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Sydney motorcyclist caught sppeding[^]
So they checked his helmet mounted dash cam ... and added extra offences.
Fines total: AU$75,000. 
That's US$54,000, or £40,000.
Might have to save up for a while to pay that one ...
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I saw a warning in the press here some while ago warning drivers that police can and will examine dashcams to check for offences.
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You do kinda expect it - or I would. But leaving 41 other offences on there for a £40K fine is ... dumb. 
You have to wonder what that is going to do to his insurance premium for a few decades as well!
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If he can't afford the fine(s) he's getting, being able to afford his insurance premium should be the last of his worries.
And I don't have much sympathy for anyone in that situation.
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OriginalGriff wrote: leaving 41 other offences on there for a £40K fine is ... dumb.
Such individuals are rarely noted for their high IQs. 
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Right! I’ve NEVER known any really smart people who drive like dickheads. Never! /sarc
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The article did say $75000 was the total of the combined fines and that he most likely will get a much lower one.
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It's the "1 x Breach Public Health Order" that has me worried / confused ... what was he doing? 
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Stopped in an alley to "relieve" himself perhaps?
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It's Australia - probably wasn't wearing a face diaper.
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So the key is to swap memory cards on a daily basis and clear them before reusing them. Got it. I do have a question about self-incrimination though. Does this apply in Australia?
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You might want to delete this comment. If you ever do get pulled over with a dash cam and freshly blanked memory cards it'll be treated as your confessing to destruction of evidence.
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23yo learner, he is a bit slow as most of us got our licences at 17! The health order was probably for breaking lockdown rules as NSW has had some really draconian restrictions.
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OriginalGriff wrote: That's US$54,000, or £40,000.
On their territory, yes.
At that price, I'd prolly add some extra expense/offense too.
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If this happened to me in the USA, I would invoke the Fifth Amendment: The amendment in the Constitution that protects you against self-incrimination. That should work, should it not?
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I dunno - but I doubt it. Wouldn't it be classed the same a you being stopped for running a stop sign, and the officer noticing a bong on the passenger seat?
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Yes! You are probably right!
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you'd think I'd be better at making it accessible to other developers.
That is the part of coding where I really struggle, and one of the reasons why I tend to write here, to try and improve that.
One of the problems is the size of functions in my code, a byproduct of some limitations of mine due to a head condition I live with - and yeah it impacts my coding. On the other hand I don't struggle with functions that have a high cognitive burden attached to them. Where most people might break a problem down into its component parts in order to solve it, I tend to solve it as a unit. Personally, I understand the advantage to breaking problems down, but half the time it's done simply because the author didn't fully understand the problem when they started attacking it, but I digress. My functions are longer because I have trouble keeping track of things that are offscreen. I need to work with what's right in front of me or I almost immediately forget what I was working on, or at least important details of how to work with it. I can write a function and a minute later (not exaggerating) forget how to call it, and while it happens to most of us occasionally, it happens to me constantly. It's part of the nature of that condition I live with. So I try to keep the entire problem onscreen in front of me.
That leads to functions with high cognitive load, and sometimes difficult to decipher code, at least for others, but I find my own code easy to understand precisely because of all the stuff I was just talking about. With other people's code, the more it's broken out, the *less* I understand it, and I'm not talking about layers of abstraction necessarily, but simply dividing a problem into different functions and classes confounds me.
What do you struggle with?
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Obviously i struggle with KISS, because what i feel is easy to read might not be for everyone.
This especially hits if you use pretty fancy functionality of coding that someone hasn't seen yet.
In my WPF area that's even more aweful since people tend to look into the View.xaml.cs file, to find it empty.
Or one of the external collegues that did the fancy as hell s**t but nobody could read, nor understand it, so i had to rework that to a pattern well known.
Regarding SOC or breaking down problems, my approach is to solve the issue inside one function and as soon as i have to reuse parts of it i break them down, or if i want to add some good bunch of unit tests.
So i'd say i won't deny fancy code but i also prefer to know whats going there.
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See, I look at that and I immediately know what's going on. That's part of the problem. I can't really gauge my own code's readability because of things like that. Break that out into a couple of functions if you want to encrypt it from me though.
EDIT: hahaha I was looking at your sig and thought that was what you were talking about with your final sentence. mea culpa
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modified 30-Nov-21 10:51am.
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HobbyProggy wrote: Regarding SOC or breaking down problems, my approach is to solve the issue inside one function and as soon as i have to reuse parts of it i break them down, or if i want to add some good bunch of unit tests.
What does SOC stand for?
Regardless, I break down functions in much the same way as you. I don't have a problem with long ones. But I'll break a fragment out if it exists elsewhere and can therefore be shared, which means the code can slowly evolve into lots of small functions. If it can't be shared, I'll break it out if it definitely simplifies the flow of control. And because I greatly favor tests that are broader than unit tests, unit tests don't influence the decision.
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