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[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

What do they spy on, the explosive diarrhea?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 13 hours ago

I should have used IPA symbols - alphabets are not the right way to represent phonetics.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 14 hours ago

Imagine being offended by "woke" stuff and not actual bigotry. I wonder who's the real snowflake?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 16 hours ago (5 children)

The duality of the previous and current post is...confusing. I was under the assumption that Poland is a Christo-fascist state? Or is it not?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (9 children)

Because the script for English is stupid, and I'm not sure why it hasn't been phased out with something like Shavian. "a" can have the "ah" sound (alternative), the "ae" (amazing) sound and the "eh" sound (bad). Similarly, "e" can have the "ae" sound (elephant), "aih" sound (eye) and the "i" sound (economy).

On a similar note, karma (कर्म) is not spelt as car-muh, it's cur-mha.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

It's not a success. Two-state solution is a failure. Be it India-Pakistan, East-West Germany, North-South Korea or Sudan-South Sudan.

As someone from India, the two-state solution for India-Pakistan was a massive disaster. One of the worst man-made catastrophe. Rape, murder and violence between different ethnic groups, it was horrible. People were forcibly displaced to the other side of the country, leaving behind their ancestral village and belongings. This destroyed their culture and their language, stripped their identity.

These states were divided to satisfy the egoes of the two major political dynasts, Nehru and Jinnah, and as typical of pretend-socialist liberals, they were supported by the Hindu Mahasabha and the All India Muslim league.

Pakistan forced the use of Urdu, an Indian language, because their native languages had Devanagari-resembling script, and for that strong Muslim identity they went for a language with a Farsi script.... except that the language was Khadi Boli (a language from UP) with borrowed Farsi words.

Well, what about India? They went ballistic sub-nationalist. State majoritarians forced language on vulnerable groups, including mine (obligatory middle-finger to the Basel Mission and Kannada chauvinists).

Later, Pakistan's ethnic cleansing and rape of Bengalis, especially Hindus in East Pakistan (East Bengal) backfired, and the country broke into three. Cut to 2024, the people of Kashmir suffer even to this day.

If only the Indian communists from the HSRA had not been betrayed by the INC, a greater India with none of the communal B.S. would have existed. There would have been no Hindutva or Deobandi extremists jump around and squirming like cockroaches. And we have two countries armed to the brim with nuclear weapons.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Economically, somewhere between Qatar and Lebanon. Palestine's sea near Gaza has a rich source of oil. They also allow ships to cross through, which is a nice source of income. Culturally, they probably have something in common with the Lebanese and Egyptians.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I have a 4-year degree in CSE. I've come to realize that I suck at preparing for real-world jobs, because I am so distracted.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I've not worked since the end of Jan 2023, and that was a crappy internship with low salary for which I didn't get any "certificate" or proof of claim. I've graduated almost two years ago with no job. Half-assed my way over libvulkan to create a simple 2D engine, didn't learn shit. Did some open-source contributions to GitLab with Ruby, that also didn't benefit me, because contributions have low value in CV, and recruiters don't seem to give a fuck. Also maintaining a few packages on Guix atm, but no one probably cares about Scheme. Did a few low-quality projects on ExpressJS, NextJS and Svelte.I haven't applied anywhere because I have failed take-home tasks on Flask/Django/other mainstream framework miserably, and it has tanked my confidence. Rest of the so-called interns are scammers demanding that I pay them to work. Yes, you read it right, not paid work, pay-to-work. The job market has still not recovered.

 

Well, at this point, I don't even know what to learn for getting an entry level CS job...so C is it. Reached chapter 17 of K.N.King's C99, maybe read a little bit of C2x and C2y specifications, then I'll probably start reading John Calcote's Autotools and then metalanguage99. And I bet they won't help me for my early career in any way or form.

[–] [email protected] 86 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (9 children)

Scriptkiddies doing the bare-minimum to profit over other's hard-work. They're not going to survive, because they don't know shit about the internal workings of their product, they won't be able to scale it quickly, and sooner or later, they'll run out of money, if it's not the poor publicity killing their product.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I was going to write a lot of stuff about my own experience, but then I decided that it wasn't worth writing and getting my identity exposed, so I'll say "same", minus the disowning part, because I come from a collectivist society. My failure as an mid-20s adult is theirs to blame, because that's how broken I am, and I still can't cope with the past. Tough-love my ass.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I am unemployed, and I still don't collect benefits, because it's just way too low, and it's not worth dealing with the bureaucratic complexity and corruption.

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In my journey to learning C, I've come across header files, which are used to (I'm assuming) define a prototype for the source file, as well as structure modules. This feature, in my opinion, is pointlessly not just redundant, but possibly a source for pitfall. The same information can probably be extracted from the source code, if not for the restrictions of the language specification in C.

Say, if I have a GTK project, I will have to use the preprocessor directive, that will require the use of GTK headers that look something like #include <gtk/gtk.h>, and they're usually in the system path. How do modern languages, like Rust, Zig or Go deal with this situation, where shared libraries are used?

 

Because I think that it has been appropriated. Bandhani is a traditional tie-dye technique, with deep cultural and historial significance for the Rajasthani, even extending to Sindhi and Marwari sub-groups in the west of India and east of Pakistan - who comprise of nomadic and semi-nomadic artisans.

The word 'bandhan/bandhana' can have several meanings depending on the context - knot, relation(ship), or kerchief - they're all related to each other, in the sense that this piece of clothing signifies relationship, and can be tied to the end of one's cloth - just in the same way you can "build" a "building" in English, if that makes sense. One of the most identifiable parts of the bandhani is the parsely and floral pattern, as well as the use of non-pastel, dark dyes.

Now, I am neither a Rajasthani, nor from the north-western parts of India or eastern part of Pakistan, so it should be obvious that I don't know much about them. Maybe some information over here is not true - and I'd appreciate correction. Personally, I feel like it is an extreme case of cultural appropriation in the sense that:

  • the culture behind it has been erased, or people don't bother doing enough basic research behind them

  • it has been commodified and mass-produced as a fashion trend, which is disrespectful to the people, and has harmed their livelihood severely

  • the patterns have a deep cultural, religious and social significance, so do the colors, and using them trivially again erases the original meaning behind them

The bandana culture (at least from my stereotype of American media) has been stolen collectively on different occasions by multiple subcultures - the hippies, the bikers, white supremacists, cowboys, gang members, black rights activists and even antifa/anarchists members, shifting the original symbolism from that of familial collectivism to something that is representative of rejection of government authority.

Unfortunately, as a very vulnerable group, they don't have the voice to raise against this injustice, because obviously when basic needs are not met, people tend to ignore the erasure of their own identity and culture, and try to survive with what they can. The place that they live in is the antipode to the American continent, and obviously, that region does not receive a lot of attention, as opposed to western cities.

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