Agifem
Agifem t1_iy3bi37 wrote
The word "flic" in French seems to come from the German word Flick, which means young man. Apparently, it would have crossed the border as a slang word to designate German criminals.
Another theory is that it comes from the German word "Fliege", which means fly (the animal), a word used several centuries earlier to designate snitches, and, by extension, the police they were snitching to.
Agifem t1_j6mqhze wrote
Reply to comment by BobbyThrowaway6969 in ELI5: Why do computers need GPUs (integrated or external)? What information is the CPU sending to the GPU that it can't just send to a display? by WeirdGamerAidan
>but that's grunt work.
Excellent ELI5 explanation, through and through to the last word.