Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: AI-Based Coding Taking Over Date: 22 Oct 2025 06:02:02 GMT Lines: 43 Message-ID: References: <3pc1slx9ti.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> <10cl3np$2q6c4$3@dont-email.me> <10cl8r6$2q6c4$18@dont-email.me> <10crldd$lkb4$1@dont-email.me> <10ctb13$12oei$2@dont-email.me> <10ctrdc$16st9$1@dont-email.me> <10d24n9$2bb83$2@dont-email.me> <10d2dos$2dnk0$3@dont-email.me> <0g8hslxmvj.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net miol6/io08d37p5YroojEAun6sOUcoUOjfiFOPS4713bi/rZC6 Cancel-Lock: sha1:H69mZ26YcCAd9tDSfArEzbGpA0U= sha256:AyxTag816/4q7bgfdzJrQp/xXLhPPWsfXzrUFkoJ9Uo= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:76505 On Tue, 21 Oct 2025 23:48:54 -0400, c186282 wrote: > It is surprisingly difficult to spot a slow or stationary vehicle > while driving. The perspective does not change much until you're > RIGHT up on the damned thing. MANY nasty accidents result. Any vehicle that can't do at least 25 is supposed to have a big slow vehicle triangle on the back. Always fun to get stuck behind a Harobed. https://www.loc.gov/item/ncr002399/ Trivia: the guy who invented it had a daughter named Deborah. > Oddly it's the police who are often victims of this. Despite blue > lights and such, drivers kind of see the tail-lights and > automatically assume the pull-off strip is another open lane where > traffic is proceeding at their speed. > They only realize the truth an instant before the Big Smash. > Something about how humans are wired ..... I live way past the street lights and there aren't that many houses so it can be dark on moonless lights. I've found myself drifting toward some hapless bastard with a blinking red light on his bicycle like a moth to a flame. 'What's that? Better go check it out. It might be a wolf or something!' > I have a couple of e-bike fanatics who blast down the sidewalk in > front of my house. Some of those things are pretty damned fast. They > also make NO NOISE. Now have to CAREFULLY, incrementally, nose my car > out over the sidewalk. I've clocked them at 25. It's disconcerting in city traffic when it's in the bike lane and going faster than you. I'm used to bicyclists catching up at stop lights but not running neck in neck. Then there are the two wheel e-scooters that look like a trip to the ER, to say nothing of hoverboards. We had plenty of ways to kill ourselves when I was a kid but the choices have improved. The city built both a BMX and skateboard park. I don't think I was that crazy even at 10.