Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition
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@dcon said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@Tsaukpaetra said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
I've noticed that due to dramatically decreased vehicle presence on road, there's virtually no rush hour anymore. Kinda nice, to be honest.
And the day they release us back to work, there will probably be 1 crash per mile per hour. (Thank $deity that my commute will soon be only 5mi!)
I enjoy things as they last, no matter how short.
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"CHP Hayward wants to remind you it is never safe to step out of your vehicle on an active freeway," the CHP said. "Please remain in your vehicles for your safety so CHP can handle any debris calls."
:no shit.flv:
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@JBert Not to mention the picked-up masks are very likely useless at that point...
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@HardwareGeek said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
In TX, it's 80 mph in rural areas.
That's a good thing. The state's so large that otherwise you'd take forever to get anywhere…
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@dkf said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@HardwareGeek said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
In TX, it's 80 mph in rural areas.
That's a good thing. The state's so large that otherwise you'd take forever to get anywhere…
INB4 oxen cart max speed hype...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@JBert Not to mention the picked-up masks are very likely useless at that point...
Irrelevant. It doesn't matter whether the masks are useless. It's not about protecting yourself or others; it just about having anything covering your face so the grocery store will let you in, even if the anything is worse than useless.
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@dkf said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@HardwareGeek said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
In TX, it's 80 mph in rural areas.
That's a good thing. The state's so large that otherwise you'd take forever to get anywhere…
It does anyway.
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@HardwareGeek said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@dkf said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@HardwareGeek said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
In TX, it's 80 mph in rural areas.
That's a good thing. The state's so large that otherwise you'd take forever to get anywhere…
It does anyway.
Of course. 80 mph is still just 130 km/h. Even Poland allows faster than that.
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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?
I know this is old, but I'm going to see if I remember it right:
Expanded (EMS) was the paged one (you had a small window into however much expanded memory that you could move around).
Extended (XMS) was all accessible at once.
Edit: I had the right idea. Couldn't come up with the term bank-switching for some reason.
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@mott555 I don't think it's supposed to do that.
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I didn't know Razer made car parts...
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@Zerosquare No, Razer would have made an LED axle. This is an incandescent axle.
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@mott555
The other colors are available as DLC
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@mott555 said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
WTF is being used as bearings on that axle? A tin of alphabetti spaghetti?
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@boomzilla in Other News with an update that he actually could hitch a ride in one.
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This lack of police enforcement stinks. I've only been on the road a few times these past few months, and the maniacs are out in force. Near-accidents everywhere. My last one, I was in the center lane of a 3-lane highway (the right lane turned into exit-only in a couple of miles). A car on my right decided he wanted to be on my left and cut in front of me while braking hard. He couldn't have missed my front bumper by more than 3 feet, at highway speeds, and I'm in a crew-cab pickup truck with a factory 2" lift kit so I'm not hard to see at all. My ABS has never worked so I locked up my brakes, smoked my tires, and managed to stall the engine out while avoiding him. I never knew you could stall like that when you have an automatic transmission.
Also, lots of idiots going 30 MPH over the speed limit while weaving in and out of traffic and using on-ramps as passing lanes. Makes me glad my motorcycle is currently not available because I'd get pasted on something that underpowered.
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@dcon 2, then 3, then 1. Removing the Yield sign next to 1 wouldn't change the determination, but it'd invoke the "rightmost" tiebreaker rule, and usually people try to apply the "arrived at intersection first" tiebreaker above it.
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@TwelveBaud Yeah, I would have made that text simply "They didn't"
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Bernie lives in a small village between vineyards. Such villages have ancient centers, with very narrow roads. People did not think of current days traffic with large trucks at the time they built their houses.
And that turns out to be a problem. Like here:
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What's happening here? no one else driving their cars nowadays due to corontine?
That balcony fell victim to a lorry last August. It has not yet been fully repaired since.
Well, let me add another pic from the category of big vehicle in small village:
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My father had that problem with one of his barns. Trucks kept running into it, and it was so bad that the entire wall towards the road was in danger of simply falling out so he tore the whole thing down. Days after he'd turned it into firewood, a bunch of people from the city came out and was very angry at him because they were planning to make it one of those historical buildings you're not allowed to do anything with.
He was pretty happy to have dodged that particular bullet.
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@Carnage said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
Days after he'd turned it into firewood, a bunch of people from the city came out and was very angry at him because they were planning to make it one of those historical buildings you're not allowed to do anything with.
