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Cake day: 2023年7月20日

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  • Em-dashes may simply be explained by the use of lexical correction tools, which also loves weird typographic like thoses.

    Same for weird phrasing, may be the result of anti-repetition rules.

    I personally uses Grammalecte, which is specifically tailored for the French language, and when I ask it to review a text, he often does those corrections if I do not first disable those rules.

    And that tools do not uses IA, it is 100% programmatic.





  • Good question.

    I suppose there is a reason, maybe to avoid the earlier plastic clips which tended to break (my FP5, now owned by my father, had 2 broken in about 2 yeard of use).

    Moreover it could improve the water resistance reliability, by making sure it doesn’t open in case of a shock (my FP5 tended to open, with the battery flying away, every time it fell).

    And maybe, just as a skill check. If you cannot open the rear plate, you cannot remove anything inside (the battery is screwed too). So you need your torx screwdriver anyway 😆.




  • French Press. It was my grandmother’s, kept it after she died.

    The brand, Melior, was bought by Bodum in 1991, and all French Press production went under the Bodum brand (the old Melior model became what is now known as the “Chambord” line), so it is at least 35 years old, possibly older.

    I contacted Bodum to know if they could give me an approximate age, but they couldn’t (or didn’t want to bother searching). All I know it is a version with Pyrex glass, which may help a knowledgeable person to more precisely date it, but I kinda put my curiosity on pause for the time being.

    Other than that, some of my grandfather’s vinyls are quite old too (at least one of them is from the 80’s), and I got some 20+ yo cassettes, some old mixtapes (back when mixtapes where actual tapes 😆).

    I have an old Caban which is probably at least 40 years old (was my grandfather’s, once again).

    Oh, and some kitchen tools made in West Germany 😆.



  • Of so, I’d advice you to try to work on how you express yourself.

    Expressed like you did, you sound more like you flatly reject any criticism instead of admiting both are valid notation.

    That’s kinda how you earned that flair from me. I’m not gonna blame you, I have been like that for a long time, and realized how damaging to my relationships it was. Not everyone is ready at all time to change their mind, even when I know I’m right with number to back my argument.
    Gently reminding them they may be wrong instead of antagonizing them often have way better result.
    Got friends out of toxic relationships that way. I don’t like to intervene in other people love life, but when ypu see friends suffer, you sometimes have to act.