If French becomes the dominant international language, then Canadians will naturally want to learn it. That still doesn’t justify removing English, especially considering that it’s still one of the dominant languages right now.

A friend of mine and her husband were expecting twins, but the viability of the pregnancy was uncertain. They were warned there might be complications, but they hoped and prayed through to delivery.

The twins were born (two girls), but one of them immediately had some complications. She was moved to the NICU and the doctors weren’t sure if she’d pull through. She showed signs of improvement and fought her little heart out for those rough first few weeks.

After a month, things were looking more positive. But then she suddenly took a turn for the worse, and within a few days she passed.

A funeral for an infant is one of the most heart-wrenching experiences I have ever known, especially for a child who has been alive long enough for the parents to develop a stronger bond. This baby had bonded particularly strong with her dad (her sister seemed to favor her mom). So when the dad was invited to share words if he wanted, he walked up to the tiny casket and sang a lullaby while he wept.

And every person in the room wept with him. The guests, the minister, the funeral director. I’ve never experienced sadness like it.

Nice try, Quebec.

To be fair, I’m in favor of making all schools French immersion. I wish I had that option growing up, being bilingual is great for multiple reasons. But “purging” English is an objectively bad idea.

“Hey, you know that language that is one of the most commonly spoken internationally? Yeah, it’s one of the languages that allows people to communicate among many of the most influential countries in the world and opens up a ton of job opportunities? Yeah, that one. Fuck that language, let’s cripple future generations by intentionally removing it from our culture, and lose a huge portion of our culture with it.”

So yeah, take my upvote.

That type of thinking is required to be a project manager, I think.

“Well, officer, I provided the contractor with one 5 gallon bucket of paint yesterday, and he got two rooms done. But today, when I unloaded ten 5 gallon buckets of paint onto his Honda Civic, he got upset instead of painting twenty rooms like I expected!”

More people do X makes X more done

This is a general trend, but like in the case you noted, doesn’t always hold.

Another example: if one woman can have one baby in nine months, how long does it take nine women to have one baby?

Imagine if Caillou had dead, dead eyes. That’s cocomelon.

I have no idea, I’m not even sure what that is.

I think we’ve found the real solution to this problem.

Instructions unclear, I now have a grill poker stuck into my head and my head is still cold.

I work in software on automotive safety-critical software. I left LLMs in the trash.

So yes, I am using it properly.

Honey, I’ve seen the horseshit LLMs churn out. My job is safe.

I haven’t seen any of those things either. And yet here we are. Together.

I’ve been playing Slay the Spire 2 in early access, and they did the same thing. Brilliant idea, great execution.

Yeah, and what’s with these kids on my lawn with their loud music and unfamiliar slang? And why does my back hurt? Amd where did this sudden craving for Werther’s Originals come from?

Sorry, is this a joke that I’m too Linux to understand?

The most absurd part of this is their inability to dox someone for a month. Give a handful of bored nerds any motivation and they’d have it figured out in a day or two.

Buco seems to be having a good time. 9/10, unsure how Eaton feels.

Just cleaned mine up a bit recently!

PC on the left, RPi for simple stuff and an Odroid HC4 as my media and backup server.

Not pictured: another RPi dedicated to HomeAssistant, a magic mirror, and networking stuff.

Also not pictured: my workbench tools on the upper shelves, which have not been tidied recently.

You’re doing it wrong. Replace the cake with beans and keep the filling, and we’ll talk.

There are some aspects of the discipline that are hard to grasp–in my experience, it was differential equations and advanced control systems. But those are a pretty small part of the curriculum. The number of people who graduated without demonstrating even basic understanding of rudimentary concepts is alarming, but it explains a large amount of the shitty engineering that exists in the world.