While "the classics" may have some educational and cultural value, many of them came off as dry and pretentious.
There are countless anecdotes online of people who loved to read books as a kid but thoroughly hated reading by the end of high school or college, which is a terrible outcome.
I think that English classes in general are far too prescriptive and narrow in what they assign students to read, particularly when it comes to fiction. They seem to adopt the attitude of "These books are well-written classics. You have to read them, and if you don't enjoy them then there's something wrong with you."
Forcing students to read specific boring material might make sense in other classes like History or Science where there are very specific facts that they need to remember, but the required reading portion of English classes doesn't need to be handled in such a rigid way.
I suspect that we would end up with far better results if we gave students a curated list of popular books and had them pick out their favorites to read rather than just telling them to go read Ethan Frome and write an essay on loneliness afterwards.
Yep this is me. I get super pumped whenever we get a snowfall large enough to justify pulling out my ridiculously overkill snowblower.
The entire block on both sides plus the alley gets done those days. Neighbors here at first were skeptical since I guess it’s not normal (it is in Minnesota - every block there has a hero) for the big city, but now I get treats from various houses that catch me doing it.
I honestly do it for the pure joy of using awesome equipment I could otherwise nowhere remotely justify purchasing. Plus knowing I’m helping out my community in a small way is a nice bonus. Also helps me meet people and be social as an introvert.
The other side of the equation is my now dead toro had me covered in gas, frozen fingers, and plenty of swearing, with an itching desire to light it ablaze in the middle of the yard.
That's my take as well. Years 1 & 2 are always flawless, 3 may have a few situations and 4/5 start bringing the swearing causing problems.
Naturally, I don't maintain it very well throughout the years, but always mean to. I'm sure mine needs a new carb / cleaned, but happen to have lots of cabinet work going on in the shop where it's warm and oil/gas isnt happening there at the moment. Maybe on a "nice" day I'll rip it apart outside.
Aside: this guy regularly posts on the Discord server for an open-source post-training framework I maintain, demanding repayment for bugs in nightly builds and generally abusing the maintainers.
It's sad how many elements this is still the case for in 2025. A good chunk of them can be blamed on Safari.
Probably the most extreme example of this is <input type="date"> which is supposedly production-ready but still has so many browser quirks that it's almost always better to use a JS date picker, which feels icky.
Omg yes, I thought I was crazy when I was pushing for native input type=date instead of JS date picker, it worked perfectly with minimal configuration on my phone and on my Mac, but then my coworkers said it didn't work for them on their browsers, turns out, yeah, it's not consistent.
I then proceeded to spend the next week crying trying to get JS date picker to work as well as native did on my browsers.
It's not a question of support, it's a question of consistency. I don't remember the details, I just remember it was barely usable on one of my coworkers device/browsers. It worked, for some definition of the word, but it was not intuitive.
The one that gets me is the fact that there's no user-editable combobox. There's a select drop down, and "input + datalist" (and that doesn't help when there's effectively 0 hint about what the things you can use actually are), but no way to have the two combined.
It's actually a little surprising to me since these are somewhat basic controls that have been around in UI toolkits for decades. It's in that weird sweet spot where the building blocks are almost usable enough to build rich applications, but it's just out of reach.
Safari and Firefox together seem to always be dragging their feet on things. Sure, sometimes it's "standards" chrome is ramming through, but many times it's things like this, that have been around since before chrome
> Multiple overlapping speakers are represented on the top and bottom of the screen.
> This level of attention to detail makes for a better viewing experience
Quality concerns aside, I've always disliked having text on the top and bottom of the screen simultaneously. My eyes are focused on the bottom of the screen, so I sometimes don't even realize that there's text at the top and have to pause/rewind to figure out what I missed.
I think putting both speakers' captions at the bottom with some kind of differentiator makes more sense.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominative_determinism
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