nelsnelson [comrade/them, love/loves]

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Cake day: August 18th, 2023

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  • If you do a lot of coding in popular software languages like Java and Python, eventually you will run into open source projects whose comments and documentation and issues are all in Mandarin. There are also Chinese versions of Stack Overflow, where I have to use Google Translate to read the discussion threads.

    It will always be more difficult to understand a language which is not your first, but if there’s a language on this planet that would be useful to learn aside from English, it’s Mandarin.

    I am personally not familiar with any differences in major frameworks between Chinese software ecosystems and American/European ones. But that is surely just my ignorance as a foreigner. Please let us know what you find.















  • Texas is pure insanity, continues to descend into a corrupt oligarchy, with treats and pardons for allies, and slashing public funding for every other conceivable state service.

    Power outages, from ice storms in winter and >100°F Sahara and Arizona level temperatures for months in a row in summer. Hail storms dropping softball size hail on entire neighborhoods, mine included.

    Migrants continue to get their skulls cracked by border patrol and deported, while cartels operate with near impunity, leaving a headless corpse on an interstate highway for police to try to quietly sweep under the rug every year.

    Meanwhile every single person to whom I speak about the clear descent of Western society into fascist, technocratic oligarchy just dismisses my concerns with obtuseness, gaslighting, masturbatory sophistry, or outright defense of fascism in the name of their shallow personal identity.