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On 45k?

Because the French system is very different from the British one. In the UK you are expected to pay into a private pension and that will be your main source of income in retirement. As a result, only NI (small) contributes to your state pension. In France, the equivalent of NI is much larger in proportion and funds the whole pension system, rather than private pensions. There are tradeoffs. People in France don’t think of saving much for retirement, they expect their state pension and that’s it. As a result, their state pension is modest, but predictable. In the UK, you save into your own private pension so you make the decisions on glee is managed and how much you want to save. This brings more unpredictable but also lets you accumulate more savings if you optimize well enough over the course of your working life.

I read somewhere that 60% of people from rich parents fall out of wealth. Namely, they take wealth for granted, and not only do they not work for it but they actively overspend it and mismanage it. They either end up with very little to pass on, or worse, they run out and have to be supported by their own children.

I have multiple WhatsApp groups with my family (whole family, siblings with our SOs, just siblings, etc.) my siblings and I message each other on these various groups pretty much every day, and we call each other many once every two weeks.

8 years ago I bought a cheap (£150) mattress from IKEA and it was great for a long time. One day my wife says it’s old and we should change it, and decides that we need an expensive one. Got one of the most expensive ones from IKEA (£800 if I recall correctly) and… oh my the back pain. We tried for a while but really it wasn’t for us. Ultimately we covered it with a mattress topper and it improved things, but I really regret our £150 mattress (sadly IKEA didn’t make that specific one anymore).

Probably last time was in 2006 or 2007. After that I got my first cellphone.

GPs can send your prescriptions to your preferred pharmacy by email so you can just go a few days later and they have what you need.

Being a good developer is not about knowing everything, it’s about knowing where to search for the answers and growing a capacity to understand the answers fast.

You could get a Raspberry Pi Zero W, a cheap keyboard and mouse and a cheap/small second-hand display (and the cables/adaptors/microsd that you need) for probably max $100. Ask a friend to flash Raspberry Pi OS on the microsd from their laptop, and have fun programming.

99.999% of Python and JavaScript packages are hosted on GitHub. Simply Google a list of most used packages, or most useful packages (or packages that you already use and like), and find their GitHub repository. For python, most packages have a page on pypi.org, and the information about each package usually includes a link to their GitHub repository.

Everywhere. What language are you looking for?

They’ll just ask Apple and Google to remove it from their stores. People who have it installed will still have it available but with no updates. After a while the app won’t work because it will be too outdated.

I know someone who dropped out of her first year of college, she had taught herself coding and got a position in a company doing consulting for people who needed cloud setups, mostly on Azure. Over the years she became an expert in the Microsoft Azure ecosystem, to the point of being noticed by Microsoft (because she kept contacting them to point out flaws, ask for features for her customers, etc.) and she got recruited by them recently, at a senior level.

I’ve been to events where the dress code was more explicit, eg at least on a separate line. Here it was in the middle of a paragraph that I would expect some people may not read, when the title is “New Year’s Eve dinner and cocktail” then the price and a big “Book now” button. We actually skipped the description when booking (we did click on the menu to check what they would provide), and it’s only later when going back to the page that I saw “black tie” in it.

Oh thanks, I edited.

Thanks! That’s really helpful.

Thanks! Looks like those are the keywords I was missing for a google search :-)

Totally agree to that, as a French/British dual citizen living in the UK, French cheese bought in the UK isn’t great in comparison with the real deal. I personally prefer French cheese to British cheese (I lived near a cheese factory producing an award-winning morbier, as a kid. To this day I’ve never found better).

The biggest downside for me is the GIL (though it will eventually be phased out). I love python, but many times I’ve had to embed some scripting capabilities in a C or C++ program that is heavily multithreaded, and I’ve had to find something else than Python, because I need to invoke scripts from multiple threads.

Having lived in France, the UK, and the US, I think I like the UK best, but if I had the opportunity, I could see myself trying Canada, Ireland, or New Zealand.