That brought nice memories of having my Casio Data Bank in the 80s and feeling like the coolest kid in school. It looked so futuristic and slick :) I remember spending quite a bit some time entering the phone numbers of my friends and relatives.
I had been using LaTeX for 25 years. I gave it a try recently to write a technical paper and I was blown away. I saved so much time. The immediate feedback and the advanced features were impressive. I had to include a budget proposal in one of the chapters and I was able to create a quick script that read a csv file with the different concepts and costs. I would modify the contents of the csv file and the document would update right away. I didn't have to recompile the document as I used to do with LaTeX... the results were there, right away, beautifully formatted. I am very impressed and will definitely consider doing more work with Typst.
As many here, I spent too much time with POVRay in my youth. About 8 years ago I decided to try an idea that I had in my mind and decided to install it and relearn it. I wanted to try this fractal idea made of toruses.
I used to live near a high-traffic road that was built with cobblestones. It probably had decades of having been built and it was horrible. I conjecture that due to soil expansion due to changes in moisture (no snow, but periods of dry and rain seasons), and therefore, the road was very bumpy (think of multiscale bumps) and it was extremely uncomfortable to drive on it. Everybody talked about how much they hated that road, but there were no good alternatives.
I think the author underestimates the amount of warping in the underlying soil in some places. I'm sure it isn't a one-size-fits-all solution, but I agree it should be considered for suitable places.
Of course I'm kidding. It's one of those terms that many fields adopt and give it completely different meaning. There's no "normal" meaning of `kernel`.
I'd love to buy more heirloom tomatoes. The flavor is great. The problem is that often they're like 3 USD for a single large tomato in my supermarket :(
A dear friend of mine that works at a very large tech company has frequent (many times a week) meetings at ungodly hours (such as 7am AND 11pm) because of time zone differences with other teams in different parts of the world. My friend says that he's not surprised in today's global framework, especially with large enterprises and claims that looking for another, less-intense job would be futile because it is probably like that everywhere, especially with large tech companies. I claim that he's gotten used to this abuse that it is not as widespread as he thinks.
I think some of these meetings might be important enough to warrant having one occasionally, but not as an almost-daily phenomenon.
Any similar experiences? I'm not in the software dev/engineering world so I'm not as well informed in the matter; however I'd be very surprised if a majority of people would accept such working conditions that are very adverse to a healthy work-life balance.
When my son was about 5 months old, he was crawling in the bathroom floor while I was getting dressed in the adjacent walk-in closet. He was playing with the closet door and closed it. I didn't think much of it, but then I noticed that he had also opened a drawer which prevented me from opening the door from the closet (terrible apartment design!). I was stuck in the closet alone, without my phone, unable to get out. I panicked a little bit since it was early in the day and my spouse wouldn't return in about 10 hours. Long story short, I McGyver'ed my way out thanks to a wire hanger that I found in the closet: I straightened it and used it to push the drawer back in through the tiny slit that was left through the door and the frame. I used to hate wire hangers too, now I make sure I always have a few in every closet, just in case, you never know :)