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In this particular case, it might also feel uncanny because the keywords were merely translated; but the grammar (most notably word order) doesn't (always) match.

`asynchrone fonction` feels wrong because it's the wrong word order for French; it should be `fonction asynchrone`...

You’re aware that ‘they, the fruit sellers’ isn't very distinctive in this context?

Ooh, that sounds like a fantastic ‘new tab’ page. Thanks!

As an avid language learner myself, I would be inclined to agree, were it not for the fact that about half of my father's siblings really have no aptitude _at all_ for languages.

One uncle has been living in France for over 40 years, but anyone can still hear he’s a foreigner, most Dutch will immediately recognize his accent as Dutch, and many can immediately pinpoint the region he grew up in. (Part of the reason is probably: he himself doesn’t care. He just talks —sometimes with hands and feet— and his interlocutors manage to pick up enough of what he says to suit him.)

An aunt used to live in Brazil for years, and never could get the hang of Brazilian Portuguese. Her son has been living in Brazil for some 15 year now, and is still not fluent in the language...

People's ability to pick up languages can be totally unrelated to their general intelligence.

That said, I _personally_ agree that immersion is the best way of learning a new language. But it still does take time, and you've got to have the opportunity.

Pluto was a planet when I learned about it in school. I also learned that it was the one that was discovered last.

When they decided to change its status to dwarf planet, I looked up the reasons behind it, read up on the complexities of the matter, and could see the reasoning behind the change.

Then again, I hadn't reached thirty yet. Even in my forties I find it takes slightly more time to change my mind on some things...

I'm currently working from home, accessing my Windows 10 desktop machine in the office via Microsoft's own Remote Desktop over a VPN connection. This works fine on my old 1920x1280 17" laptop, but connecting from my new 4k 15" laptop runs into quite a few edge cases, and plugging an external non-4k monitor has led to at least two unworkable situations.

I've now reverted to RDP-ing from my old laptop, and using the newer one for video calls, scrum boards, Spotify and other stuff that doesn't require a VPN connection or access to my dev machine. It mostly works OK in that configuration.

I've seen other weird things happen when using other Terminal Services clients, though.

I'm from the Netherlands (born and raised) and have received several robocalls, until I registered my phone number on the bel-me-niet.nl web site.

Since then, I only get such calls from companies that got my details in exchange for some freebie. I tell them I'm not interested, and would they please stop calling me, and they do.

The only calls I got recently were in English with a heavy Indian accent, "Ilse Smid" or another stereotypically Dutch name, claiming to be from Microsoft Windows, and that my computer had alerted them that it had a virus... These scam calls all came from nonexistent Dutch phone numbers.

But you can't make changes to it online.

You can watch the Dutch version on the VPRO's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGsw_l0tT10

Then why did it work before?

I'd been using YouTube's new layout just fine on Edge Chromium for at least a week before getting the "not supported" message.

Agree; though even before the latest commit history, I’d much prefer the README to be hoisted up there, so it’s at least visible when I first visit a repo.

How is hunting and gathering not working?

Ours does too, but there's no sensors inside the stall... You can wave all you want, there's no way to turn the lights back on without opening the stall door.

Thank goodness for phone flashlights!

It seems to me that once she knows _that_, it shouldn't be too hard for her to understand when she's not being referred to.

ICQ still exists, doesn’t it?

We use 1password for teams.

I used to have one of those, but even that didn't survive my erratic watering regime... It did outlast all my other plants, though, except for two small cact<i|uses>.

I'm actually hoping CasperJS will support headless Chrome, and headless Firefox later on too.

When making an appointment, my GP's assistant explicitly asks whether you've got multiple complaints, and if so, to list them; before explaining that in that case, they can reserve more time.

Then again, my previous GP said he had 7 minutes per consultation.

(FWIW, I’m in the Netherlands).

Old Opera 12.17 (last version that still allows specifying a different proxy than the system one, afaics) shows the same page as Firefox. Elinks does as well.