He was pretty happy to have dodged that particular bullet.Yeah, I know some people that have a house that is on that list. The BS they have to go through to just repaint (the same paint from last year, you know, standard maintenance) is unbelievable.
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@BernieTheBernie not enough concrete/steel/fuck your truck up royally bars...
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@Dragoon said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@Carnage said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
Days after he'd turned it into firewood, a bunch of people from the city came out and was very angry at him because they were planning to make it one of those historical buildings you're not allowed to do anything with.
He was pretty happy to have dodged that particular bullet.Yeah, I know some people that have a house that is on that list. The BS they have to go through to just repaint (the same paint from last year, you know, standard maintenance) is unbelievable.
And sometimes it becomes really absurd - there's a historical house in Germany right along a large river. As it happens with rivers, sometimes the water level will be high. So you build walls higher than the expected highest water level. Now, this being historical, there was a gap in said walls. This sometimes flooded the historical house which in turn is not really a good thing for such houses (or any house, really). So the owner plugged said hole using stones which blended right in.
Can you see where the gap was plugged?
Here, I'll help you:
Yes, this tiny bit. But it still was not allowed...
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@mott555 Not long after I started my current job, I was driving one of our works Landrovers to a job site. Now on the way there, there is a straight bit of road with a 60mph limit about half a mile long, with a side road near the end away from my direction of travel. I could see a guy on a bike sitting at the junction, so I was expecting him to pull out.
What I wasn't expecting was for him to sit there staring at me until I was about three or four car lengths away, then wobble out at about 30mph in front of me. Given that the thing I was driving was literally Fire Engine Red with yellow and red high vis strips all over it, I can't imagine he didn't see me. No ABS, big wobbly mud terrains, and there was much squealing of tyres and sliding of things to the front and shouting rude words in the Gaelic.
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@gordonjcp There's a reason why bikers are called "Mobile Organ Donors" over here.
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@Rhywden It's “voluntary organ donors” here.
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@Bulb said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@Rhywden It's “voluntary organ donors” here.
The fun part is that bikers make really poor organ donors because when the force is enough to kill them, the organs tend to be completely fucked up and unusable.
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@Carnage said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
the organs tend to be completely fucked up and unusable
Don't worry. The brain is already in a bad state; it must be otherwise they'd be using a safer form of transport or at least taking more care…
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@dkf said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@Carnage said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
the organs tend to be completely fucked up and unusable
Don't worry. The brain is already in a bad state; it must be otherwise they'd be using a safer form of transport or at least taking more care…
Maybe that's why some of them wear the helmets we like to call "Brain Buckets".
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@dcon those are to preserve the face and head to make identification of the remains easier.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@dcon those are to preserve the face and head to make identification of the remains easier.
Face? The only thing they're good for is a bucket for brains!
These things:
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@gordonjcp said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
shouting rude words in the Gaelic
So a normal conversation?
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Today I took a walk to do my shopping - I deliberately did not use my bike this time because I'd only get mown over by assholes who think that "right of way" only applies to cars or that 20 cm are an acceptable distance when overtaking in a 30 zone when I'm actually doing 30 on my bike.
I think I'll print some business cards which I then hand out in such occasions:
You don't know about the traffic rules? I can help: <Insert number of the local police precinct>
Anyways, even though I was on foot I managed to get three cars who parked so badly that they all managed the feat of:
a) partially blocking the car lane (this street is traffic heavy so overtaking is rarely possible - it pretty much needs someone from the other direction yielding!)
b) completely blocking the bike lane and
c) partially blocking the walkway in a way that, say, a stroller or wheelchair would not be able to pass.The fourth one was "only" guilty of blocking the fire service drive way.
Of course all four would have been able to use free parking spots within a 100 meter.
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@Rhywden said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
Anyways, even though I was on foot I managed to get three cars who parked so badly that they all managed the feat of:
a) partially blocking the car lane (this street is traffic heavy so overtaking is rarely possible - it pretty much needs someone from the other direction yielding!)
b) completely blocking the bike lane and
c) partially blocking the walkway in a way that, say, a stroller or wheelchair would not be able to pass.
The fourth one was "only" guilty of blocking the fire service drive way.
Of course all four would have been able to use free parking spots within a 100 meter.There was a solution found to this problem here:
IIRC, the cars were towed (requiring a £200 release fee to be paid within 7 days or the car gets crushed) and the owners fined as well.
