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New comment by gwervc in "Why English doesn't use accents"

gwervc — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 00:14:48 +0000

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.

New comment by gwervc in "Writing Code Was Never the Bottleneck"

gwervc — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 09:25:04 +0000

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.

New comment by gwervc in "Sailing the fjords like the Vikings yields unexpected insights"

gwervc — Fri, 27 Jun 2025 13:44:31 +0000

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.

New comment by gwervc in "I wrote my PhD Thesis in Typst"

gwervc — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 01:42:19 +0000

> 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.

New comment by gwervc in "'Gwada negative': French scientists find new blood type in woman"

gwervc — Sat, 21 Jun 2025 13:26:11 +0000

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.

New comment by gwervc in "Magistral — the first reasoning model by Mistral AI"

gwervc — Tue, 10 Jun 2025 17:20:02 +0000

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.

New comment by gwervc in "Prompt engineering playbook for programmers"

gwervc — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 15:49:23 +0000

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.

New comment by gwervc in "Prompt engineering playbook for programmers"

gwervc — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 15:45:52 +0000

Mixologist has already replaced bartender.

New comment by gwervc in "Jerry Lewis's “The Day the Clown Cried” discovered in Sweden after 53 years"

gwervc — Fri, 30 May 2025 21:39:55 +0000

> 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)

New comment by gwervc in "Run a C# file directly using dotnet run app.cs"

gwervc — Thu, 29 May 2025 13:53:07 +0000

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.

New comment by gwervc in "Run a C# file directly using dotnet run app.cs"

gwervc — Thu, 29 May 2025 13:30:34 +0000

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.

New comment by gwervc in "Claude 4"

gwervc — Thu, 22 May 2025 21:53:00 +0000

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...

New comment by gwervc in "Watching AI drive Microsoft employees insane"

gwervc — Wed, 21 May 2025 13:51:08 +0000

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

New comment by gwervc in "I'd rather read the prompt"

gwervc — Mon, 05 May 2025 01:10:25 +0000

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.

New comment by gwervc in "Statewide fluoride ban for tap water passes in Florida"

gwervc — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 11:59:15 +0000

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

New comment by gwervc in "How University Students Use Claude"

gwervc — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 17:11:49 +0000

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.

New comment by gwervc in "Middle-aged man trading cards go viral in rural Japan town"

gwervc — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 10:14:54 +0000

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.

New comment by gwervc in "My Rust experience after eight years"

gwervc — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 07:31:27 +0000

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

New comment by gwervc in "German parliament votes as a Git contribution graph"

gwervc — Tue, 25 Mar 2025 17:44:01 +0000

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/

New comment by gwervc in "IronRDP: a Rust implementation of Microsoft's RDP protocol"

gwervc — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 16:13:01 +0000

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.