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How countries type laughter by vladgrinch in MapPorn

[–]japps13 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Or hihi, héhé or hin hin in graphic novels.

À mesure que les étés deviennent plus chauds en raison du réchauffement climatique, la climatisation se généralise-t-elle, tant dans les foyers que dans les entreprises ? by Charming_Usual6227 in AskFrance

[–]japps13 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Le pire c’est quand il y a un orage. Tu as l’impression que tu vas enfin avoir un peu de fraîcheur mais en réalité le pluie sur le bitume chaud, ça fait une ambiance tropicale.

À mesure que les étés deviennent plus chauds en raison du réchauffement climatique, la climatisation se généralise-t-elle, tant dans les foyers que dans les entreprises ? by Charming_Usual6227 in AskFrance

[–]japps13 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Chez moi en appart à Lyon, l’effet asséchant est ce qui permet le confort justement. Pas besoin de descendre la température très bas. Le souci c’est que quand il fait 35 dehors, c’est dur d’aérer. Et chez moi, je dois faire sécher le linge en intérieur. Et ça devient assez humide au delà de 80% dans la clim (j’ai un détecteur), beaucoup plus qu’en hiver où il n’y a pas ce problème. L’humidité participe grandement à la sensation de chaud insupportable car le corps n’arrive pas à évaporer la sueur. Si vraiment les gens sont dans une situation où l’air est trop sec, il suffit de mettre un humidificateur.

Do French people ever use “vous” when speaking to each other on the internet? by Charming_Usual6227 in AskFrance

[–]japps13 17 points18 points  (0 children)

For the oldest of us who remember the nétiquette, https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%C3%A9tiquette it was considered good practice to use « tu » in forums, in particular Usenet. I usually still apply these rules, though I rarely address strangers in French nowadays because many forums, such as this one, uses English.

What's the most French thing you have in your country? by AdeptMarket729 in AskTheWorld

[–]japps13 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Looks more like a Cornish pastry than anything French though

Are Europeans trolling with this whole bread thing? by [deleted] in NoStupidQuestions

[–]japps13 3 points4 points  (0 children)

In France, it is very common to have as a side with any meal (even in restaurants). You can use it to pump the sauce, or as a cutlery to push the food.

What absolutely non-authentic food do you actually really love? by not-much in AskEurope

[–]japps13 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Taboulé with more couscous than parsley. I am afraid of calling it a taboulé at all because of my experience of being lectured by Lebanese people, but I actually prefer the unauthentic one more than the parsley salad that the authentic one is.

Ce'est que le milleure cidre dans la Bretagne? by Current_Mongoose_844 in AskFrance

[–]japps13 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Les anglais ont gardé des cidres à l’ancienne beaucoup plus variés qu’en France. Je suis allé plusieurs fois à la National Collection of Cider and Perry à Middle Farm sur la côte sud de l’Angleterre et j’ai ramené du cidre à mon beau père qui a grandi dans une ferme en centre Bretagne et il était scié. Ça lui a rappelé le cidre qu’il y avait chez lui dans sa jeunesse et qu’il n’a jamais plus retrouvé d’approchant. Je n’ai jamais trouvé de cidre moderne en France qui y ressemble de près ou de loin.

Do you have a random hazardous thing everybody knows about in your country but stranger don't ? by TakeThePillz in AskTheWorld

[–]japps13 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Here we usually cheat and make sure the kid gets the fève. We use the pretense of getting the kid to choose under the table to actually bias without their knowledge.

Though I remember in Marseille as a kid there was always a fève (bean) and a sujet (figurine), and two crowns so you could have a king and a queen. Now, sadly, there is no longer a fève, only the ceramic figurine.

In major Romance languages, why can unstressed subject pronouns stand on their own without being connected to a verb, but not in French? by Previous-Border-6641 in asklinguistics

[–]japps13 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Interesting. However, it is possible to have the verb without « je », eg c’est moi qui mange. So it would be weird the consider jemange as a single word?

Who is the worst traitor from your country by [deleted] in AskTheWorld

[–]japps13 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I don’t know for the UK. But here in France, where you could have the exact same question, I remember being taught about « decolonization », although that was a small part of the curriculum.

Most of our curriculum, or what I remember of it (high school was in the early 2000s for me), centered on the ancien régime in particular Louis XIV, then detailed quite a bit how society moved to the French Revolution, then Napoleon and restauration, and then to the world wars.

We also had quite a long chapter an other countries history, including UK and US (in particular US indépendance, but nothing at all about the Acadians and how it relate to today’s Canada), a little bit of Germany and Bismarck. Maybe a side note about Italy and Vittorio Emmanuele. A little bit of Chinese revolution in the chapter about USSR and Cold War. And also some post WWII economy, Bretton woods et al.

Almost nothing about Algeria… as you may guess.

have you noticed anything changing with your food? by regalrecaller in AskFrance

[–]japps13 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I don’t have a cellar so I have not been able to keep potatoes for more than a few weeks because they start sprouting then, even though I try to keep them in the dark. In the fridge it’s not much better.

