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by init 6y ago
I've been on Ubuntu as my primary OS for the last decade or so. The only Mac I ever owned was a Mac Mini (mid 2011). The machine was working great until it started getting unbearably slow with every OS update unless I added more RAM.
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by init 6y ago
In common parlance "artificial" means man-made. Moissanite can be naturally occurring so it's a diamond-replacement or a "fake" diamond when used in rings and jewelry.
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by init 6y ago
Body weight exercises alone are boring but they become so much more enjoyable when combined with some demanding martial arts like boxing, kick boxing, muay thai or mma. The gains become obvious within a matter of weeks if you practice at le
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by init 6y ago
I picked this exact same motherboard for my custom built worstation with ECC RAM and a Ryzen 3k series processor. It was impossible to find an OEM workstation with those specs so I ended up building it and it's been working with no has
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by init 6y ago
This has been problematic for me after upgrading from 18.04 to 20.04. Every time I apt update cuda or some nvidia package my x server fails to start for several different reasons. Just today I've already spent 30 minutes trying to star
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by init 7y ago
I was thinking more of the kingdoms of Kongo[0] and Benin[1] that are geographically closer to present day Gabon. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Kongo#First_Kongo-P... [1] https://en.wikipedia.
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by init 7y ago
The site is from the 14th century. Europeans came to central Africa in the 15th century when there were still many well organized kingdoms and societies there. European interference in terms of guns and the slave trade was a major part of t
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by init 7y ago
www.soundtrap.com uses the web audio APIs and WebRTC to build a music making app in the browser.
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by init 7y ago
The quoted article[1] mentions Berlin's Tegel airport being built in just 3 or 4 months. This is an amazing feat! Contrast that with Berlin Brandenburg Airport that started being built in 2006 to replace Tegel and is still under constr
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by init 7y ago
> But would the Congolese have had electron microscopes but for Belgian colonialism? Probably yes. Europe and Central Africa were already connected and trading since the 1400's[1]. The kingdom of Kongo sent an ambassador to Vatican
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by init 7y ago
Nope. Not at all. Even though they are all Romance languages they aren't mutually intelligible. They share many stems but have too many differences in grammar to be called the same language. You can perhaps argue Norwegian, Swedish and
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by init 7y ago
And 50% of the world cobalt production comes from DR Congo, a country that hasn't been stable since the 1990s. A lot of that cobalt money ends up in the hands of international mining companies doing dodgy deals with corrupt top governm
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Google shutting down consumer version of Google+(blog.google)
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by init 9y ago
I came here to say that! The bonobo is an an indigenous ape of the left bank of the Congo river in the Congo rain forest in the DR Congo. They look indistinguishable to chimpanzees to the untrained eye. Gorillas are a whole different specie
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by init 10y ago
Thanks for this. I will check it out
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by init 10y ago
I'm one of those poor kids who got out. My identity project was programming. An friend gave me a an old noisy Pentium II that became my best friend. I spent countless hours, day and night, learning to program. Skipped prom to program,