Nanzikambe

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by Nanzikambe 12y ago
I love and use KDE on both my workstation and laptop. However over the decades, and especially since v4, I've seen it grow into something I barely recognise. Some things have to change: 1/ Remove akonadi/nepomuk/mys
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by Nanzikambe 12y ago
"The home secretary says internet phone systems Skype and Facetime, as well as social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, have become "safe havens" for organised criminals and terrorists"
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by Nanzikambe 12y ago
It's a blatant appeal to paranoia, "think of the children!" essentially. It's mildly encouraging that at least the refrain has moved on from constant reminders of a nebulous terrorist threat to justify horrific changes .
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by Nanzikambe 12y ago
Hows about children? Seeing as they legally they can't accept any amount of responsibility - can we ban them too? I mean toddlers have to count as either high or insane and probably would try crash the plane if they weren't restra
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by Nanzikambe 12y ago
For those of us not in the UK; could someone list the price? Just interested to know if this is still the same $1.5k explorer dev kit that was in the US, or a consumer priced version. Edit: a friend in the UK says its £1,000 - so still the
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by Nanzikambe 12y ago
I guess I should read those guidelines then. Sorry!
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by Nanzikambe 12y ago
I have no idea why the comment by "anon48191" is dead - it's extremely relevant and part of the point raised within the article.
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by Nanzikambe 12y ago
> Worse still, some people I know are aware and accepting of the fact that they have issues, but they > refuse to treat them because they fear antidepressants or mood stabilizers will impact productivity. > One person I
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Science of omega 3/fish oil supplemented diets is questionable(empr.com)
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by Nanzikambe 12y ago
And now I know :) Thanks for taking the time to make this detailed & informative reply! So basically the point is that Vanadium presents the most efficient method of power storage we know of to date?
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by Nanzikambe 12y ago
That's hilarious, I was a huge fan of the game, but didn't ever try this. I presume the encryption was copy protection?
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by Nanzikambe 12y ago
"Metallic vanadium is not found in nature, but vanadium compounds occur naturally in about 65 different minerals. Economically significant examples include patronite (VS4),[26] vanadinite (Pb5(VO4)3Cl), and carnotite (K2(UO2)2(VO4)2·3H
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by Nanzikambe 12y ago
(Disclaimer: I know very little about either Vanadium or the alternatives I will suggest, so these are the opinions of a lay person on the subject) Why is yet another mineral we have to mine, then presumably buy from an industry that will b
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by Nanzikambe 12y ago
I see the future of purchasing intent based analytic solutions, and it is scary! Now in store mechanisms will not only determine the customer's intent and object/area of interest (this is the current "big thing"), but as
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by Nanzikambe 12y ago
I upvoted. Those are dark times indeed, I empathise. Keep on keepin' on, you'll get there. As an aside, this is evidently a poor forum for this discussion. To the rest: the trough following a failure isn't depression, it&#x27
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by Nanzikambe 12y ago
For the lazy, it's "dream" or "dreaming" :) "Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn" translates to: "In his house at R'lyeh, dead Cthulhu waits dreami
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by Nanzikambe 12y ago
IE9 isn't a disability? Colour me shocked Apologies in advance for the poor (attempt at) humour, I don't mean to trivialise a real issue, only to ridicule IE9 users. In all seriousness it's due to the complexity of catering f
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by Nanzikambe 12y ago
I highly doubt the events in the article you linked are news to swombat, or any one else for that matter. The use of hallucinogens or drugs on the unsuspecting, like the military trials linked above, are well documented, but have little to
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by Nanzikambe 12y ago
“There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. Some kind of high powered mutant never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die.” RIP Shulgin, a singular being.
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by Nanzikambe 12y ago
Ok, this is anecdotal, but it paints a picture I'm familiar with in a sub-Saharan African country on the lower end of the development index. A former colleague of mine, doing network hardware + infra installations presently earns $200-
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by Nanzikambe 12y ago
I love your 'glowing letter of recommendation' idea, there is a small downside to that though, which is that your letter will set expectations rather high True, honesty is certainly a must, I should have stated tha
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by Nanzikambe 12y ago
Just seen the full list, and there're a fair few from other countries - but given the relatively tiny number of names involved, I stand by my opinions
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by Nanzikambe 12y ago
True. However all of those are, as you point out, from either South Africa or Ghana. See my points regarding the power houses of Africa in the parent post. Outside those, the comp-sci depts. in every uni I checked with were only teaching ar
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by Nanzikambe 12y ago
That project is definitely cool enough to warrant it's own post! Why haven't I heard of this before?
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by Nanzikambe 12y ago
A fair point, but as an African that emigrated and is naturalised, I still identify myself as very much African as opposed to anything else. I suspect most Africans have very strong identities in that respect, but I can only speak for mysel
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by Nanzikambe 12y ago
Sure, three tips: 1/ Make your job student friendly and don't look for the usual 5+ years of experience 2/ Keep firmly in mind that the best trait in a programmer isn't necessarily qualification, but the ability to lear
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by Nanzikambe 12y ago
TFA says he decided long ago that since he's waited this long, he can wait a little longer so that the first woman that sleeps with him cares for him. So I guess that excludes the well intentioned mercy fuck. I see his logic, but I can
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by Nanzikambe 12y ago
One other point, probably unrelated, but definitely relevant to me: Being a geek, it's hard to live somewhere where hardware, a dead hard drive for example, costs several months salary to replace. Especially when the environment (heat
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by Nanzikambe 12y ago
African programmer here, and left the country I was born in decades ago to find somewhere that had a demand for my skills. You'll find there's a direct correlation between available jobs for a career and people qualified or qualif
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by Nanzikambe 12y ago
I have not, but the only reason for not trying it is because of my increasing use of RAID in hardware and VMs, I wanted something that was completely agnostic to disks, which is something ZFS delivers but JFS didn't seem to when I chec

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