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Oui, but I also forgot that “phrase” exists in English.

I grew to like English this way: massive corpus made of anglo-saxon plus French.

In France I would blame post ww2 soft power. The old cliché about French gents not speaking English is irrelevant for anybody under 40yo.

It’s interesting to see French word in English from the William the conqueror period, too. ( like “phrase” from above or the tired example “sheep” vs “mutton” )

Ha. Silly me. It’s “tournure de phrase” in french.

It actually goes to show that my command of English is limited. I know both words but “phrase” did not occurs to me even so it’s the same damn word :)

I speak French, English and Spanish. In that order.

Some concept exist in one and not the other. Addressing someone in a formal way. Addressing a group a once ( “y’all” )

But I know bits and pieces of German, Latin and Polish… those have lots of grammatical differences that force you to think about the structure of your sentence. Recognize a datif from a ablatif. That type of things. It actually help with writing correct French.

But I’m not sure it would make me “better” like learning a functional language or ASM made me a “better” developer.

French being my first language, I can says the same things with fancier words in english.

But sometime I will use English turn of sentences in French and it sounds weird ( just did it a l’envers here, pretty sure “turn of sentence” does not exists in English )

I’m ok at Spanish too. My main motivation is to be able to talk to random peoples when traveling. English came de facto because of the internet and US soft power.

Not sure it makes me better at writing or speaking.

Got a single response. Then “try again later”

I discovered that I can be instantly be close and talks about relatively deep subjects with most other foreign workers. ( I am too and it’s obvious )

Being severed from your own culture create a link.

And with people sharing a language, it’s even quicker.

A common ice breaker is to gently make fun of American.

Interesting point: I would probably never have talked with those folks back home. And they would have not either. It’s actually refreshing. We see each other back home as well.

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My actual point: when I come home, I started to behave the same way. And .. it kinda works.

Can you reference the pride and prejudice one ?

Yes, as we should be. This is infuriating, other options available ( reduce pensions, remove tax breaks… ) have barely been discussed.

Adding 24 months is the only presented option. I’ve discuss with people ready to strike for a while, since they are gonna have to work 2 more years otherwise.

And that’s on top of the fact that the budget it’s kinda fine. Needs attention, sure, but the entity governing it says it’s fine. ( independent from the gov )

I’ve notice an uptick in people getting into programming because it’s “a good job”.

As opposed to a few decades ago when my experience was more “I like computer and want to know how they work. Being payed for it is nice”

Not a judgement values. I just advise people who want a tech job that programming is tedious and frustrating. If you’r ok with that, everything is on the table really. And I don’t mind working with new folks type

integriwhat?

I'm sorry but from an outside perspective of a foreigner living in the US... Integrity has never been something that comes to mind when I think of this country. Business, money and profits first. Whatever goes.

And it's fine, that's how y'all are as a country. So far it worked.

Some countries now require the mention that the picture modified by a digital tool.

Nice intentions, but it’s like the EU cookie warning… you quickly ignore it.

I’m surprised to see that sentiment echoed several times on HN. I’m all about it.

Gotcha, yes. Or a least regulate the said monopoly so they provide clear and open guidelines in regard to their policies.

In this particular case, it seems easier said than done?

OP did put eggs in different basquet ( social medias ) but Google will be Google right? What would be the alternative.

my experience is that it stopped working a few years ago. Eg: NYT or FT. The content is nowhere to be fund on the raw html itself.

No idea how it works but it looks like actual content is loaded separately once the gates are open?

Thanks to pointing out the relevance

Yah Bethesda game is fitting.

For me it’s the text formatting.

Why can’t I express a pretty table unless pasting it from xls?

Why code blocks are useless and unreadable.

And how HOW do I exit a quoteblock if the quote reach the last line. ( I now always type a character on the last line before starting a block quote )

Call themselves are fine, not great, but damn. Writing text is reminding of text formatting in early version of ms-word.

I lives outside of the country since a while and they have been hounding me down to onboard. Hm

I mean the real price. In term of carbon emission and damage to our surroundings. Not some dollars or yen value.

Exactly, the prices are just numbers. We could decide that electronic waste is too expensive to be carried this way.

that's insanely shitty. I saw the same thing in France with the Postal service. I thought "oh good, good old post-office is providing identity, good for them". But yeah, pretty sure it wont be open as well.

I have the same exact phone and it's my "daily driver".

Work provide me with a newer Iphone, so I know what I miss. ( Camera is insanely better on a newer iphone, once or twice a year I will go get my work phone if it's nearby to take a better picture )

For me it's the battery life, I don't install app anymore really, unless absolutely forced. ( City specific parking apps..) I changed the battery twice, the first time it did wonder, the second : meh. I started carrying a battery pack just in case. It would need 2 charges a day easily.

The front facing camera became capricious, too. I can't take selfie anymore. Haha. I do not experience the issue that the autor has with safari, but I did notice the context switching that can loose state. I became weary of doing it without copying whatever I'm typing.

Also, the 32go drive is constantly full. Not great.

Otherwise: Great.

I was actually thinking that this situation starts to be a bit annoying. But I'm probably not getting a new smartphone. Probably going back to flip-phone. Or a fancy dumb-phone. And keeping my work phone when I'm in a place I don't know, so I can conjure the internet anywhere. But that would be an exceptional situation. ( I use maps and car-gps a lots for navigation)

Or : having a portable 5G router handy and a laptop. ( not much worse than the battery pack I carry now )

Oh. like a credit score dictating how much you will have to work to pay for the interest part of that house loan you need? Or just if you get that lease or not?

That would be random people telling you what you're allowed to do. And it's unamerican.

A stark difference I notice between my French friends kids and my American friends kids :

The former are let to fail and learn by themselves, the latter are expected to be ready before doing so.

Unless those random people are banks, and you own them money for your education or your health.

OP, this person mentioning towers is saying something really important here. Those structure are not here without reasons.

It works, so, so much better with actual towers.

No, that’s MDMA. Alcohol would be pure raw joy from tomorrow.

The edging part for instance ? You need piles of assets in various financial operations.

Also, what a fun draft that would be. What Western Europe country could realistically support and train a large uptick in reluctant new recruits?

You need a backbone of experienced military professional and infrastructure to do that ( eg : France used to have a lot of military center to host / train people. Those have been abandoned in the late 90s )