A father that loves his kids, technology and nature!
Joined May 2011
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9 Dec 2020
@mitsu_motors I bought a brand new demo model 2019 Triton 5000kms on the clock. Currently at 38,000kms. A belt has began wining and you tell me it is not covered by your warranty. Three things:
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@Vodacom after three months of you not able to admit that you are throttling my connection and continuing to uselessly reset my connection just to get back here… let me show you and any potential victim what your service delivery looks like when doing a speedtest from one tower:
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This is a 2TB un throttled 24 month contract and im connecting to the same tower as there is only one reachable tower in my area.
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Riggs Swanepoel retweeted
11 Jul 2025
Who used Winamp?!
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11 Jul 2025
When it comes to any purchase, apply the Pareto Principle and not the PopularETO Principle™ please…
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7 Jul 2025
WILD CONNECTION - Award Winning Short Documentary youtu.be/9cm753kp0uo?si=v_Lo… via @YouTube
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24 May 2025
Human creation - within the universe - has always worked in the realm of probability and not the absolute. Yet everywhere I go people are making absolute claims of the future with AI. Weird… I hope we still get to build systems. I consider this to be a creative process.
Anthropic researchers: “Even if AI progress completely stalls today and we don’t reach AGI… the current systems are already capable of automating ALL white-collar jobs within the next 5 five years”
It’s over.
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17 Apr 2025
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13 Apr 2025
PostgreSQL finally finished the test. In this case, MySQL was 360 times faster. The chart below shows the bottleneck in PostgreSQL — experienced people will recognize the issue at a glance. No wonder it’s rarely used in Chinese internet companies.
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9 Apr 2025
The most important take away for me is not the nifty numbers per se but the idea that your process/program moves through a series of finite states and the collective time it took to complete is called performance. Also, small tends to get big - it’s a pattern
9 Apr 2025
Numbers every computer engineer should know:
1. L1 cache reference: 1 ns
2. Branch mispredict: 3 ns
3. L2 cache reference: 4 ns
4. Mutex lock/unlock: 17 ns
5. Main memory reference: 100 ns
6. Compress 1K bytes with Zippy: 0.01 ms
7. Send 1K bytes over 1 Gbps network: 0.01 ms
8. Read 1 MB sequentially from memory: 0.25 ms
9. Round trip within same datacenter: 0.5 ms
10. Disk seek: 10 ms
11. Read 1 MB sequentially from network: 10 ms
12. Read 1 MB sequentially from disk: 30 ms
13. TCP packet round trip between continents: 150 ms
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9 Apr 2025
As far as I can tell thus far, AI is just a better version of code-completion with just as many hits as misses within the IDE as before… you still have to tell it what to do and then mark its homework. My fear is caused by the ensuing code quality and (business) logic error…
9 Apr 2025
As an old(er) software engineer, I am two weeks into my reluctant journey of investigating AI.
My reluctance comes from a desensitisation to obligatory buzz of the industry. Feels like Ive seen this movie before… you have to have a story to be able to *sell* something, right?!
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7 Apr 2025
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9 Dec 2020
@mitsu_motors I bought a brand new demo model 2019 Triton 5000kms on the clock. Currently at 38,000kms. A belt has began wining and you tell me it is not covered by your warranty. Three things:
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24 Jan 2022
@mitsu_motors Your tow in service advised me to stop and start the car and said since the amber engine light was all that showed up with normal gearbox operation having returned, I could drive to pta where I immediately brought the car in.
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24 Jan 2022
@mitsu_motors Please tell me and other owners of this bakkie how it is that you then expected me to not only pay R5500 for the service but also accept this bakkie back as “working” because you exchanged the oil *only*?!! You ought to replace the gearbox under warranty…
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