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by timbaboon 2y ago
Yep. I skipped a tech conference in Feb where we announced a major partnership with a Canadian company (I’m from South Africa). I do not want to travel to the US in the current climate.
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by timbaboon 2y ago
Mine won’t activate because I have Siri and my iPhone set to different versions of English… according to Apple. Both are set to English (South Africa), but it still thinks they are different and so won’t activate. I am not complaining!
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by timbaboon 2y ago
This is exactly what a dentist tried to do to me! My normal dentist wasn’t available so I saw another one (she had great google reviews!). This dentist said I had a tooth that was bad and she would have to do an implant, but then I should d
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by timbaboon 2y ago
Think of all that time spent commuting that could be used delivering share holder value... Now it's wasted, just so that people can come in to the office. SO MUCH WASTED POTENTIAL SHARE HOLDER VALUE
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by timbaboon 2y ago
The best one I got recently was after I pointed out that the method didn’t exist, it proposed another method and said “use this method if it exists” :D
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by timbaboon 2y ago
There are many countries where this is not true. Look up loadshedding in South Africa, for example.
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by timbaboon 2y ago
“Remain neutral on all topics. Do not start responses with the word "Certainly". Do not ever lie to me.” Still doesn’t listen to the second instruction most of the time, and then apologises when I point it out.
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by timbaboon 2y ago
When I started working and was no longer a broke student, I started streaming or renting content. I guess I’m a bit of an outlier in that I rarely buy (or want to buy any content). However, when I can’t find the content on any platforms… wh
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by timbaboon 2y ago
Haha amazing, I’ve now just discovered that some places don’t use duvets. I thought (naively) that it was worldwide…
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by timbaboon 3y ago
That’s a bit better than my experience with DHL :) they’ve delivered packages to random people multiple times across the UK, France, Switzerland and South Africa. Important documents they’ve handed over to strangers, like my passport, for e
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by timbaboon 3y ago
One of my biggest frustrations with going to brick and mortar stores is getting all the way there to find that they don't have stock of whatever I'm looking for. Sure, I can call ahead or check their website, but often that is no
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by timbaboon 3y ago
This caused so many issues in one of our systems. Lesson learnt :)
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by timbaboon 3y ago
It's not stupid if it works...
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by timbaboon 3y ago
Yes, I noticed this for the first time last night! I am not amused....
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by timbaboon 3y ago
Same at my current job
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by timbaboon 3y ago
How much of that is down to C++ and how much of it is just ROOT? ;)
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by timbaboon 3y ago
I work for a large insurance company. We had moved from on-prem to Aurora, but our design strategy did not get updated in the process, and our IO costs were about 80% of our total AWS bill. We just switched to this new IO optimised pricing
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by timbaboon 3y ago
Yeah, my cx-3 has this. I love it. I wouldn't want to go back to a normal touchscreen in my car.
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by timbaboon 4y ago
As a data scientist at a large corporate I find this is often the push… but I resist every time and tell people what they don’t want to hear. Maybe I’m playing this whole corporate ladder thing wrong :/
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by timbaboon 4y ago
Yeah this is the approach I’ve taken. From watching YT everyday to now watching maybe one video a week. I find I read much more now… and none of my books have ads in them :)
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by timbaboon 4y ago
End of 2020 I had a serious bike accident. I was specifically riding slowly and carefully because I did not want to fall and end up in hospital - in the middle of the second wave in SA and a shortage of hospital space. Even so, I had the
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by timbaboon 4y ago
South African here and I have nothing polite to say about Marmite ;)
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by timbaboon 4y ago
Well, I enjoyed seeing the ridiculous responses you got… so thank you :D
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by timbaboon 5y ago
This is why ;) https://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/society/60-year-old-who-...
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by timbaboon 5y ago
Same :D
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by timbaboon 5y ago
Yeah my gf, granny, and dad are my issue :( so stubborn and refuse to move. Okay granny is technologically unable to really :P
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by timbaboon 5y ago
Lol first pass I was like, it’s Spark not Sparks, and it’s Jupyter not Jupiter, and then wondered what these other cool sounding things were.
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by timbaboon 5y ago
Nope. Having someone friendly that can’t do they job, who you then have to cover for? That breeds resentment… well for me anyway
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by timbaboon 5y ago
Our IT dept at work is super strict with everything, to the point that I don’t even bother accessing anything work related on any device other than my work machine. Nor am I allowed to actually (so these tools like Legend are by default unu
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by timbaboon 5y ago
Hacker News causes success of future tech trends :P

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