I live in a country where shipping this is probably impossible. As a high schooler I was very keen on rocketry, we ended up cobbling one using a deodorant can as the body, a slurry of potass
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by M_bara 4y ago
Ditto. Macs are surprisingly long lasting. I have - a 2011 MacBook Pro that is used for midi and piano classes. One battery change in 2018 and that’s it. It’s used every other day by kids for 2 hours. - a 2013 MacBook air. Workhorse for t
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by M_bara 4y ago
Was a little confused and expecting an article on medjel… from consider phlebas
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by M_bara 4y ago
Brings back memories… along with skinning XMMS. Good times
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by M_bara 4y ago
Part of the reason the governance is failing is due to NRS [1]. The NRS is running a concerted disinformation campaign [2] and a sue everyone and everything campaign to cripple AfriNIC [3]. The root cause is someone got some up blocks from
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by M_bara 4y ago
Using the tozo nc9s and the soundcore q20 for work. Interchangeably used depending on the portability and noise levels. The nc9s are portable and decent at cutting out droning noises but they have a n occasional weird desynchronisation when
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by M_bara 4y ago
https://archive.ph/l2scR
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by M_bara 4y ago
Code monkey is brilliant. I have a kid starting out on sequencing in code while another one is designing a game in the app (sprites, loops, events..)
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by M_bara 4y ago
I have an old Samsung (2015). I stream jellyfin via DLNA. Works for me
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by M_bara 4y ago
Some options for dd do matter. I have seen it substantially increase throughput While mirroring disks. Playing with the block size can make a large difference (disk block size alignment).
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by M_bara 4y ago
IMHO, an outright ban is exactly the right thing. The typical person will not turn down a bag given for free every time they visit the store. They get home, unpack and dump the plastic bag. Having people purchase reusable bags makes folks t
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by M_bara 4y ago
Just wondering, isn’t it viable to have Solar arrays in the Sahara/equator regions and have the power transmitted to temperate zones? Is the transmission the issue? Is it politics? Super conductors? I’d love to know why we can’t have a
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by M_bara 4y ago
Pandoras star by Peter f Hamilton. This along with pushing ice and the culture series opened a new vast world for me. Will keep rereading them every few years
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by M_bara 4y ago
Mister, I deal in lead…
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by M_bara 4y ago
Perhaps he meant mursik [1] 1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mursik
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by M_bara 4y ago
Let me throw you a curve ball. For espresso try a 50-50 blend of gourmet and espresso from these chaps [1], it’s amazing. Elgon is also pretty good as a French press coffee. Not affiliated with them, just a fan. 1. https://www.s
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by M_bara 4y ago
No, it’s the truth. The BBC has a strong bias when it comes to reporting African news. Just take a look at the African news page, you won’t find anything positive [1]. Currently, headlines are: - beheading - al shabaab - CAR atrocities - m
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by M_bara 5y ago
Yes. I can attest to brother being nice.
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by M_bara 5y ago
Ahh, I’ll call bs on that. Reiserfs was an innovative fs at the time; in the current space, btrfs is in the same space. Stuff like tail packing and very good performance on small files (emails) made it a good fit for specific workloads.
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by M_bara 5y ago
A lot of East Africans have grandpas who fought in Burma during ww2 [1]. In fact a certain suburb in Nairobi is called Kariokor; a bastardisation of the name carrier corps. 1. https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/program/
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by M_bara 5y ago
Peter f Hamilton. The commonwealth series is incredible. I’ve read every single book of his and can’t find anything to complain about. IMHO, he’s up there with Alastair Reynolds, Greg Egan, Ian m. Banks…

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