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Plus there is another 1/3 coming from Latin which French speakers has no issue understanding either. English is basically akin to a dumbed down pidgin of French (exponentially less verb conjugation, no gender agreement, less pronouns with the thou/you merge, less articles and annoying small words, etc.) starting over a Germanic core.

A few weeks ago people were discussing here how their typing speed was making them code faster. On the other hand I haven't been limited by writing code, the linked article match my professional experience.

Researcher here: yes it's playing. And playing isn't a bad thing. If we hadn't fun, a lot of us would have quit already.

> The initial setup effort in LaTeX becomes minimal as this cost is "amortized" over the document.

I'm still sour about the 3 days it took me to have something usable for my thesis, and I was starting from an existing template. And it's still not exactly how I want it to be; I gave up on addressing a bug in the reference list.

Yes it's defined for fictional characters, but I have the feeling it's more due to their obsession of details. I've never been asked my blood type there in years, whereas some Taiwanese girls asked me the question.

I'm pretty sure there is way less regulations in the US in respect to France where going over the legal 35h/week requires additional capital and legal paperwork.

It's still very very far from engineering. Like, how long and how much one has to study to get an engineering degree? 5 years over many disciplines.

On the other hand, prompt tweaking can be learned in a few days just by experimenting.

Mixologist has already replaced bartender.

> How do you pitch that?

Using exactly the text you quoted. Since it's about Hitler, Nazi and camps the TV channel ARTE will fund it in a heartbeat. (The current top movie on arte.tv/fr/videos/cinema is "Lili Marleen, un chant d'amour dans l'Allemagne nazie)

Very outdated view. Csproj files got hugely simplified with dotnet core, and thanks God they kept the XML format instead of the JSON they tried at first.

They indeed started years ago. For some time it's possible to run project with a Program.cs file that doesn't contain a static class. There's also the so called the ASP.NET minimal API. And .net scripting got official support a few releases ago.

This is imo the most disturbing part. As soon as the magical AI keyword is thrown, so seems to be the analytical capacity of most people.

The AI is not blackmailing anyone, it's generating a text about blackmail, after being (indirectly) asked to. Very scary indeed...

Especially painful when one of said employee is Stephen Toub, who is famous for his .net performance blog posts.

I avree with starting from the third paragraph. However I disagree about what you said on academics. The few I interrogated on the topic already adapted their practice, notably changing the kind of homework they give, and changing exam format.

My students however don't understand that the importance is on the process, not the result. My colleagues do.

Yes but one of them is still performed at large scale in the US despite all common sense and scientific knowledge.

A lot of developers of my generation (30+) learned to program within a code editor and compile their project in command line. Remove the IDE and we can still code.

On the other hand my master 2 students, most of which learned scripting in the previous year, can't even split a project in multiple files after being explained multiple times. Some have more knowledge and ability than others, but a signifiant fraction is just copy-pasting LLM output to solve whatever is asked from them instead of trying to do it themselves, or asking questions.

That's the same thing in France, where on average a retiree has a higher pension than a worker. Workers whose one third of gross salary goes to pensions, then at least another of net salary is paid for rent to live in a property often owned by the previous generation. It's very depressing environment to live in.

Certainly. One probably could writre a PhD thesis in sociology about this community given how "particular" its interactions are with the outside world.

Most but not all laws in France are like that. In fact, some of the laws applied in France are written... in German and aren't compiled in the codes. There is a whole institute (albeit small) dedicated to studying and make those laws[1].

The case happened to me when I searched for the original text that said a worker have to be compensated in full for "short" sick leave, and what I found was a very short text in German. Hopefully the company I worked for complied with law after consulting its accountant.

[1] https://idl-am.org/

I swear it's forbidden by the language licensing to write any novel software with it. Actually I'm also pretty sure it disproves writing software by oneself in favor of asking others to (re)write their software in it.

> the fact that you didn't really read the link

I think this is due to a big flaw in the link aggregator website model. In the forums of yore, we had a post creating a discussion that was a must read, and everything was contained in the same place. Links were part of the post but as side dishes sprinkled over the OP.

In the aggregator model, which is arguably a dumbed-down model of forum, there is no OP. Or more accurately, what can be interpreted as the post is the title of linked content, not the linked content itself. Clicking and reading to an external link is a burden and a disconnection to the discussion on the aggregator. In the end, a lot of discussion occurs based only on the content visible in the aggregator, that is the title. One might regret it, but it's the format pushing this behavior.

Also since there is an endless stream of content instead of threads being dumped, I feel comments are more fire and forget.

PS: did not read the linked post.

> On the other hand, I doubt they know they have syntax and semantics.

A lot of humans probably ignore it too. Most don't even ever heard about phonology, which is more fundamental to language than syntax.

> WinRT

It was obvious from day one that this would be a failure since it was strongly tied to the Metro UI (awesome on mobile, ugly as hell on desktop) and the Windows app store, all only available on an OS that never was competitive against its predecessor. Also it shipped with a .net implementation that was incompatible with the real one. I'm glad I skipped that tech entirely.

Macron wants to set a precedent of stealing assets so he could then steal citizens assets to pay for the abysmal debt he created.

If he cross the line ("freezing" foreign assets was already a big blow at property rights) I'm relocating and bankrunning whatever I have because it means property rights don't exist anymore in the country.

Alemannic is still spoken in Alsace. Albeit it has some of the same issue your listed: no standard written form (Hochdeutsch was used for that) and wide difference even between close villages. In particular, Northern and Southern varieties have a different vocalic systems.

> I was vaccinated, got COVID

How is this possible?

That's plain wrong. iPhone uses sim data or something to enable/disable that noise. Source: myself with two iPhones bought in Japan and used both there and in the EU.

Looking at how an election was cancelled in the Romania for a few ads or how a Musk twitt is somehow "foreign inference in an election" for the EU, yes the election interference narrative is clearly an attempt at censorship.

Now I'm tempted to name a future project "Strč prst skrz krk", possibly without space to form a single word.

By the way I have a single Japanese word named project, but it's related to the language, and that name has two other connections with the project content.

There is too much products or brands using a single English word being released too.