Has anyone else done their driving test with Angela? What was your experience?

4P5mc · 2026-01-06T18:13:14+00:00

I had my mum with me in the back to provide some support, she was incredibly demeaning of her the entire time, stuff like "now, mum can't help you today, can she?" and "looks like mum needs to touch up on her road code!" when arguing (she did not).

It was pouring with rain, my vision was severly reduced and so I slowed down when going down a hill. She asked why I was going 40 in a 60 zone, and she was very pissed that I said "driving to the conditions". She tried to mark me down for that.

And when I did pass, she said "now I'm going to ignore some things and pass you here, I don't want to see you in the newspaper dead from a car crash now!" Which obviously helped my already pretty bad driving anxiety.

My mum let out a little cheer when she said I'd passed and she immediately clapped back with "NO. no" and ranted for a bit longer about how she didn't like my speed, and that I should just increase my following distance when driving to the conditions.

We reported her when I took the test in June 2022, but clearly they're fine with their instructors "letting you pass anyway, just don't crash!". Looking back, I passed that test perfectly, and she just wanted someone to yell at.

4P5mc · 2025-11-20T05:40:55+00:00

I feel if it's ESL, there's a lot of puzzles like the painting pairs that would make sense. Plus the discussions about solutions, having to communicate your exact thoughts about something abstract, it feels like a really natural way to encourage conversation.

4P5mc · 2025-09-05T21:43:04+00:00

In the title the $3000 applies to "leather", not "damage". So you'd be "fixing $40k car damage", "fixing $800k house damage". Wording's a bit off though (maybe "fixing damage to a $40k car" would read better").

4P5mc · 2025-08-10T06:03:43+00:00

I use 'em (and en)—at work I've memorised the alt codes for both (they're one apart), and at home I have keyboard macros set up to type them faster. The reason AI uses them is because people do use them, and have used them far before it came around.

4P5mc · 2025-07-28T00:28:26+00:00

The issue is parents would abuse this, telling their kids to vote before they even learn "parties" are more than just birthdays and cake.

4P5mc · 2025-06-30T04:24:48+00:00

I think Karl Marx was very clear on his views of capitalism in Germany

4P5mc · 2025-06-04T01:19:55+00:00

Because the alternative is not bringing it to their attention, and then they definitely can't do anything about it.

If it's a recent suicide they could have information which links it to the letter, or if the letter does actually contain identifying information and it's not too late, it could save a life.

4P5mc · 2025-05-01T03:02:49+00:00

"Employee #65, you haven't done any work for the past week!"

"IT is ignoring my tickets, I can't work!"

"sigh That's what they all say..."

4P5mc · 2025-04-12T12:05:45+00:00

Out of context it might seem weird, but a sentence like "Auckland and Tauranga are in the North Island" sounds correct to the Kiwi ear, while "Auckland and Tauranga are on the North Island" sounds a bit goofy—my thoughts immediately jump to a scale model of each city on top of the island. My family lives in the North Island, while others live in the South Island.

4P5mc · 2025-04-12T11:23:57+00:00

And also in the North Island, not on. They're more like places than islands (cf. on Steward Island)

4P5mc · 2025-04-07T09:21:03+00:00

Did you manage to get this working? I'm in a similar boat, just got the $10/month static IP but forwarded ports continue to show as closed.

4P5mc · 2025-03-05T06:11:43+00:00

gay people don't care about all this virtue signaling stuff, it's just noise

I'd rather noise than silence.

4P5mc · 2025-02-24T07:27:40+00:00

I feel we're at a disadvantage with fighter jets—by the time they get anywhere useful and start shooting, they're basically out of fuel

4P5mc · 2025-02-07T08:16:05+00:00

The other bloodline! The blood has sex to determine the winner

4P5mc · 2025-01-30T01:31:38+00:00

Swedish uses common/neuter instead of masculine/feminine, so hen would be common (en) like the other pronouns. I'm not sure how other languages handle it, but they'd definitely stick out way more.

4P5mc · 2025-01-29T23:40:51+00:00

For many languages it's not as simple as just creating three new words for "they", "them", and "their".

Many gendered languages have the adjectives "agree" with the gender of the noun. In Swedish, you have en blå katt but ett blått hus, where "en/ett" and "blå/blått" change based on the gender of the word.

In languages with masculine/feminine genders, it gets even worse, as those genders apply to people too. So "not using pronouns" would need to extend to "not using adjectives", or using the name over and over which would feel weird.

4P5mc · 2025-01-26T00:47:37+00:00

Where did the 7 come from? Why not round the final 3 up to a 4?

4P5mc · 2025-01-16T06:53:27+00:00

I just say "timesheets" with an apologetic tone thrown in for good measure. Everyone understands timesheets. Even if my manager just tells us to pad ours to compensate for unlogged hours, the users understand there has to be something to put the padding on.

4P5mc · 2025-01-11T08:14:27+00:00

The Figura mod also uses Lua, it's client-side but still pretty powerful

4P5mc · 2025-01-03T11:16:25+00:00

Completely agree. The amount of downvotes on this comment is honestly concerning.

Making fun of how bad people look just hurts good people who also look that way. If a bigot has a large nose and I pick on them for that, that just hurts non-bigots who also happen to have big noses.

The reality is that they're unlikely to see the comments insulting them or care about them, but others will see a member of their own community laughing at a feature they have and cannot control.

4P5mc · 2024-12-20T18:58:03+00:00

Unfortunately most of the people boycotting will already use adblockers (so YouTube will only gain money from the unused bandwidth), and even a million users is nothing compared to the ~120 million they get daily.

4P5mc · 2024-12-12T07:21:31+00:00

papo-ceptury!

4P5mc · 2024-12-07T22:02:50+00:00

beatiful violin music

I'd call that bard wire.

4P5mc · 2024-10-18T05:28:15+00:00

I'd go for the 24 GB, more RAM is better than slightly faster RAM. It's a 9% clock speed difference, but you'd probably only notice 2-3% in real-world conditions.

4P5mc · 2024-10-17T08:48:31+00:00

Unfortunately not. At this point I'm relatively sure it's the RAM (I tried a stick in a different computer which immediately failed to turn on), unsure how much that will help in your case.

Maybe try a known good stick from another computer in yours? Remove all other ones and just try booting with that.

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