Alain Delon, étoile du cinéma français, est mort

cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 11 minutes ago

The good

Window tiling is good!
Small but useful changes to most apps that don’t break anything that was already working.
Compatible with most of the same systems as macOS Sonoma was last year.

The bad

Apple Intelligence is the tentpole feature, and none of it is ready yet.
Somewhat significant disk usage increase.
Window tiling isn’t as flexible as it is in Windows 11.

The ugly

Drops 2018/2019 MacBook Air for no great reason. Sure, the processor is slow, but it was also slow last year, and it did have an Apple T2.

cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 hours ago

Very interesting

cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 day ago

Normalien, agrégé de lettres et énarque, Bruno Le Maire va retourner à sa première vocation : l’enseignement. Après avoir reçu des propositions de plusieurs universités américaines et européennes, il a choisi de donner des cours* *sur les « sujets économiques et géopolitiques » à l’E4S, un établissement universitaire de Lausanne, en Suisse.

cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 days ago

Agreed with you. In Europe, there’s a superstition that gifting a knife can “cut” or sever a relationship. To avoid this, the person receiving the knife must give a coin—usually just a small one—back to the giver. This act symbolically “pays” for the knife, turning it into a purchase rather than a gift, and preventing any bad luck or harm to the friendship or relationship.

It’s blend of practicality, tradition, and superstition.

cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 days ago

One explanation ties this to a belief that closing a knife someone else opened can bring bad luck, or is considered bad manners. There’s also the practical side: if someone hands you an open blade, they’re entrusting you with a dangerous tool, and closing it before handing it back could suggest you don’t trust them to handle it properly.