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lactobacillison Stalking her daughter’s killers across Mexico, one by one

But isn't aren't drugs de-facto legal in Mexico anyway? The cartels are thought to control the police, judges and politicians enough that they do not fear the rule of law much. If drugs were legalized in Mexico, wouldn't the cartels do what cartels do anyway and prevent everyone else from producing?

Or do you mean make it legal at the destination - the US?

lactobacillison Caramel: An OCaml to Erlang Compiler

Does Swish (https://github.com/becls/swish) fit anywhere in your list?

lactobacillison SQLite now allows multiple recursive SELECT statements in a single recursive CTE

Can you please expand on this. Thanks

lactobacillison Gabe Newell applies for NZ residency

Does he have any weird political opinions/stances? Asking for a kiwi friend

lactobacillison Fossil

And thanks for the great service!

lactobacillison Fossil

Quick question. Is the entire thing on one SQLite db?

lactobacillison Modern C

Is this a good resource for someone using it to improve their C skills, and not necessarily writing a lot of C?

lactobacillison New Data on T Cells and the Coronavirus

That is what vaccines do as I understand it.

lactobacillison Essays on programming I think about a lot

Joe Armstrong's PhD thesis 'Making reliable distributed systems in the presence of software errors' is good reading.

http://erlang.org/download/armstrong_thesis_2003.pdf

lactobacillison Bulgaria writes new chapter in long story of demographic decline

Looks like the fear and loathing is still there in Bulgaria.

lactobacillison Using Lua as a Serialization Format

The are a few lua lapis users out there: https://leafo.net/lapis/

lactobacillison Pros and Cons of Nim

People complain about lack of generics and proper try/except/finally in Go. Nim has both.

lactobacillison Books I recommend to my software engineering students

Not if he outsourced the reading of said book to a foreign company. He would would have to check if their reading was the same as his every hour for 18 months that would have taken him 3 days to read it himself. Slowly.

lactobacillison Ask HN: Absolute noob here, what programming language to learn to land job with?

Identify companies you want/can potentially work for. Find out their skill requirements. Contact them directly - it is worth a shot.

Generally though, and in my neck of the woods - Java is very widely used. So is .Net (mostly C#), Python and JavaScript.

If I had to start again like you, I would go hard on Python first. It is relatively easier, and there is also the great potential to build your own apps with it. Potential employers are easily impressed with personal projects.

lactobacillison Human gut bacterial enzyme ingests L-dopa and converts it to dopamine

That begs the question of course: What are normal healthy eating habits?

Our eating habits have been formed by mass marketing for many decades so I would not call them normal. Even the fresh fruit and vegetables I see in the supermarkets (Coles and Woolworths in Australia) do not look normal.