I really like the idea of getting my day's worth of emails in the morning and responding to them throughout the day while offline (using one of the great folding keyboards!). Hard to emulate that these days though. It feels artificial to put my phone in airplane mode or whatever.
I'm a software engineer with 10+ years of experience, mostly in full-stack web development. I'm currently happily employed on a 4-day week writing an open source business intelligence tool in Clojure, but due to visa snafus I need to look for a British job. I'm especially excited about mentoring others, Lispy languages, and writing maintainable code.
It's absolutely useful to tell 4th-graders that x(t) = vt + x₀ (assuming no acceleration) since they're probably not on top of exponents yet.
It's also absolutely useful to tell 8th-graders that x(t) = at² + v₀t + x₀ since now they can handle exponents.
And it's useful to tell 12th-graders how to do the calculus to get x(t) for variable acceleration.
But that's also inaccurate for very large values of v (or a) due to relativistic effects. However, it's a very convenient simplification ("lie") for the vast majority of people in the vast majority of cases. It's probably possible to explain the relativity math to most 4th-graders, but for most of them it's a terrible use of teaching time and the old "rate times time equals distance" that was drilled into my head at a young age is much more practical.
In 4th grade I was writing very simple animations in basic on an Atari 400 and I absolutely would’ve used and understood this. I think this is a perfect example of perfect being the enemy of good. (And I think I’m mangling that phrase)
See also: the Parsley Massacre in the Dominican Republic, which preyed on Haitians' inability to pronounce the word "perejil" as a native Spanish speaker would:
> The Haitian languages, French and Haitian Creole, pronounce the r as a uvular approximant or a voiced velar fricative, respectively so their speakers can have difficulty pronouncing the alveolar tap or the alveolar trill of Spanish, the language of the Dominican Republic. Also, only Spanish but not French or Haitian Creole pronounces the j as the voiceless velar fricative. If they could pronounce it the Spanish way the soldiers considered them Dominican and let them live, but if they pronounced it the French or Creole way they considered them Haitian and murdered them.
The logic in the `catch` block could be complex enough that they got an if/else backwards or something like that. E.g., they could catch an exception and then have the body of the `catch` return six different error messages based on details about the exception, system status, etc.
Spain has had train security even on long-distance domestic journeys at least since I lived there in 2008. I suspect it's a reaction to the train bombing they had, but don't quote me.
We had friends who got Domino's every Thursday. On days when they hadn't called by a certain time, Domino's would call them and ask if they wanted their usual.
I got a notification from my bank when my girlfriend used her debit card to order at the local Chinese on her way home from work. I was bored so I went to surprise her... she was then greeted there every time with "is your boyfriend coming?"
Yeah, as an American who badly wants Leave to Remain in the UK and has several British friends who badly want an American green card, I wish there was some sort of swap program
