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by mmsimanga 4y ago
I can't fault the theory and can only share an anecdote. It was illegal for school children to smoke when I was in school, 80s into early 90s. So much so that kids caught smoking were expelled from school. Kids still smoked. Perhaps it
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by mmsimanga 4y ago
Sounds like Prohibition but for cigarettes. We know how that went. We also know what banning marijuana hasn't worked out too well. At the start of Covid pandemic South Africa banned the sales of cigarettes for about three months. Resul
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by mmsimanga 4y ago
South Africa has high taxes on cigarettes making cigarettes relatively expensive. The result is black market of unregistered cigarette brands. A good number come across illegally from neighbouring countries. Perhaps NZ being an island natio
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by mmsimanga 4y ago
I presume the two smokers did more than just smoke. If they were parents They probably also provided food, education, love and whole lot of other things than just secondary smoke. Life tends to be a complex mix of good and bad.
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by mmsimanga 4y ago
This. Perhaps HN crowd can afford machines with sizeable amounts of RAM but many people in my family still use old hardware. 2G RAM machines are pretty common from Windows 7 era. I often "upgrade" family members unwilling to buy a
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by mmsimanga 4y ago
Fascinating. I hope someone makes a similar EV vehicle without all the bells and whistles.
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by mmsimanga 4y ago
You should just quit your job
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by mmsimanga 4y ago
You can do this Postgresql. Since I switched over x number of years I have never looked back.
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by mmsimanga 4y ago
There is always too sides to a story. We don't know what pressures the FB engineers were under and the problems they were trying to solve resulting in them "demanding" changes. In the end I think everyone wins with the forkin
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by mmsimanga 4y ago
It feels similar to the sometimes unintended consequence of having more legislation only serving to entrench the incumbents by making it hard for new players to enter. In a couple of African countries I am familiar with it is the same story
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by mmsimanga 4y ago
Anecdote on eye strain, I can't speak to the contrast in bright environments. I am 46 don't need glasses but started feeling the strain of staring at a monitor. Switched to dark mode and my eyes feel better for it. I now use DarkR
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by mmsimanga 4y ago
I am not sure if this counts. Also second hand information but apparently safety in mines has been improved through AI monitoring camera feeds. Alarms/warnings go off when people get to close to certain equipment. This most likely has
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by mmsimanga 4y ago
I am loving the responses to your comment. I want to add that as a grown man in my forties I have a couple of Rasberry Pis and a BBC micros along with some interesting components from Aliexpress which I have done absolutely nothing with but
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by mmsimanga 4y ago
I understand your point. I am undecided about the overall impact. I have spent my life in two countries. One is a dictatorship where the culture is basically to tell the cops the truth to avoid trouble. Not great but the net effect is the c
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by mmsimanga 4y ago
It is nice to be a dominant position like Microsoft because if they weren't they would have put aside their "feelings" and hired Casey to help them out. But they don't need to. Feelings of Microsoft seem more important t
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by mmsimanga 4y ago
To add it's not just languages. I was once assigned to teach Cognos a BI tool that's been around a while. I was given the instructor's manuals to go through. It was then I realised how incredible sophisticated the software wa
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by mmsimanga 4y ago
I can't speak for iPhone but I was always bemused by the line. Until someone responded to one of my messages and I realised my message also ended with sent from my ** phone. I hadn't added the line. I realised on some Android phon
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by mmsimanga 4y ago
On a tangent from the article which discusses the Java the languae. I write SQL for a living and the one thing I like about Java based SQL clients like DBeaver [0], SQL Workbench/J[1] and SQuirreL SQL [2] is that they tend to support m
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by mmsimanga 4y ago
That read like vampire building driven development.
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Mopria – Print and Scan from Android. Supports Most Printer Manufacturers(mopria.org)
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by mmsimanga 4y ago
I wonder if they threw in the towel too soon. I too had a Nokia Windows phone and I loved it. They were popular in South Africa as Nokia was a recognised brand. Bandwidth is still expensive here so most people just need WhatsApp and Faceboo
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by mmsimanga 4y ago
We have baboons and they are smart. They can open all sorts of doors. They ignore you if you are a woman or don't have anything in your hand that could cause them harm. They know how to bluff an attack making you throw away food that i
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by mmsimanga 4y ago
My bank's internet banking page to pay multiple beneficiaries pages is a jumbled mess in Firefox. I haven't bothered to check why but I am guessing it's some grid layout issue. I did write to bank highlighting the issue. It&#
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by mmsimanga 4y ago
I don't know anything about manufacturing but I wonder if problems associated with outsourcing IT overseas are not also experienced in manufacturing.l? Wouldn't having the factory closer give you same benefits as being able to wal
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by mmsimanga 4y ago
This. I got a standup desk and I find it is easier to do some exercise if you are already standing. Not sure why but it is just easier to do some lunges or pick up a kettlebell from standing position than to get up and do the same exercises
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by mmsimanga 4y ago
You are right about the LEFT join coupled with a filter in the WHERE clause sometimes makes the join a normal INNER join. Just when this is the case is difficult for me to work out. This is often a trick question in some SQL assessments I h
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by mmsimanga 4y ago
I remember using the addon too. The reason for the addon had words to the effect that it enabled you to keep track of sites that did not have an RSS feed which was the more standard way getting new web content.
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by mmsimanga 4y ago
I often "favorite" such threads because of the alternatives listed in the comments. I use Multi Commander[0]. I have tried a few of the others over the years but for the last five years or more I haven't moved from Multi Com
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by mmsimanga 4y ago
I have the same attitude as you do. When I was younger I spent so much time tweaking and changing Linux distros and desktops. Now I just install any Debian based distro and enable the dark theme. I pretty much leave everything as default. I
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by mmsimanga 4y ago
I get your point but I was specifically refering to houses in cities that people live in. The majority of houses were mud huts in Zimbabwe and these were not dwellings passed on from generation to generation. This is contrast to cities like

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