there are a number of countries that are neutral and unlikely to sanction anyone else, though one might argue about their democratic credentials, with a minor or major stretch. brazil, mexico, chile, colombia, costa rica, uruguay (just to name a few in latin america), andorra, malta, san marino, india, south africa…

the point that really got me was “I’m Finnish. Did you think I’d be supporting Russian aggression?”.

in the end, it’s nato-stan all day long. tired of this.

good take. the shift began at a point where not only work became more deregulated, but women were pressed to work out of home and accumulate both their jobs and the function of homemaker. you start to fight more for your rights, and men start to believe the neocon “rights for men” mumbo-jumbo.

that sounds too adventurous. most of the time it’s just red dwarf.

someone bring the hero of socialist labour insignia to this working class champion.

shout shout let it all out

the first contact i had with linux back in mid-90’s brazil was with my isp’s login terminal, which displayed some arcane text reading “red hat linux version x.x”. after that, during my father’s final years working in bank of brazil he had to deal with cobra’s homemade distro in his workstations (cobra had developed an unix in the 80s that run on m68k’s, so no surprises here). it was an absolutely esoteric system to those who only knew the dos/windows 3.11 duo, since w95 only arrived in our country in numbers only in 96. the thing really caught on during the early to mid-2000’s, with faster and cheaper adsl connections, and with them, abundant knowledge and downloads available to any script kid.

My biggest concern over .NET is exactly how closed Microsoft-land can be. For what I’ve seen so far, with the notable exception of perhaps Unity, pretty much everything else gravitates around MS and there’s no way of leaving it.

Thanks. For the record, the Brazilian government, where I work also loved Java.

tbh i have no problem with curly brackets either. even though my first language was freebasic (!), i have worked more with curly bracket languages and actually find them quite useful, if not powerful.

funny thing is that the project page of hvm actually recommends bend.

Bend is the human-readable language and should be used both by end users and by languages aiming to target the HVM. (https://github.com/HigherOrderCO/HVM?tab=readme-ov-file#language)

how do you compile code with gnu parallel? i mean, i’m really ignorant on parallel and at first glance it seemed that there’s no way of compiling separate chunks of code with it.