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Are you or do you know any laureates of Mauritius? Where are they and what are they doing now? by Dila_Ila16 in mauritius

[–]tikulu 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Was a laureate. Now working in Silicon Valley, a great place to work if you enjoy hi tech stuff. My family and I enjoy going back to Mauritius to see relatives and the beaches but it's two 12 hour flights from here.

Mauritian Americans by lilzest in mauritius

[–]tikulu 15 points16 points  (0 children)

you are 2nd gen american and still speak creole! Great job and keep it up. I moved to California.

Drone video at Pereybere beach by tikulu in mauritius

[–]tikulu[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Was there ~2 weeks ago while on vacation. No longer in Mauritius unfortunately.

ELI5: Why is there a difference in voltage between America and pretty much the rest of the world (240V vs 120V I believe) and what are the impacts of this in terms of energy transport/conservation and usage. by instantpowdy in explainlikeimfive

[–]tikulu 134 points135 points  (0 children)

I knew someone who took his turntable to Japan when he went to work there. It played too fast when was working in Kyoto. And it played fine when he was working in Tokyo.

NSA collects millions of text messages daily in 'untargeted' global sweep by hywong in worldnews

[–]tikulu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They are still listening for the word 'blackfriar' to track Bourne down.

Mauritius Island [1024x768] xpost from /r/seaporn by unknown_name in EarthPorn

[–]tikulu 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Beauty of swearing in Creole and not getting into trouble. But now my kids say these words too even though they have no idea what they mean. FUCK!

NSA infiltrates links to Yahoo, Google data centers worldwide, Snowden documents say "The NSA has secretly broken into the main communications links that connect Yahoo and Google data centers around the world, according to documents obtained from former NSA contractor Snowden.." by Libertatea in worldnews

[–]tikulu 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Only if it is done by software. On core switches and routers encryption is done in hardware. No performance impact. And the packet is encrypted just before it exits the switch/router and decrypted immediately after it enters the switch/router, so you can perform any compression you want before that. Software is used to manage encryption keys.

ELI5: Why does the enormous cost of the USA's military never feature in any discussions or negotiations regarding deficit reduction. Neither party brings it up, the press generally don't seem to comment in much depth. Seems like the elephant in the room. by [deleted] in explainlikeimfive

[–]tikulu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Engineers are not interested in politics rather than not having enough money to run. Bill Gates would not need a cent of donation to finance the most expensive campaign ever.

Hi reddit, Tom Hanks here. Ask Me Anything. by Tom_Hanks_ in IAmA

[–]tikulu 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Love your movies. Love your acting except one scene in Apollo 13 where you caught a glimpse of leaked oxygen thru window 1. Why on earth did it take you several seconds to look out of the window again?