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What languages do you speak?
  • in addition to my native brazilian portuguese, i'm fluent in english and basic to intermediate level in spanish and french. i can understand and speak roughly some german and russian too (started the courses, but never finished). my objective is to someday learn both german and russian up to intermediate level, and then go for some arabic, mandarin, kongo, nheengatu (an old creole language that mixed tupi-guarani and portuguese) and esperanto.

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    Are your grandparents and parents nice or tolerant people?
  • more or less. my grandparents are already dead, but as far as i remember the last one living of them which i had contact with (my mother's mother) was ok with lgbtq+ people (as far as defending their right to marriage) and quite concerned with the rights of disabled, but was somehow racist towards black and indigenous people, and could not stand demonstrations of social movements (i.e. sit-ins from landless workers and squatters, strikes and the like). my parents go about the same, but my mom is much less racist.

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    Private Capital vs Central Planning
  • now go check out who's got the best rail services around the world. with the possible exception of japan, who's still got some measure of trouble with some of their private operators, nearly all of the rail operators who are consistently good are state owned.

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    What's an immediate turn off in a person?
  • in a sense you did, but some people do sweat too much, beyond what would be reasonable given environmental factors. it's called hyperhidrosis and can be treated, and you could even find another underlying condition that may cause it, instead of simply bad regulation of the sweat glands or nerves that control them. go check a doctor, don't suffer for no reason.

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    What's an immediate turn off in a person?
  • most gun enthusiasts are straight-out idiots, if not fascists/authoritarians. you can fit nice people within this hobby inside a samba bus.

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    Protestation
  • my take: there's no class struggle without recognition of other oppressions, such as those of women, black people, indigenous people, immigrants, queer and so on. because they can happen even within a revolutionary context.

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    What's an immediate turn off in a person?
  • changing and expecting people to accept that change unconditionally.

    diametrically disagreeing with your partner on some important issue of your relationship and only mentioning it way after things got serious.

    bad hygiene (for olodumarè's sake, bathe daily, and if possible brush your teeth at least twice a day).

    as mentioned before, being a jerk towards service providers and elderly without reason, and towards kids in general.

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    Is the Java ecossystem of languages and related stuff a thing, professionally?

    I'm in the course of pursuing a change in my career towards software engineering/architecture. So far I've been brought mostly to C#/.NET and Java, though Java attracts me more, even considering that it might be a "dying" language. Still, Scala and Clojure are there, so I thought that they might give a pump at least to JVMs. In your opinion, should I invest in pursuing certifications/jobs in this field, or sticking to C#/.NET is a better path?

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    Your opinions on Bend

    github.com GitHub - HigherOrderCO/Bend: A massively parallel, high-level programming language

    A massively parallel, high-level programming language - HigherOrderCO/Bend

    New language promises to reduce compilation times by using all threads and gpu cores available on your machine. What's your opinions on it so far?

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