Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition
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..and there you go, letting me run off at the <strike>mouth</strike> keyboard...
It was in the days before snapshot, so I figured it didn't really have an impact on our discussion.
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It was in the days before snapshot, so I figured it didn't really have an impact on our discussion.
Oh, I believe you.... probably
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Filed under: you find the weirdest things in Emojii
Also: Jeff would have gotten away with it, too. If it weren't for those darned
DWTFerskids.
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I have never heard about such a thing with respect to auto insurance.
Makes sense, though. When I still lived in Boston, every year there'd be stories about the insurance companies wanting big increases and the state would cut a deal. If the rates themselves have to be approved, it's not unreasonable to think the algorithms do too. State governments, like all of them, are a bunch of busybodies.
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Makes sense, though
It does.
When I still lived in Boston, every year there'd be stories about the insurance companies wanting big increases and the state would cut a deal.
Yeah, I'm sure this varies wildly from state to state. I've never noticed this going on in places I've lived, which isn't to say it hasn't happened, but I have noticed similar health insurance goings on.
bunch of busybodies
Yes, and it probably depends on whether the rates were previously set by actual actuaries or political deals. I'm sure once the latter starts there's no easy way back to reality.
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>FrostCat:
When I still lived in Boston, every year there'd be stories about the insurance companies wanting big increases and the state would cut a deal.Yeah, I'm sure this varies wildly from state to state. I've never noticed this going on in places I've lived, which isn't to say it hasn't happened, but I have noticed similar health insurance goings on.
Massachusetts had really horrible auto insurance rates when I lived there. I heard it was at least partly due to a very poor no-fault insurance law. I just remember every year you'd hear "the insurance companies want a 33% rate increase, and the state let them have 9%" or something.
I mean, it's an ultraliberal place, of course reality breaks down sometimes. IIRC the insurance companies were slowly pulling out of the state even 15 years ago. And of course there's Romneycare, which apparently costs far more than projected (surprise!!1) but somehow for reasons nobody's ever been able to explain to me, it's really OK, or else it's not REALLY costing what all the reports say it's costing, or something.
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@thegoryone said:
I've nearly been wiped out at least 10 times this week taking roundabouts in a country that's had them since at least 1965.
There are 11 roundabouts between home and work. It's only 6 miles...
Sounds like we can all agree that roundabouts are a menace.
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(Can't believe I didn't remember this sooner.)
Sounds like we can all agree that roundabouts are a menace.
Vs. a four-way stop with:
EB: One lane road that becomes two lanes: Left, Straight/Right
NB: Two un-differentiated lanes
WB: Left, Straight, Straight/Right
SB: Two un-differentiated lanesI usually come from EB going straight - works especially great when I stop at the restraining line, and the S
OBUV that was behind me is turning left and stops on the crosswalk."Hey, it's my turn, but I can't see a blessed thing to my left, I wonder if that dump truck remembers that I'm here? Thanks dude!"
Effectively stealing my turn, and causing everybody else to lose track of which of up to seven drivers have the right-of-way.
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a four-way stop with:
EB: One lane road that becomes two lanes: Left, Straight/RightNB: Two un-differentiated lanesWB: Left, Straight, Straight/RightSB: Two un-differentiated lanes
I usually come from EB going straight - works especially great when I stop at the restraining line, and the SOBUV that was behind me is turning left and stops on the crosswalk.
"Hey, it's my turn, but I can't see a blessed thing to my left, I wonder if that dump truck remembers that I'm here? Thanks dude!"
Effectively stealing my turn, and causing everybody else to lose track of which of up to seven drivers have the right-of-way.
Now that you mention it, I'm not sure I have personally ever encountered a four-way stop with multiple lanes from any direction...other than a traffic light being out, at which point nobody knows that's what they're supposed to do anyhow.
I'm sure there are probably some I've been near, but I can't remember actually experiencing any.
The closest I can think of is a three-way stop with the fourth direction having right-of-way, in a parking lot, and the direction without a stop is the only one with multiple lanes.
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Now that you mention it, I'm not sure I have personally ever encountered a four-way stop with multiple lanes from any direction...other than a traffic light being out, at which point nobody knows that's what they're supposed to do anyhow.
There's one near where I used to live that had two undifferentiated lanes in every direction. I hated that corner.
Hopefully they've since changed it into a stoplight.
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Now that you mention it, I'm not sure I have personally ever encountered a four-way stop with multiple lanes from any direction...other than a traffic light being out, at which point nobody knows that's what they're supposed to do anyhow.
During the 2011 Southwest blackout, since we couldn't work after the power went out, we were sent home. The roads really weren't too bad, I was surprised at how well everyone did.
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Another pattern that I noticed this morning: people drive like dicks when they see a cop that has someone pulled over. I saw two different cars pulled over this morning, and once traffic saw them, I guess it seemed ok to do 90 on the highway, or run through red lights.
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Another pattern that I noticed this morning: people drive like dicks when they see a cop that has someone pulled over.
Don't try that on I-95 in Virginia - they hunt in wolfpacks.
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Don't try that on I-95 in Virginia - they hunt in wolfpacks.
nor in maine.
they just started doing "traps" where the car they've "pulled over" is an unmarked cop car....
quite successfull those guys are! ;-)
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Sneaky.
Wait, there's traffic in Maine?
You know, Maine, Maine -lumberjacks, moose and foxes -not the Maine near Boston...
