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Comment Re:This is the right direction (Score 1) 168

This has been studied to death and is the exact reason why professional drivers are required to take breaks after 2 hours.

Where exactly is there a requirement like this? Not in the USA...

https://www.fmcsa.dot.gov/regu...

30 minute break every 8 hours - same as pretty much all jobs, have to get a 30 minute break in an 8 hour shift (I think for other jobs it's for a shift more than 6 hours).

Comment Re:Sorry what? (Score 1) 153

In this context I have no idea, but there are a lot of hobby laser engravers / cutters that use diodes (which I think are LEDs) in a certain system to generate a laser beam. I wonder if AI got confused writing that part of the article or something?

Comment Re:Alignment Inspections? (Score 1) 153

I really never thought NY would have worse inspections than CA, but yea - we have emissions testing, all sorts of physical inspections - you can fail on torn wiper blades. In fact, I think it's a bit of a scam of the inspection garages to force you to buy cheap wiper blades at jacked up prices to pass you. Oh, and no CEL for any reason I think.

The emissions testing is the worst though - we're way out in a rural area, and I think the number of cars junked cause fixing emissions (otherwise run fine) may well be worse for the environment.

Comment Re:Same problem in Europe (Score 1) 153

Is this a Europe only thing? At least in the US DLR are mostly useful for the people who will not turn on their headlights till they need to see as dusk occurs. Un-disablable auto low beams would do the same thing. IDK why there are so many people who insist on driving almost in the dark with their lights off, but there are a noticeable amount. They also help (and auto lights would help) with people driving in cities with overhead lights and apparently again not realizing their lights are off when they drive out of the coverage of the streetlights. I see this a lot on super highways etc leaving an urban area.

The second useful place is people who ignore weather conditions like strong overcast, rain, fog etc making it hard to see as well.

I've never found weak lights being on or off affecting my ability to see a motorcycle or other vehicle outside of twilight or weather conditions generally.

Comment Re:Actual best ways to reduce carbon footprint (Score 1) 118

ut in speed limits for the large aircraft. Right now airline flights fly fast to reduce total travel time. But the wait to get onto the flight is so long, not even counting the wait to get your luggage and/or rent a car means the actual percentage gain in time is not meaningful

Depends on the airport, time of day, route, etc - for much shorter routes , for much longer flights that seems absurdly impossible though.

Why would you include waiting at the airport though in the travel time (boarding and baggage retrieval, which also assumes someone has to be checking on bags too (another potential assumption error))? I mean, if the measure is getting between two points, why not just compare the travel between two points (which can include taxiing to the runway, to the gate, at the airport)?

Comment Modulex (Score 2) 22

I really wish they'd bring back the Modulex line of bricks (which was meant for architects and capable of making proper scale buildings due to the 5:5 width/length ratio (vs LEGO's 6.5:5 width/length). If I want to make scale models using LEGOs currently, I CAN, but there are some tricks I'd need to employ that would blow the size of my model up even more size-wise (and given the size of LEGOs some of the model ideas I want to make can get kinda hefty).

Comment Public Domain Dat is here again! (Score 1) 36

And with it, a slew of comments on YT, Twitter/X, etc, by idiots who exlaime "the public domain is a mistake" or what such fiddle faddle when they see character-turned-into-horror-movie slop (ignoring that good things take time to be made, and that the public domain serves a very important purpose).

Good thing people can't slap other people through their monitors, I'd have very sore hands in resposne to those nitwits.

Comment Re:I have to say by now I approve (Score 1) 90

Maybe another silly question, but how many of the memory vulnerabilities and other bugs we see from those utilizing C would be more likely to be mitigated if programmers in C were not just made well aware of them / their cause, the ways to prevent them (either on the job or in relevant education in school or elsewhere), AND if programmers and engineers had the time they needed to design things properly, implement them, and TEST THEM (as in, if the development processes slowed down for fuck's sake)? Sure feels like everything (not just program development) is way too fast paced these days.

Comment Re:Seems reasonable (Score 4, Interesting) 74

The other thing is plenty of people who were console gamers in their childhood through college maybe find that as they get older, they have different interests or different things taking time. Games always took a LOT of time, and as everything got more multiplayer they got less and less "fun" if you didn't have a LOT of time to get decent at them, because you're going to be compared to teenagers who make them a full time job.

I hung on through the PS3 and got a PS4 because I still wanted to be "a gamer", but after I hadn't turned on my PS4 for 3 years, I just... didn't get a PS5.

Maybe that's what you mean by aging out - though I question if console games are something that are that driven by age in the way some competitive sports might be.

Comment Re:I have to say by now I approve (Score 1) 90

My number one recommendation is to not do open-coded buffer or string manipulation by using pointer arithmetic. This simple to do but almost all of C OOB issues I see are caused by this.

Maybe this is a stupid question, but is it a problem with using pointer arithmetic, a problem of not ensuring you do proper bounds checking (even having a maximum boundary for instance), and the like, or even both?

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