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I used to live in a slaughterhouse district where the damn things would crawl out of sink, bidet and shower plugs, making every single trip to the bathroom a very anxiety ridden experience. Plus they were of the flying variety, and occasionally, of the albino variety. I personally hate them and I relish on the fact I live somewhere where they're not that prominent, but I do recognize they're as essential as any other insect and a potential food source.

Although I understand the middle ages' worldview was entirely christian and thus tracing the evolution on the symbolic perception of animals would involve tracing it through christian authors I'd contest that to fully understand the origin of this symbolism one has to broaden the view a lot further than St. Augustine... 2nd 3rd century christian texts and thought emerge from a very very cosmopolitan world where pagan conceptions of the nature of reality (i.e. neoplatonism, orphism, chaldean theology) are mixing with the newly emergent jewish sect that we'll later call christianity, and even with new jewish apocalyptic and esoteric thought.

My point is that, if there's a specific reason why the code needs to be rewritten (i.e. code needs to be clearer, or more performant, or adhere to coding standards) then you can point out what's wrong with it with a simple explanation. If you just write the code "as it's meant to be" then the other person a) will not get why their code is being rejected and b) you'll be writing the code for them.

Code reviews are not coding exercises. You ought to be able to explain using human language primarily. The only only instances where I've actually written code in my comments was because I was reviewing Scala code written by a very old person who had worked 20+ years in Java and it was very very difficult to get some points across - and only after several tries where he didn't get what I meant.

First rule about code reviewing is that you don't tell someone how you would've written it, but rather try to point out pros/cons of current vs proposed approach. It's as easy as that. Every time I see a piece of code I don't like I ask myself: why do I not like it?

I've gotten PR reviews with people literally writing "I don't like this" even after I wrote a very detailed technical argument about my reasoning. My only approach to that is to remind them that I really don't care about their personal preferences, because no discussion will come out of them addressing none of my technical arguments and instead relying on what their personal preference is like.

As other people have mentioned, olive trees are native to the Canaanite region so they strongly feature there because that's what people were used to seeing. But to add to that, you'll also see a lot of mentions of Cedar trees (with some psalms and songs describing how the "voice of god" shakes the cedars in the mountains of Lebanon). Lebanon cedar was incredibly famous in antiquity for its resilience. Egyptians had it imported for buildings because they didn't have naturally growing trees that were as sturdy as Cedars.

It's interesting to note that Yahweh in the bible still holds that old thunder association that the original canaanite deity had, and that cedar seems to be to him what oak is to european thunder deities (oak is very much associated with Jupiter/Zeus/Tarannis).

Oh god the terms and condition ultra slow scroll got me to close the page. This is brilliant.

If the argentinian government wasn't riddled with corruption and people who literally stole most of public money then there wouldn't be a child poverty rate of 50% and engineers like myself wouldn't dream of emigrating.

Nevermind that I was one of those poor children.

But yes, the "policy" is the problem. Not the big heads stealing money.

I agree, but this isn't the issue here. The issue is that poor people can't even access basic healthcare (can't even call an ambulance) without falling into massive debt. Free healthcare > no healthcare at all.

No, but you can over a period of time. I have two, I could apply for a third due to marriage and a fourth one because I lived in a place long enough, without having to renounce citizenships.

It tells you a lot about foreign/trade relations but for people who can move around/work or be able to claim ancestry for passports it might be a nifty guide to keep in mind. I know a Latvian who was living in Ireland, and applied for Irish citizenship solely for easier travel (which also required renouncing their latvian citizenship). In Europe it's not hard to find people with multiple ancestries (i.e. born in one country, with parents from two different parts of the world) and for them it's also a good guide to see if it's worth applying for citizenship if they want the access that the passport gives them.

As a south american living in the EU, I grew up hearing people saying "ah, in the US..." and while probably they were thinking back to a time when the US wasn't as terrible as it is now, it's a bit irritating for me to hear that kind of stuff considering that I graduated in the top university of my country with a masters in engineering and had to pay nothing because university is free and for everyone. I've met so many american expats in Europe who basically fled their student debt by emigrating. And that's just one thing, the fact that healthcare isn't free, people avoid calling for ambulances because they cost money, and people are jailed because the prision system has become a very profitable business.

Having a Mercosur passport (Argentina) and EU passport (Spanish) I think I have a pretty sweet deal - Spanish passport gets me visa free to most of the countries in the world, and the Argentinian passport gets me to Russia visa-free (hi Putin!). And then on top of that I can live in any EU country and also live and work in any (or most I think) Mercosur countries without having to worry too much about work visas, etc.

When I see the kind of hoops that some of my fellow countrypeople need to go through just to find work abroad (i.e. come to the EU) I really really appreciate that my mam was intelligent enough to tell my 15 year old self to go get the citizenship when we could.

Most of the country has a very warm winter (yesterday I spoke to my mam and she said it was 16 C).

There's been grid problems since I have memory. Doesn't surprise me that the whole thing eventually went down.

Another great exercise in confirming common sense.

I find this sort of story super scary because I come from a similarly big country with vast expanses of nothing. I know of an elderly couple who a couple of years ago died of a heat stroke after they got lost on their way and took a different route, which led them to a dirt road in the middle of a desert (Salinas Grandes in Córdoba, Argentina). https://www.lacapital.com.ar/informacion-gral/un-matrimonio-...

And they had cellphones. They asked for directions. They simply were confused, took the wrong route, their signal disappeared and they ran out of gas.

Same, it was working for me yesterday and now it's asking for a login. Just look up the page on the wayback machine.

China used to jail teenage girls who wrote or read slash fiction for "spreading propaganda that clashed with the morality of the party".

Huh is not used in spanish at all. Maybe in the more english-influenced caribbean regions but in the southern cone we don't say "huh" at all, rather "eh?".

As a non native english speaker, I don't agree that english has relaxed pronunciation rules. People have trouble understanding english coming from, say, spanish, because english has around 20 vowel sounds whereas spanish has 5. So for any spanish speaker starting to learn english, the differences between, say, cut & caught in spoken english are not evident at all. And this is going to happen to any speaker jumping to languages with more vowel sounds.

Furthermore, cantonese is a bad comparison to english because it's a tonal language; i.e. the inflection of the word changes the meaning. So on top of having to learn more or less vowel sounds, students have to struggle with a fundamentally different way to conceptualize language.

> English is everyone else's second language because pronunciation is not a big deal

That is not true. English has become the lingua franca of the day because England & America have dominated the cultural and commercial global market for centuries. The adoption of lingua francas has nothing to do with how easy it is to learn a language (after all, this is incredibly relative) and more with how international trade and history have shaped a region. For example, in the late bronze age the lingua franca was Akkadian, a semitic language that would've been pretty tough to learn for, say, indoeuropean speakers like the greeks.

Having moved to an english-speaking country because my husband is a native english speaker, I find that even with the language immersion is difficult. Unless you have a very particular hobby that allows you to connect to other people, it's difficult making friends because of the cultural differences. And even though at this point I'm so fluent in english I've written and published fiction stories in it, it's still a difference that can be felt - imagine being barely fluent or speaking barely a few words.

I had to code a small OS in C in third year of college and the main piece of it was the scheduler. I remember my semaphore routines quite fondly actually.