Apparently there have been issues when US and British forces have worked together before du to the “I thought you were exaggerating” mindset.

The brits have a tendency to downplay really bad situations to the point where, “It’s actually quite chilly” means “We’re in deep shit”. I read somewhere that this caused serious miscommunications several times, because Americans didn’t understand that brits were downplaying things, while brits though the Americans were always exaggerating.

I’ve always had a natural grasp on running, but never really enjoyed running over 5k, and at anything above 10k I’m quite bad. If you ever decide to pick up running again you might find that shorter distances (1-5k) are a better fit for you, people are different :)

I agree that it’s bad for editing anything more than a page, didn’t think of that as I only really use it to make figures, which I think it’s pretty great for.

In a sense, I agree that it makes sense to train people to be better technical drivers. The issue is that for avoiding accidents, your time is orders of magnitude better spent practicing planning and avoiding potential situations in the first place.

Being able to see where you need to pay extra attention, what cars to keep extra distance to, and being able to judge what a safe speed is saves far more lives than building the technical skills to get out of a situation once you’re in it.

To be fair though: at least in Norway we have an obligatory course where we drive on sleet/ice or oil to practice controlling a car in winter conditions. However, the main focus of the course is on recognising how fast you can go in different conditions, and how far of a breaking stretch you need to plan for.

The UI isn’t the best, but is it really that bad? I’ve used some adobe software as well, and I don’t really find Inkscape’s UI that hard to use in comparison. Whether it’s pretty is another question.

What issues have you run into on macOS? I use inkscape on my quite new mac very often, and don’t have any issues. The command line tools for inkscape are also pretty good I think, and work without any issues (I get some critical warning’s every now and then though, but nothing has affected output yet).

Not only mathematics, pretty much everyone in the world of science/academia uses LaTeX. For git, I’ve seen some stuff, but most researchers that program a decent amount are reasonably familiar with git as well.

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I’ve found ChatGPT is good for small tasks that require me to code in languages I don’t use often and don’t know well. My prime examples are writing CMakeLists.txt files, and generating regex patterns.

Also, if I want to write a quick little bash script to do something, it’s much better at remembering syntax and string handling tricks than me.

We have those too, but it’s too central and high-profile for them to be fronts. I’ve just assumed that because they’re so obscenely expensive (which they are) they don’t need to sell much volume to turn a profit.

It’s a shame though, because it’s a really nice area, and there used to be a bunch of shops there that were reasonably priced, so us mortals could shop there. It was bustling, now it’s crickets and rich people.

I’ve never had a microwave repaired, so I’m assuming they charge enough per customer to only need to do about one repair a week. Sounds like hard, honest work is going on in there to me.