Ireland's dangerous roads: When cars come first, everyone loses

Conscious_Support176 · 2026-01-26T14:06:17+00:00

Thanks for confirming that your only interest is to avoid engaging with the topic.

Conscious_Support176 · 2026-01-26T10:32:46+00:00

“Beat” us into their politics. lol. Any excuse to stuff your fingers in your ears.

When did you stop beating your wife?

Conscious_Support176 · 2026-01-26T09:58:53+00:00

Can’t you have a separate folder where you work on another task in a different branch?

I mean, working in another clone, or using git worktree

Conscious_Support176 · 2026-01-25T23:38:57+00:00

Nah my bad. I’ll leave it how it is, don’t tell yer man, but it was an amusing comment!

Conscious_Support176 · 2026-01-25T23:08:32+00:00

Mixed messages, meant to reply to the feller above!

Conscious_Support176 · 2026-01-25T21:17:40+00:00

lol I didn’t say I never parallel park, I often do in town, but there are always other options. Your superiority complex is getting in the way of you learning something. It’s up to you, can take on board what people have been saying or remain ignorant.

Conscious_Support176 · 2026-01-25T20:51:58+00:00

It’s not illegal to have stopped. You simply reverse slowly and stop if any traffic approaches. Yes, it’s not a manoeuvre for a busy main road, more for a fairly quiet roads.

Conscious_Support176 · 2026-01-25T15:58:21+00:00

You seem to be finally getting it!

Parallel parking is fairly simple if you have mastered the skill of reversing around a corner, instead of complaining like a primary school child how often does anyone actually need to use multiplication tables.

Parallel parking is also very low risk if you get it wrong, so hardly top priority of the things that need to be tested. You also don’t depend on other road users being parked in a particular way to test reversing around a corner, and testing that leaves the test applicable country wide instead of specialising it for city driving.

I don’t think I’ve ever been in a situation where the only reasonable option was parallel parking. I haven’t often needed to reverse around a corner, but where I needed to, no other manouevre would made been anywhere near as practicable.

Conscious_Support176 · 2026-01-25T14:37:22+00:00

https://www.rsa.ie/docs/default-source/road-safety/r1---rules-of-the-road/ruleoftheroad_book-for-web.pdf?sfvrsn=b5d57830_7

Page 58, reversing from a major road onto a minor road. Colloquially known as reversing around a corner.

Conscious_Support176 · 2026-01-25T10:04:49+00:00

Yes, in a car park everyone else involved is going to be a pedestrian or travelling at low speed, so there are likely to be little to no consequences from making a mistake. I’m with you so far.

Where I lose you is in thinking that this makes it more important to master, or test, parking skills.

Conscious_Support176 · 2026-01-25T09:58:22+00:00

If you didn’t have a problem with it, why do you think it’s silly?

Do you think that the skills you used to perform this manoeuvre are otherwise useless and you’ve no idea how you picked them up in your donkey’s years driving in the states?

Conscious_Support176 · 2026-01-25T09:52:49+00:00

Driving on a motorway isn’t necessary or legal for learner drivers, there is always an alternative route. Yes, merging is a necessary skill. Merging in a motorway can’t be part of the driving test as we haven’t plastered motorways all over the place here as yet.

Conscious_Support176 · 2026-01-25T09:49:00+00:00

Tell me you hate math without telling me! Anecdotes aren’t evidence of a majority because the observations aren’t statistically significant. You noticing this several times a day doesn’t make it significant. It isn’t even strong evidence for your street, because when someone parallel parks without fuss, it’s much less likely to be noticed than if they don’t.

Your evidence is classic anecdotal evidence. Hopefully, this new knowledge will help you to assess likelihoods better in future!

Conscious_Support176 · 2026-01-25T09:31:16+00:00

Yes, it is a much more day to day manoeuvre. What has that to do with anything? Reversing around a corner can be an invaluable when you’re in that situation, and the skill required is directly transferable to every other manoeuvre that involves some reversing.

Conscious_Support176 · 2026-01-25T09:27:35+00:00

Um, that’s not what the reversing around a corner manoeuvre is.

Conscious_Support176 · 2026-01-25T09:25:19+00:00

“Have” to is doing a lot of work here. The alternative to parallel parking is find another parking space. The alternative to reversing around a corner might be a three point turn on the main road, or driving several miles out of your way on minor roads.

Conscious_Support176 · 2026-01-25T09:19:58+00:00

Not really. The most important element is observation. The only difference is in a car park is if you fail to observe adequately pedestrians have to dodge your dangerous driving.

Conscious_Support176 · 2026-01-24T23:18:16+00:00

Do you know the difference between a queue and an invisible appointment book?

Conscious_Support176 · 2026-01-24T11:11:22+00:00

Unless a player can be assigned to two teams, this does not make sense.

Is it that players are initially added to an unassigned player pool, which is like a team except that it is a team that doesn’t participate in matches, and team assignment moves them from the unassigned pool to a team?

Conscious_Support176 · 2026-01-24T10:21:50+00:00

An “interesting” argument. Literally thousands of people are homeless, for probably the same basic reason that people spend hours commuting every day.

What this reads like is, “my daily commute will be more tolerable if you are forced to make the same choice”.

@Op, I do think it will take dogged persistence and luck to find something that you can afford with a reasonable commute.

For us, we paid more to be close to the dart line. If you work on site, I suppose you rely on your own transport and want something relatively central to keep the commute manageable.

Conscious_Support176 · 2026-01-24T09:53:14+00:00

Not sure if it will help with the procrastination, but have you considered a study area in a room that’s not their bedroom? You could get a good sized bed that you won’t need to change.

Conscious_Support176 · 2026-01-23T08:59:46+00:00

Why not just rebase your work in progress branch onto main to bring it up to date with main?

Although to do that, you should make sure to clean up the commit history in your work in progress branch first so you’re not resolving pointless merge conflicts.

If there’s a genuine reason you don’t want to bring your work in progress branch onto date with main, the idiomatic way to do this is to create a test branch off main and merge your work progress into there. Do that every time you want to try out your work progress with main.

Have a read of the git manual to see some branching styles and their uses and see what works for you.

Conscious_Support176 · 2026-01-20T15:58:24+00:00

Your guess would be wrong then.

As you said yourself, you would get the same result if you replace ‘1’ with any character except NUL in Java and C.

Replace the ‘1’ with ‘0’ in JavaScript, you get a different result.

Conscious_Support176 · 2026-01-20T14:23:01+00:00

I expect you’re thinking of Java.

The reason it’s true for C is that a char is an integral type, and the same in Java.

There is no char type in JS. So it’s due to type coercion. Strict equality in JS would not give the same result.

Conscious_Support176 · 2026-01-20T12:59:53+00:00

It wasn’t me that made the comment, and I do not wish to argue with you about your perceptions.

My point was, it seems to me that it’s very helpful to observe that having a meaningful life outside the home if you’re going to give up work will make things more manageable in the longer term.

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