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Comment · 2 years ago
Couldn’t this be engineered away? Put half the battery on top and another on the bottom
Comment · 2 years ago
I think you mean organizational issue not development skill issue. If shit is constantly hitting the fan, that is the orgs fault, not the engineers
Comment · 2 years ago
I’d give multiple weeks of time for a city trash can lol
Comment · 2 years ago
In a decade there will be a light rail that is even faster than the shuttle! (Between Everett and SeaTac or the city)
Comment · 2 years ago
I could not have picked a worse example
Comment · 2 years ago
Sounds like we should fix the right problem then! If my loved ones don’t get justice, then I am taking shit into my own hands.
Comment · 2 years ago
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Comment · 2 years ago
You completely missed the nuance that peer countries have up to half an order higher deaths per capita.

This is an easily solved problem. More on the nuance: humans are imperfect when driving, so design infrastructure around that.

What are you gaining out of this? Like do you also look aside when gun violence is brought up?

Comment · 2 years ago
Kind of. Call it what it is. It’s extremely pervasive and has a massive impact on the culture, quality of life and economics in the US.

It is a shame because it would be a fixed problem if we held people accountable or fixed land use or designed infrastructure to be safer

Comment · 2 years ago
Hmm yeah plane failures are totally as pervasive as traffic violence

Calling it propaganda is also crazy. Like you want people to keep dying this way? Great way to show your true colors pal

Comment · 2 years ago
You’ve never been in accident or almost hit by a car? You don’t know anyone that has died that way? Really?

Infinitesimal? It’s one of the leading causes of death among youth on the order of suicide, homicide and drug overdoses. Calling it infinitesimally small is horribly offensive.

It’s a big reason why our life expectancy is lower than peer countries. Again to reiterate, we spend a ton of our GDP just in healthcare to address traffic violence. Modern fire departments mostly address car accidents rather than fires.

You clearly don’t know what you are talking about and you are going to hit a sore spot in many Americans

Comment · 2 years ago
I think it would be a fantastic idea for the government to surveil road infrastructure. We spend a crap ton of our GDP just on healthcare addressing the negative impact of traffic violence. Not to mention everyone knows someone that has been killed or affected by this. Outright saying the government shouldn’t monitor this is in bad taste.

You can argue that the solution is to stop doubling down on our bad investment, bad that is much less feasible than installing a bunch of traffic cameras.

Meta: I welcome the dog pile that will ensue.

Comment · 2 years ago
Funny thing is that there is a near footgun with this go: if you defer and set a non named return in a defer, like cErr, that won’t actually set that variable. Not sure what actually happens in that case but godbolt would tell you. In that case, the error would get swallowed
Comment · 2 years ago
All you need is a <mov>
Comment · 2 years ago
“Got mine!”

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