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@dkf Well, here it was a mere 15€ fine. They upped it to 75€ and one point to your license (accrue 8 points and it's "Goodbye license!") but of course our absolute moron of a traffic minister made a formal error in the wording of the law. Thus it's now open to debate whether it can be enforced or not.
The minister is now talking about walking back on his own law because of protests over "drive 21 km/h to fast inside the city and lose your license for a month" because it "can happen to anyone on accident!"
In all my years of driving I've only been caught speeding once - and that time it did not catch me by surprise. It was also only 10 km/h in the mountains (hilldown - they probably reduced the limit to 60 on that stretch because it's a rather steep incline). So, driving too fast on accident does not count as an excuse in my book - because for all their moaning about "unfair traffic signage" or something, I've yet to run across such unfair signage. Maybe it exists in other countries but here? Nope.
On the contrary, because the fines are so low, pretty much everyone is at least 10 over the limit. With not a few doing 20 over - after all, speed traps are rare and thus you're equally rarely caught.
But what's a gun to the US-American is a car to a German - a Holy Cow.
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@Rhywden said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@dkf Well, here it was a mere 15€ fine. They upped it to 75€ and one point to your license (accrue 8 points and it's "Goodbye license!") but of course our absolute moron of a traffic minister made a formal error in the wording of the law. Thus it's now open to debate whether it can be enforced or not.
The minister is now talking about walking back on his own law because of protests over "drive 21 km/h to fast inside the city and lose your license for a month" because it "can happen to anyone on accident!"
In all my years of driving I've only been caught speeding once - and that time it did not catch me by surprise. It was also only 10 km/h in the mountains (hilldown - they probably reduced the limit to 60 on that stretch because it's a rather steep incline). So, driving too fast on accident does not count as an excuse in my book - because for all their moaning about "unfair traffic signage" or something, I've yet to run across such unfair signage. Maybe it exists in other countries but here? Nope.
On the contrary, because the fines are so low, pretty much everyone is at least 10 over the limit. With not a few doing 20 over - after all, speed traps are rare and thus you're equally rarely caught.
But what's a gun to the US-American is a car to a German - a Holy Cow.
Jeez, if you are 21km/h over the limit by accident in a city, you really don't have enough awareness to keep driving. And I say that as a chronic speeder.
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@Rhywden said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
Well, here it was a mere 15€ fine. They upped it to 75€ and one point to your license
We don't put points on the license for bad parking, as those are reserved for bad behaviour while the vehicle is in motion. The release fees are fixed because the impounding is run by a private company on behalf of local government (the fee being set by the contract I'd guess) and the actual fines are court-determined and have no theoretical maximum as they're instead coupled to the ability to pay (and the relative seriousness by comparison with lots of other things). The result is that people with little money are mostly stung by the release fee (and the fact that they've got to find their way home without their wheels in the first place) whereas those with more are mostly hit by the formal fines.
Yes, I did cross-check this with a (former) magistrate this morning.
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@Rhywden said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
ssholes who think that "right of way" only applies to cars or that 20 cm are an acceptable distance when overtaking
CA has a 3ft law. Some of the cyclists around here have attached wands to their handlebars to enforce that.
I'm all for allowing that space (I cycle too!), but those sticks are annoying as hell.
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@dcon Some cyclists over here are using those pool noodles for that purpose.
I myself have considered using a gardening rake. Maybe with a motorized extender in the shaft so I can shorten it if I'm not driving on a street.
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@Carnage said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
Jeez, if you are 21km/h over the limit by accident in a city, you really don't have enough awareness to keep driving. And I say that as a chronic speeder.
In my city, all of the main roads connecting neighbourhoods are cars-only, natural sound/vision barriers to the neighbourhoods, and were originally designed for 70 km/h. And then they slapped a 50 km/h limit on them.
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@Rhywden said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@dcon Some cyclists over here are using those pool noodles for that purpose.
I myself have considered using a gardening rake. Maybe with a motorized extender in the shaft so I can shorten it if I'm not driving on a street.
The one a guy in my neighborhood uses would scratch a car pretty badly. (it does look a little shorter than 3ft - maybe 2?)
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@PleegWat said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
And then they slapped a 50 km/h limit on them.
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@Rhywden said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@dcon Some cyclists over here are using those pool noodles for that purpose.
I myself have considered using a gardening rake. Maybe with a motorized extender in the shaft so I can shorten it if I'm not driving on a street.
The pool noodle thing kind of makes sense, except it might be too flexible to be a very good guide. The gardening rake just sounds suicidal. What happens if someone hits it while you're riding?