There's nothing on that page that says the speed limit is the 85% percentile of the traffic flow. It states quite clearly that 'Statutory speed limits are established by State legislatures for specific types of roads (e.g., Interstates, rural highways, urban streets) and can vary from State to State. They are enforceable by law and are applicable even if the speed limit sign is not posted' and 'Posted speed limits (sometimes called regulatory speed limits) are those that are sign-posted along the road and are enforceable by law.'

Those speed limits are initially set based on the design speed of the road, then later they can be assessed and possibly modified based on a number of factors including the 85% percentile you referenced, however' 'The 85th percentile speed is not the only factor practitioners evaluate when determining an appropriate speed limit; they complete engineering speed studies and often utilize supporting tools like USLIMITS2.'

Critically though, none of this means you can just drive at the prevailing speed of the traffic if it's above the statutory or posted limit and not be considered to be speeding. The 85% percentile may be used to set the speed limit, but when it's set, it's the law.

100 myths. Perfect.

Oh God, is everyone looking at me weird when I drink soda wrong?

If you're not holding it in the crook of your elbow, lifting your arm, and pouring it onto your outstretched tongue, then at least one of us is doing it wrong, and I think it's you, and everyone is silently judging you for your weird way of drinking. They don't drink with their elbows probably because they don't want to embarass you.

Perfect, he gets to make a big fuss for the racists, but doesn't actually have to change anything. That way there's less risk of breaking anything, and he's probably looking for a win right now.

It's a bit like decreeing that all English week day names must henceforth end in the letter 'y'. It's low risk, makes certain people think you're busy taking action, and leaves everyone else wondering what you're up to with this, taking some of the heat off of other issues.

I'm not going to say that sort of thing doesn't happen, they undoubtedly do, but in places where the rules don't permit speeding, just because everyone else is, the problem self corrects. If too many motorists exceed the limit, the police have a field day ticketing as many as they can, and the situation reverts to people driving at the limit.

That does take setting the limits appropriately, constant enforecement that can be scaled up, a certain margin of error being accepted so everyone doesn't have their eyes glued to the speedo, and the understanding and acceptance from motorists that the rules are fair and there for a reason. Absent any one or more of those, and things will inevitably turn into a racetrack again. Fortunately, much of the management and enforcement is usually local, so political pressure applied locally can often help correct issues.

Hey, I didn't get banned (yet), I just prefer the vibe here.

This is an interesting prompt. Critically it seems like you definitely aren't omnipotent, so whilst you can try to influence and teach the new inhabitants, there's nothing stopping them simply ignoring you and doing something else.

Rather than some wanting to just not contribute, I'd be more concerned by a group deciding to focus their efforts on building weapons and simply taking what they want from others.

Fully automated luxury gay space communism is certainly an ideal, but it is extremely vulnerable to hostile forces until it gets large enough and willing enough to excert eqivalent force in return. Hostile forces can be military, ideological, or resource limit based. Responding to all of those, is a massive challenge.

I knew there was such a thing as slicing your shot in golf, I didn't know it meant that!

It'd be pretty trivial to do the same here, 1700 or so comments over 'several months', is less than 25 a day. No need even for bot posting, have the LLM ingest the feed, spit out the posts and have the intern make accounts and post them.

They wouldn't be driving slowly, they'd be driving at the posted limit. If the limit for the road is wrong, and other people are ignoring it, that is a separate issue that needs dealing with.

It really grinds my gears when people complain about others driving at the posted limit (and, to be fair, I do it too sometimes, but I try to catch myself). You either think the limit is reasonable, in which case there isn't actually a problem, or you think it's wrong, in which case the driver isn't the problem, the limit is. In that case rather than grousing about other drivers actually take action to have the limit changed. That goes just as much in areas where the limit is too high.

Anyway, rant over, I shall take a couple of deep breaths.

It's not for him, it's for everyone who had to survive.

Well, that's just bleak.

The way I look at it, parent processes know they will outlast their children unless they deliberately turn them into daemons, traditionally by double forking them. Daemons live on, even when the parent dies.

You don't want 'em too elastic, or they ping off and get lost under the cupboard.

SIGKILL again? That implies it's been KILLed before and either survived, or come back. Either way, we don't like zombie processes in these parts.

/me fetches the really big process remover/cattle prod.

"I am mighty hunter! I kill it! I kill it with my teefs!"

One might hope he's giving out free samples, but these things are rarely as convenient as that.

Steady on Satan, they're only a credit card company! They're bad, but not that bad!

If you're used to markdown in Obsidian, you could look at vimwiki to use a similar syntax in vim. I find it works fairly nicely for standard notetaking, and is a lot faster to start than Obsidian.

Rather than a platform, I've been wondering if you could rig it so opening the box opens some holes on the bottom, so they think they dodged the worst of it, pick it up to dispose of it and get a desk full from underneath.

That's a fair observation, but I assume they're trained to deal with suspicious packages safely, and that stuff will get transfered throughout the whole building and make everyone's lives that bit more 'special'. It'll still hit the bottom line too.