Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition
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@remi special in the "special ed" kind. Not the rare kind. And as we all know, idiots aren't born: they grow on trees.
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Who's the imbecile who keeps planting idiot trees, then?
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@Bulb said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
I used to write navigation software.
What I really wish for - the ability to say 'I am One or I have 2 or more people' and 'I have a trailer' and have the software properly compute a better route. (In CA, trailers are limited to 55, so alternate routes that are shorter but take more time compared to a longer faster route (65/70) can actually be faster for me)
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@Zerosquare said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
Who's the imbecile who keeps planting idiot trees, then?
Come on, haven't you seen that documentary Idiocracy???
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@dcon said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@Bulb said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
I used to write navigation software.
What I really wish for - the ability to say 'I am One or I have 2 or more people' and 'I have a trailer' and have the software properly compute a better route. (In CA, trailers are limited to 55, so alternate routes that are shorter but take more time compared to a longer faster route (65/70) can actually be faster for me)
- I don't remember seeing information on availability of multi-occupancy lanes, and the speed ratings were crap all around anyway. Until somebody does statistic with a decent sample, it won't do any good.
- We had maximum speed in the truck version, but it tuning the routing to it isâfor an offline navigationâvery difficult problem, because the routing needs to have a lot of precalculated data and these are calculated for specific profiles. Online navigation can afford precalculating for more profiles, so it could pick the right top speed then.
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@Bulb said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
In CA, trailers are limited to 55
Of course, not one single person pulling a trailer has ever adhered to that limit.
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@remi said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@acrow said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
OK. You've got some special kind of idiots there.
They're clearly not that special, the bridge that started this discussion proves that the US also has some of them. I'm unfortunately inclined to believe that those kind of idiots exist everywhere...
Not quite. Any idiot can drive to a low-hanging obstacle or a low bridge. But it takes a special idiot to hit an obstacle and a bridge (or tunnel, as the case may be). These idiots first slammed into a plank thick and heavy enough to crack their windshield and then continued to drive to a low-ceiling tunnel anyway.
"Oh, I seem to have hit some kind of a low-hanging obstacle. Well, I should quickly speed into that tunnel before anyone notices. But that was quite a bump. I hope the manager won't notice the dent in the roof."
We're talking of one of these, placed 30-100 yards before the tunnel:
https://www.esska-fi.com/shop/Korkeusrajoitin-jaykka-betoniin--959903106001-18530Or these:
https://www.trafino.fi/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/keltarauta-putket.jpgOr this:
https://www.trafino.fi/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Korkeusvaroitin_1.png
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@HardwareGeek said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@Bulb said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
In CA, trailers are limited to 55
Of course, not one single person pulling a trailer has ever adhered to that limit.
Well, I do stick to 60. (I'm pulling 1500# with a 4-cyl Outback. I don't want to kill the car.)
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@dcon said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
(I'm pulling 1500# with a 4-cyl Outback. I don't want to kill the car.)
One of those statements does not seem to follow from the other.
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@HardwareGeek said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@dcon said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
(I'm pulling 1500# with a 4-cyl Outback. I don't want to kill the car.)
One of those statements does not seem to follow from the other.
Also a reason I don't hold onto my car much longer than 100K!
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@HardwareGeek said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@dcon said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
(I'm pulling 1500# with a 4-cyl Outback. I don't want to kill the car.)
One of those statements does not seem to follow from the other.
Indeed, you talked about one single person. Not even Usain Bolt could do 55, much less when pulling a trailer
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@dcon said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@Zerosquare said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
Who's the imbecile who keeps planting idiot trees, then?
Come on, haven't you seen that documentary Idiocracy???
So we need more Gatorade to stop the idiot trees from growing?!
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@acrow said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
Not quite. Any idiot can drive to a low-hanging obstacle or a low bridge. But it takes a special idiot to hit an obstacle and a bridge (or tunnel, as the case may be). These idiots first slammed into a plank thick and heavy enough to crack their windshield and then continued to drive to a low-ceiling tunnel anyway.
Yeah. Those are the wilfully determined morons. They're the same types who think that their small SUV is able to ford a river in spate because the adverts show a big splash from a shallow puddle. Or the people who think that a clearly posted bus-only route allows them access too. How the stupidity manifests itself varies, but the basic fact of it does not.
The best thing we can (lawfully) do is to point at them and heap on the ridicule they deserve.
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@dkf said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
that a clearly posted bus-only route allows them access too
Wikipedia calls this a bus trap, but that's clearly a misnomer since buses are not what it traps.
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Status: seems the light misting we received today was enough to trigger a little extra crazy in drivers.
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@acrow they are still not rare enough. In winter, we also get lots of trucks in ditches. My dad had to pull the same truck, with the same driver out of the same ditch three times in a week. The forth time he told the idiot that he could sit in the ditch and stew for a while so he would learn.
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@Tsaukpaetra , how often do you get un-evaporated water in Arizona? It could be a sign of the end times
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@hungrier said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@Tsaukpaetra , how often do you get un-evaporated water in Arizona? It could be a sign of the end times
Status: Took me a couple minutes, but I got the joke.
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@hungrier said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@Tsaukpaetra , how often do you get un-evaporated water in Arizona? It could be a sign of the end times
I'll put it this way: last time that we got an actual monsoon our roof flew off. That was over half a decade ago.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
last time that we got an actual monsoon our roof flew off. That was over half a decade ago.
