This is a bot.

Do you think a real person who speaks fluent English and knows the difference between a Romance Language and a Germanic one is unaware if they themselves understand spoken French?

Yes I'm becoming convinced that these two accounts have the same operator.

Check out the post history. Always a question + a wikipedia slop essay answering it.

Usually quickly deletes posts when enough people start bot tagging them.

Whats with the question + slop essay? This is a bot

My grandfather's neighbors were all like close uncles to me and I feel my grandfather was often more of a father to me than my father because my father had to work a lot.

I'm GenX and I have no idea what that is

Event yesterday was good. I think I made a good contact for a new job thats inline with what I'm looking for. Won't know for a week or so if I get called in.

You seem to be mixing the concept of being startled and being afraid. Most people can be startled if something moves unexpected across the floor but that is not fear.

Would you refuse to go in the kitchen if a cockroach has been spotted in there? That is fear.

I would not go (or would definitely hesitate to go) into a room where any of wild dogs, snakes, wolves, hyenas, wild hogs, or bears were loose but a few cockroaches wouldn't stop me.

No

Am I the only one who deeply dislikes the phrase "on the spectrum" and the way NTs misuse it? In my experience, most NTs seem to think it means the person being described as some kind of light or partial autism. When it fact "on the spectrum" means exactly the same this clinically as "has autism."

Is it just me? Am I missing something?

I sometimes ask "and where are you on the ableism spectrum?" if I'm annoyed by someone enough

Surely you can tell us, Codewizard!

My experience ia that it promotes misunderstanding. What am I not seeing that you are?

Linux Great Try Migrating

What do you think you did that got you shadow banned?

Working on working myself up to a serious job hunt. Got a networking event tomorrow afternoon.

Builds failing was pretty rare for me but I didn't customize the compile options much beyond AMD64 optimizations.

I originally switched to Gentoo when I got my first AMD64 workstation. Gentoo was the only distro with full support and optimization for a little while.

a lot more waiting around

For a big build I would kick it off at bed time :)

Thanks for the response and the clarification.

I haven't run Windows in 25 years and I no plans to. I've actually been using linux for my desktop all that time, including gentoo for several years. Personally, I think people should use whatever os they like and the more choices the better!

No because there is no need. Air quotes indicate that you are quoting someone elss. You are speaking someone else's words.

A sentence with a parenthetical clause is still gramatically valid without the marks to offset the clause. The is no need to indicate it visually.