Spivak calculus was the book for me that made math finally click. It was a golden period of my life due to that book, unfortunately adult life is rarely if ever sees these moments. Now I write datapipelines all and feed the family :/.
A US manual or hazard sticker would tell you not to forget your head outside the car when slamming the door shut too. I don't think manuals directed towards US customers are in any way related to safety, just legal fear. I mean it's the place where a coffee cup can have the text "caution, hot!".
They tell that about every single safety feature in cars. Reversing cameras usually always have a warning to not rely on the image, even though basically the only way to actually get a proper view what's behind you in a modern car is to get out of the car and go behind it. I imagine it's all about liability.
Looking over your shoulder isn't part of driver's ed in the US? In Germany you'd literally fail your exam if you forget to do that even once before turning. You don't even need to move your upper body, just turn your head to the side and look in that direction and you'll cover most blind spots. They also teach you how to adjust your mirrors and how to tell they're adjusted correctly. They also do a blind spot demonstration.
Any technique you learned in driver's ed is going to be less effective on a modern car than it was on an older car because modern cars have more blind spots and expect you to use the backup camera to compensate.
I think this has less to do with "modern cars" and more to do with American preferences for SUVs. Most "modern cars" in the rest of the world haven't changed much when it comes to visibility (in fact, in some cases windscreen sizes have actually increased) but because of the trend in the US over the past decades for personal cars to get bigger and sit higher on the road, I can imagine that visibility has decreased significantly.
I'm not sure I understand you correctly though. I'm aware of "parking cameras" for driving in reverse. Are you saying American cars typically have cameras covering their blind spots that are meant to be used when switching lanes or turning? Because those are the situations for which you're supposed to do a quick blind spot check by looking over your shoulder and I can't imagine Americans who don't look over their shoulders checking cameras for those.
I just meant driving in reverse. I switched from a 1998 Nissan Maxima to a 2019 Toyota Camry. With the Nissan Maxima it was easier to look out the rear view mirror or turn around and see what was going on behind the car. With the Camry it seems that you really need to use the backup camera.
I can't find anything authoritative on this so it could be I was mistaken but it was my understanding modern cars have more blind spots in order to increase crash safety performance and the backup camera is supposed to compensate.
Here's a reddit post by someone saying they are a former automotive engineer who discusses this but obviously using a reddit post as a source is not ideal:
> They tell that about every single safety feature in cars.
> I imagine it's all about liability.
'Just ignore warnings in the manual' doesn't seem like smart strategy. Dust and snow disable those sensors frequently. Those warning are not just there for some legal reasons.
> "Although evidence shows that differences in the prevalence of asthma do exist between urban and rural dwellers in many parts of the world, including in developed countries, data are inadequate to evaluate the extent to which different pollutant exposures contribute to asthma morbidity and severity of asthma between urban and rural areas."
I have done Java in Vim before with various plugins. It is technically doable, but it's also nowhere near as ergonomic as it is to use IntelliJ for example. I would want to put a lot more into the setup before trying to do it full time in the terminal.
> only useful to a niche audience of obsessive note-takers who in many cases seem to care more about playing with their notes than actually using or sharing them.
This describes me perfectly. I use obsidian to 'feel productive' but not actually do any work.
I was pretty invested in the "tools for thought" space for a little while, but my interest cooled as I realized that I was using zettelkasten tools like Logseq to try and recreate simple folders of documents, because as it turns out that's all I really needed to begin with. I use Obsidian, because wiki links can be handy from time to time, but my notes these days are mostly just plain markdown sorted into folders by topic, and that's plenty for me.
I fall into the same trap. We want Visible to be somewhere you create pages that are genuinely useful, not just info dumps. Millions of young people now use Notion to organize their lives, but as you can see from their marketing page it is a tool catered towards business knowledge-bases and not the variety of awesome uses these people have jerry-rigged Notion into.
With just the map + calendar views alone you can address so many planning and tracking frustrations that simply aren't solved by the calendar invites and embedding Google maps into other information documents that we are limited to today.
