Caleb Mzazi

Student of life | Software Engineer | Android.

[Moe @moneyacademyKE]

Fuel prices in Kenya may not drop in June despite global oil prices falling.

This comes after EPRA changed the formula used to price imported fuel, which may delay the impact of lower global fuel costs on local pump prices.

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[Caleb Mzazi @_CalebLangat]

@ngughii @DCI_Kenya @FBI @USNavy @LAPDWestLA @MamaRachelRuto @NPSOfficial_KE @PoliceKE @IG_NPS @NPSC_KE @mfsvlly @rigathi @KindikiKithure @WilliamsRuto @realDonaldTrump @kdfinfo @us_navyseals @DonaldTrump 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[Pop Crave @PopCrave]

Viral judge Frank Caprio has passed away at 88.

[Prof. Feynman @ProfFeynman]

I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong. I have approximate answers and possible beliefs and different degrees of uncertainty about different things, but I am not absolutely sure of anything and there are many things I don't know anything about, such as whether it means anything to ask why we're here. I don't have to know an answer. I don't feel frightened not knowing things, by being lost in a mysterious universe without any purpose, which is the way it really is as far as I can tell.

[Prof. Feynman @ProfFeynman]

Education is the acquisition of knowledge, while intelligence is the ability to use that knowledge to think and reason.

One can be highly educated but not necessarily intelligent, and vice versa.

[Toan Truong @ToanTruong_]

Could anyone become cruel and evil?

Stanford psychologist Philip Zimbardo wanted to find the answer...

In 1971, he built a prison in Stanford's basement and splitted 24 students into guards and prisoners.

What he found next exposed the dark side of psychology…🧵

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

You can now download Grok as its own dedicated app

[Duolingo @duolingo]

an important message from Duolingo

[Spotify Engineering @SpotifyEng]

We migrated @Spotify's Android app — consisting of five million lines of Kotlin, Java, and C++ code — from Gradle to Bazel. Here’s how we did it: https://t.co/W6GwKwIVNt

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Interesting.

We need to rethink how messaging, including email, works overall.

[Ferdinand Bada @Ferdinand_Bada]

Check out ArtMaker that's been featured here as well under the utility tab. Even better now it has KMP support with advanced features like palm rejection and so much more. Cc @_CalebLangat @emmanuelmuturia

[Ferdinand Bada @Ferdinand_Bada]

Let us all meet @droidconke and @GDG_Nairobi to talk about this (including hybrid frameworks) to create smooth drawing experiences like in the https://t.co/w3VqX8Xtnf project we did with @_CalebLangat & @emmanuelmuturia
#androiddev #droidconke #devfest24

[DHH @dhh]

It's rare that an argument is so strong that'll immediately pierce through all the cognitive defenses an opposing mind might muster. So if you only weigh an argument's worth on whether it served to convert someone to your perspective this instant, you'll usually be disappointed. "Right now, right here" is a bad time frame to measure the success of your arguments on. There's a long tail of conversion.

Because even when the best arguments fail to breach the mental walls, they often leave cracks. Cracks which time, new observations, and deeper consideration can open. Until the walls finally crumble, and a perspective is let in.

This might happen five minutes after the debate is over, two weeks later, or even a couple of years from now. Some arguments cause cracks that can take a decade or more to tumble the hardened walls of our mind. Often it's not even clear which exact argument and crack lead to the final change, because a dozen of them developed concurrently.

I've been writing and arguing on the internet for well over two decades. I've seen this pattern time and again. That almost everyone recoils when they face arguments that test or stress their beliefs, opinions, or affiliations. That almost every argument needs time to develop. But that patient persuasion is none the less a mighty force that does move minds.

Ironically, while the act of changing your mind is painful to most people, it's also when enduring connections can be forged. Most of my best friends are those who've changed my mind, and I theirs. Even if it didn't start out like that, even if in the heat of a contested moment we melted the mood. When tempers cooled, a unique opportunity to bond was presented.

