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You're supposed to wind the tape around the pencil and eat it like spaghetti.

It’s like how IT people don’t trust printers.

Ignorance is strength.

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

E-mail is the original fediverse!

No worries. In new vehicles, the paperwork says you have a license to use the Software that drives the car rather than ownership.

You do own the physical parts though for now.

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.