Jacques 🛠️👔🧩🔎

Tinker, Tailor, Solver, Scrutinizer
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[Sakeliga @Sakeliga]

🔴BREAKING: Businesses in South Africa should ready themselves for several years of tough resistance to the state's race-restrictive EE hiring quotas.

The courts have failed to acknowledge the quotas’ urgent harm, but comprehensive opposition continues.

Here's the latest 🧵

[Jacques 🛠️👔🧩🔎 @jacquesdp]

This is like paying for a BMW & then when you collect your car they tell you they didn't have a BMW but they give you 5 Kia Picantos. I'm definitely getting my 2nd SIM now with Capitec mobile who's data packages don't expire.

[Jacques 🛠️👔🧩🔎 @jacquesdp]

Wow, I have just been basically defrauded by @MTNza from their official app. They allow you to buy packages that don't exist anymore. Then instead of giving you a proper card refund they just give you airtime. 🤬

[Jacques 🛠️👔🧩🔎 @jacquesdp]

Just finished @CrystalDynamics's Tomb Raider (2013) and I think that and Rise of the Tomb Raider are two of my favourite games of all time. Truly amazing adventure and exploration games, with a pretty good story narrative. ❤️❤️❤️

[Sakeliga @Sakeliga]

SA's Outlook for 2025 🔴 @pietleroux and @RussLamberti discuss the GNU, 3rd Wave BEE & resisting key business threats.

https://t.co/qBTJ5fFs2p

[Jacques 🛠️👔🧩🔎 @jacquesdp]

@VGdoes3D @JustineLimLaw @SAPostOffice @CapitecBankSA has this too. They say it will take 5 days, but I've been waiting for 3 weeks now, wasting time every week communicating call centre agents trying to find out when it will be delivered. Absolutely horrible service. Never use Capitec's licence renewal service

[Jacques 🛠️👔🧩🔎 @jacquesdp]

@tekbog 1 of the answers is always, "write better prompts". But if it takes the same amount of time to generate the correct code through prompting than it takes to write it yourself, then what's the point? So if I see the AI stays stupid after some prompts, I just do it myself

[Jacques 🛠️👔🧩🔎 @jacquesdp]

Jeez, the results of LLMs can vary wildly. Sometimes it's just absolutely brilliant (it's the same for ChatGPT, Llama, Claude etc), and other times it's ridiculously stupid even, on trivial things.

[Buitengebieden @buitengebieden]

Elephants taking advantage of a broken down orange truck in South Africa.. 😅

[Jacques 🛠️👔🧩🔎 @jacquesdp]

@SamBayramova What is article 173?

[Jacques 🛠️👔🧩🔎 @jacquesdp]

Well done to Armenia on competing with much bigger and better resourced countries to create a vibrant tech startup and business industry. It's an amazing country and people https://t.co/29efpmCOWC #Armenia

[Jacques 🛠️👔🧩🔎 @jacquesdp]

@WOOLWORTHS_SA can you please add a feature to your Android app so that I can choose whether I want to receive marketing notifications or not. All these fashion marketing messages are seriously annoying.

[Jacques 🛠️👔🧩🔎 @jacquesdp]

@CmdrDats Yea, us hand crafting code devs is a dying breed 😅

[Jacques 🛠️👔🧩🔎 @jacquesdp]

Other devs look at me strange when I tell them I code JavaScript. If you stick to purely functional JS, const's & use a good functional library like Ramda (https://t.co/Xh95F0SPbv), you'll be surprised that it's very similar to working in functional langs like Clojure

[Jacques 🛠️👔🧩🔎 @jacquesdp]

@Richards_Karin I can't speak for the indexing of the Dow, but as a software developer I can tell you that Intel faces some very serious problems. Now that ARM processors are becoming more common on PCs, there's a chance that they will eventually lose most of their market share.

[Jacques 🛠️👔🧩🔎 @jacquesdp]

@stefansmeda Let me know if you find out how. My X AI doesn't show me too much of this, but still enough that it annoys me.

[Jacques 🛠️👔🧩🔎 @jacquesdp]

@pietviljoen Been wondering about this too. It's okay for the state to have gigantic monopolies, but not the private sector. Shouldn't the Competition Commission also advocate for privatizing many of these state entities and encouring competition? I think the state is contradicting itself

[Jacques 🛠️👔🧩🔎 @jacquesdp]

@ovstoica Ah right 👍

[Jacques 🛠️👔🧩🔎 @jacquesdp]

Oh wow. Can't believe I missed this all these years: @Steam Big Picture Mode + my PS4 controller + my @Lenovo LOQ gaming laptop. It's a whole new gaming experience. I'm not sure I'll ever need to go back to playing console games