afelixdorn's comments

On: Show HN: I quit my job and made an automatic time ...

[afelixdorn]

I saw this and thought, all I really need is an app that tracks Hyprland focus events (in my case) along with the title.

Thanks for paving 90% of the way.

On: A hack of psychotherapy records revealed a nation'...

[afelixdorn]

> Smedley had announced online that he’d gotten identity theft protection from the company Lifelock Inc. Kivimäki responded by calling Lifelock, saying he was Smedley. In audio of the call submitted at trial, the customer service representative asks Kivimäki a series of security questions, all of which he gets wrong. Nonetheless, by the end of the conversation, he has been allowed to create a new password for the account, enabling him to log in and find, among other things, Smedley’s banking details.

On: Scientists Find an 'Alphabet' in Whale Songs

[afelixdorn]

You would need to align the vectors of words in our language to the ones in their language... which requires knowing their language (or enough of it)

On: Jolie, the service-oriented programming language

[afelixdorn]

I don't think I've heard heard of someone named Jolie.

According to data from INSEE (France's Census Bureau equivalent), since 1925, only 6 babies were named Jolie in 2011 and then 5 more in 2018.

There's a Joline which you'd pronounce pretty much like jolie as the n is very weak, but it's barely more popular.

Anyway, jolie does mean pretty, but it's not really a name (11~0 at this scale).

[rob74 → afelixdorn]

I'm pretty sure you've heard of at least one person named Jolie: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angelina_Jolie - but of course she's not French, I guess her parents picked the name because it sounded nice, and she thought it sounded so nice that she picked it as her stage name...

[soco → rob74]

I suppose the parent commenter mistook Jolie for Julie which is indeed a common French (and not only) name.

[misja111 → rob74]

Her mother had French-Canadian roots.

[afelixdorn → rob74]

Yeah, but that's a last name. I was talking about first names which is usually what people mean when they say a common name.

I'm guessing the other commenters are right, GP probably meant "Julie".

[yencabulator → afelixdorn]

Angelina Jolie is a stage name. She was born Angelina Jolie Voight. Jolie is a middle name there.

[prmoustache → afelixdorn]

Yeah Julie/juliette are common as a first name but do not share etymology (comes from julius).

A more common last name is Joly which is old form from joli, the masculine form of jolie.