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As someone from Africa with knowledge of USA involvement in toppling some governments here, I sometimes wonder who's worst? A country I know for certain it has invaded unilaterally others (USA) or a country with potential of one day in
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Doesn't HK summarize it clearly in his answer to the researcher https://www.neowin.net/news/linux-bans-university-of-minneso...
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Indeed. In our country you just pay over your mobile phone (using USSD) and you get in return a token that you can type in the electricity meter and you've finished loading electricity for the next months
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Indeed. Some technicians got killed. But now, hacking the electricity meter is punishable by heavy fines defined by a special law. You get banned for never ever being again a client of the sole electric company in the country.
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Sometimes I understand the rationale here of such apps. In Africa, many electrical utilities were failing to get consumers to pay on time electrical bills. That when we started implementing prepaid electricity meters: you estimate how much
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As mentioned above, if it few $524 per document, and you don't know how many documents you will need to consult in order to comply with the standards and at the end you need to buy the relevant document ... It's tricky. Standards
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Thank you DO for offering hosting for us in Africa who need a reliable hosting and fixed rates for the services so that we can plan ahead. Also the tutorials are a must have! Like today I used Django and DO Space and everything was smooth.
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So, the migration doesn't work. it fails to see the musics I have on file in my phone. Also, I'm in a third world country (Burundi) where a lot of the musics are blocked for being played. I purchased an album in the old Google Pla
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Of course we buy them! The same way in your country there are rich peoples able to afford yachts, we also have an upper class capable of buying all the Apple stuffs.
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I wouldn't say you can never . Because I went to Italy and even the first year I started to see the difference between my country/culture and theirs and what business opportunities could benefit one or the other. It's so simp
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Crazy enough, in my country in Africa, we aren't trained to use Revit or AutoCad but Archicad primarly.
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Very interesting. I was thinking of using Json Schema forms to populate [0] models in Django where we have a JsonField. Is it possible? [0]: https://github.com/koumoul-dev/vuetify-jsonschema-form
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I'm in Rome and I called my friend in Japan to enquire his whereabouts and he told me there they're not doing the same way Korea did it. Peoples continue to go to work. No mass screening. So cases aren't really reflecting the
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Yes. Schweppes is my go to drink.
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In Africa when you suffer from Malaria they gradually give you Chloroquine, Amodiaquine or even Quinine. From my experience, Quinine is the strongest. I grew up taking those medicines. Man. They knock you out. Your ears are no longer workin
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Indeed. i have been using Gitflow for the last 4 years on more than 14 repositories with teams spanning from 2 to 30 commiters and it worked. I honestly do not see what is the problem with having the code running on production on master, d
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Question. Do you know how to get iTerm2 to open on split into the same directory that it was in like in Terminator on Ubuntu? Currently it always open to home directory whether I do a vertical/horizontal split.
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Exactly. More precisely, Uganda, Tanzania and Kenya. Other
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If you are working with Wagtail, I recommend you the tutorial https://learnwagtail.com/wagtail-for-beginners/ . You will see how to create good links in Django/Wagtail. Also you can see from the associated github r
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As an African, I am used to drive on crappy roads in my country. But lately I got a job in the capital of a European country. I have chosen to live near my workplace (20 mins of walking distance) just to avoid to use cars, even metro. I end
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Now that you are mentioning it I clearly see that as a francophone, I had not realized he/she had written something inconsistent. Thanks. In the meantime I will be upgrading wine to run Photoshop. Thanks wine team.
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Exactly. I have been recently just using the drop down to read a summarize answer to questions I have googled. No need to go further...
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It's a recipe for disaster. You prefer convenience over safety? You better put it in gear and then handbrake. One day my car was in only gear, neutral and a kid made it roll few feets by just playing inside the car. I'm afraid as
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Samsung making a comeback. China’s Transsion is still Africa’s top phone maker
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For example, in my neighborhood country DRC, there all kind of minerals that are used to build every tech product. You guess why EU and USA needs to keep a good relationship with the warlords there? In Somalia, I think it is a question of t
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From the article : >"Every member of Parliament in Mogadishu gets a salary paid mostly by U.S. and EU funds," one Somaliland official told us. "And every one of them is a killer. If you kill enough people, you are called
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For Django we have "django_builder"
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Joined this summer an international organization in Rome, Italy. I was quite surprised by the quality of the English skills in here. Like,... In our African countries, not knowing English/French is a question of whether you want to liv
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Last year I had applied for a job where we would have to manage Windows servers. Stuff with Active Directory and storage... I'm Linux guy but have extended experience in WinServer 2012. I just set up a server, boot ProxMox, spun up as
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Very nice. Used ShareLatex back in the days. Now it is Overleaf[0]. I guess this will help to bring in competition. One of the benchmark I use to test Latex Editor is my Bachelor paper [1] written in French with all the accents and math sym
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