These bonds are best sealed with grace. An acknowledgement that changing your mind is difficult for all sorts of social reasons, and that any conversion in perspective will be brittle if it's greeted with scorn and contempt. Whether I TOLD YOU SO or WHAT TOOK YOU SO LONG.

The grace of simply being happy that someone heard what you had to say, and eventually found it compelling. Who cares how long it took, just be happy that they're here now.

[The Long Argument]

[Jonathan Bartlett @jb_61820]

1) Work in an actual industry, not in a "tech space". Tech companies overhire, overpay, then overfire. Industries don't have such a big swing.
2) Contribute work that delivers value to the company. I've seen many developers more concerned about their own code-as-art than the company's bottom line. You *can* care about your code-as-art, but you **must** care more about delivering value to your employer. Think about your salary. Are you delivering at minimum 4x your salary? If not, why should they keep paying you?
3) Solve problems - if we've learned anything, it is that solving problems is what people really want. Tech is just a means to that.
4) Combine 2 & 3 and find problems (real problems, not invented ones) that need solving, perhaps that no one else sees, and be the solution.
5) It's all your job. Don't think "that's not my job". By default it is.
6) Don't get greedy on pay. Modern people always ignore second-order effects. If you are greedy on pay you can be assured that management is figuring out how to make your position unimportant.

To sum up, we often lose sight of the goal of tech - order-of-magnitude enhanced productivity. Instead, we get so enamored by it we tend to think of doing tech-for-tech's-sake, but that is what leads us to no longer being relevant.

[Prof. Feynman @ProfFeynman]

Make critical thinking a foundational subject in education. Teach students how to think critically, analyze information, and discern fact from fiction using scientific methods, creating a more discerning and informed society.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

The 𝕏 algorithm assumes that if you interact with content, you want to see more of that content.

One of the strongest signals is if you forward 𝕏 posts to friends, it assumes you like that content a lot, because it takes effort to forward.

Unfortunately, if the actual reason you forwarded the content to friends was because you were outraged by it, we are currently not smart enough to realize that.

[Ferdinand Bada @Ferdinand_Bada]

Glad to see the SDK we developed(Artmaker) with @_CalebLangat and @emmanuelmuturia has been featured. Thanks @androidweekly

You can find the project here: https://t.co/w3VqX8WVxH

[Caleb Mzazi @_CalebLangat]

@noah_muhindi 😂😂😂😂😂😂

[Kipkalya Kones @MrKipkalya]

News that William Ruto will be "working away from State House" for over months, to allow renovations to be done, just goes to confirm our fears that he is the worst person to ever hold that office. First, he has a luxurious office at Harambee House, so "working away from State House" isn't even a thing. Secondly, there are full State Houses in Nakuru, Kisumu, Mombasa, as well as State Lodges spread out across the country, including Kakamega, Eldoret and a new one coming up in West Pokot, so he neither needs to burden the taxpayer with unwarranted renovations nor does he need to paint the false picture of "missing something" for those two months.
But I can bet my last acre that one of the following holds true;

1. Some prophet, most likely from Nigeria, Dubai or the USA, has told Kenya's ruling couple that State House is haunted by demons and they have to demolish "Uhuru's infrastructure" and build their own.

2. There is likely a multibillion shilling tender in the offing, and being the guru of incompetence and corruption, Mr Ruto has seen a window to siphon more from the exchequer using State House renovations as cover.

3. Ruto and Rachel do not find the current State House luxurious enough and they want to live like real monarchs. It brings to light my earlier post that people who glorify poverty tend to be the most obscene when they come upon wealth.

Regardless, we have to remind Ruto that the people are still HUNGRY, the cost of living is still HIGH and his priorities are still INSANE. Between high electricity costs and the inability to afford farm inputs this planting season, Kenyans are too despondent to afford unnecessary state house renovations just to feed the luxurious tastes of one couple!

[Okong' Okuna @XivTroy]

Why is it so hard to rehabilitate people who have lost some glory? Like Conjestina Achieng, Omosh; what do people lose that cannot be reclaimed despite the abundance of assistance people throw their way? When you are heartbroken, why is it so hard for you to try again?