My mom got her battery replaced at an Apple Store and the process broke the phones ability to connect to the internet or the cellular network. They ended up replacing the phone.
My ball was kind of an indeterminate grey, too, but it was on a granite countertop of a kitchen island in an open concept kitchen/living room. Like one from a Bounty commercial or something.
You can’t say that you can just not care about zero tolerance. I was the nephew in a similar story and was probably held back from membership in the National Honor Society because of the timing of the suspension, worsening my college applications.
Definitely a high trust city (Vienna), but note that a few times a year they do check for tickets.
Because the monthly pass rate is so low, most people have purchased the pass on their phone and that must be shown a couple of times a year or else you’ll be charged a fine at the checkpoint. I’m actually surprised that the evasion stats are so low, since the fine isn’t terribly large and you might come out ahead just never paying the fare and only paying fines.
I have to say though, that system of spot checks makes the day to day very low friction.
Hmm, I was in Japan and there were some races (triathlon, 5k, etc.) and someone working at the event was dressed up for the finish line of the kids race as Master Roshi. The event wasn't anime themed or anything, but such major characters are a part of the tapestry and mainstream of Japanese culture.
I used to work there, and can confirm that there’s plenty of space there for more parking lot, there’s woods in all 4 directions and it sits on an old super fund site (former rocket fuel testing).
Maybe, but I think the book really was different from any book I had read before. Most books teach the language, but Think Python showed me some of the why, what each data structure might be used for, it would quickly dip into some interesting implementation details to give me a more solid foundation and then zoom out and give me perspective on why something is useful and related software writing skills and tips. It was thorough, but also concise, and the exercises were engaging, so I found myself for the first time really getting sucked into the zone with the problems and time was flying by. This hadn’t happened to me with Java or Perl.
From what I remember reading, Open was never supposed to be like open source with the internals freely available, but Open as in available for the public to use, as opposed to a technology only for the company to wield and create content with.
Similar for me - I had learned some Java, Matlab, C, Perl here and there but it wasn’t until Think Python 2e that I was gripped and from there read many other books and changed my career to software.