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> In the UK I think I'd have a hard time getting anything other than generic 'basmati'

It’s relatively easy to find any kind of rice in countries with significant East Asian diaspora like England provided you are ready to buy largish quantity (10kg). It’s highly likely there is an Asian market near you with a surprisingly large selection of rices (not necessarily on display) and which can get you other kinds if you order. It definitely is more involved than going to Tesco but far from impossible.

Well, yes, it obviously is and there is no need to go that low. Don’t you have a freezer at your place?

Technically food in a cold enough freezer will never get uneatable. It is indeed flash frozen to preserve its texture. The issue is that quality tends to get down with time due to water sublimation.

The answer is both of them together obviously. The dichotomy you propose doesn’t exist. Curriculum like most things are collective endeavour.

> Atomic bomb

Mostly foreign Jewish scientists who were neither taught nor started their research in the USA and came because of the situation in Europe. Even Oppenheimer had to go do his PhD in Germany.

> Hollywood

Both the camera, the first films and the foundation of filming come from the Lumieres and their company based in France and the films they made around the world.

> internet

Packet switching is from Batman in the UK. HTML was from a British engineer in Switzerland.

Even the rocket you sent to the moon was built by a German.

> Interesting to read about semicolons improving comprehension -it felt like it had been decades since somebody had the courage to say so. (That said I write python un functionally and so am 4space tabbed to the max)

I think it has a lot to do with the writer not using blocks. It would solve both of their issues (with match and with if and semi-colons which is actually an issue of precedence) Some people seem to have a lot of trouble with the BCPL/Pascal syntax using begin and end.

The author apparently doesn't know about "|>" either which would solve their sequencing issues.

At least this post was written in good faith. I think this highlights that there is a dearth of recent material promoting best practices when it comes to Ocaml.

> Another striking thing about Maigret is how much he relies on the police force around him.

That's because he is a "commissaire", a superintendant, for most of the books.

Maigret is in a lot of way the reverse of a hard boiled detective. He is if not happy at least content in his career as a civil servant and bureaucrat. He is perfectly adept at navigating his hierarchy and knowns his place. Maigret serves a system he respects and values, fully aware of his prejudices which he sees a necessary wall between the honest people and the miscreants. He is very much upper middle class, what the French would call petit bourgeois, a happily married catholic who likes order and long meals.

The article rightfully points that these novels have a reactionary surface but try to find a redeeming feature in how they describe society in its totality. I would be less generous.

> Wow. That seems such a sad and limiting way to live your life.

Mostly true in my experience. I used to get away a lot more when I had a car and could just decide to hit the road whenever I wanted than I do now that I either have to rent or plan earlier and buy train tickets. It's purely friction linked by the way. I could still do all the things I did and it would actually cost me less money in the end. I just don't.

The slowness with which the biggest European cities with housing issues have tackled the problems of both short term rentals, second home ownerships and properties as investments tell you all you need to know about whose interests the main European parties are really serving.

> Some numbers represent real things. Like my little kid saw a pair of oven mitts and said 'two gloves'. Like, he was seeing a literal manifestation of two-ness in front of him - which is different than the logical idea of 1+1 or the symbol 2.

Yes but even then you are using an abstraction. The two gloves forming a pair are a good exemple because they are not even actually identical: there is a left one and a right one. Yet, we can abstractly see them as a kind of glove.

TLDR: With interests rising and growth slowing down, it's getting harder for VCs to find capital. Therefore, some funds have stopped investing in new companies and are just managing their existing portfolio. These funds will most likely slowly wind down their activities and shed employees as the size of their portfolio dwindles.

Unclear to me how it's an issue for investors however.

> Have you tried it recently? I've always thought this but am now using it as my main DE (for the first time) & this seems to be entirely fixed.

I don't need to try it. The pictures in this release annoucement display it everywhere. Honestly, given my downvoting, I think most KDE users are just blind to it but it's completely unusable as far as I'm concerned.

Look, the first screenshot of the article is already enough (https://kde.org/fr/announcements/plasma/5/5.27.0/plasma-welc...). It has inconsistent margins in the title bar. See the white space between the skip button and the text. It's awful. Padding is wrong in the button. There is too much white space on the left and too little on right. The alignments on the next button and the close button is off. Even the mascot is not properly centered.

It only gets worth from here, even the calendar (https://kde.org/fr/announcements/plasma/5/5.27.0/hebrew-cale...). Look at the dook, look at the small print, look at highlight. All the margins are inconstistent.

I think KDE fills a very peculiar niche.

On the one hand, it's highly customisable and it's trying it's best to genuinely provide an interesting technical offering through flexible and useful tools. On the other hand, it's full of glaring design mistakes with paddings, margins and centering issues everywhere.

As someone who sadly has fairly regular sleep issues, I feel perfectly functional and reasonably productive on 6 hours of sleep a night. Yet, everytime I manage to regularly get 8, I feel so much better and am noticably sharper.

