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Hi! My name is Florent. I'm at http://florentdelannoy.com
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Comment · 2 months ago
Maybe 8 music sounds too close to “hate music” when pronounced fast? Not exactly a great advertisement if someone tunes in to your radio station and hears you hate music.
Comment · 4 months ago
You'll want to brush up on punctuation rules, the space before an exclamation mark is a dead giveaway of a French writer :)
(Source: fellow en-GB-using-frenchperson)
Comment · 4 months ago
It's honestly not hard either. Certainly doesn't require any face-to-face interaction or anything.
Comment · 5 months ago
I've racked my brain trying to write it in a good enough approximation, but honestly the "eu" sound doesn't have a match in most English accents, and neither does the "r", so it wouldn't make much sense trying to write it down in English. Youtube will give you hundreds of videos pronouncing it correctly if you want to check!
Comment · 7 months ago
Well if it's negative 48V the electricty flows out of your circuit and back to the grid, so you need to make it positive to have the electricity come in.
Comment · 8 months ago
PeakFinder is indeed an excellent app, worth every cent.
It's also available as a website! https://www.peakfinder.com/
Comment · 10 months ago
If it helps, I use the NERDTree plugin which gives a very decent file tree to vim.
Comment · 10 months ago
Wait until my pals Saul and Ronald team up!
Comment · 10 months ago
As a native French speaker, I have to interject and push for the use of "utilise" as it's closer to our own "utiliser"!
Comment · 1 year ago
AGGRESSIVE ADVERTISER
Comment · 1 year ago
And French completed this merge by having both "lawyer" and "avocado" translate to "avocat".
Comment · 1 year ago
It's from Boileau! Beautiful alexandrine verses:
> Ce que l’on conçoit bien s’énonce clairement, > Et les mots pour le dire arrivent aisément.
Comment · 1 year ago
Caterina Fake, co-founder of Flickr, famously had issues with IT systems:
Tim: There’re so many places we could start, but in the process of doing homework for this, I found mentioned, and I wanted to do a fact check on this, of you having plane tickets automatically cancelled, and other issues related to your last name. Is that accurate? Did those things actually happen?
Caterina Fake: This has happened to me many times, in fact. And I discovered that it was actually the systems at KLM and Northwest that would throw my ticket out, my last name being “Fake.” And I have missed flights and have spent way too many hours with customer service trying to fix this problem. Here’s another thing too, is that I was unable for the first two years of Facebook to make an account there also. And probably all of my relatives.
Comment · 1 year ago
The whole point of inheritance tax is to redistribute some of the accumulated family wealth across society. You think that's unfair? Grow up.
Comment · 1 year ago
> Storage in UTC and converting to a local timezone for display / notification purposes has been the standard practice for a looong time.
All good until summer time kicks in and your recurring 9am meeting now starts at 8am, oops.