I think your ideas are too non-practical/specialized/advanced/low-level for your stated goal of 'digital literacy". They read more like college intro/followup course material and are too esoteric to be readily absorbed, esp by generic teenagers, even if they’ve self-selected to be “lightly interested”.

In recreational climbing, skin calluses and surface abrasion aren’t usually much of a concern compared to tendon health. Skin heals light damage quite easily.

However, it’s not uncommon for a new (or experienced) climber to develop their muscles beyond what their own tendons can take. Since it takes tendons so long to strengthen, it’s common to need managing the risk of finger pulley tendon injuries in climbing.

Also, I do not know how these nuances apply in your context of your medical condition.

Idgi – is it saying that every game is either named “X” or “Y’s X”?

Maybe have ocean voyaging ships (e.g. container ships) do controlled release of brine through their journey?

Though probably no way of achieving this via current economic and legal systems. Even if attempted today, ships would probably be incentivized to dump the entire payload the moment they cross into internal waters.

Sounds like an externality that should be paid for as these things are manufactured

Agree in the ideal, but in practice fiber is often still unavailable in suburban areas and even urban ones too, in the US.

I’m no expert, but it seems much more efficient to prioritize those areas over rural ones.

What? My intuition is there’s always gotta be some equivalent nicer refactor that could do away with such an awkward construct.

In what kind of situation would that be totally unavoidable?

I think so, to an academic (not necessarily a professional) level, because how could one reach a conceptual understanding without?

It’s like the professors that allow open book tests. If you’ve practiced solving before, it’ll be quick and easy to recall deep knowledge and expand on it. If you haven’t practiced solving and don’t really understand the concepts, you won’t perform well enough in time.

That’s fair, on the second point, but I can only partially agree with the other.

There’s no “shortcut” to real learning (i.e. developing an intuition, understanding, etc) besides practice, the closest maybe being cleverly developing new ways to teach.

We definitely don’t need to teach those old mental math tricks anymore, but brains learn via practice (i.e. manual computation) to gain the fundamental understanding needed before using tools to skip those steps.

The only way I can imagine really not needing for normal life is if you can afford to pay someone you trust to understand it for you.

It’s not really an analogy b/c I’m referring to how brains learn in general for any subject, whether math or basketball.

Yes, we don’t need to memorize all those old mental math tricks used before calculators were invented, but you still need to understand exponentiation, which follows from multiplication, which follows from putting time in to practice the basic times tables.

Except it does, which is why so many people are so bad with money.

I could agree with criticisms of outdated teaching methodologies or uninteresting course material, but saying math is irrelevant is totally misguided.

That’d be like trying to learn about basketball strategy without putting in the fundamental time shooting and defending.

Sure, coaches operate on a higher level and don’t have their hands on the ball as often as players do, but they definitely know how to play. Would you hire a coach that didn’t?

That route already exists today as “the web”, where the “latest” JavaScript source is downloaded and JIT-ed by browsers. That ecosystem is also not the greatest example of stable and secure software.