+1 - parent commenter clearly takes too easily of an offense here. Even the French people in my inntercircle agree that there is some level of elitism.
I'm not offensed, it's just wrong.
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I don't blame anyone, I'm Italian and I'm fluent in French, English and Polish besides Italian.
I'm just saying that in the French part of Switzerland English wasn't a given among any generation and it neither was common in the German/Italian parts too if you exclude the expats.
And yes, francophone tend to be very elitist about consuming exclusively french content, regardless of them being from France, Switzerland or Belgium.
"Using your mother tongue is elitist" is bullshit on an epic scale.
It's litteraly your mother tongue man, everyone outside of the elite has a mother, and therefore a mother tongue, it's not expansive, it's your basic birth right.
Why don't people consume audio/video in a foreign language ?
I'm a polyglot myself, so I enjoy that very much, but the simple truth is that most people don't invest the time for becoming fluent in other languages in countries with a "big" language. Works for France, the US, the UK, Spain, Mexico, Japan or China.
Why ? Pretty obvious. Become fluent in a foreign language is a huge effort. Making that effort really only works if you either WANT to do it or if you NEED to do it. The WANT factor is the same everywhere but the NEED to learn a language is way lower if your mother tongue is in the top 5 - or top 10 languages of the world.
The only thing that is specific to French is that French & English have this weird shared history that makes the written langauges very similar and the oral languages very different. So a frequent compromise for french speakers is to become fluent enough at reading/writing, but quite bad at hearing/speaking.
Important to note that not all password managers are equal. Using Apple’s built-in password manager is more secure because it is inherently tied to your biometrics and authentication is hardware-based, i.e Secure Enclave. This is categorically different from web services like Bitwarden or 1Password authenticated by login email and 2FA codes. Even if someone got into your Apple ID they still would be unable to view or sync your passwords without biometrics.
It's not a good thing at all that what manages the secrets of my digital life is hardware based... on the hardware of one single vendor
Idk, my impression always was and is that Android app development is complex, especially when you got Java in the mix....maybe now it's easier when Kotlin is around.
Your idea is very good and you can even monetize your app by selling ad space when users choose "boredom" then you can recommend them sponsored apps and games.
This idea would be also interesting on PC, when users lock their screens and then come back to do something. Maybe it can even be part of some diary/note taking app where when you unlock your screen note window pops up and asks you "What are you planning to do now?".
Kotlin is a great langage, but Android being difficult was not about Java but about Android APIs being terrible.
anonyme-honteux commented on Elon Musk's Engineering Principles – The 5 Step Process (2021) christianscheb.de/archive... · Posted by u/SerCe
The guy is a fascist, only a fool would NOT dimiss his ideas.
Nothing personal, I would say the same thing for Henry Ford, a huge antisemite.
anonyme-honteux commented on Elon Musk's Engineering Principles – The 5 Step Process (2021) christianscheb.de/archive... · Posted by u/SerCe
Is that how the CyberTruck was designed?
I would pass
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anonyme-honteux commented on On-demand JSON: A better way to parse documents? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/d... · Posted by u/warpech
> That is, if `<Tag1><Tag2></Tag1></Tag2>` is always considered malformed, then why isn't the syntax simply `<Tag1><Tag2></></>`?
XML isn't just a structured data format where close tags always run up against each other and whitespace is insignificant. It's also a descriptive document format which is often hand-authored.
I think the argument is that the close tags being named makes those documents easier for a human author to understand. It certainly is my experience.
Nobody has troubles reading a declarative DSL like
Tag1 { Tag2 { } }
anonyme-honteux commented on Tell HN: Cryptocurrency transactions >$10k require filing IRS Form 8300 · Posted by u/bidandanswer
That was always going to happen one way or another.
The reason blockchain/cryptocurrency can be faster/cheaper is not because of a technical breakthrough, it's because it's a creative way to evade banking regulations.