some of the bike lanes in my city are divided by those stupid retroreflective plastic things and a mini-curb on the ground which just makes driving more stressful even when there isn't a cyclist and makes it annoying for both parties
Here cyclists are treated the same as cars and other vehicles, but sometimes they decide to go from "I'm a car" to "I'm a pedestrian" when it suits them
bike lanes should be grouped with pedestrians because cars have the least control, and also the danger level of a bike-to-pedestrian collision is WAY lower than a car hitting a bike
so in order to turn right you must cross the bike lane and be careful not to have the habit of not checking your blind spot when you keep right into a new lane
in ontario we can take a G1 test at 16, and the G1 license lets us drive with an accompanying person who has had a G license for at least 4 years, and a year after having the G1 (or 8 months if you went to a certified driving school) you can take the G2 test, which lets you drive alone (but you still must be accompanied to go on a highway), and within 5 years of getting the G1, you can take the G test which gives you the full license
So long as you have a provisional license (which you can get at 16 by filling out a government form), you can take the written test, then, if you pass, you can take the practical test
@hyper-neutrino Here, you can get a provisional license at 16, then start learning and take a test at 17. If you have a provisional license, you can drive supervised by a driver who is 21+ and has a license for 3+ years. you can't drive on moterways tho. Once you've turned 17, you can take the theory and practical tests. Pass both and you get a full license
fastest i've gone is 120 kph because it would've been dangerous to go slower. the speed limit was 90 btw, but traffic around me was going so fast that being slower would've been more dangerous
imagine just being able to casually drive into so many other countries. it takes around 2 hours to get to the next country and then it'd take well over a day to be able to get to another country after that
@hyper-neutrino I drove from Austria to the UK in one day back in February, which went through 6 countries (Austria, Lichtenstein, Switzerland, Germany, France, UK)
@cairdcoinheringaahing the scale of things really is different. i fell asleep on a highway when we were on vacation in arizona once and i woke up like an hour later and we were still on the same highway and maybe passed like a city or two
after getting onto the straight part of the ramp accelerating from like 40 all the way up to 90+ feels really weird
the other reason i need to go so fast is cuz otherwise i can't get onto the highway because i need to be at least as fast as the traffic in the rightmost lane, and that's already the slowest lane, which is going at like 100-110
honestly yeah. i almost got into a crash a bit ago cuz a car was coming up on an intersection with its right blinker and slowed down so i was about to turn right (red)
If you imagine that every other driver is a toddler whose never driven before, then you become much better at handling the times that other drivers behave like toddlers :P
fortunately my mom noticed that they weren't actually turning they just slowed down at the intersection for literally no reason and never turned their right blinker off for the entire time
@cairdcoinheringaahing yeah. i mean granted, just cuz someone has their signal on doesn't mean they're gonna turn (opposite isn't i think) so it is technically my fault
in any case. the only way to avoid danger is to be careful yourself. you can never trust other people to do stuff right :P
my parents apparently were driving up a hill once (in the US, i think well before i was born) and someone on the opposite side was passing so they ended up just barely being able to avoid crashing with three cars in two lanes squeezing just past each other. really hate people as idiotic as that
@hyper-neutrino here they have put in so many roundabouts that do not by any means need to exist and every one of them has been some kind of multi year project despite each of the roads being one lane in each direction
@UnrelatedString roundabouts are just rather unsafe IMO especially for pedestrians and cyclists so like traffic light intersections are just way better
they tried putting roundabouts in the neighborhood where i used to live, replacing the 2-way stop signs, just to slow traffic down. it didn't go too well when school buses tried turning left and found that roundabouts of that size are... impossible to go around as a long school bus...
