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by purrcat259 1y ago
I don't have much of an opinion I suppose english language cultural dominance has meant that newer words are just imported rather than adapted
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by purrcat259 1y ago
From what I have heard, Lebanese Arabic is the closest, and still pretty far. Passable conversation is possible. Maltese is definitely its own language. Arabic roots are there (theres a Semitic joke in there ) but it isn't arabic anymo
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by purrcat259 1y ago
Only if we have a few Maltesers first
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by purrcat259 1y ago
Maltese has been loaded with loan words since forever. 5 points if you can guess where bonġu, bravu and mappa come from. At some point there was some literary council for the language that decided that any new loan words should just be spel
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by purrcat259 1y ago
Depends on where you live and how you were brought up, but for the most part code switching is default. There was a point about 7 years ago when the overton window shifted to "speak english to strangers first" because of a large i
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by purrcat259 1y ago
Read with English pronunciation, closest would be mar-sa-shlock.
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by purrcat259 1y ago
I don't have much personal experience in attempting to communicate with arabic speakers. From others I have heard Lebanese arabic is the closest and you can have a passable conversation.
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by purrcat259 1y ago
I read, write and speak Maltese, AMA if you are curious about the language.
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by purrcat259 1y ago
I just listened to your episode on fafo.fm a few days ago and recognised your handle and already knew the link was worth clicking. Your stuff is awesome!
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by purrcat259 2y ago
Its a bit of a national meme that every ship that somehow gets into trouble is registered here
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by purrcat259 3y ago
I was also in the middle of writing a model downloader and was baffled as to why safetensors headers were suddenly much larger than 8 bytes!
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by purrcat259 3y ago
Hotjar used to do this, with a heavy bias for EMEA timezone overlap.
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by purrcat259 3y ago
Yeah I actually asked for a few weeks ago when we experienced 10% cuts and I was told they won't share one because of privacy reasons... But we were seeing the list of deactivated slack accounts crop up slowly anyway.
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by purrcat259 3y ago
Yep that pronunciation would be spot on. Bonswa is very much an older generation term so I'm not surprised they enjoy it
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by purrcat259 3y ago
"kif ahna xbin? Kollox sew?" Its an informal greeting, usually to someone with whom you're already acquianted with. It translates loosely to: "how are you my friend? Is everything ok?" The x is pronounced the same w
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by purrcat259 3y ago
Recent governments in Malta have been moving in this direction so maybe there's a playbook :). The issue we face is that given how tiny and few we are (approx 500k Maltese, excluding what are referred to ad TCNs or third country nation
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by purrcat259 3y ago
1. Language: I'd be moving somewhere where the primary language is unknown to me (although I studied german for a while in school). 2. Convenience and support structure: I have young children and their grandparents live 5-15 minutes aw
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by purrcat259 3y ago
Ouch this hits home. Its still the case to today: many Maltese just depend on the government to figure it out for them. As a result: 1. The government is the biggest employer on the island. 2. There are mandatory cost of living allowance in
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by purrcat259 3y ago
Hi, Maltese here, always lived here since birth, my family is Maltese going back generations. Off the top of my head: 1. The country is constantly polarised. Politics and football especially. Voting based on your family's political leg
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by purrcat259 3y ago
This is very similar to the situation in Malta, where an EY survey showed around 90% of 18-25 year olds want to leave the island.
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by purrcat259 3y ago
My first was six weeks old when lockdown hit. She spent nearly the first two years of her life with just my wife and I. We always resolved to speak to her as an adult would and only used YouTube videos which encouraged speech and some signi
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by purrcat259 3y ago
https://www.simonam.dev/ is mine :)
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by purrcat259 4y ago
This actually happened to us last week in fact. No deployments revealed how a legacy background processor started losing connections to the message queue and gets stuck in a state where it never reconnects. Deployments always cycled the pod
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by purrcat259 4y ago
Couch to 5k is an awesome resource to achieve this.
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by purrcat259 4y ago
Having gone recently through a push at $WORK to modernize our 3.7 codebase up to 3.9, I'd love to try using this tool. Does it really only run one file at a time? I'd love for a recursive folder option.
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by purrcat259 5y ago
Hotjar does. Pay for the same role is the same band regardless of location.
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by purrcat259 5y ago
The four who might have still been alive today had it been illegal to use a phone will driving see OP's point
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by purrcat259 5y ago
If the nappy can't handle another round of pee or poop then yeah I might consider waking the baby up to avoid them waking up thanks to the pee. The secret is in changes before naps though :)
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by purrcat259 6y ago
Dealing with people is half the job, so focus on your soft skills as much as you do your hard skills. http://softskills.audio/ is a goldmine in this regard.
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by purrcat259 6y ago
Not yet. It is still a bunch of Python scripts and Ansible playbooks so far. I've been meaning to invest in a domain anyway as I was piggybacking off a personal one. Feel free to email me your email if you want a reminder once its live

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