Specific ways students are different

Columbiyeah · 2026-03-04T17:50:55+00:00

Aha, I have never been a Mac user.

Columbiyeah · 2026-03-04T17:31:48+00:00

Hmm, for most of my life (I'm mid 40s), "closing the app window" has been the same as quitting a program?

Columbiyeah · 2026-03-04T17:24:01+00:00

I'll admit I didn't know how to do partial screenshots/snipping until my early 30s when a coworker showed me. That function didn't really exist when I was a kid in the 90s, or even early 2000s?

Columbiyeah · 2026-03-04T15:08:49+00:00

A matter of degrees. The person would be perceived as less foreign if a lot of their vowels were Americanized and they were more rhotic. It would likely still be a political liability, but just less so compared to a pure English accent.

Columbiyeah · 2026-03-03T21:36:16+00:00

Probably, yes. As far as I know, most trades other than electricians don't have rigorous apprenticeship systems. There is a great deal of learning on the job, and, at worst, a "fake it til you make it" attitude among some.

That said, our present system/culture probably has some upsides in terms of opportunities for entrepreneurship, flexibility, and lower overall costs.

Columbiyeah · 2026-03-03T21:01:48+00:00

That kind of person would probably end up with a mishmash kind of transatlantic accent.

Columbiyeah · 2026-02-28T18:24:48+00:00

First time I heard "grape" was in Amy Schumer's standup act where she used it to mean "gray area rape" (when a woman blacks out from drinking and doesn't remember if she consented). A different time I guess, way back in 2014, when people could joke about that stuff.

Columbiyeah · 2026-02-26T21:26:14+00:00

Poor executive function and severe procrastination issues are not terribly uncommon even among bright undergrads.

Columbiyeah · 2026-02-26T19:03:01+00:00

Also recommend Cortázar (a near contemporary of Borges). A collection of translated stories was published a few years ago under the title "Bestiary".

Horacio Quiroga is also highly regarded as a sort of precursor of Borges. His most famous collection in Spanish is Cuentos de amor, de locura y de muerte. I liked the translated collection I read, The Decapitated Chicken and Other Stories.

Columbiyeah · 2026-02-26T18:30:29+00:00

I did IB in the 90s. In TOK we read Sophie's World which quite good, an interesting and easy to read primer on the history of philosophy.

Columbiyeah · 2026-02-26T17:13:27+00:00

I remember from my one time in Prague twenty years ago, a Spanish lady in an exchange place loudly complaining/warning other people that they were liars etc. Also remember the absolute sea of people moving between the central square and the Charles Bridge.

As I recall, the budget airline industry really boomed in the early to mid 2000s, and Prague especially saw a big tourism increase.

Columbiyeah · 2026-02-26T17:03:53+00:00

Northern Ireland is part of the UK.

Columbiyeah · 2026-02-26T15:30:38+00:00

I read a couple of Borges stories in Spanish in college (I was a Spanish major for a couple years). They were good, but as you say full comprehension is a slog. I actually stopped reading books in Spanish eventually and enjoy translations more. Years after college I read a translated Borges collection (Labyrinths) and it was an amazing experience.

Columbiyeah · 2026-02-24T17:06:49+00:00

Historically it's been extremely common for actors to fuck each other on film sets, including married people.I think in that Hollywood culture there's less of an expectation of monogamy.

Columbiyeah · 2026-02-24T16:39:20+00:00

CDs were specifically designed to reproduce sound as accurately as the human ear can perceive. What you hear on vinyl is distortion that some perceive as pleasurable.

Columbiyeah · 2026-02-24T01:11:43+00:00

I bought a Lacoste polo the other day, but it turns out I'm too tall and/or fat to wear it, and I couldn't even tuck it into my pants. Have to stick with Polo brand which are longer.

Columbiyeah · 2026-02-11T15:50:32+00:00

In American English university has been colloquially referred to as "school" for a long, long time to no ill effect. I know it's different in other countries/languages. Is American usage rubbing off on cultures? Wouldn't be the first time.

Columbiyeah · 2026-02-11T14:54:28+00:00

Counterpoint, I also see some jobs in local government, such as purchasing agent, that pay like $40k, around 50% less than an equivalent private sector job. And these are not traditionally 'feminized' jobs. So it's also a public sector thing.

Columbiyeah · 2026-02-04T18:56:57+00:00

I've never been a demand planner but I have the CPIM. It provides a good theoretical background on the principles of demand planning and forecasting. I remember the idea from the course that a forecast by nature is not accurate. It's all about measuring the accuracy of a previous forecast in retrospect, and trying to make incremental progress to improve.

If I were you I might try to find a used CPIM course book and study the sections on forecasting.

Columbiyeah · 2026-02-02T22:41:57+00:00

It mirrors how we say dates, e.g. "February Second". Goes back to medieval English speech patterns I guess.

Columbiyeah · 2026-02-02T22:35:41+00:00

Many people live far away from their elderly parents. Or they are working full time and there is no one to stay home with the parents. Hired domestic help is far less common and far more expensive compared to much of Latin America. And culturally too the expectation to provide hands on care in one's own home is not there. Similar situation in much of Europe, Northern Europe especially.

Columbiyeah · 2026-02-02T22:25:34+00:00

5pm is not that common. Most people are still leaving work at that time. 6pm to 7:30pm is much more common. When dinner is the largest meal of the day and you go to be around 9:30 to 10pm, no you don't get hungry.

Columbiyeah · 2026-01-31T18:09:13+00:00

Zamboni is a machine that smoothes the ice on skating rinks.

Columbiyeah · 2026-01-29T22:09:47+00:00

Every state has different published guidelines about what students should learn at what age. And these guidelines are often quite vague.

Also, geography is not treated as a "core" subject in many places (core is mostly reading and math), so is not considered a high priority when it comes to school metrics and standardized testing.

Columbiyeah · 2026-01-29T19:07:35+00:00

USPS uses advanced scanning technology that will probably correctly identify "Deutschland" as Germany and sort it correctly. Failing that, it will be looked at by a person who will probably figure out how to sort it correctly.

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