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pafje

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    Comment #48487781

    See also the classic french movie: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pour_cent_briques,_t%27as_plus... ... I can't recall I've heard "brique" used since the switch to € but it might ju…

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    Comment #47459433

    As others have said, WTR is very well-known in France while most people have never heard of Seinfeld. Same with Dallas and The Dukes of Hazzard.

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    Comment #41908447

    Fabrice Bellard in particular ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabrice_Bellard )

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    Comment #40181769

    The "making of" video is also great : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTlNVUmBA28

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    Comment #34857906

    Actually this seems to be from 2013. https://github.com/joshuaeckroth/cse3521-website/blob/master...

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    Comment #33774278

    You already know this, but I would add that under strict aliasing rules, this is only valid because x and y point to the same type. The most common example is when y is float* and …

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    Comment #31068466

    Link for anyone interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ar9WRwCiSr0

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    Comment #30697854

    I think the comment was referring to this: "In early 2019, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) sought a merger with French automaker Renault, and reached a provisional agreement with t…

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    Comment #27629457

    And that change in 2009 (Sarkozy) has been very controversial from the start, as the restaurant owners were supposed to use the tax break to boost employment but that did not happe…

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    Comment #27569120

    While only a small part of Turkey is in Europe, that part is very important (Istanbul). Turkey is also still officially applying for EU membership although neither side wants it th…

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    Comment #24243020

    Rust supports many platforms but only has "tier 1 support" on a handful of mainstream architectures. https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/rustc/platform-support.htm...

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    Comment #21108944

    It's not very explicit but it's there (around mid-point of the article): "The Hansa Jet wings are also swept forward by just a few degrees, compared to 33 degrees in the X-29. Such…

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    Comment #16617729

    From the article, the password is salted at least: "I eventually found the sftkdb_passwordToKey() function that converts a [website] password into an encryption key by means of app…

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    Comment #16114461

    Whatever the speed limit, you should never go 90 km/h in a blind turn if it is too fast to avoid a cyclist. You're the one responsible as long as cyclists are allowed on the road (…

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    Comment #15633828

    That's true most of the time yes. But it's not a rule, some architectures allow the stack pointer to grow in either direction: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/664744/what-is-th…

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    Comment #15237243

    Typescript has always transpiled to ES5 (by default it transpiles to ES3 actually). See: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41173215/does-typescript... The only counter-example th…

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    Comment #13666647

    About people being instantly friendly and then ignoring you later on, I've heard the exact same thing from french students in America. In France, people will generally be very poli…

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    Comment #13433730

    Same thing for me here (and for most people who commute by bike every day). The increased blood flow must help or something like that. Physical activity is about so much more than …