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Comment · 1 year ago
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.
Comment · 1 year ago
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.
Comment · 1 year ago
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.
Comment · 1 year ago
> 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.

Comment · 1 year ago
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.
Comment · 1 year ago
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.
Comment · 1 year ago
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.

Comment · 1 year ago
Mixologist has already replaced bartender.
Comment · 1 year ago
> 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)

Comment · 1 year ago
Very outdated view.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.
Comment · 1 year ago
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.
Comment · 1 year 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...

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