klaasvakie

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by klaasvakie 5y ago
With guitar you are much more likely to have to re-tune during a performance. I can think of a couple of reasons. Steel core strings (on guitar) have a much higher coefficient of thermal expansion than gut-core strings (on orchestra instrum
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by klaasvakie 6y ago
Not true, I can walk into most banks here in South Africa and open an account that allows me to trade on foreign stock exchanges. Minimum deposits are in the order of USD5k, and require only local ID to open. Doing this anonymously would b
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by klaasvakie 6y ago
Man this looks great. So much easier than doing a drawing and you can version it in git etc. If you are looking for feature requests :) Twisted pairs Ability to add cable braid to cable sections Ability to add heatshrink to connecto
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by klaasvakie 6y ago
Living in South Africa, I actually turn off 2FA wherever I can. I use a strong random password per site stored in a password manager, but my phone number is controlled by a drone at a telco helpdesk which can easily be convinced to port my
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by klaasvakie 8y ago
> Users and administrators almost certainly prefer a 20 minute IO latency over data corruption. If the drive part of a RAID setup I would actually prefer it just reports itself failed and doesn't slow down access to the array by sca
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by klaasvakie 8y ago
> I question whether Botswana needs to kill their elephants, especially as reports have Botswana containing 1/3 of the entire African Elephant population. Obviously killing elephants (any animal really) in large numbers is a big pro
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by klaasvakie 8y ago
It's about time Botswana did something about their elephant numbers. Chobe is practically overrun with elephants, and until now, the government seemed unwilling to keep the numbers under control. If they can raise money for conservatio
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by klaasvakie 8y ago
I've never understood the purpose of IP aliases like the "secondary em0" the author is setting up with systemd.networkd. These aliases are practically useless, you cannot bind() to them without knowing the IP, you cannot use
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by klaasvakie 10y ago
Fellow saffer here. I signed up for your beta yesterday and I am quite excited, I think this has the potential to become an absolutely amazing product. As a developer, do you plan on having a market/app store where I can sell my "
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by klaasvakie 10y ago
Hey, didn't expect to see South Africa on here. Is this the tower close to Grand Central Airport in Midrand? Another great (to me at least) looking brutalist building in Johannesburg is UJ ( https://upload.wikimedia.org/
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by klaasvakie 12y ago
I have a Thinkpad Yoga 2 --- 3800x1800 I think --- I find that the GTK-based stuff works well on HiDPI, but not automatically, so you need to fiddle with the GTK settings a bit. The QT stuff is worse since they cannot be fixed by adjusting
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by klaasvakie 12y ago
I don't have an UX31A, but an UX31E --- the touchpad is brilliant (I think mine has the elantech one) Also, I get 7.5 hours on the battery, I wonder what went wrong between the UX31E and the UX31A?
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by klaasvakie 12y ago
So I'll prefix this by saying that I haven't used systemd for anything important yet, but have it running in a VM to see what the impact will be when the distro's force us to switch. It seems that for the "normal" u
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by klaasvakie 12y ago
For a relatively accurate guess to go from miles->kilometres you can use the fibonacci series. If the current number is in miles, the next one will be the same distance in kilometres. Works from 2 onwards. So from 2 3 5 8 13 21 ... you c
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by klaasvakie 12y ago
So if you want to move somewhere off the beaten track your job choices are going to be: 1) Mining 2) Power/Electricity 3) Support for the above. Most companies don't hire in the countries they operate in, since the skills just don
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by klaasvakie 12y ago
Tete is a shithole though --- maybe if I was young and single, but definitely not a place to raise a family.
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by klaasvakie 12y ago
I can't really speak for anything north of the equator, but I have travelled fairly extensively in the southern half of Africa. The impression I get as a visitor to many of these countries is that except for a few big cities it is just
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by klaasvakie 12y ago
Thanks for this kabouseng. As a white South African whose ancestors arrived ~300 years ago, I was wondering how much longer before I was allowed to identify as "African". It's not like I have anywhere else to call home.
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by klaasvakie 12y ago
I have an i.MX5 BSP with a 2.6.xx era kernel :( Can you give an example of the "no longer bring up everything (completely)"?
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by klaasvakie 12y ago
Does anyone know if this quote is true?: "Since systemd is very tightly welded with the Linux kernel API, this also makes different systemd versions incompatible with different kernel versions." I was pretty meh about the whole sy
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by klaasvakie 13y ago
Wow - this is pretty awesome - I just ran a sample BOM and it worked very well. How do you plan to monetize this? Some feature requests (I m sure you have heard these before): 1) Don't require exact part numbers for common passives (10
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by klaasvakie 14y ago
I'm getting ~8 hours with wifi with Ubuntu 12.04 on an Asus Zenbook UX31E. Everything works out the box with no tweaking, see here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AsusZenbook If I had to buy now though, i'd get the UX31A (Full HD IPS i
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by klaasvakie 15y ago
You are attacking the man and not his statement. Would you care to elaborate on why you think he is spewing BS? For the record, I don't think he is very clued up either, but I do think there is some truth in his statement that google sear
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by klaasvakie 15y ago
Just to satisfy my curiosity, when you say it runs linux properly, do you mean that the lightpeak media dock is working under linux? I have looked at the Z21, but I haven't heard many reports about linux+lightpeak, so I am holding off my pu
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by klaasvakie 15y ago
away for the weekend, i'll have to catch you guys next time
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by klaasvakie 15y ago
i'm keen as well, where? Rivonia/Fourways?