I am not sure they actually get paid to do more arrests. As far as I know, there are ticket quotas that can perversely incentivize traffic stops but they're in form of fines which does make money. Arrests, OTOH, are more likely to cost the department money.
It is a widely held belief in the US that the traffic cops are on a quota system, but every police force vociferously denies it. Arrests absolutely cost cash. Tickets bring it in.
For a while, there was a town along my commute that would have cops hidden under every overpass between the 20th and 23rd of each month like clockwork. So take the "we don't have quotas" thing with a grain of salt. ;)
The real advantage of Select Case True comes in the case where you have multiple conditions for where you want to execute same code (e.g. Case A, B: DoThis: Case C, D: DoThat: Case Else: MehWhateva) That would more efficient than a If A Or B Then ... ElseIf C Or D Then .... Else .... End If.
> The attackers then used Twitter’s internal systems to tweet from high-profile accounts like Mr. Biden’s.
Fun, Twitter can tweet in your name from the inside. That's good to know.
> Derrick Snyder, a meteorologist in Kentucky, said in a series of tweets that the National Weather Service could not issue warnings on Twitter about a tornado in Illinois because its account, one that the company had verified, was shut down.
Don't we have systems for issuing tornado warnings that don't rely on social media? Why wouldn't they issue through the normal channels, the let people post their own notices. :(
Twitter: We are in control of our shit. Trust us.
Public: Oh yeah? What about these bitcoin tweets?
Twitter: A one time security flaw we patched with more shit.
> ... the difference between out and ref parameters is not widely understood.
Based on my experience outs intent specifies that within the member call that variable will be assigned. Whereas ref is a reference that may-or-mayn't have already been assigned.
Out also mandates that the parameter must be assigned a value before it returns.
Is there anything else that Naive-Iven is missing?
The out type parameter is useful for the TryX(key, out value) paradigm. I did a quick test...passing an initialized variable as the out parameter is acceptable to the compiler...but I think there cannot be any assumptions made about the content/value of the parameter after the function returns...it will be set to something before the function returns.
Outside of a predicate function that wants to return additional information, I definitely prefer using value tuples.