My advice is to try sleeping a bit more. You might not realise how actually tired you are.

Same, I drink two to three doubles every day and regularly have to stop while traveling and I have yet to see any adverse effect. I also don't really get the whole energy boost thing. Coffee doesn't really seem to be doing anything to me. I just enjoy the taste.

The issue of India has always been that it has some serious cultural obstacles to overcome and very little interest in doing so.

Society remains deeply segregated with the caste system being a drag on everything. Religious intelorance is very high and the policians in power seem all to happy to stroke the flame of islamophabia rather than work on solving the actual country problems. Corruption is a reality everywhere and at all levels.

Yes, that's how most people use MS Teams. It's extremely useful. The sharing space for documents is good. Collaborative editing in Office is good. Conferencing is good. Presenting from Powerpoint is good.

It's the same thing in every discussion involving Teams: most HN readers don't realise just how unusual the tools they use and what they want are with regards to the average job.

We need a way to encourage innovation and patents do work for that. The issue is not patent per see, the issue is the US patent office.

There is next to zero proper due diligence done for a patent to be awarded and there is no consequence to the office for issuing invalid patents. Just significantly raising examination fees, getting the patent office on the hook for issuance of invalid patents and fining companies filling for frivolous patents would solve most if not all of the current issues.

I leave investigating why it's not done as an exercise to the reader.

Plenty of companies have the roles of technical leads and managers overlap which honestly can make a lot of sense depending of how your engineering org is setup.

> When that investor letter to Google ceo came out, I unfortunately suggested that maybe for a company like Google, too high salaries would bring people in who "work for money and not passion".

Everyone works for money. That's the deal. People rent their time in exchange for a salary. If it was actually enjoyable, it would be called a hobby not a job and people would be the one paying to do it.

I fail to see the link between that, the awfuly named "trend" of "quiet quiting" - doing what you are paid for is not quiting, it's just doing your job - and collective bargaining.

Seems to me that most people just want to do their job well without having to swallow gallons of company kool-aid while doing so, be allowed to take pride in what they do, be afforded an amount of trust and consideration befitting an adult and provided appropriate working conditions rather than being treated like cattle.

So basically go back to the seventies before the "modern" world decided to follow Reagan and Thatcher in their madness and self sabotage.

My experience is that customers want features shipped yesterday and the critical bugs affecting them fixed asap. Companies want money to flow in and penalities not to kick in. Refactoring serves neither of these goals so it's rightfully in the middle of the pile with uncritical bugs and is done when there is time.

> What changed since then?

Microsoft invested $10 billion dollars.

To be fair, depending of the website, interactions with anonymous people on the Internet already sound like that and have for ages.

Reddit would be a great exemple. On most popular subreddits, people will stubornly refuse to admit they are wrong even in the face of indisputable evidence. They will rather become aggressive than own their mistakes.

> By the way, it was the border with Ireland that created issues, not the one with France

As a French, let me tell you there were and still are plenty of issues with France too notably regarding fishing rights and border control. France didn't threaten to turn off electricity to some of the Channel islands because everything was fine.

Switzerland has this weird relationship with the EEA where they want to be able to export easily so they align their laws but don't want to be a member so they have no say on what is done.

> Brexit was a remarkably straightforward process, you send a letter and at the latest two years later you're out if you don't ask for exception

Straightforward is a bit of a stretch.

Brexit was convoluted because the UK is in a weird position where it had a ton of agreements regarding its border with France which had not been negotiated for a long time as they didn't matter when they were part of the EU and they wanted things which were not compatible with the Good Friday agreement. As far as I know, this part is still not settled.

> That’s how the big players killed hardware startups in Europe.

Sorry but if your quality process doesn't allow you to guarantee that what you sell will still work in a measly two years, you have no business selling it the first place.

No one uses the web app. You can obviously collaborate from the actual piece of software.

Every discussion about Teams boils down to the same thing: software engineers needs when it comes to collaboration are low so they are happy using an expensive text chat client and they don't understand how the rest of their company actually works and what they need.

The idea is hilarious. GSuite is basically unusable. It's miles behind excel for anything serious and has no equivalent to powerpoint at all.

Some of you don't understand you live in a very tiny bubble and entreprise needs are very different from your experience.

Call me when Slack allows collaborative editing of powerpoint presentations and excel spreadsheets. I think there is little overlap between the part of the companies which benefit from Teams and the part that wants to use Slack.

Most definitely. I am French by the way but I think the French nuclear umbrella can be extended to the EU at least somewhat.

If your justification of NATO is their entirely illigetimate and overall worthless intervention in Kosovo, I don't think we will ever see eye to eye. The bombings were highly destructive and didn't solve anything. The war stopped when Russia urged Milošević to surrender after a lot of diplomatic negotiations.