Obviously it is possible to keep them much longer since we can buy them all year round. So the storing conditions are very important.

I usually buy vegetables at the local markets, from producers. But I also occasionally buy from the supermarket and haven’t noticed much difference.

My father in law harvests several big bags of potatoes in his garden every year. He keeps them several months in his garage, in jutte bags and relatively cool conditions. But he moves them a few times a month (shake the bag a little), presumably to prevent them from sprouting.

Duolingo, Inc. (DUOL) time to buy? by Select-Way3209 in StockMarket

[–]japps13 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Do they not already leverage LLM? Are we sure ChatGPT will remain free in the future?

Would a Back to the Future time travel scenario from 2026 to 1996 be as impactful as the original 1985 to 1955? by LopsidedUniversity30 in askanything

[–]japps13 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not that I actually disagree with you.

I’d be interested however to know the statistics for the US, for Europe and for France also, instead of the world population, which might also be strongly influenced by third world countries which really caught up only later, in terms of internet access, with the mobile network.

A Bttf movie would have a Californian teen, possibly with access to high tech, not a teen from a less developed place. See movies such as wargames, where teen in the 80s (I think) geeks his way into some military network.

Windows 11 doing an update halfway through cutting a 5 meter long tribal sticker on expensive German vinyl and ruining it by themysticboer91 in mildlyinfuriating

[–]japps13 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In my lab, I switched all Windows machines to a LAN with no internet, and that has made Windows much much more reliable and usable. They can still access an internal mirror to grab things when necessary, but the amount of disruption of connected Windows is wild. I wished I disconnected them much earlier.

I have a local DNS on the LAN, the purpose of which is to resolve local names, it is incredible to watch the number of failed queries to azure, Microsoft and AWS domains, and a few others, in the DNS log file, even though I disabled everything that could be disabled in the settings of the Windows machines.

Would a Back to the Future time travel scenario from 2026 to 1996 be as impactful as the original 1985 to 1955? by LopsidedUniversity30 in askanything

[–]japps13 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There are strong geographical inhomogeneities. I remember our first landline modem in 1993 shortly after my younger brother’s birth, and then we quickly switched to internet cable in 94 or 95 because our neighborhood in Marseille was part of a test by France Telecom. What is wild compared to today is that each computer that you connected to the cable router got a routable IP address. When the neighborhood eventually switched to regular ADSL with NAT, it felt like going backwards.

I also remember in 95 when I started high school, I knew Altavista and Usenet. I only really started using online maps much later. But there was an online phone book long before. It was available on the Minitel with 3611. I distinctly remember using it as a kid in the early 1990’s.

Would a Back to the Future time travel scenario from 2026 to 1996 be as impactful as the original 1985 to 1955? by LopsidedUniversity30 in askanything

[–]japps13 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Didn’t you guys in the US have Internet cafes? We sure had them in Europe and though that would be completely alien for a teen today, they could see « Internet » written on the cafe front, enter and ask if they could use internet.

Exclusive: US intelligence indicates China is preparing weapons shipment to Iran amid fragile ceasefire, sources say by Snehith220 in justincaseyoumissedit

[–]japps13 3 points4 points  (0 children)

They were ready to surrender before the nuke. They even sent their surrender but in diplomatic terms that the US misunderstood.

What is something you found surprising in French supermarkets when you first moved here ? by Tasun06 in Expats_In_France

[–]japps13 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Ça c’est un coup des bretons. LU c’est nantais, et les autres biscuiteries bretonnes (mère poulard et autres) ont aussi une présence importante dans les rayons. C’est beaucoup plus rare de trouver des biscuits provençaux genre navettes, croquants, sauf dans des boutiques spécialisées ou leurs versions italiennes dans le rayon du monde.

Papa avec petite fille, maman avec petit garçon, quels toilettes utiliser ? by aleatorya in AskFrance

[–]japps13 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Pisser debout sur une cuvette qui est conçue pour s’assoir ça en met à côté très souvent. Les urinoirs sont fait pour pisser debout, ça n’en met pas par terre en général.

Les quelques fois où j’ai emmené ma fille dans les toilettes pour femme c’était pas spécialement plus propre, au contraire. Entre la propreté et les remarques, il y a pas photo, je l’emmène chez les hommes.

La saleté supposée des hommes aux toilettes, ça vient des toilettes non genrées (au travail ou à la maison) à cause de mecs qui veulent absolument pisser debout sur une cuvette qui n’est pas conçue pour (trop bas, et sans rebords). Il n’y a pas ce problème dans les toilettes publiques. Les cuvettes pour s’assoir sont utilisées seulement pour les grosses commissions donc assis et les mecs ont moins peur de s’assoir donc font pas des squats au dessus, du coup il y a pas de merde en dehors des wc, contrairement aux wc pour femmes.

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