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I get what you mean (and agree w.r.t. math/code) but notably, I think appreciation for a lot of things still accumulates if you put in the work.

As an amateur violist, I can attest that I gained a totally new appreciation for most of the pieces I've studied and played in an orchestra in the past.

This not only includes "unknown" classical music from different eras, but also the obvious (popular) candidates like Beethoven's 6th, Dvořak's 9th and Grieg's "Peer Gynt" suites.

And there's a lot of great music one needs to get into first; for expample: I love Tool songs exactly for that, and there are certainly more obscure artists :)

So, I suspect the thing about maths and code is mainly just caused by the fact that people can go through life just fine without really interacting with them on the level required to develop the smallest bit of "taste" (as opposed to e.g. music).

It sadly doesn't go back further than the 1960s. If you select Western Europe, the number seems to be falling (back from almost 100kg, though). USA, not so much.

Note though that for what your parent describes, you'd want numbers to go even further back, then you could likely see the whole effect of post-WW2 boom; though WW2 itself would obviously also extremely skew the data in the 40s.

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> None. Wouter is aware of everything and disappointed by most of it.

Here I am, brain the size of a planet and they ask me to take you down to the bridge. Call that job satisfaction? ’Cos I don’t.

But I've also seen my fair share of "trains in this direction won't recover for hours" over the years, and directly after such an incident, the official systems usually don't really adapt all that well. I don't know if they're "massaged" manually after that or if it's just a case of the entire system finally figuring out that an entire station is FUBARed, not only one or two scheduled connections…

The SBB timetable app and website can become really unhelpful if there has been an "accident involving a person" [0]; other than that, I've got little issues with them day to day.

But it seems your model doesn't have a way to know that the IC from Biel to Olten goes through Grenchen (it only presents the obvious routes that wouldn't work in this case).

[0]: https://company.sbb.ch/en/railway-development/services-rus/r...

But I suspect the positive opinion on Lua stem more from the standardized environment the language is built around (i.e. how it is embedded into applications): If you don't explicitly pass capabilities like file handling etc. into the script, it CANNOT use them. Sooo many scripting languages get this wrong, it's actually embarassing.

Edit: Also, if you're looking for earworms and like loopy melodies, check out David Fenn's Soundtrack for Moonlighter: https://davidfennmusic.bandcamp.com/album/moonlighter

Especially "Macadamia Mayhem" and "Restless Roots" tend to follow me around for hours each time I revisit the album :)

…should make for an interesting SCP story :)

I can also do nothing at scale just with a hammock :)

This reminds me of "Youth without God" by Ödön von Horváth:

> Perhaps Anne’s mother was right. Perhaps men are mad now—those who aren’t mad haven’t the courage to put their maniacal fellows into strait-jackets.

SCNR :)

Sounds like a good situation for the litany of percussive maintenance.

> - CT and MRI data processing

> - scheduling systems for universities and other schools (makes education more scalable)

Those two read as if they are of different urgency (#1: whoever needs it urgently is at risk of dying, schedules for "non-urgent" cases will be affected for months, turning many into urgent cases; #2: the education systems will suffer, but it only gets dire after multiple days), until you realize that #2 also applies to e.g. hospitals.

Medicine at scale is already barely scraping by as it is (see: overworked staff etc. etc.), but disrupt the internal IT working of hospitals and the indirect body count will rise fast.

I vote for "end of unit" (ASCII 0x1F).

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Properly designing classes for inheritance takes proactive care and is, in my experience, almost never done unless the author has been forced to by external forces (through APIs or agreements with other developers).

My percieved explanation for this is that most of them can't be bothered to type a message but are still very happy to waste the recipient's time. Yes, I'm not thrilled about it.

OTOH, at least these messages are still more asynchronous and less interrupting than a phone call. But the inability to skim them still bothers me to no end.

Hugo Weaving laughs manically.

It assigns this to the original The Matrix and doesn't mention the sequels. I guess it can't distinguish between them?

Edit: And another one :)

A western hero wants to retire but is forced into a last big battle against all odds by his biggest fan.

(My Name is Nobody)

Aaand another one:

Two men identify classical music pieces by the ads that use them as background music.

(The Intouchables)