I think this is a very though subject and cannot be treated so easily.
Visa policies might be very different from one country to another, updated quiet often etc.
What you believe to be the source of truth on the internet might not be the actual truth. For personal reasons I recently had to know whether or not a Visa was required for a personal short travel to Russia for a Mauritius citizen. Various information can be found on the internet, some says yes, some says no. Your website says a visa is required. However, a visa is not required in this case.
It's very tricky to get the correct information, always up to date, and your website can lead to people having issues entering a country.
Furthermore this website is dangerous. People travelling you thailand are advised by their embassies to bring 20,000 baht. It’s often not checked on arrival but people have been thrown in jail cells and deported because of this.
Visa information is no joke. You should always get it from the local embassy website.
Somewhat in Italy as well. There's a scene in an 80s movie where two "coatti" (I can't really find a translation for this word. Let's say "white trash" from Rome) are deciding what name to choose for their hypothetical son. The guy would like to call him Kevin because "it gives a sense of respect".
Same in the Netherlands. There are a lot of names that will instantly identify you as someone born from parents hailing from the lower socio-economic classes.
If you meet a boy named Jayden (the present day Dutch Kevin I guess?), you can be pretty sure his parents didn't go to college. This information should be irrelevant, but in reality it is used by whoever they meet, consciously or unconsciously.
The problem with these imported and new names is that it places a long lasting, nigh indelible stigma on their bearer. A label that everyone can see — yet you'll never know if it affects someone's opinion of you. All you might know is that the net effect of your name is negative until society changes its perception of it (i.e., gets used to it).
Living as a (expat) Kevin in The Netherlands for many years and I've never heard this. Might be that my friends are just polite. Interested to know if this is well-known to those who grew up in The Netherlands.
Do you have an accent (preferably from the Anglosphere) that gives you away as an expat? The stigma (at least in Germany) basically doesn‘t apply to native English speakers (or at least much, much less so). Nobody here makes fun of Kevin Costner for being named Kevin. The stigma is specifically about lower class Germans frequently choosing certain foreign names for their kids.
Kevin does have some lingering association; the lower socio-economic class stigma is there, but not that strong. Keep in mind that for someone born in an Anglo-Saxon country, that stigma would not necessarily apply. It tends to be limited to Dutch-born folk.
Chantal on the other hand seems to carry a much stronger connotation of a lower class background.
Also in Spain. Kevin, Joshua, etc automatically mark you as being a gypsy. No Chantal here though, but names like Jennifer or Yolanda are arguably used to that effect too. Very, very surprised though to see this as an international phenomenon.
I'd argue these names are more representative of cani/quillo culture than gypsies though. The phenomenon is pretty universal, it has to do with the formation of lumpenproletariat.
And average users don't care an iota about the differences in render engines. They see the UI, features like syncing bookmarks and such and think that's the browser. It's a different perspective.
i don't like that these devices don't use any sort of graphics accelerators though. that seems to be the most "fun" part of programming the retro architectures these things are inspired by. it's a pity there isn't any market for such chips anymore. i guess an FPGA is an option.
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At my current job, they plan to move office and to change the organisation from "open office layout" to what they call "dynamic layout", including no designated desks.
And they made some studies stating that an average of X% of the company workforce time is spent in meeting rooms, so they can cut off the number of desks by X% (minus a small delta).
People will even have lockers to store personal stuff...
I'm looking forward to see how that will work, have a good laugh and quit.
> And they made some studies stating that an average of X% of the company workforce time is spent in meeting rooms, so they can cut off the number of desks by X% (minus a small delta).
I never understood that logic. These kinds of calculations usually completely ignore the most relevant thing for desks: the (regular) peak number of people that want to use a desk.
At a place I worked for they had 10 people from a company we worked with come in every monday and tuesday. No more desks needed, because "most of the time there are more than enough desks". People just called in sick on monday and tuesday, because there were 20 people in a room that could maybe fit 8-10.
Whenever next someone is going to suggest something like this, I now enthusiastically propose to also cut parking by 50% since the lot is nearly empty 18:00 to 7:00 anyway (adjusted to whatever calculation they are using)
But wait, I have a matlab license and VS installed. So I need to be at my desktop PC or reinstall everything every day. Oh, and to debug some parts of this legacy code, I'll need local admin or it crashes.
No, I don't want to switch to a laptop.
Oh, you can permanently book my desk for me in 6 monthly blocks? Works for me...
Imho, watching a movie at home or in a theater are totally different experiences.
At home you can get interrupted by anything (phone call, email, notification), whereas in a theater the risk of getting interrupted by something external are lower. (I agree though, that I could airplane-mode my devices at home.)
Also, the ambience in a theater is much more different than at home, especially for comedy and horror genre.
Complete opposite for me. Theaters are full of people who react audibly at the wrong things, chatter, phones... I loathe all that and won't see movies on theaters on that principle.
I don't have any urges to check phone, imdb or anything like that during a movie. I usually have a break in the middle of a movie for more tea or bathroom.
Besides that, a mere $1500 audio setup is enough to beat theater in terms of sound. Screen is the only thing that the theaters have going on, but I've been satisfied with my 42".
I am not defending the position that banning netflix from Canne is right, because they have several high quality shows, so it's a pity, but note that in France the movie theaters audience is very respectful of the experience, and there is barely any inconvenience for the viewers (no chatters, no phones, no buzzing, it's pretty strict -- except in movies targeting children, because well, children are children and it's hard for them not to talk sometimes)
For example, last time I was in the movies, it was a dark picture about incest. During the very scene that a daughter was revealed her father has been raping her, some girl in the audience bursted into muted laughter. Later I read from a paper or something that laughter might be a tool for some to cope with the grave feelings like that. But anyway, it ruined the experience for me, I didn't know if her laughter was a commentary at the movie's quality or what.
In general, I don't want to be told what to feel, when to laugh, when to aww. Hearing those audible reactions from fellow audience members kind of conveys the ques to do so to me anyway.
Even with Airplane mode (or aeroplane mode as I like to call it) you can't stop my cat wanting to be let out/let in/ out/in/fed/out/in. A cinema is like an oasis of calm.
Visa policies might be very different from one country to another, updated quiet often etc.
What you believe to be the source of truth on the internet might not be the actual truth. For personal reasons I recently had to know whether or not a Visa was required for a personal short travel to Russia for a Mauritius citizen. Various information can be found on the internet, some says yes, some says no. Your website says a visa is required. However, a visa is not required in this case.
It's very tricky to get the correct information, always up to date, and your website can lead to people having issues entering a country.