Sure, but in the case of copper you want to conduct electricity, so it makes sense to say that it conducts it "well". In the case where you want to avoid head conduction, like when re-entering the atmosphere, you don't want heat to be conducted, so a "poor" conduction is actually "good". I thought it sounded a bit odd, but since I'm being downvoted I'm assuming not many people agree, I thought I'd just point out that I thought it was interesting and/or caused some dissonance for me at least as a reader.
That's my point. If you're designing a suit that should stop yourself from being electrocuted it sounds weird saying that copper has "excellent" conductivity, it's not really excellent in the context you're talking about.
"Copper has excellent conductivity therefore it wouldn't be a great material to make a suit out of if you want to stop yourself from being electrocuted... You'd want a material that was an excellent insulator!"
That's a funny term, and that's kind of what I'm talking about, as a reader it causes discord to me when positive adjectives are used to describe something that is unwanted, but "misconducting" heat is an example of exactly what you want to happen in the scenario.
Where it's $4-6 for a few hours if you can find a spot, but a flat $20+ for a parking garage after the first half hour.
So, Baltimore, DC, stuff like that.
Yes, they're using sarcasm to ridicule their parent comment's claim that someone hired to just unhook a toilet should legally NEED to be a licensed plumber, by comparing it to similarly low-skill tasks "needing" to be highly trained in case something goes wrong.
NoScript breaks some sites but makes many run faster. Everything defaults to blocked, but I've marked some known ad servers and Google/Facebook trackers as specifically blocked so I don't accidentally unblock them.
Also, setting up custom searches is very nice: when editing a bookmark, attach a keyword to it and put "%s" in the URL. If you type the keyword first, the rest of the search string will replace the %s. I use it for the usual Wikipedia search, but also I've set "@r tf2" to take me directly to the subreddit called tf2, and @i immediately throws the query at DDG's image search.
On paper, yes, but in practice, there is significant lag time between a new noem being established and conservatives giving up the old one in favor of the new normal. For example, being against gay marriage (as opposed to it being a non-issue) is still seen as the conservative opinion despite pro-gay-marriage being the plurality opinion for eight years and an outright majority for six[0]. Further, since economic deregulation is seen as the conservative stance, being in favor of abolishing the minimum wage labels someone as a conservative, despite it being nationally established for seven decades.
Right, so "write an essay following X structure that's Y paragraphs long as defined by the structure" (eg three arguments for and one countered argument against, plus an intro and conclusion) is fine. "The paper must be at least 6 pages long" is not. I'd much rather read and write "this uses Mouse A rather than B because A was much cheaper for similar functionality" instead of "the reason for which the first discussed mouse, Mouse A, was chosen to be used in this project instead of the alternative, Mouse B, was due to a cost-benefit analysis. The first mouse performed various tasks at near or surpassing ability when compared to the outputs of Mouse B; with this, and the significant price discrepancy heavily in favor of Mouse A, it is clear that the minor detriments in functionality shown by Mouse A are easily outweighed by the the more potent upside of being notably less expensive than Mouse B."
You may notice that the second example is TERRIBLE writing: too many modifiers, uncomfortable sentence structure, repetition of full names instead of pronouns, uses and defines "cost benefit analysis" instead of... not doing that. But it's longer! Easier to fit that length minimum! If you intend to require a depth of argument or a number of pros and cons, say you'll grade on that.
1.) I have never seen essay about mouse selection. While possible, that would be purely exercise in structure. Structure exercises exists, but again rarely about topic like mouse selection. Just a bad match to format.
2.) The style of writing in your second example would not get you good grade in writing course. Simple as that, while long enough, it is not good enough.
Depth of argument is not contradictory to good sentence structure. Or to good overall structure. The essay is not actually graded on smartness of argument, but on whether you present them well.
And yes, writing courses focuse on writing elements of text. Just like programming assignement focuses on coding and less on your work being useful.
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What you did there is trying to hack writing assignment. It typically does not work, teachers are typically not that dumb. They would however simply call that "bad writing" or "did not put in effort" rather then flattering "hacking the text".
I have JS default to off (saves big on load times, bypasses some "please buy a subscription" things), and thought this was just a weirdly short list of eccentric things until I saw this comment.
So, add "JS is required for crucial, rather than merely useful, features."
This goes back to structured vs unstructured from elsewhere in the thread. Applying most of the editing tools is unstructured, but navigating the UI is structured.
As a result, I'm very fast at navigating menus and switching tools in my program of choice (GIMP), because those are rapid keypresses rather than forced mouse clicks. It's just so much faster to click Alt+I > S, type a few numbers, hit Tab a couple times, and enter (well, Space usually), than it is to navigate with the mouse to the Scale Image drop-down, put my hands back on the keys to type numbers in, and then switch back to the mouse to hit OK. Ctrl+Q is much easier and faster than clicking the Selection Editor button. Alt+L > T > 9 is the quickest and simplest way of rotating the current layer - a more mouse-based UI might even refuse to give me a 90-degree option and instead force me into manual control. And of course, keeping a hand on the keyboard so it can quickly type a key or shift-key is much faster and more accurate than having to mouse over to the Toolbox to select a tool.
Or a 2-in-1 device with a touchscreen and a pen (e.g. Surface).
The non-graphical tablets with pens are really a different type of interaction, and one that supersedes keyboard + mouse for light graphics. Using one hand with the pen for pointer input + another hand for touch input is really powerful. Moving around, zooming, or rotating things on the screen is easier done with a hand. And a wheel menu (context or otherwise) really starts to shine with a pen.
I wish more software actually supported this. I currently own such a device (a Dell), and I'm searching for software that can utilize touch+pen input to full extent, but there aren't many programs that can.
The point of prisons is to remove them from society until they can be sociable again. But I see your point, we should be putting more spending towards those who have never been convicted than we are now.
