I’m not angry. I’m deeply disappointed.

E-mail is the original fediverse!

If only it worked like that in practice everywhere. It’s a pretty addictive revenue stream, and the district is incentivized to bend the rules to collect their money.

Of course, I write this from the US, which is currently at critical levels of internal corruption, so this could be a factor.

💯 A better solution through design instead of applying a technological Band-Aid.

In my town, the red light cameras tend to cause drivers to slam on the brakes when the light changes. The equipment is often owned by a third-party that loans it to the city and places stipulations like very short light times to produce more profit.

It does look like there’s significant evidence that speed traps do improve safety.

I much prefer speed traps to red light cameras that are often predatory and don’t make intersections safer.

There are models that predict precipitation amounts and river/lake stage (level), yes, but usually it’s up to the lead meteorologist to make the call after reviewing those models combined with their experience with the situation. Precip rate is also an output of some forecast models that is considered when issuing an advisory. These models consume huge amounts of data that influence the output prediction in complex, chaotic ways. Better quality data can often produce better forecasts and lead to better decisions but whether or not the specific event would have had a better outcome is harder to answer.

That’s a very difficult question to answer. I don’t work there but I studied meteorology and I’m a volunteer for a forecast office. They take in so many data sources that serve as input into forecast models and humans. The qualify of the data has dropped, but which data exactly could have made a difference would be difficult or impossible to pinpoint. It’s possible better quality data would have helped, but we don’t know for sure.

South Carolina

Again, their weird obsession with children.

That’s because it is the army that they intend to use against their own people.

I had an internship 15 years ago where I was forced to write C++ with no internet access. I had to use a programming manual and man pages.

As a remedy, the NHSTA’s recall report notes, Nissan and Infiniti dealers will inspect the engine pan of these-now recalled cars — and repair or replace the engine if necessary.

But your shit quality process already admits that failure is progressive. What are you going to do for customers who get a failure years later because of your bad manufacturing?

Answer: nothing!

I love how in this timeline you can’t say it wasn’t ICE.

It’s just easier to be openly corrupt in this brave new country.

It’s content like this that I hope poisons AI.

I think it’s the economic cratering rather than simple preferences at work here.

US dollar to zero speed run.

They didn’t care about them before either. It was just an excuse to perform horrible cruelty all along.

Employer: Skills shortage! (At the low wages I’m willing to pay.)