Lukorito

I'm the guy you call when you have a complex software project at hand that'll need 5+ developers to pull off. Whether you're starting from scratch or it's an abandoned program. I'll manage & hire devs, design the solution architecture & liaise with exec stakeholders to the finish

I told myself this the last two world cups. Beginning to think it'll never happen.

People are abusive parents out here inflicting pain on children and then wonder why their children run away 🤷‍♂️

@Osama_otero It's the same soda, but glass is inert and does not interact with the soda, leaving the original taste intact. Plastic leaches into the soda in form of microplastics and changes the taste.

Nikama soda ya chupa ya glass huwa imported halafu ya chupa ya plastic ni made in Kenya. Kwanza cocacola and fanta orange. Kuna a very huge difference in terms of taste.

It's the same soda, but glass is inert and does not interact with the soda, leaving the original taste intact. Plastic leaches into the soda in form of microplastics and changes the taste.

AI is already used to kill. In ukraine, remotely controlled drones used to be jammed. They solved this by using long fiber optic cables. Then these can be cut and traced. Now the drones are equipped with self determing ai and make kill decisions by themselves. ​When a drone loses its signal or approaches a target zone, it no longer relies on a human operator or a physical cable. It uses onboard computer vision to identify targets, track movement, and execute lethal strikes entirely on its own. The machine makes the final kill decision.

I'm in Somalia and there equivalent of MPesa mobile money, EVC, is totally free. No matter the amount. Be it sending money to someone, buying goods, paying bills, all free! In Kenya we're being robbed blind by transaction fees.

Today, the U.S. government is taking action to promote accountability for heinous acts against Boniface Mwangi and Ugandan Agather Atuhaire.

I buy my shoes from a series of shops in Nairobi cbd called Emirates. They're Arsenal themed and all their staff are mandated to wear Arsenal jerseys as work uniform. I wonder how they're celebrating, they'll be my first stop when I get back to Kenya.

Back to winning ways! Well in @Arsenal !

@CodeNomadly Oh yes... microservices allow us to hire 50 more devs to watch the 50 different grafana dashboards, thus creating employment

@Lukorito_ The real tradeoff is observability. Monoliths fail loudly, microservices fail quietly unless you invest heavily in tracing and correlation IDs.

A monolithic architecture means your entire application breaks in one obvious place. Microservices allow your application to break in fifty completely unidentifiable places simultaneously. We transitioned to microservices so the blame for outages can be distributed fairly across all teams.

The game the politicians are playing pale ground, hapa online tutashangaa two term ikifika. My cousin was burying her baby. One politician cleared the hospital and mortuary bill in exchange of addressing the mourners. The area MP bought food and tents. Governor Wamatangi, the sitting senator, and several other politicians all sent hearses and buses to transport mourners to the cemetery. These buses were more than the modest ceremony needed, we had to send some away. Entire burial budget was covered by donations from waheshimiwa. I know we are all against such handouts and would rather have systems that work for everyone so we won't need harambees to clear hospital bills and bury our kin. But when people in Kanunga village witness politicians showing up for them personally in this manner, who's to blame for wanting to vote two-term or any way these politicians might demand? Didn't our ancestors tell us that kila mwamba ngoma huvuta upande wake, na aisifuye mvua jua imemyea?

Of the Kapenguria Six, only Bildad Kaggia refused to engage in corruption and land grabbing. At a rally in Gatundu, Kenyatta said to Kaggia, "We were jailed together. Now we are free. Why do you remain poor while we are taking land and developing ourselves?"

Kaggia replied that he had fought for the freedom of the people, not for personal enrichment. Kenyatta’s response, according to multiple accounts, was essentially: “If you want to remain poor, that is your business.”

@tigawanna Yeah, but it's a relief there's no petty crime. Here you go big and assassinate the president or go home

@Lukorito_ The country you're referring to has been at war for decades and is currently in like 5 pieces

In Mogadishu these thieves would have had their hands cut, and it would be livestreamed. Nobody who watches that would ever steal again. Very effective in my book.

JKIA in Nairobi is terrible, but Nigeria's Murtala Muhammed is worse. Infrastructurally, too, but more so because of the people hustling you INSIDE the airport. I've flown to places like Mogadishu and Lagos. There, hawkers start harassing you even before you pick your luggage. Money changers carrying wads of notes, taxi drivers, potters who forcefully take your luggage and later demand a hefty fee, hawkers selling all manner of stuff. The solicitation starts politely, but they soon become aggressive. You get very tired having to tell each one of them no several, and it causes great friction and mental fatigue. Yeah, Kenya is disorganised and all, but at least the haranguing typically starts after you've left the terminal, and it's mostly polite taxi drivers who understand when you tell them you've already called an Uber.

it is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife

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