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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?

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 COVI…

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 co…

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 …

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/…

Thanks for the recommendation You may also enjoy Tinariwen, if you haven't already come across them.

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 …

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 …

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 travelle…

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 si…

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 s…

Happy to help!

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.…

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, tho…

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…

Ah, I see what you're saying. That does make sense.

One does feel very watched in Singapore, though. I remember finding it interesting that there were cameras even inside the buses for public transport.

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 …

> 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 publ…

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, we…

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 …

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 c…

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 …

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 f…

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?