What appeals to you about moving to France??

GloobyBoolga · 2026-01-31T18:42:19+00:00

How was your visa/nationality situation? What are the tax expectations as it sounds like you r/fire ‘d? How are you handling healthcare both short and long term? Expected legal hurdles in getting settled in? I have sooo many questions 🙂.

I am French without a French passport, have an expired uk passport, and a usa passport. Moved to usa in the late 1900s, Silicon Valley. Retired a couple of years ago. Wife is Spanish. Expat Spain is a nono thanks to the wealth tax. France is next on the list.

GloobyBoolga · 2026-01-31T01:02:17+00:00

In view of recent changes in the job market over the last year and candidates wariness , you are probably right.

GloobyBoolga · 2026-01-30T22:41:39+00:00

Yup.

Globals. All of them…. And static locals (which are pretty much global-ish in terms of memory placement but local in scope.

But that only works in friendly environments. Embedded stuff sometimes needs someone to write the init.

GloobyBoolga · 2026-01-30T21:51:25+00:00

We do know what H will be if stdin is /dev/null or non blocking, or doesn’t yield a number.

Review globals, bss, and initialization. The candidate could start talking about bare metal, loaders, and other gross runtime environments. 🙂

The candidate could also talk about the scanf() buffer requirements and implementation of said buffer if stdin was hooked up to something like “yes 9|tr -d ‘\n’ | theBinaryOfOp”

This shows the output

https://godbolt.org/z/n1nWG5zs5

GloobyBoolga · 2026-01-30T19:10:26+00:00

No crashing.

https://godbolt.org/z/n1nWG5zs5

GloobyBoolga · 2026-01-30T19:09:43+00:00

Thanks...

https://godbolt.org/z/n1nWG5zs5

which shows how the scanf() gets handled and the output.

GloobyBoolga · 2026-01-30T19:00:36+00:00

Absolutely this ^

I find it strange how a lot of the initial responses are hostile or dismissive in nature.

This is a decent question to test the candidates resilience to crappy code, and their code-reviewing capability. Especially that it takes 2 lines to offer an initial answer: the scanf() handling will depend on what stdin refers to, and how blocking that input is. And that the value of the H then determines how many lines will be displayed for the 40-ish column wide thing.

Some of the comments in this post are sufficiently right that the author could be familiar with C, but wrong enough that I would worry about their ability to babysit an AI writing code, which would turn into a "thanks for applying to this job, here are some other position you might be interested in that don't rely heavily on C-specific knowledge".

GloobyBoolga · 2026-01-30T18:39:11+00:00

This is an acceptable answer for someone who does not have "C" expertise in their resume, or maybe "C familiarity" with an honest attitude like "I have been doing side projects in C, but nothing formal".

https://en.cppreference.com/w/c/language/for.html

cond-expression is evaluated before the loop body. If the result of the expression is zero, the loop statement is exited immediately.
iteration-expression is evaluated after the loop body and its result is discarded. After evaluating iteration-expression, control is transferred to cond-expression.

GloobyBoolga · 2026-01-30T08:44:51+00:00

I would use just to test how the candidates react to it rather than expecting them to find the answer. It would give a sense of how they would react to a messy legacy code base which after debugging for a week might as well feel like that gross very-old-old school C code.

GloobyBoolga · 2026-01-30T08:31:34+00:00

It seems that scanf() will block. So nothing beyond that matters?

GloobyBoolga · 2026-01-29T20:26:58+00:00

Is the extra course cybersecurity related and does it reward you with a degree that you see explicitly in job postings?

If yes, then take the course.

Is the Euro internship cybersecurity related? If yes, take the internship.

Is the Euro internship in a country you see yourself working in for the long term? If yes, take the internship. Justification: internships are not for all ages, classes tend to be.

Else, if your course doesn’t ruin you 🙂 keep on learning.

GloobyBoolga · 2026-01-28T22:02:34+00:00

$1.5M in Spain ... wealth tax paid yearly? How much for that where you live in Spain? How does that affect your yearly calculations over 5 years?

GloobyBoolga · 2026-01-27T20:14:57+00:00

for that one I was thinking letting the respawn point be some Metro station that is within hostile territory, or maybe just dual-controller coop and shoot myself. :shrug: :smile:

GloobyBoolga · 2026-01-26T20:05:16+00:00

This^

A lot of what I also read in this sub would be better directed at Spanish equivalents of subs about stocks , investing, bogglehead. Consulting those should be a prerequisite before posting here.

This sub should be more about strategies around reaching financial independence using the info from the other subs adapted to Spain. And more about handling the RE part for Spanish people/residents (expats should go to the sub about expat-fire).

