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by bokkies 20d ago
Popular in South Africa also and remains one of the very few credit card processors where you can bill in USD and remit in ZAR (no Stripe in SA)
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Spotify to Label AI 'Artists'(theguardian.com)
3 points by bokkies 1mo ago|0 comments
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by bokkies 3mo ago
The thing is now the average Joe doesn't need to. Just tell Claude to fix it
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by bokkies 4mo ago
Feels like my scroll is hallucinating
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by bokkies 4mo ago
Yep, or the hose that was being used to water the playing field. Ah the sweet taste of pfas on a hot summers day
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by bokkies 4mo ago
There are some corn/rice pastas that are pretty close to the real deal. Sure a seasoned pasta officianado could tell the difference, but we have gluten intolerant in the house so predominantly eat gluten free pastas. Never had a visito
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by bokkies 4mo ago
I remember flying in the 80s (and early nineties in parts of Europe) and always got 'air-sick' which made flying awful. Only after smoking was banned did I realise I wasn't motion sickness but it was instead poisoning from th
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by bokkies 5mo ago
Apparently glm5.1 and qwen coder latest is as good as opus 4.6 on benchmarks. So I tried both seriously for a week (glm Pro using CC) and qwen using qwen companion. Thought I could save $80 a month. Unfortunately after 2 days I had switched
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by bokkies 5mo ago
It reads as a stream of thought. I quite enjoyed it. He can't get his kids off the computer, are they gaming? Or on Facebook (unlikely given their ages). Sounds like the alternative they've been given is cleaning the house. My kid
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by bokkies 8mo ago
Since this accepts all marine, freshwater and sky animals (birds) also this could take a very long time. For a bit more of a challenge in a shorter time list all animals starting with a particular letter. Time yourself a couple minutes to p
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by bokkies 10mo ago
What are devs using to run Gemini agents in vscode? 2.5pro on Cline/Roo was pretty buggy compared to Claude/gpt4/5 (also using Cline /roo), kept getting stuck in loops outputting repeated text and many editing issues, an
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by bokkies 1y ago
And many irreplaceable ships will be sitting ducks for mid range missiles
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by bokkies 1y ago
Not just nickel and diming with cars, in Germany/Switzerland/Austria you have to pay to use toilets in service stations, showers in campsites (2min hot water per payment) and dozens of other micro payments for things that are free
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by bokkies 1y ago
I've never used bread as a yogurt starter, but I have used yogurt to kickoff a starter to bake sourdough bread. Takes a few days before the starter starts growing nicely but makes sense it can go both ways.
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by bokkies 1y ago
And the many keen HN readers down in South Africa! (also CET)
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by bokkies 1y ago
Needed a new SIM in the UK recently so ordered a pay as you go one from Vodafone. Discovered to my horror that the new payg 'plus' can only be used with an app (that's locked to UK Google play Store) and a credit card for mon
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by bokkies 1y ago
Application error An error occurred in the application and your page could not be served. If you are the application owner, check your logs for details. You can do this from the Heroku CLI with the command heroku logs --tail
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by bokkies 1y ago
Back in 2015 I walked 2 miles to a bowling alley tagged on Google maps (in Northwich, England) with my then gf...imagine our surprise when we walked in to a steamy front room and reception desk, my gf asks 'is this the bowling alley&#x
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by bokkies 1y ago
Also Cape Town is a city in South Africa..no idea where Capetown is
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by bokkies 1y ago
Seek by inaturalist
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by bokkies 1y ago
Toy's R Us 'R' still in most the big malls in South Africa. Was dragged around just the other day. Haven't changed much since the 80s/90s
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by bokkies 2y ago
I have 20 hens and 2 roosters (living in a country village where neighbours like the authentic rural vibes) I buy 50kg of feed every 6 weeks for (equivalent)$23. Outside of winter we average 7-12 eggs a day and in winter about 2-4 a day. Wh
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by bokkies 2y ago
I have a sunsynk inverter which is the same hardware as deye but apparently different software. I have it hooked up to a Pi4b running home assistant using this https://github.com/kellerza/sunsynk and it has no direct