Programming languages are becoming less important with time. More is done with frameworks now. You still write glue logic and special functions, though. And middleware like SharePoint takes programming mindset and skills, even though you mostly aren’t writing code. Finally, work process...
One tactic that is useful to the cyclist comes from water navigation. Boaters know that if the other vessel is on a constant bearing, you are on a collision course. When you watch the simulation, note that the angle between the cyclist's road and the pillar shadow is approximately constant...
I thought that excess carbon in an engine was a thing of the past, now that we use unleaded gas/petrol and synthetic oil. In any case, there's a lot less carbon build-up in today's engines. Plugs are significantly cleaner and last much longer. I don't think that there's enough carbon...