okal

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by okal 2y ago
What incentive do they have to make Ozempic resistant food? Ozempic resistance seems like an odd thing to optimize for. Or are you suggesting it will happen accidentally?
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by okal 3y ago
The referendum was based on a set calendar. The French central government refused to have it rescheduled. The Kanaky nationalists were opposed to having it run in the thick of COVID. The trajectory was in their favour, based on previous ref
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by okal 3y ago
This is misleading in the extreme. The Kanaky separatists boycotted the referendum. Something I find equally interesting is how apologists for European colonialism are perfectly content to claim 60 years is a long time (with the implication
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by okal 3y ago
GraphQL is well over a decade old. I'm not sure "tried and tested" is a meaningful contrast between the two approaches at this point, especially as it relates to API requests from the frontend. It's okay for people to ch
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by okal 3y ago
Haha! I thought we were just trading desert blues today. Here's some Kenyan fare for you, an odd mix of things: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ig9DHit6K8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Or2sMfOcTtw
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by okal 3y ago
Thanks for the recommendation You may also enjoy Tinariwen, if you haven't already come across them.
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by okal 3y ago
It does, actually Quite unexpectedly, too. I have an American friend who keeps recommending places I should visit in the States, but I always respond by saying I don't want to get shot or racially profiled. It's a source of const
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by okal 3y ago
That may well be true for your one experience in Tanzania. I wasn't there with you. I have neither a reason, nor the desire to counter your personal experience. Here's what I find baffling. You had a single, curated, extremely lim
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by okal 3y ago
Where in Africa? People just use Uber or alternatives, and it works fine pretty much everywhere I've been (I'm Kenyan. I've lived in South Africa for extended periods, and travelled extensively in Namibia and Tanzania). I&#x2
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by okal 3y ago
The annexations, and proxy wars in Africa weren't relevant? I'm struggling a little to reconcile your two statements, that you simultaneously don't have much knowledge about the situation, but seemingly enough to decide that
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by okal 4y ago
Would you mind unpacking how, in your view, Go/Rust/compiled strongly-typed languages lead to more *reliable* software? I can see how performance and maintainability* are sort of self-evident arguments in favour of them, but not s
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by okal 4y ago
Happy to help!
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by okal 4y ago
I keep getting so irritated by the cursor, that my brain completely refuses to process the contents of the page. So irritated, in fact, that I forgot I could switch to Reader Mode. I really wish they'd provided a way to disable it.
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by okal 5y ago
PouchDB has offered something like that for close to a decade now, if I'm not mistaken. Might be worth looking into. It is document-based, though, rather than relational+graph, though I suppose you could build graph utilities on top of
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by okal 5y ago
An interesting Romance counter-example is "Obrigado" vs "Obrigada" ("thank you", in Portuguese). I'm not even remotely fluent, but if I recall correctly, the gender is dependent on the speaker, not the per
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by okal 5y ago
Ah, I see what you're saying. That does make sense.
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by okal 5y ago
One does feel very watched in Singapore, though. I remember finding it interesting that there were cameras even inside the buses for public transport.
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by okal 5y ago
A few questions: How well did British colonisation work out for Native Americans? That would be a more fitting comparison to make. Look at life in the reservations. Did the Romans meddle in British affairs after they were booted from the is
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by okal 5y ago
> Instead, people are given equal opportunity to incite discussion "Equal" how? This seems to suggest that a random person sharing their musings with their social circles on a public account, vs, say, Trump pre-ban don't h
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by okal 5y ago
I don't know if it's common, but I did this a couple of times at war memorial cemeteries in different parts of Kenya when I was younger. They can be some of the most accessible, well maintained, open green spaces in some areas.
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by okal 5y ago
Same here. I live in Nairobi. The air quality here isn't all that good, but I acquired a newfound appreciation for it when I visited Gurgaon in India a few years ago. When I first landed, I actually mistook the dense smog for clouds. I
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by okal 6y ago
She's a materials scientist. I'd wager that she's considered all of these factors. She's also been doing this for a while, and produced tonnes (literally) of these for, if I read correctly, a year and a half. Maybe consi
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by okal 6y ago
Why do you think/feel that there are "too many"? What's the threshold for an acceptable number of microservices? (Not asking this to be confrontational. Just curious, because it's a sentiment I've seen before,
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by okal 6y ago
I've been doing that lately (1.5x-2x), but taking notes, and making sure to work on any exercises provided after the lecture. I need notes for retention even at 1x, so it doesn't feel like extra work.
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by okal 6y ago
This is interesting to me. Do you care _why_ the apps you use are performant, if they already are? Is it noticeably impacting the performance of other apps you're actively using?
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by okal 6y ago
I think a lot of people are extrapolating from their experience with monoliths and imagining that Monzo devs are maintaining 1600 tiny monoliths. That's an anxiety-inducing thought.
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by okal 6y ago
"Definitely" is a strong word. I'd imagine that it's designed so that you don't need more than a few to interact with each in real time to fulfill a business process. I think people's anxiety around this comes
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by okal 6y ago
I'm generally quite against shared libs across services for this very reason. Share patterns, sure. But code? You end up coupling services in ugly ways, because Team X has to think about how Team Y will be impacted if they need to make
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by okal 6y ago
There's a lot of back office tech you need to build/buy if you're working in consumer, or financial tech. Monzo is both. Most people in working at a bank aren't finance workers. There are entire domains that will never b
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by okal 6y ago
I think that's the point. It's a set of simple services. A microservice is as simple as it gets. I imagine that orchestration can become hellish at a certain point, but every team works on a few simple microservices, rather than o

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