{"id":9300,"date":"2020-05-21T08:29:43","date_gmt":"2020-05-21T07:29:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mentor.com\/colinwalls\/?p=9300"},"modified":"2020-05-21T08:29:43","modified_gmt":"2020-05-21T07:29:43","slug":"continued-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.stage.sw.siemens.com\/embedded-software\/2020\/05\/21\/continued-learning\/","title":{"rendered":"Continued learning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mentor.com\/colinwalls\/blog\/2020\/02\/20\/what-i-learned\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wrote about<\/a> our \u201cwhat we learned\u201d project that we started last year. The idea was to think about what we had learned each day, record it and discuss from time to time. I shared some interesting examples of nuggets of new knowledge \u2026<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Here is another selection, having filtered out the personal or anachronistic ones:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>There are 3 kinds of bed mattress filler: memory foam, gel and natural.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;sudo chflags -R nouchg\u201d frees a locked Mac file.<\/li>\n<li>Isle of Man is a cool place.<\/li>\n<li>Paris has only one top level football team.<\/li>\n<li>Washing hands should take the time you need to sing Happy Birthday twice.<\/li>\n<li>The epidemic in 1918 was called Spanish \u2018flu as Spain didn\u2019t censor newspapers &#8211; US and UK did.<\/li>\n<li>Premature babies were a fairground attraction in the US 100 years ago.<\/li>\n<li>Midway was the name of the amusement part of a US country fair and got its name from a district in South Chicago.<\/li>\n<li>Taking 2 poo bags on a dog walk is wise.<\/li>\n<li>Springsteen wrote Because the Night and Blinded by the Light.<\/li>\n<li>HIV victims can now take a pill once a day that reduces their viral load to an undetectable level.<\/li>\n<li>UK ambulances have 4 different siren tones.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There will be more!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/colinwalls\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6579\" src=\"http:\/\/s3-blogs.mentor.com\/colinwalls\/files\/2014\/01\/linkedin.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"40\" height=\"40\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/colin_walls\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6583\" src=\"http:\/\/s3-blogs.mentor.com\/colinwalls\/files\/2014\/01\/twitter.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"40\" height=\"40\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/colinwalls.author\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6591\" src=\"http:\/\/s3-blogs.mentor.com\/colinwalls\/files\/2014\/01\/facebook.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"40\" height=\"40\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.mentor.com\/colinwalls\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6599\" src=\"http:\/\/s3-blogs.mentor.com\/colinwalls\/files\/2014\/01\/wordpress.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"44\" height=\"44\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently wrote about our \u201cwhat we learned\u201d project that we started last year. 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