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What do you mean when you say "French" or "non-French"? What are the words you are scared of using if you answered this question? Why won't you use them?

I asked ChatGPT to write a function which takes a year as input and determines whether or not it's a leap year - a classic basic programming question. It answered perfectly. Of cou…

I think this phenomenon is actually something else: in the 1950s people who were commonly depicted as being part of society tended to have a house with a garden and a nuclear famil…

You seem to be the one subject to taboos. You don't want to say what you mean by 'French' or 'non-French'. I am perfectly capable of understanding and discussing what can be meant …

But the point of the GP comment was that language has not 'evolved', but is intentionally being used in a misleading way here.

I understand your reluctance to answer a straightforward question: you know exactly what you are, and yet you are ashamed to admit to it. This is not the political culture of Verci…

What do you mean by "non-french"?

Yes, and I'd rather go to prison in Munich than to Rikers Island.

If investors see layoffs and judge that the company just became more valuable, either they are right or they are wrong. If they are right, then isn't the job of management, in a pr…

I have lived and travelled in France for around 40 years and I don't at all recognize what you are describing. Your claims appear to be based on suggesting that you (and, in a laug…

Firstly, so that I can understand the strength of the correlation, can you pinpoint when "women were given freedom there" and what that consisted of? Secondly, regardless of the ca…

"the cultural norm of the country, as well as its "visual" identity has shifted from a european country to a (mostly) african one" This is delusional, and yes, I did read the rest …

I believe it was heavily inspired by QuickTest.

One of the amazing things about Hypothesis is that it's very good at generating weird inputs that trigger bugs in cases when it would be impossible to test more than a tiny fractio…

Several answers on that page suggest that daily operation of circuit breakers is not harmless.

It's difficult to explain credibility beyond the definition of the word, but if you have any purported reason "to think that poverty of young adults, narcissism, or lack of patienc…

Yes, but now you're redesigning a normal electricity setup for a large building like a school. This is the system that was, presumably, replaced by the broken IoT system, plus the …

On the last par: suppose that it is true that a) 10 years ago people were less self-centered, impatient or poor than they are now and b) 10 years ago there were more parties. Does …

This is a catalogue of irrational scare-mongering. Do you honestly believe that "housewarmings, birthdays, holidays, sports games, barbecuing, karaoke, ... parties ... for people j…

You can't flip a circuit breaker every night and every morning. Firstly the school's safety code would not allow it. Secondly they are not designed for that. Thirdly, there are pro…

The question was not 'what do you do if you need the toilet?' but 'what do you do about people who haven't got anywhere to go to the toilet?' By definition, if there is a public to…

It is certainly in the book.

What are you supposed to do about people who haven't got anywhere else to go to the toilet? If you place them in custody, you might as well provide them with some basic housing tha…

Manhattan is not NYC. Most poor people live in the other 4 boroughs. Most wealthy people live in Manhattan (and Brooklyn).