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by mmsimanga 1y ago
This looks interesting but is a 1Gig download.
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by mmsimanga 1y ago
Oops I should have kept my mouth shut. It will be interesting how the application developers react. Will Firefox or Brave browser stop supporting Windows 10 in a year's time. My work issued device is on Windows and I keep a Windows PC
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by mmsimanga 1y ago
This! From a hardware perspective I do not see any reason to upgrade. I have a gen 7 i5 processor and 16GB or RAM and I have no issues with my current device. I am not sure that Microsoft thought that part through. The problem Microsoft has
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by mmsimanga 1y ago
I rarely win arguments against my wife and anecdotally neither do my male friends. As a manager the most vocal people reporting into me were always the women. Perhaps I have been lucky to be amongst strong women but I find the simingly wide
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by mmsimanga 1y ago
Not to sound snotty but for some reason the more popular a place is the less inclined I am to visit it. But for a lot of people having your picture taken in front of well known places like the Eiffel tower is none negotiable. I love the les
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by mmsimanga 1y ago
WhatsApp is the Internet in two countries I reside in Africa. South Africa and Zimbabwe. Anecdotally this is true for most African countries. Businesses and families depend on WhatsApp.
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by mmsimanga 1y ago
I am in a worse group. Changed my blogging platform, wrote the obligatory post detailing why I changed platform and couldn't even get that obligatory post out. I hang my head
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by mmsimanga 1y ago
Windows still runs on 71% of the desktop and laptops [1]. In my experience a good number of applications start life on simple desktops and then graduate to servers if they are successful. I work in the field of analytics. I have a locked do
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by mmsimanga 1y ago
IMHO if ClickHouse had Windows native release that does not need WSL or a Linux virtual machine it would be more popular than DuckDB. I remember for years MySQL being way more popular than PostgreSQL. One of the reasons being MySQL had a Wi
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by mmsimanga 2y ago
Much like you I too have just woken up from under my rock to find this out. On the bright side it seems we didn't miss anything so as you were.
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by mmsimanga 2y ago
Not OP but OP seemed to be talking about analytical queries. Which typically summarise data over a period of time. For year on year comparisons this is summarising data over two years. So the query would have at least one aggregate function
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by mmsimanga 2y ago
I had a professor firmly in the Linux camp. Whenever he had to touch a computer running windows he wore gloves and goggles just like people working in biohazard environment would dress. I found it amusing rather than antagonistic. It was al
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by mmsimanga 2y ago
I work in a big none tech corp and I cannot install WSL so I can try out Clickhouse.
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by mmsimanga 2y ago
In my observation kids with older siblings tend to develop faster. As in they walk at an earlier age. I guess they get fed up with watching the older kids running around and being left behind. Older kids also often act as deputy parents. So
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by mmsimanga 2y ago
Great to see BIRT mentioned on HN. I use BIRT to generate PDFs for clients. Modern BI tools are about interactivity and real time but PDFs still have a role in BI and BIRT does the job. As it uses JDBC to connect to data sources you can con
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by mmsimanga 3y ago
How long have you been at the company? Did you just join? I ask because no company is perfect. The hardest part which is what many comments seem to be saying is figuring out the "real" problems. Let's take documentation. I te
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by mmsimanga 3y ago
In South Africa you could get a za.net domain for free. They stopped new registrations quite some time back as the spam era of the internet was getting started. I still have my domain and use it for all sorts of different things. From email
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by mmsimanga 3y ago
I think change is gradual not sudden. It tends to be incremental and also tends to be specific to one area. Often if you are involved in the change you don't notice it as much. My grandmother passed over 20 years ago. As a result of he
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by mmsimanga 3y ago
https://art.sourceforge.net/ Business intelligence tool. Not the prettiest but it is like one of those all in one types of tools. Can connect to any data source that has JSBC driver and most databases have a JDBC driver. Re
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by mmsimanga 3y ago
Many politically motivated undertaking leave us better off. Modern day rocket engineers are literally working to get us to click on adverts. No I am not saying let's encourage politically motivated initiatives but not everything that c
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by mmsimanga 3y ago
African liberation movements. The successfully fought colonialism, got into power and instead of dispanding and letting technocrats run the countries to improve things like roads, healthcare, access to water. They continue to "fight&qu
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by mmsimanga 3y ago
On sprint training. Me and a friend figured out that if you moved your arms fast whilst not running a full sprint it gave the appearance that you were trying very hard and coach didn't give you a hard time. Like most slackers instead o
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by mmsimanga 3y ago
Not OP but I am in the process of upgrading my M93P Lenovo Thinkcenter. Uses laptop ram and simple to replace hard drive and RAM. I am far from a hardware guy.
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by mmsimanga 3y ago
+1 WhatsApp. I was in early of Facebook and used it delightedly for a few years. Then it just went spammy for me and I also didn't like that people seemed to drift towards using it to show off their lives as opposed to connecting with
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by mmsimanga 3y ago
I don't use Calibre long enough to be bothered by the UI. I use it for at most 10 minutes every few months. Import Epub, update metadata and send to device. Spend a couple of months reading the books then repeat import process again.
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by mmsimanga 3y ago
I am not going to dispute your opinion but rather point out that people are different. Some people don't mind maintaining old systems and some people love being the person who created a new systems D using new technology. Both sets of
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by mmsimanga 3y ago
Quite a few comments imply that asking for something in writing is mark of distrust. I ask for things in writing because I often forget. Run into manager in kitchen and he or she asks a question. It's not like I had nothing to do, I wa
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by mmsimanga 3y ago
Turtles all the way down
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by mmsimanga 3y ago
Can you explain how the landlord will be prevented from passing on the land tax to the tenant?
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by mmsimanga 3y ago
Could you please elaborate, are you saying taking aspirin was better than the garlic?

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