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There are tons of languages that don't use indefinite articles. Russian is a big one, sure.

I live in Finland, where in "product companies" developers don't always speak great English. Or they might not speak Finnish if they're immigrants. So the employer wants to pick and choose product managers that they think are "presentable" enough in terms of linguistic or social competence to put directly in front of a customer. They seem to value this high enough that they are willing to take the productivity hit from the indirection.

I don't like that they have that data in the first place. But then again I don't use Chrome.

I've been happy with Qobuz as well. I use the third party open source QBZ client on Linux desktop.

I don't speak Korean, but I'm a language nerd. Sometimes for fun I write Finnish in the Hangul alphabet in my journal (requires some approximation/adaptation).

I think it's best for universities to train their own future researchers. Research, science, and the university's own core goals should be the focus of teaching.

Anything that spills over from that can be jobs, industry, innovations and all that.

Similar situation in Finland. There have only recently been some consequences for the berry companies and reforms are underway. The pickers would come mainly from Thailand with tourist visas. This year a majority of the visas have been denied and the berry companies are throwing tantrums.

They've been engaging in illegal price-fixing, too.

Disks are magnetic. The optical kind are discs.

I have one stashed away. Bought it from a Dutch importer in the late 2000s. I also ran OpenBSD on it for a while.

They are deliberately not looking at coreutils code because the Rust versions are released as MIT and they don't want the project contaminated by GPL. I am not fond of this, personally.

What's wrong with typing 2:1?

In Finland, we make an independent computer magazine called Skrolli that comes out 4 times per year. Our issues are about 120 pages each, but with hardly any ads.

You should start a xanthina where you serve various xanthinated beverages.

I've been growing bonsai trees for about 13 years. It doesn't have anything to do with computers, so it's a nice counterbalance to my software job. I don't really even take pictures or videos of my trees, I want to keep the subject as analog and simple as I can.

Are you sure?

The question is more about the hardware. Back then, TLS existed but was used sparingly for things like banking, because of the computational overhead, at both the server and client end. Today's computers are so much faster that we don't even think about it.

I work with PHP, where classes are supposedly a lot slower than strings and arrays (PHP calls dictionaries "associative arrays").

I used to have alias rm='rm -i' for a few years to be careful, but I took it out once I realised that I had just begun adding -f all the time

I used to run Gnome on 8 MB in the late 90s

That's an unreasonable ask. I'm not gonna fiddle with the brightness of my monitor throughout the day, thanks

Finnish case markers vary a lot from word to word, because of not only vowel harmony but other features of the word stem, and consonant gradation which is a weird feature of Uralic languages.

For the subtraction example, some numbers would be 50:tä 5:llä and others 6:tta 3:lla. Of course you could encode for all those possibilities and successfully parse them, but it would feel weird for a compiler to reject an expression because it's ungrammatical Finnish.

Also it would feel weird if you first write (vähennä muuttujaa 256:lla) but then realise you made an off-by-1 and have to change it to (vähennä muuttujaa 255:lla) but that doesn't compile because it should be 255:llä, so you have to remember to change two things.

But on the other hand, that's just how it is to write in Finnish, so in prose we don't really think about it. In natural language, it's normal to have to change other stuff in a sentence for it to continue making sense when you change one thing.

Essentially you could write equivalent code as (vähennä 5:ttä 3:lla) in Finnish

I haven't had any meat in about 20 years. But I also don't live in the US.

But that's what Linux distros are for, package maintainers watch the CVEs for you, and all you have to do is "apt upgrade"

On mine, I don't. Any interactivity is too much hassle for me to worry about wrt moderation etc. I also don't particularly care what random people have to say. If my friends like what I wrote, they can tell me on Signal or comment on the Bluesky post when I share the link.

Or even just a microsecond emergency.

Will the time it takes you to answer depend on the mass of the person asking?

Cool band name, too.

Nah I just didn't know anything about Mandarin really

I'm 40 years old and have lived in the Helsinki metropolitan area my whole life. I have a licence, but I have never owned a car because I don't need it. I drive maybe twice a year when I need to go somewhere I can't reach by public transport, I borrow a relative or friend's car for that.