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Now that you mention it, I'm not sure I have personally ever encountered a four-way stop with multiple lanes from any direction...other than a traffic light being out, at which point nobody knows that's what they're supposed to do anyhow.
Here's a crazy one:
https://www.google.com/maps/@33.435683,-112.5388005,214m/data=!3m1!1e3?hl=en
There are additional four way stops to the east and west. 5 within a 3 mile stretch.
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ait, there's traffic in Maine
Well t is mostly thru traffic between Quebec and Boston... ;-)
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hmm? too soon?
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Here's one: https://maps.google.com/maps?t=h&ll=33.435683,-112.5388005&spn=0.0019245,0.003075&output=classic&dg=ntvb
If you scroll north a bit, you'll see the Southfork ranch, after which the Southfork ranch of the TV show Dallas was named--in fact, the show used footage of the exterior of the actual ranch.
If you scroll south a tiny bit, you'll find the Southfork mobile home park, featuring streets named after the major characters of the show.
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Here's one: https://maps.google.com/maps?t=h&ll=33.435683,-112.5388005&spn=0.0019245,0.003075&output=classic&dg=ntvb
That points to the same pace as my map link (notice it has the same lat&long). Try again!
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Friggin' Google maps, I can never figure out how to get a URL out of a map.
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It's the arrow, isn't it?
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As it turns out, it's the little pair of glasses with tape on the nose.
https://www.google.com/maps/@33.0330443,-96.5947865,228m/data=!3m1!1e3
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What I like about that intersection is the little "fuck you" of sidewalk running west, that doesn't meet up with the existing stuff (that intersection has been widened a couple of times; many years ago it was a little two-lane undivided blacktop like the part to the east.
There's actually quite a few of those in the 'burbs north of Dallas.
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That points to the same pace as my map link (notice it has the same lat&long). Try again!
Why doesn't Google Maps update the URL every time that you change the content on the map? It's not like there are any possible side effects of that, especially when it comes to your browsing history.
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It turns out it's because Google Maps hates the browser I was using at work, and gives it a different UI, including not updating the URL. I was just going to say "IE" but here at home it works the same as Chrome.
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Why doesn't Google Maps update the URL every time that you change the content on the map?
For me it does. Though I suspect it sometimes forgets.
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For me it does. Though I suspect it sometimes forgets.
Like I said above, it did in IE at home, but not at work. In both cases it was IE11 on 64-bit Win 8.1. Here at work I got a different UI overall for Maps, too.
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Massachusetts had really horrible auto insurance rates when I lived there.
Yes, as with so many things, stuff varies wildly by state. None of your story surprises me.
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Relevant oldie but goodie from k5:
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Kuro5hin. K5... Now that's a name I've heard in a long time. A long time.
Fuck, I feel old.
I haven't been there since rusty did his CMF thing... whenever that was.
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Brisbane has a few intersections which are on angle, and don't have full lane markings. Like this...
Straight on is actually over to the right and from the middle lane it's a bit hard to get a feel for which lane on the other side is yours. As a result it's not uncommon for cars in the middle lane of Sandgate Road to drift right and cars in the right hand lane to drift over onto the wrong side of the road.
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Today @accalia got in the car to go to work and was very confused.
some bastard had stolen her steering wheel!
and the dashboard!
and they had installed another row of seats into the space where the dashboard was!
Then she realized she had gotten into the back seat instead of the front seet.
she got out, got back in at the right door this time and resolved never to say anything about it ever again.
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drift over onto the wrong side of the road.
Looks like they're already on the wrong side of the road
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Sounds like someone needs to go back to bed and finish sleeping it off.
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Sounds like someone needs to go back to bed and finish sleeping it off.
that may have been advisable, but noooooo 0800 meeting Monday morning...... [bad word]
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but noooooo 0800 meeting Monday morning...... [bad word]
Any scheduled meeting before 9 (or call before 9:30) on a Monday gets automatically declined.
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WTF?
Oi! Discourse! That's descriptive!
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when one habitually arrives at 0730 and it is know by the entire office, one does occasionally get meetings scheduled that early.
i much prefer 0800 mettings to meetings scheduled at 1500... because i leave at 1600 and the 1500 meetings invariably run long.
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I get in at 8:30 and still that rule applies - same with meetings after 4:00 or calls after 4:30 when I leave at 5ish.
Luckily if I'm in my usual office the likelihood of any kind of face to face meeting happening ever is slim.
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Luckily if I'm in my usual office the likelihood of any kind of face to face meeting happening ever is slim.
lucky bastard.
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I'm the only person in my
teamdepartment who works in my office.I'm on the road quite a bit to be in the offices where other colleagues work for meetings etc though. Swings and roundabouts.
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I'm the only person in my teamdepartment who works in my office.
i'll repeat my previous comment. ;-)
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i much prefer 0800 mettings to meetings scheduled at 1500... because i leave at 1600 and the 1500 meetings invariably run long.
At which point I just get up "Have to catch my train, later".
Getting in at 8 is nice - the office is pretty much empty until 9. And since this is one of those open office setups, it's really quiet!
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At which point I just get up "Have to catch my train, later".
i drive, so that's not as powerful an argument.
but since i do most of the cooking for the household i could drop that excuse....
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At which point I just get up "Have to catch my train, later".
I have bailed out of meetings 20 minutes early before with "I have to go to class" -- nobody minded, though.
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