Great picture! Those crowded streets were no doubt a pickpockets dream.
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bloomingeek commented on Hard-braking events as indicators of road segment crash risk research.google/blog/hard... · Posted by u/aleyan
Maintaining a safe following distance is incredibly challenging on busy freeways where hard braking is often 'required'. Most people have likely found themselves in this situation: vehicle changes lanes in front of you; you slow down to maintain a safe following distance, another car sees a gap and changes lanes in front of you. Repeat for your entire commute.
Incredibly frustrating, and I've driven all over North America - there's practically no major city where this doesn't happen. If you're not maintaining a safe following distance on city/residential streets, that's a different matter.
Tailgating is against the law. Tailgating causes hard braking.
I recently pulled my travel trailer from OK to Charleston, SC and back. I never drive over 65 MPH for safety and MPG reasons. I always stay in the right hand, slow lane except if I have to take a left lane exit. Since I was always driving slower then everyone else, not once did I have to hard brake. Tailgating is a choice and a dangerous one.
I was never honked at, even by the crazy semi truck drivers.
When I was in my late teens and early twenties, I worked offshore for Santa Fe International on a pipe laying barge. There, I learned the applications and strength of 3/4 inch rope. As a "rigger I", I've tied off almost anything on the deck during almost any kind of storm. As a joke, I once tied off an anchor, attached to a buoyed, two inch steel cable. The deck foreman was not amused.
bloomingeek commented on Defeating a 40-year-old copy protection dongle dmitrybrant.com/2026/02/0... · Posted by u/zdw
Kind of related: I own and still use an HP laptop that came with 8 GB of DDR4 SDRAM and 16 GB of Intel Optane memory. When MS told all of us that Win 10 was moving away from support, I decided to format and install Ubuntu. I have lots of experience with Linux, so it was gonna be a piece of cake.
Wrong! To my great surprise Linux wouldn't load, even after trying three different versions of Linux. After doing a massive search on the internet, I finally found a post that said I should crack open the case and remove the Optane chip, which I did. Presto, Linux was loaded and working fine!
bloomingeek commented on Mobile carriers can get your GPS location an.dywa.ng/carrier-gnss.h... · Posted by u/cbeuw
I turned off all cell carrier tracking 5 years ago. 100% of it.
By canceling my cell phone subscription.
I know I know, I must be amish, I have heard it all. But I run two tech companies, travel, have a family, and do most of the things most around here probably do other than doom scrolling.
So much more time in my own head to think.
You could also turn your cell off/on as needed. Sure you can be "seen" when it's on, but when off, it's my understanding you can't.
bloomingeek commented on The WiFi only works when it's raining (2024) predr.ag/blog/wifi-only-w... · Posted by u/epicalex
Reminds me of an old joke:
European standard ball time?
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I watched S1,Ep2 yesterday. When Wallace took down a picture of a pink pig to open the wall safe and then took out a pink piggy bank, I almost lost it. Classic!
bloomingeek commented on Did a celebrated researcher obscure a baby's poisoning? newyorker.com/magazine/20... · Posted by u/littlexsparkee
> He asked Rieder about the case.
> “Oh, we made it up,” Rieder replied.
Interesting anecdote. Something to keep in mind.
This statement shocked me! These are professional people whose careers are on the line? It's no wonder many don't trust "experts" today, despite knowing almost nothing about the expert's field of knowledge. (I don't fall into this group, but I admit to being fearful of what highly educated humans are capable of.)
bloomingeek commented on Did a celebrated researcher obscure a baby's poisoning? newyorker.com/magazine/20... · Posted by u/littlexsparkee
Such a distressing yet believable story where ambition overtook integrity … I hope Lancet improves its handling of such case studies.
My motto has always been: "Don't let your car or your doctor get too old, they'll both kill you." Doesn't exactly apply to this case, but the idea is you have to trust something, so you must err on the side of caution.
I know a thousand more things about cars then I will ever know about doctoring, which scares the hell out of me.
Speed is a very dangerous thing when pulling any type of trailer and it always amazes me when I see a truck pulling one at break neck speeds and somehow thinking they can maneuver normally when someone causes a situation where they have to make a split second decision.