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Comment Few Add. Info: Little Chat With A Didi Driver (Score 2) 63

Last time we went to Guangzhou, we (French) could use Weixin (WeChat) pay for the first time. This unlocked the possibility to use the local Uber, Didi.

One of them was driving an X-Peng P7+, or Xiao Peng (pronounce shiao pong).
The car was so impressive we had a little chat with the driver.
I let you dig the Internet for the specs of the car, or Youtube for some reviews.

What was almost jaw dropping :
- 180000 yuans, or +/- 23000 € in May. I know, no doubt that in France, after taxes and resellers margin, it would be at least double this price. Can't know, this model is no imported, yet. We can only find the G6 at around 50000 €, and the G9 for about 70000 €. No, thanks.
- he told us that car prices have fallen 3 times in the past few months. Tell me, when was the last time you heard about paying less than before for a car? 12 years ago, I paid my Honda Civic (second product range) 25000 €. Nowadays, the first price for a Civic is almost 38000 €. Have your salaries increased that much in 12 years?

By the way, when Chinese gvt and people set their mind onto something, they do not hesitate nor take much time to think about it: in about 5 years, they replace nearly all cars by EV. Maybe can you see few hybrid ones. Or "luxury" gas powered ones, from did-you-noticed-I-have-money?-a-lot-of-money brands like BMW, Mercedes, Porsche ... Even few supercars like Lambo or McLaren. But all these are exceptions in an ocean of EV (+ electric bikes, scooters ...).

Comment Age: part of the issue? (Score 1, Interesting) 97

I remember that 30 - 35 years ago, during CS classes at university, we used to switch our minds from a language to another, from course to course: ADA, C/C++, Smalltalk, Prolog, Lisp ...
But in the last few years, I tried the Rust tutorial. Two times. I failed. My brain cannot cope with the syntax. It's way to close to C/C++, but with different and new meanings.
I think "I'm too old for this shit" ...
I find confort telling me that the younger coders need sidekicks to hide low level considerations.
But I may be wrong ...

Comment Don't be afraid of him (Score 1) 72

That's just for the show.
He's a US puppet since the beginning.
To point only three examples, remember :
- how he made a deal with Uber to help them avoid paying employees as real employees.
- how he got help from McKinsey and many others, and paid them back with our tax € for fake studies. We're talking of billions and billions of €.
- how he sold Alstom's nuclear knowledge, maintenance and patents. And bought it back for double the price, but without the knowledge, maintenance and patents.

We, Frenchies, already got our more than fair share of corrupted politicians.
But this ma€ron is the godfather of all.

Comment You know what's worse ? (Score 1) 147

French opened chakras managers (N+1 to N+too much) using all those buzz words too feel important and up to date. Ridiculous.
The one that disconnects my brain the fastest is "digital(e)". "Communication digitale", "n'importe quoi digital" ...
They take the English word "digital", and they use it without translation, either "digital" or "digitale" depending on the genre.
Instead of "numérique".

But I cannot help to understand the French meaning of "digital(e)", more often linked to fingers
And especially the middle one

Comment As Long As There Are No #GSOD (Score 0) 26

I switched from my good old Samsung Galaxy Note 9 to a Sony Xperia 1 VI in November. So far, so good. Except for the lack of stylus: no used very often, but so much nice to have.

When I say "good old", that's modulo the #GSOD feature of course. So long, Samsung, you got too comfortable sh*ting on clients.

If Sony does the same, the next one (in many years I hope) will be a capable mode from a Chinese brand.

Comment Don't do this. Or pay us (Score 1) 42

We're talking about our personal data.
In "personal data", there's "personal".
How can you, rotten bankers, sell our data ?
From now on, if you want to sell them, you'll negotiate with us a per buyer contract, and I'll write my price on this contract (if I accept to sell). Be prepared, it will be at least a 6 figures amount.

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