Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[Velderan]

In South Carolina, for example, the law behind the "slow traffic keep right" signs is actually "no leftmost lane unless passing (barring congestion etc...)". So, paralleling someone in the lane to your right is in fact often illegal even if you are going the speed limit.

I wonder if that legally prevents 2 semi trucks going under the speed limit from having the slowest drag race ever as the one in the left lane seemingly goes 1 MPH faster than the guy in the right lane for a couple mile stretch of 2 lane highway until the left lane truck finally gets far enough ahead to safely move back into the right lane.

 

[Cadence]

The three places that always amaze me in terms of there not being miles of crashes on a continuous basis...

Where Chicago-land rules (left lane usually open and holy !?! how fast was that car in it going) hit northern Wisconsin ethos (I'll drive five under in the left lane if I want) somewhere around the 39-90-94 complex.

Pittsburgh, where there are apparently some drivers who learned in Chicago and still do it around blind urban curves on hills.

Route 1 in California. All I know is that if you plopped a bunch of South Carolina drivers down there the ocean would be littered with cars at the bottom of the cliffs. (SC seems to periodically have debates of how to stop cars from going across the thirty feet of grass separating one direction on the interstate from the other. Like, are trees enough, or are those too dangerous for the person who accidentally veers left off the road at speed).

 

[Cadence]

I wonder if that legally prevents 2 semi trucks going under the speed limit from having the slowest drag race ever as the one in the left lane seemingly goes 1 MPH faster than the guy in the right lane for a couple mile stretch of 2 lane highway until the left lane truck finally gets far enough ahead to safely move back into the right lane.

Legally I am not sure. In practice it sure doesn't stop it. :-(

 

[payn]

It's funny how even just traveling 1 state away can make a difference there. We drove to Mount Rushmore in June and pretty much as soon as we crossed into South Dakota from Minnesota, people would largely stick to the right lane unless they were actively passing someone. We really didn't see a lot of people hanging out in the left lane beyond that.

MN folks still are not used to it. We only had the right lane law for a few years now.

 

[prabe]

MN folks still are not used to it. We only had the right lane law for a few years now.

I find that when I drive cross-country, my habits change--often arguably for the better. It sometimes takes a while for them to change back after I get back to Maryland.

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

All my life I have overheard, all my life I have listened to what people will let slip when they think you are part of their we. A we is so powerful. It is the most corrupt and formidable institution on earth. Its hands are full of the crispest and most persuasive currency. Its mouth is full of received, repeating language. The we closes its ranks to protect the space inside it, where the air is different. It does not protect people. It protects its own shape.
-Abraham Locutus Lincoln


....It's not cheery, but it's cheerier than, "I have no mouth, and I must scream." So there's that.

 

[Scribe]

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3rd call of the day, 4th will be the same.

Client: "This configuration has been stable for a decade, I just discovered a flaw. I am very surprised it has had a flaw for a decade!"

Me: "So bear with me, but if it worked for a decade, is the flaw in the configuration or your understanding?"

Hmm?

 

[dbolack]

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3rd call of the day, 4th will be the same.

Client: "This configuration has been stable for a decade, I just discovered a flaw. I am very surprised it has had a flaw for a decade!"

Me: "So bear with me, but if it worked for a decade, is the flaw in the configuration or your understanding?"

Hmm?

Could be both.

I once ran into a brain-numbing uninitialized strings issue when uplifting from 32 bit to 64 bit libraries that never triggered in the previous decade because... No idea. The folks who wrote the code woulda failed a 101 class because the (&)&( compiler they used before porting to this platform had a nonstandard/nonrequire behavior of ensuring memory was zeroed out before allocation.

 

[Scribe]

Could be both.

I once ran into a brain-numbing uninitialized strings issue when uplifting from 32 bit to 64 bit libraries that never triggered in the previous decade because... No idea. The folks who wrote the code woulda failed a 101 class because the (&)&( compiler they used before porting to this platform had a nonstandard/nonrequire behavior of ensuring memory was zeroed out before allocation.

Certainly could be both, but as I sit through this call, the client clearly doesn't grasp the relationship between the various components. For a system they have been using for 10+ years.

There is no issue that's just surfaced, it's more "we are in the guts of this, and now we want to change scope" and the next call has my favorite.

"I understand nothing, but my assumptions are not met, I am shocked!"

I also slept very poorly last night, so today is a trial.

 

[MoonSong]

The trouble here on the west coast (and elsewhere, I'm sure) is that most people see the sign that reads, "slow traffic keep right" and conveniently misinterpret it as "traffic moving slower than me keep right." That's not what the sign says, but certain people insist otherwise.

Sorry, Crash Bandicoot. Vehicles traveling the speed limit are not "slow traffic," and your sense of urgency does not override the posted speed limit.

I normally go to the speed limit. Very often I find myself being tailgated by a truck -and it is almost always a luxury truck or SUV- and when I move out of the way, they accelerate to 80 or over 90 mph. (The upper limit in the city is 50) Really, some people have a cause, some just want to see the world burn, and some just don't give a damn...