Japanese media is quite popular, and many fans want to watch/read their favourite thing in its original language. This is probably the reason most people learn a language, and a huge reason why so many kids around the world speak English. Chinese culture doesn't have the same impact, yet. As to Spanish, most kids who want to learn Spanish can do so at school so there is no need to go above and beyond to learn Spanish on your own.
I suspect it's largely a generational/regional thing. My wife has lots of family from various rural parts of Eastern Germany, and half of the people over 50 speak effectively no English.
I suspect the big factor is that the opportunity costs have gotten a lot higher over that past 80-100 years. For the median woman in the 1930s, her expected lifetime earnings if she didn't have kids probably wouldn't be that much higher compared to if she took 10-20 years off to raise some kids. Equally the relative quality of life a single income family could expect wasn't too different from that of a dual income family. Today a dual income, no kids, household have opportunities and possibilities simply not available to such a household in the 30s.
'Modern' coffee has many parallel movements and developments, and all of it certainly isn't for everyone. You see this in all kinds of areas, like for example beer, where you have development of both better quality 'basic' local lagers and experimental sour beers happening in parallel. End result everybody gets access to better beer that appeals to them, even if there is also lot of beer that not only won't appeal, but that they'll consider virtually undrinkable.
OSMAnd has more advanced features and settings and things you can configure, but at the expense of a nice user friendly out of the box experience. Organic Maps (and thus this project) aimed to produce a more user friendly and streamlined app focusing on usability over lots of features.
Not that I necessarily disagree with your overall take, but can someone explain how 'financing' your DoorDash order with a credit card is perfectly OK, but financing with Klarna is somehow dubious and shady. Surely the problem is buying stuff you cannot afford, not how you choose to buy it.
You also have to look at who is giving the advice. For him it is great if more people take huge risks and burn their youth on moon shot start-ups since, as a VC, he makes all his money off of those people. A world where everybody is a well rounded liberal arts graduate, working a steady job, with comfortable middle class lifestyle and great work life balance would be terrible for him. If you ruin your life following this advice it has zero impact on his life.
He's giving this advice to make his life better, not necessarily to make your life better.
'Sorry boss, I can't work because I don't have internet and don't have access to GitHub/CI/license server/email/any of our Saas tools/any of my files' happens every time the internet goes down and bosses are quite understanding.
still haven't made significant growth with their international operations
DoorDash operates under the brand Wolt in Europe, and based just on how much I see their branding on delivery people around town, they seem to have grown quite a bit and the past couple of years.
Full disclosure, am a parent who sends their kid to a charter school and strong advocate for parents to be allowed to choose where to send their schools.
That being said, the strong version of the argument being made is that if all schools are funded nationally (so that schools in more affluent areas don't automatically get more money) and rich people and people of influence were forced to send their kids to the same public schools as every body else, then those people would be more inclined to use their influence to try to make public schools better and would be less inclined to fight against raising taxes to improve public education. Of course this would go against those peoples narrow self interest (since many of their kids would probably end up getting a worse education) so it is unlikely to happen
Is that actually still a big thing? I've worked on several projects with people in Spain, and none of them did that. Lunch was never more than an hour, and basically everybody was back from lunch and working by 2.30 at the latest.
I read an article years ago from a lawyer (might have been a judge) complaining that, thanks to US TV and movies, people in Sweden know more about how the US justice system works than the Swedish system. Far too many people just fall back on their US TV knowledge of how they think courts work and that they keep having to explain to the people that, no that's not how things works in Sweden.
I find GNOME to be a weirdly fascinating project from this perspective. On the one hand I agree with basically everything the article points out. They appear openly hostile to both their users and developers (outside of a very small core), seem completely uninterested in cooperating with the larger Open Source desktop ecosystem, and seem to want to push people away as much as possible. None of this is even new, people have been complaining loudly about all of this and more for what feels like 10+ years, without any of the core developers caring. Yet despite all the complaints and negativity from the community about both their process and product, GNOME is still very popular and used as the default desktop by many of the major distros, and certainly much more popular than 'superior' projects like KDE or XFCE.
The levels of added fluoride are very low, it's been well studied at this point.
If you want to steel man the argument you should point out that the maximum allowed fluoride levels in US are quite a bit higher than in, for example the EU (on the order of 3 times higher), and that some recent studies have indicated some potential health risks for young children who consume a lot of water around the very top end of what the US allows.
Of course the correct response to this is to overhaul the recommendations and lower the maximum allowed levels, not to issue state wide bans.
Do European countries use fluoride in their water?
Varies a lot from country to country, but over all it is done to a much lower degree than in the US.
However the big difference is that there isn't a ban on it. There are scientific guidelines published by the EU and then it is up to each country/state to decide if they want to add it or not based on local considerations.
Almost every time I've run into similar problems with LLMs I've mostly managed to solve them by uploading the documentation to the version of the library I'm using to the LLM and instructing it do use that documentation when answering questions about the library.
Refactoring and IDE tooling in general are still lightyears away from JetBrains tooling
How long ago was this and did you try JetBrains RustRover? While not quite as mature as some other JetBrains tools, I've found the latest version really quite good.
That is fine if you're doing it for yourself, but rather unhelpful if you hope to make a living out of doing the thing. The people I know who make a living off their art are those who sink a lot of time into selling their art (and themselves). Those who sit and home and just make (often much better) art languish in obscurity.
Before you do this, triple check that that the buildings and addresses for the area you are interested in are actually there (and correct). I've tried to use this approach several times, and at least for Sweden, the results are basically unusable. Hugh amount of missing buildings and missing or incorrect data. Last I tried I think it got something like 20% of my queries correct.
As someone who has worked with this sort of stuff quite a bit, I can assure you that OSM is pretty terrible for Geocoding and reverse geocoding. OSM is great for all kinds of roads (everything from the largest highways to the tiniest unofficial hiking trails), pretty good for landuse and absolutely terrible for building footprints and addresses. In many countries you don't have to get far outside of major cities before half the buildings are just missing, and even the buildings that do exist very often have the wrong address or house number.