And you've been topless since?
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@TimeBandit said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@Tsaukpaetra said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
last time that we got an actual monsoon our roof flew off. That was over half a decade ago.
And you've been topless since?
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@TimeBandit said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@Tsaukpaetra said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
last time that we got an actual monsoon our roof flew off. That was over half a decade ago.
And you've been topless since?
It was replaced!
But yeah, that was exciting discovering how environmentally-prepared the inside of the house is. Answer: Not very.
Also, computers do startlingly well when wet!
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@HardwareGeek said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@Luhmann said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@HardwareGeek
Fat change it isn'tI do not understand this comment.
Fat
changechance it isn'tBetter?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
Also, computers do startlingly well when wet!
That's when closing windows can help
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
Also, computers do startlingly well when wet!
My high-end MSI laptop got drenched during an unexpectedly-rainy motorcycle ride when my waterproof duffel bag wasn't quite waterproof. I let it dry out (there was water pouring out the vents) and I'm still using it 3 years later.
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@TimeBandit said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@Tsaukpaetra said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
Also, computers do startlingly well when wet!
That's when closing windows can help
Windows was closed. Doors was TSR'd.
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@levicki said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@Tsaukpaetra Terminated and Stayed Resident?
Oh, good, you knew what the acronym stood for. Congratulations. Now I don't have to berate you for not knowing implicitly!
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@TimeBandit said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@Tsaukpaetra said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
Also, computers do startlingly well when wet!
That's when closing windows can help
Windows was closed. Doors was TSR'd.
Pop quiz, hotshot, and no cheating: What's the difference between EMS and XMS?
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@lolwhat One's got an E, the other's got an X.
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@lolwhat said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@Tsaukpaetra said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@TimeBandit said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@Tsaukpaetra said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
Also, computers do startlingly well when wet!
That's when closing windows can help
Windows was closed. Doors was TSR'd.
Pop quiz, hotshot, and no cheating: What's the difference between EMS and XMS?
IIRC, one was the extra memory available from shadowed BIOS and one was extra memory from a secondary expansion.
*googles...*
Lol I would make a good news reporter.
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@Zecc said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@lolwhat One's got an E, the other's got an X.
One is extended and the other expanded memory, I think. No idea which is which, or what the actual difference is.
Wait, this is the morons-on-the-road thread?!
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@lolwhat said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
What's the difference between EMS and XMS?
None, they're both dead.
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@JBert laughs in DOSBox
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@mott555 said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@JBert laughs in DOSBox
hmm..... i have the floppy images for DOS 6.22 and Windows 3.11..... I wonder if i could install those on dosbox.....
ISTR that Windows 98 doesn't play nice with it but....
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@Vixen Windows 3.11 will install to DOSBox, I have it installed to mine (I really don't know why, just because I could, I suppose). I believe someone somewhere got Win95 "working" once, but it didn't work well and you couldn't do much with it.
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@mott555 said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@Vixen Windows 3.11 will install to DOSBox, I have it installed to mine (I really don't know why, just because I could, I suppose). I believe someone somewhere got Win95 "working" once, but it didn't work well and you couldn't do much with it.
DOSBOX really focuses on 16 bit world anyway, once you step into 32 bit world Virtualbox and other hypervisors serve you better anyway, so i'm not surprised apparently little effort was put into getting windows 95 and 98 working in dosbox
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@topspin said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
Wait, this is the morons-on-the-road thread?!
Morons always drift out of their lane, so yes?
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@mott555 said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
someone somewhere got Win95 "working" once, but it didn't work well and you couldn't do much with it.
IOW, you get the real experience of Win95
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNO4RXJvHZM
Morons on the road...
Morons on the road...
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@TimeBandit said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
the real experience of Win95
The only real reason to use Win95 was for running Civilization 2. Which was a great reasonâŠ
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This reminds me, I saw something on my way to work last week that I was going to post but forgot. It's not so much a driving anti-pattern as a car anti-pattern, but this is as good a place as any to post it.
We've had discussions before about cars with oversized spoilers. Usually, the ridiculous spoilers are on Japanese wannabe sports cars; this one wasn't ridiculously oversized, but it was definitely big â the spoiler wing was roughly in line with the car's roof â at one point it appeared to be fluttering in the airflow, and it sure looked out of place on a 4-door luxury sedan. The car was a shiny, white Cadillac CTS, and the obviously aftermarket spoiler was dull black or dark gray.
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@dcon Not that bad. At least it appeared to be commercially made, metal, and reasonably aerodynamic, if a bit flimsy. It was not homemade from cardboard and duct tape.
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@HardwareGeek said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@dcon Not that bad. At least it appeared to be commercially made, metal, and reasonably aerodynamic, if a bit flimsy. It was not homemade from cardboard and duct tape.
i think that one is actually made of duct tape and empty cans of natty light.......
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@Vixen said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@HardwareGeek said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@dcon Not that bad. At least it appeared to be commercially made, metal, and reasonably aerodynamic, if a bit flimsy. It was not homemade from cardboard and duct tape.
i think that one is actually made of duct tape and empty cans of natty light.......
When looking for an image, http://www.sub5zero.com/20-saddest-car-spoilers-all-time/ had a few other really good candidates...
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@levicki said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
I would really like to know what was going through their head
Suggestion: nothing.