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  • Unpredictable things happen at that speed.

    Forget about braking distance. The reaction time is the difference between life and dying before you even know it.

    I know of one example where a motorcyclist killed himself that way. Nobody knows how fast he was going but it’s assumed above 250 km/h, on a regular highway. Down the road is a cross section. A lorry was fully stopped at the crossing and preparing to turn right onto the highway in the same direction as the motorcycle. The lorry driver checked both directions and saw that the road was completely clear as far as the eye could see, hundreds of meters.

    A split second later he heard a bump and pulled over to check if he had hit an animal or something. He found a massive hole in the back and the debris from a motorcycle. There was no brake marks or anything indicating that the motorcycle had even attempted to brake or steer around. The theory is that the motorcyclist might have glimpsed at the speedometer or something for long enough that he drove the entire visible distance before being able to even react.

    Obviously he was a fault himself, but the point is that at speeds like this, you no longer have any capability to predict what happens next.

    If your friend thinks that cool, he might as well play Russian roulette. At least that doesn’t put innocent people in danger.









  • Let me get this straight. You’ve disabled gestures in Android to use the buttons, but also want gestures for Android inside the app instead of the gestures that the app provides and instead of using the back button that you just deliberately summoned for that purpose?

    Okay it’s possible. I think you’d need to disable the gestures in the app, and then find a way to customize the Android system gestures to work how you want them. That is phone dependent.

    But. To be brutally honest: Learn to use the system edge gestures. It takes a day or two to get used to, but then you’ll never miss the buttons or get frustrated with apps that work as intended ny default. Surely this must also be an issue in all other apps that use on screen gestures.




  • I’ve read a lot of stories about it, because I’m a fan of the game and also used to dabble in assembly myself. His motivation isn’t as crazy as it’s often presented.

    He used assembly because he had always programmed in assembly on a variety of hardware. He basically had every typical function documented or memorized from other projects. Just as any programmer can remember the statements in a language, he had blocks of assembly code that he could put together to do the same things. Like functions, right? If it’s made right and you know what it does, then you don’t even need to look at what’s between the brackets.

    At the time he wrote RCT, he simply couldn’t be bothered to start a new collection of scripts in a different language.



  • The idea that you’re suggesting is called union busting. It only works in USA and very few sectors in Europe where sector agreements are not mandatory by law.

    I’d argue that it also doesn’t work in USA, since the companies end up spending more money on avoiding an agreement than what they’d save on salaries. They also waste a lot of time and resources on the individual bargaining, which provides no value for neither the company or the employee.

    If the employers pay people more to not join a union, the union might even say: “Mission achieved without a fight. See ya’ll next time inflation catches up.”


  • because of pay incentives to leave the union

    I believe you missed the part about how the employers negotiate. They don’t. Their union does. A single employer can pay all the money it wants to its own employees to make them quit the union, but the employer is still bound by the agreement that is made on their behalf by all the other companies in the same employer union. They will never be able to agree to pay off an entire sector to do what you suggest, because these companies are competitors. Unlike the businesses that are competing in a race to the bottom by lowering wages, the companies that have union agreements are competing in a race to attract the best employees. It’s not uncommon for businesses to pay more or give better terms than the union agreement describes. That is their edge against their competitors. The only businesses interested in “escaping” the minimum pay are the unsuccesful bottom feeders.


  • Technically, yes, on paper, they do expire, gets cancelled and renewed every 2-3 years.

    In practice, no. They can’t not be renewed. If the employees don’t accept the agreement there will be a strike, and if the employers don’t accept the agreement they can make a lock-out. If the strike or lock-out leads nowhere, and society comes to a halt, the government can sign a law to require the work to resume on previous terms.

    The individual employer has no more say in the negotiations than an individual employee. The negotiations happen between the employer union and the employee union.

    Keep in mind that some companies actually want to have a union agreement. It’s really only the most unprofessionally run and privately owned companies who believe they can somehow save money from not having a proper agreement with their employees.

    Professionel companies focus on making money instead of wasting resources fighting their own employees.