Readit NewsFirst, you create the tools you need with the money your people give you. Then, you give back the tools you created to the public and/or everyone who needs them.
You keep your data in your own data center, use the tools which squarely fills the needs of your workers and people, and you share its maintenance with the outside users.
It's a win-win-win (country, its workers, people in the world). WWW is developed the same way, Europe's open data repository Zenodo (https://zenodo.org) is built the same way, alongside countless science tools.
We shouldn't be afraid of governments doing cool things. Heck, most if not all supercomputer centers in the US and around the world are government funded, and free for scientists.
Moreover, the project is licensed MIT to enable to be "taken and ran with it" by private sector. From the README.md:
> While Docs is a public driven initiative our licence (sic) choice is an invitation for private sector actors to use, sell and contribute to the project.
“It was nice of John and Mary to come and visit us the other day,” is 8 words before the verb come.
“For John and Mary to come and visit us the other day was nice,” is only five, focused solely on the subject with no additional information (how the author felt about their visit)
Yet personally the second one reads easier for me, so I guess that reinforces the point to me specifically? Although I agree it’s unusual.
“It was nice of John and Mary to visit us the other day”
That was a thing even back in my day, when LTE availability was not a given and cellular packages were much less generous.
Granted, today, if it was just getting around general network restrictions via blacklist, then tethering is very convenient.
What these small, portable machines will support is a lot of pre-hospital medics, working in remote or austere environments, to carry these devices and use them effectively.
There are already courses available to teach exactly this:
How I spend the time in between in terms of doing research/reading/etc is up to me. If I had to do this in an office setting it would suck to be stuck there when stuff does come up.
Why? Are you contracted for 45-50 hours per week? Or if contracted less, are you compensated for the additional hours?
I'm contracted for 38.5 hours per week. That's 8.125 hours Monday to Thursday and 6.00 on Friday. If I work longer than this I am compensated with time off in lieu. I do have to log my time daily. Overall works great. I'm fairly paid and have a good lifestyle.
I actually find it hard to imagine working 9-10 hours every day for any extended time period.