mikro2nd

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by mikro2nd 6y ago
1. Most of the graft and corruption has been going on at least 7 decades. i.e. Long before the ANC government. 2. "politically motivated assasinations"? Citation wanted, please.
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by mikro2nd 6y ago
Hardly a private company: PostBank is the banking division of the SA Post Office, and firmly a government-run entity.
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Pmarchive: Archive of the best articles from Marc Andreessen's original blog(pmarchive.com)
1 points by mikro2nd 6y ago|0 comments
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by mikro2nd 6y ago
I think your point is very pertinent: People literally advertising what it is they're looking for. I see only two problems with this: 1. It reduces serendipity. And that's the "hallways" thing missing in online interac
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by mikro2nd 6y ago
Unless you're the military.
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by mikro2nd 6y ago
Likewise, if you get hired by Amazon in Cape Town, it's illegal. In South Africa non-competes are only legally valid for top-tier exec-level positions, and even then maybe not.
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by mikro2nd 6y ago
The truth is I am now actually incompetent to help my Windows-using family and friends. The answer is that I really can't help, no matter how much goodwill applies. I recently poked at a friend's Windows10 machine that was hav
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by mikro2nd 6y ago
Gosh, I felt that way about Windows 3.1. It got so bad around Windows 95 that that was when I switched to Linux. I've never used Windows since, so when people ask if I can help them "sort out their PC" the answer is... :)
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by mikro2nd 6y ago
It's called a typoo
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by mikro2nd 6y ago
> “Simply install Flargnle in the normal way…” I've lost count of the number of times I heard/read, "Just type `npm install flargnie` and it'll all work." Only it doesn't. And being unfamiliar with the crapt
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by mikro2nd 6y ago
Mitrovica has some videos on YT that probably do a better job of explaining.
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by mikro2nd 6y ago
Let's see,.. Mitrovica's robust computer modelling vs. your back of the envelope calculations... Wonder which one I'd put money on.
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by mikro2nd 6y ago
/r/exlurker? (Only half joking!)
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by mikro2nd 6y ago
This! Exactly this! The moment you start worrying about which posts/pages people looked at is the very moment you start getting sucked into the vortex that's called "pandering to the crowd". The extreme end of that is
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by mikro2nd 6y ago
False argument. News organisations exercise editorial, budgetary and managerial control over the reporters they hire to investigate and write the news they report. There is a tradition/expectation (sadly in very poor condition in these
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by mikro2nd 6y ago
"in the USA".
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by mikro2nd 6y ago
No RSS - deal breaker.
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by mikro2nd 6y ago
Yep, it's very context-dependent. I was just pulling an example from a hat. Point being that, in general, you learn to communicate a lot more and a lot more explicitly than people are generally used to doing.
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by mikro2nd 6y ago
Hi Victor, Enjoyed your post, and as someone who has worked remote-only for >5 years, can only agree with "not enough [focus] on what work will actually look like and how culture needs to adapt". One area you didn't touch
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by mikro2nd 6y ago
Agreed they're all "more necessary than ever". What interests me is that, at the very same time, so many people (and I'd include myself) bitch and moan about how pisspoor they are at a whole load of stuff. So the more in
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Spatial Agent-Based Covid Model (SABCom)(github.com)
3 points by mikro2nd 6y ago|0 comments
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by mikro2nd 6y ago
I think the parent comment was, too...
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by mikro2nd 6y ago
And, not content with US vs. Brit spellings, my Android phone's autocorrect stubbornly and insistently refuses to spell "fuck", even when I tap the word out a letter at a time. Instead it insists I meant "duck". I
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by mikro2nd 6y ago
"You can only subscribe to the VPN from the United States"
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by mikro2nd 6y ago
Except it definitely is related. Keeping personal browsing and work-related browsing separate without containers is near impossible. At one point I resorted to using different browsers for work vs. personal just to keep things separate.
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by mikro2nd 6y ago
Fair point, though I still think that other nations (and I really do wish them every success!) have had a huge helping hand by leveraging the US's pioneering work on the engineering side. I guess my point is that the US ought to capita
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by mikro2nd 6y ago
Every kind of discoverability in the internet is horrible and uneven, and unevenly favoured by present-day discovery engines (the GRAFT). I blogged about this some months ago: https://one.mikro2nd.net/2020/01/dis
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by mikro2nd 6y ago
The most obvious retort -- the one that springs to mind first, is, "What makes you think that?" But that's not really the most useful question... More usefully, I'd ask, "Why the Moon?" The US has been there, t
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by mikro2nd 6y ago
There are a (fairly small) number of use-cases where Chromium-like behaviour is needed (my 90% of the time browser is FF) but I don't want a browser that's reporting my every move back to Google. AFAIK Brave fits that need. And no
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by mikro2nd 6y ago
haveibeenpwned.com ?

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