wageslave99

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by wageslave99 2y ago
There are a lot of places like this without the leverage that Meta can give you in the future. I think it is definitely a factor for being selected for future positions.
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by wageslave99 2y ago
Yes, for sure. I would be there some years, get some experience and skills and get out.
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by wageslave99 2y ago
I don't agree on that. Having a common language that you can use to communicate with a large number of people is a godsend.
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by wageslave99 2y ago
Argentinians do care since 1931, date where they founded their Academy of Language [1] [1] https://www.asale.org/academias/academia-argentina-de-letras
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by wageslave99 2y ago
"Spain" is not forbidding anything, the RAE [1] and the ASALE [2] are working together in keeping a common tongue. Don't allow some chauvinistic view to cloud your judgement. [1] https://www.rae.es/ [2] http
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by wageslave99 2y ago
You know that the RAE [1] work together with the Asociacion de Academias de la Lengua Española (ASALE) [2], right? You are showing the RAE in bad light, while both the RAE and the ASALE work together when creating new editions of the dictio
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by wageslave99 2y ago
Please note that there is no "standard" Spanish. In the Spain there are multitude of dialects and different variants. Even in the same region (e.g. Andalusia) you can find a ton of different variants. All of them are valid, as the
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by wageslave99 2y ago
You don't know anybody that don't do siesta when on holidays, not during normal working periods. In the cities, people do not stop working midday to nap. Now if you are talking about rural towns, that is another thing.
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by wageslave99 2y ago
This is an inflammatory post without any desire for polite discussion. I doubt you are even from Europe (non-Russian).
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by wageslave99 2y ago
> The point of siesta Nobody takes siestas in Spain but the elderly, children and people without A/C in hot zones in summer, and I suppose in some rural towns as well.
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by wageslave99 2y ago
Why a lot of software engineers have carpentry as a hobby or pivot to that job?
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by wageslave99 3y ago
> Can you imagine a hypothetical education system where students leave secondary school with an advanced-undergraduate level of mathematical maturity? That would have been my dream. > Why or why not? Mathematics is the foundation of s
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by wageslave99 3y ago
Unless you have the same qualifications than scientists, and have your work reviewed by skilled peers, "Doing Your Own Research" equals to "quackery".
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by wageslave99 3y ago
What's the status of a work done without permission? I read that it is illegal and the court order it to be destroyed, but if it would not be destroyed, would the author regain the copyright after Tolkien works are in the public domain
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by wageslave99 3y ago
Apart from the author being a peculiar man... Is the book good? Has anyone read it?
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by wageslave99 3y ago
Thank you! I'm a fan of the Nosferatu type of vampire and didn't know that they were sued by the Stoker Estate!
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by wageslave99 3y ago
Are you sure that if the US gov would not send help to Ukraine, that money will be used to help homeless people?
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by wageslave99 3y ago
More info according to [1]. At 13:10 Redsys (a payment Gateway) experienced an outage for hours[2]. At least around 18:00 it was resolved because I bought some groceries without any issue. Sorry I only found information about this in Spanis
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by wageslave99 3y ago
Not related to the Catalan language but to Pierre Catala: https://github.com/CatalaLang/catala#pierre-catala ( https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Catala )
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by wageslave99 3y ago
Could you put the surname with uppercase letters? That's a convention used in France that I think we should all use. In Spain, where we have two surnames (first one from father and first one from mother in either order), that would mak
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by wageslave99 3y ago
Depending on if my audience are Spanish speaking people or not. If the topic is somewhat related to information technology I don't see the need (even me that I'm a Spanish speaker blog in English about programming from time to tim
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by wageslave99 3y ago
English has many issues (non-phonetic, auxiliar verbs, big lexicon, etc.) I was aiming for a kind of artificial language with a natural language foundations.
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by wageslave99 3y ago
English has its own issues. It is not phonetic and there is no official pronunciation. It also has inconsistencies like using auxiliar verbs to negate ( I do not think this vs I think not this ). However, maybe a standardised pronunciatio
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by wageslave99 3y ago
I mean European languages, in the context of internal migration inside EU. I don't know anything about Indonesian so, it's nice to know my idea is not a crazy one. If Chinese and Indonesian do not have tenses, how they communicate
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by wageslave99 3y ago
I've always thought about having simple dialects of languages: limited vocabulary, only three tenses, no declinations (in the languages they have, i.e. German) and only regular verbs (in the languages they have, i.e. Spanish). Would it
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by wageslave99 3y ago
I did it for a while, for "exposure". Now I keep my own personal technical blog that I consider a technical diary of the things I learn each month.
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by wageslave99 3y ago
Reading about this kind of tradition got me thinking: do anyone name their children with phonetic names? I mean, names that can be read the same in several languages. For example: English-Spanish, French-English, etc. Is there a tradition o
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by wageslave99 3y ago
Bank of America used Python 2 (as of 2016), I suppose they would have updated their software.
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by wageslave99 3y ago
> Al-Andalusia is notable for periods of tolerance between its diverse strata. Al-Andalus was not a particular tolerant kingdom. Some examples: - Almanzor campaigns were famous for his cruelty and slavery of civilians [1] - Civil wars am
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by wageslave99 3y ago
Well, I don't want to rain on your parade, but there are several events of pogroms and massacres against Christians and Jews in the Arab Iberian Kingdoms[1][2]. Of course, most of the Muslims of Iberia were converts. Arabs were the nob

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