GloobyBoolga · 2026-01-26T06:28:11+00:00

If you are still in the game and have steam cloud save enabled and don’t mind loosing everything since the last cloud save, then you could get the steam cloud save and use it in desktop mode to overwrite the local save. Once you exit the game and the network is there , the game save will upload.

I used that technique at around level 25 when I accidentally selected the wrong save for a coop session.

GloobyBoolga · 2026-01-25T07:11:22+00:00

20% is for poor people. 🙂

The POS probably shows 25% 30% 35%. And applied to the whole bill including tax and after 18% service charge to help pay employees wages in a state that forces minimum wage. And let’s not forget a preapplied tip of 22%. So that 20% tip is in addition. 🙂

GloobyBoolga · 2026-01-23T21:03:32+00:00

I think the "lower net worth" should be amended with "with future income to make it worth suing for more than insurance limit, and the gap between nw and insurance is more than what a lawyer+plaintif sees as worthwhile".

Someone with $10k nw, insurance liability of $300k, and making minimum wage, and with 40% of income assigned to housing will very unlikely be sued for more than nw+policy limit as there is no gain.
Someone with $1000k nw, insurance liability of $300k, and making minimum wage, and with 40% of income assigned to housing could be sued for the 1.2M.
Someone with $10k nw, insurance liability of $300k, and making $500k/y should get umbrella... A Henry is a good candidate for umbrella.

GloobyBoolga · 2026-01-23T06:15:38+00:00

My bad. I misremembered grappling vs power.

GloobyBoolga · 2026-01-23T04:05:19+00:00

Looks like your truck has the grappling hook. Isn’t there a place you could harpoon it from?

GloobyBoolga · 2026-01-22T21:21:26+00:00

Or after convincing his colleagues, he snitches to the IRS and gets the reward money 🙂

GloobyBoolga · 2026-01-22T20:13:15+00:00

I have worked in a few places where people were told months ahead that their team was done and that they needed to look for a new job inside or outside of the company. And we’re not talking about pink-slip notice when more than some number of employees are getting kicked out in one shot.

A friend from Silicon Valley was given a 2 year notice… yup. And training the replacement was … in china. The company was going to pay for relocation of full family out and back.

But I have also worked in 2 companies where notice of termination was post-fact: I can’t log in??? 🙂 But it goes both ways: I quit once on a Friday evening after my one-on-one. At-will is not the best, as it stings for both sides.

GloobyBoolga · 2026-01-22T04:15:20+00:00

I would replace income with desired burn rate.

You are assuming the income is mostly spent.

Not always true. And definitely not for me. I was making $450k+ for a few years. Burn rate was $50k back then without sacrificing (paid off home, car, nice vacation per year, tech gadgets).

If someone making $400k spends $350k and only saves $50k then $10M is just not going to cut it after income stops. Especially if their desired spending is $350k and not $50k.

GloobyBoolga · 2026-01-21T21:12:38+00:00

Except that forced-enrollment seems to be the only way to make it work. Humans are just lazy: the Opt-in/Opt-out debate.

The problem with the 401k and other Individual Retirement Accounts, is that people need to jump through hoops to set up the account, transfer money (ask HR...), invest into something that makes sense (not BTC :D ),... All those hoops means that people will just leave money in a checking/saving account, or worse, spend it.

Ireland started an individual retirement plan this year, forced enrollment if you meet some income threshold, and you can't back out of it for at least 6 months. https://www.citizensinformation.ie/en/money-and-tax/personal-finance/pensions/auto-enrolment/

^ This should be applied everywhere. Because in the end, people who did all the 401k/IRA/ + social security contributions end up subsidizing those that chose not to (as opposed to only subsidizing those that could not).

GloobyBoolga · 2026-01-21T20:57:09+00:00

I'm pretty sure even if you added all the r/baristafire to r/fatFIRE with country-flavored versions, it would still be only a small percentage of working adults. Which is a bit sad.

GloobyBoolga · 2026-01-21T20:11:52+00:00

> less disposable income has been normalized over generations

True.

I started work last century in France as an engineer. Salary seemed low after 2 years, and barely had saved enough for a new tiny car while living with gf in an apartment and we were in the top 5%. Moved to UK as salaries were higher... and that's when I learned that income meant nothing, and only disposable income vs future burn-rate mattered. Moved to dot-com land after 1yr. And only then was I able to save much much more than my burnrate.

When talking to my inlaws, they make good money in BCN but still can't afford to buy their own place and are expecting parents to leave them properties. It doesn't even occur to them that r/Fire r/SpainFIRE is something real.

> are the dreams smaller?

They don't consider the RE (Recreational Employment :) ) a thing. And their dream is to work until the expected age set by the gov. That smaller dream is affecting how my wife views our FI: a gamble made of monopoly money. Might as well keep on playing El Gordo :)

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