Hyphenation is useful in phrasal adjectives, like "heavy-metal shield" (to distinguish it from a shield that is of metal and is heavy, but is not or a for example Pb) or in something like "four-day trips" (the trips last four days; they are not necessarily four in number).
I like it too, and you're talking to someone who has been trying, mostly in vain, to teach his kids the difference between "I wish I was there" and "I wish I were there", or how you can get eggs from a coop or a coöp, and they're different things, but eventually the hyphenation dies out and the phrase remains.
In my (only 2 decades of) experience, almost all "processes" and "methodologies" exist to compensate for lack of skill, care and/or understanding. As you say, what/how you do may sound outdated to others but it works because you care about what you do.
I think this applies to many "best practices" and "standards" as well. I could mention many examples of old systems/apps written by single/few deeply committed and skilled people were replaced by "better" and more "modern" alternatives that worked less well and that took a team of people to maintain. The latter used all the right tools, processes and practices but they were just not artists, for lack or a better word.
In short: in some, yes. In my country, one's private insurance company may pay damages for injuries caused by medical malpractice. This may be included in the home insurance or some health/injury/accident insurance. Otherwise and in addition, you are covered by the provider's malpractice insurance. Private medical providers must have malpractice insurance. There is also a national scheme, regulated by law, that covers all public providers, which in practice would be all the emergency departments etc.
Oh yes! This works with other intensifiers as well. "Crazy good", "wicked bad", "mad smart", etc. To my ears, eliding the -ly changes the meaning from the literal reading, to specifically the intensifier reading.
I do not quite understand why these "blue books" were feared by anyone? I took exams in school/university and sure, sometimes we were nervous and ill-prepared but I do not think anyone feared paper. "Worst nightmare" seems rather hyperbolic.
The kind of people who go on to spend a life in journalism are mostly the same people who hated it when their final was to integrate 3/5 of the random integrals the professor put on the board.
Started working for a new client (which does not require me to use any particular reporting tool) just yesterday, so will give it a spin!
Edited: I can give more useful feedback after I have actually tried it for a while. I found some quirks/issues while testing it, and I post them here.
• I sometimes get 00:00:-1 during the first second when starting a new track.
• Being able to manually C(R)UD things could be useful. I already have a "break" I do not want today, just after testing how it works. Or maybe a call cut my break short, threw me back into work and at the same time prevented me from using the app. Then I end up with two hours of break instead, even though I know exactly when the interruption happened.
• I would like if the date format could equal the system's, or at least if I could set it to YYYY-MM-DD :)
• Can imagine defining one's own track names would be useful, for example if one works for several clients or has other types of activities. Seems like properties are name, colour and whether it is a type that should have a note.
Hey! Thanks for the feedback!
I will fix the -1 second issue and the date format asap!
Then I will start looking into adding the option to the ability to edit/delete entries.
Yes, I was thinking about allowing for creating your own activities but just kept if very simple for now. But it's a good idea! I will work on it after fixing the previous tasks.
Interesting. My adventurous child (soon 10) has been under thrice and generally remembers nothing unpleasant, despite it being a bit worrying for the parents. She has been a bit confused and weird upon waking up, but whatever they have given her to ease her transition into waking life appears to have made her forget it. She tends to remember talking to me (or watching Bluey) in the OR and then she is talking to some doctor in another room, wondering why they are not putting her to sleep. The experience has been quite smooth despite one of the times taking place in more of an emergency setting after an accident.
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