Coming from the other side of this argument: In my degree, rote memorization was required for a surprising amount of courses. It required students, me included, to memorize huge quantities of things we knew were utterly irrelevant to anything but being graded. (This prediction remained true). Committing irrelevant course work into memory over and over again almost burned me out, certainly made me lose all interest and fun in learning for over a decade afterwards. To be honest, I still feel slightly burned and that might never go away.
You might have attended a good degree, where the learned information was actually beneficial. But I'd bet for most degrees out there, rote memorization is the consequence of professors wanting easily gradable exams, existing for their benefit, not the students.
Which means the actual problem is low quality education and degrees and we might find common ground here.
Me and most of my peers in college had the choice between two courses. Course A was interesting, yet vastly more challenging and therefore time consuming, with the additional downside of lower grade expectation. Course B was boring, a gentle breeze in comparison, yet with an almost guaranteed perfect grade.
Imagine which course most students choose?
Even if a student wants to take on the more interesting course, incentives matter, and the incentive is: better grades qualify for better compensated positions and prestigious degrees. Only students who didn't care about this or were confident enough in their ability did choose Course A. In the end, barely a handful of students out of hundreds went with A.
In my mind, this generalizes to the same problem with other non-stochastic (deterministic) operations like logical conclusions (A => B) .
I have a running bet with friend that humans encode deterministic operations in neural networks, too, while he thinks there has to be another process at play. But there might be something extra helping our neural networks learn the strong weights required for it. Or the answer is again: "more data".
What about the additional costs for delivery and online platforms? Both only apply for delivery and are quite significant. Takeouts should reduce costs, but delivery has significant costs added to each order.
I suppose a big ticket item like a car is much easier to boycott than 50 small items from the grocery where trying to search through the ownership tree for every conglomerate would use up the rest of my sanity
The good news (at least for the EU, don't know about non-EU European countries) is that groceries are only a blip on the radar when it comes to imports (of course, energy is used for groceries, but that applies both to European and US products) [1]:
[1] Of course, there are US conglomerates that produce in the Europe. But a good chunk (at least here) is Unilever, Nestle, etc., which are all European.
Looking at labels is hardly a test of your sanity. In Canada right now a majority of the population is regularly checking and avoiding anything made in the USA.
I was recently in Malaysia and they've boycotted certain American brands over the Israel-Palestine war. For example, KFC has given up and was shutdown everywhere. So boycotts can work.
Maccas seemed to be doing just fine though, take from that what you will
Replace European with Cosmopolitan values. There are no unified European values, as the states of Europe are quite diverse. But there is significant cultural homogeneity for a subset of the population, the cosmopolitans. They tend to be the elites and form these kind of discourses. They use the term European values, mostly unaware of their cosmopolitan nature.
Same question for HTML. In my mind, HTML is a markup language. Maybe I am unaware of more advanced features that fall into the programming language category.
For me HTML is a declarative programming language with a very small feature set. Many people disagree with me and I’m ok with that.
The argument of “it’s a mark up language” tends to not hold weight for me as when I ask people why they say “because it’s in the name” - which, for me, misses that HTML is considerably more developed now than when it was named and should be measured on the current feature set.
It’s not a hill I’d want to die on though so really, it doesn’t matter.
HTML isn't turing complete, which, along with other limits make it very limited as a programming language, but it does support programming behavior to some extent without resort to another language, so it certainly makes sense in that regard to call it a programming language.
Not OP, but not really. I do not hate it, but enjoyment is not something I get out of coding. It has gotten better over the years, as I have become a better programmer. Liking what you are good at is natural, after all.
Still, I failed to find a career where what I enjoy is tied to what I am getting paid for. I am pretty sure that is the case for most people around the world. Life can be good regardless (and is for me), but actually enjoying what you are doing professionally, that is a cheat code for living well.
Sounds like a synonym for untrained unlicensed psychotherapy.
If you read around the malpractice that happens with regulated therapists that have oversight and reporting requirements, you will be deeply sceptical about the absolute weapons that sell themselves as "coaches" and such. It's a great way for scammer to access incredibly vulnerable people and create exploitative relationships. Please seek help through reputable medically endorsed regulated providers.
I'd be way more popular if I were a scammer. Scammers tell people what they want to hear. I'm the worst person in the world at that. I really am just trying to help people failed by the medically endorsed regulated providers. If you're curious about my book, I can email you a copy. It's basically cut down to the length of a long blog post by now (just under 10k words). I'd appreciate a skeptical eye.
It's any philosophy that describes emotion. Mine in particular describes emotions as arguments. If you're still curious, contact me through my profile here and I will send you a copy of my book.
You might have attended a good degree, where the learned information was actually beneficial. But I'd bet for most degrees out there, rote memorization is the consequence of professors wanting easily gradable exams, existing for their benefit, not the students.
Which means the actual problem is low quality education and degrees and we might find common ground here.