also people kept turning left. i don't know if they went through with it or removed them but it was just a huge waste of time and money
roundabouts are great on like medium-large roads not a single one of these roundabouts is on a medium-large role and there are a ton of prdestrians and cyclists around here
we also have some awful traffic lights but that is a different problem
honestly IMO roundabouts that aren't like large 3+ - lane traffic circles with a lot of exits don't make sense especially when both directions are busy
another thing i hate - buses when i'm biking. they are faster than me so they will pass me if i'm ahead of them by only a bit, but then they will stop at each stop for long enough such that their average distance covered is actually lower than mine. so i end up having to stop behind it a lot and usually i'll just find another route or bike on the sidewalk/trail to avoid having to stay behind it and dealing with exhaust
which isn't that safe especially since my route home from school went right near the university where the trails have a lot of people, so often i'd end up just having to deal with it until the bus gained sufficient distance
unless someone with something on-topic shows up it'll probably keep going for a while until something interesting derails it or we go off on some tangent and forget about the original conversation :P
cars, driving, and roads tend to bring about some strong opinions especially since a lot of it involves the city's choices and thus the government :P
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also, we still need to discuss the tour page's featured question - fibonacci sequence still cannot be featured, and there are a couple of things that need to be discussed, changed, considered, etc
since this is a much quicker change, i'll get this up first and get a consensus and change it. after it's a bit less active i'll bring up the topic of the featured question again on meta
might require a CM to force edit it, and there are several potential issues with that too
maybe we should set up a room or some channel to prioritize and coordinate getting quality feedback to new users so they don't get a poor impression of the sandbox. not sure how practical smth like that could be
Should we make a meta post about this?
It seems like a good idea to me
(and we should totally call it the Guild of Reviewers)
@cairdcoinheringaahing catija said that she could probably do that though she'd need to go talk with some other people to confirm that. the thing is the formatting might not work out well if we use a question that isn't formatted to their restrictions
also, the other thing is the brainfuck answer; we've already had complains about putting "fuck" on HNQ before, we should probably avoid bad impressions on the tour page. there might be a way for them to block that if they're going to manually edit anyway, and it's also not like the tour question actually has a link to the question itself
i already talked to her in TL about that exact question; the main issue is just the bullet points, which i can probably edit out if needed, but more so the headers that pretty much all CGCC answers have, which isn't allowed
idk what the selection criteria is for answers. the current accepted answer cannot be selected due to length, so the system will automatically select a valid answer and pretend that's the accepted one
i mean, i could always select another question in the meantime until we figure out how to get this one working, like codegolf.stackexchange.com/q/209579/68942 or smth
ah, fuck. the criteria will select the brainfuck answer...
catija did mention that we might want to avoid a question with "brainfuck" as an answer even though it is a legit language name since it might not be ideal to show on the tour (paraphrased), and another mod did also agree with that, but i'm undecided
if you're going to use CGCC, you're going to see a fair amount of that anyway. censoring it from the tour might give the wrong impression that we actually care to censor it, lol
IIRC code blocks are actually generally disallowed too. We have an exception for that
actually, we also have an exception for question length, which catija kindly helped me with. the question, post-render, can only have up to 400 characters in it. ours is, as of recently, 800, just so i can get this question up
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What I wouldn't give to go to SE HQ, book like a 2 hour meeting and just go over with a member of the dev team every minor change I'd like them to make for CGCC
If I was at my computer I'd dupe hammer this as solutions to the 3rd linked challenge can be trivially modified to output the sum instead of the product. — Shaggy1 hour ago
That's 2 different users who want to dupe hammer a question as a dupe of 2 different tasks :P
I personally think this can stand as a challenge of its own because of the summation formula allowing a lot of non-golfing answers to do clever things with it.
If enough people think it should be, it will, but I personally (right now) disagree with closing it.
granted, submissions from that one can be trivially ported to add instead of multiply. but the positive restraint here and the summation formula allow new answers such that not all answers are trivial modifications from the old one
On the other hand, I don't want a bunch of "do x and sum" challenges that are dupes of previous "do x and product" challenges, justified by this one staying open
arnauld's buffer is too small to hold that much code in it. that's also why his code is so well-golfed all the time - to fit within his brain's internal JS interpreter's buffer :P
(Thanks to Redwolf Programs for the name!)
In a recent discussion about the info box and linking to the Sandbox for new users to use it before attempting to post their first challenge, we noted that sometimes the Sandbox can be unpleasant to use, especially for new users, as things get forgotten ...
i can't tell if organizing this much meta activity recently is making me more tired or excited - on one hand it's great to see more community events and organized changes to the site, but especially since stuff isn't as easy to do on SE as i'd like it and i have to keep communicationg stuff with TL and whatever other complications keep happening, it's hard to imagine how hard mods on more active sites must have to work
maybe i should heed jnat's advice more - keep my activity a bit more stable instead of going off on random bursts of motivation, just to avoid all chances of experiencing mod burnout
@RedwolfPrograms wait is there actually no easily available JS API/framework/whatever to just like
make requests and keep cookies, lol.
if it's a chat bot and not a feed i'd be willing to work on one, though you probably have it covered anyway. there's a python module that i stole from caird's OSP that does work, so i could build it off of that, unless you already have something else to work with
