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Rage wrote: den2k88 wrote: with the safety distances
Unfortunately, in my experience, if you leave the recommended safe distance then other cars overtake and fill the gap. If you then slow down to reopen the gap, another one fills it. If you took this to the limit, then you'd end up with the hand brake on!
I don't think that safe distances are still a part of the UK driving test. But, for us oldies ...
At x miles per hour
Reaction distance = x feet
Breaking distance = x * x / 20 feet
Safe distance = Reaction distance + Breaking distance
So, at 20 mph, safe distance = 20 + 20 * 20 / 20 = 40 feet
and at 70 mph, safe distance = 70 + 70 * 70 / 20 = 315 feet
(For the test, we just had to remember the answers, but I created the above formula which I found was easier to use than remembering a set of numbers)
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Interesting. Same using a real unit system and "our" formulas :
Driving at x 10km/h (= driving speed divided by ten)
Reaction distance = 3 * x meters
Braking distance = x * x meters.
20mph = 30km/h
So safe distance = 3 * 3 + 3 * 3 = 18m ( 40 feet = 12m, real value is 19m = 62feet)
70 mph = 110km/h
So safe distance = 3 * 11 + 11 * 11 = 33 + 121 = 154m (315 feet = 96m, real value is about 110m = 360 feet)
You guys tend to underestimate a bit. We overestimate quite a lot´.
But since nobody is never ever calculating this while driving, let alone being able to estimate a distance correctly, there is no use of this 
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Some more pedantry. 
den2k88 wrote: Defensive driving: remember that potentially in Italy you are the ONLY ONE doing so and all the others will do the opposite.
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That would be racist if it wasn't true 
My main problem was that I kept considering myself the less skilled driver on the road. The car crash taught me that this is not true, not always at least. Now I regard the surrounging vehicles as drivend by insane drunk monkeys until I have proof of the opposite (i.e. they are far away enough they don't represent a danger for me).
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Regarding that, I read a survey somewhere that 90% of the drivers consider themselves better than the average. 
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Jörgen Andersson wrote: Italy
Ah, I did not realize. Now that explains a lot ! Mama mia !
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A Volvo with a gun rack.
(Credit goes to the late Robin Williams).
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Turns out defensive driving is a way of driving to minimise risk from things that are not you designed by someone a long time ago.
I thought defensive driving was driving in a way so as to defend your space, defend your lane, block others from delaying you or taking the bit of road that should be yours.
Maybe the term as used over here is different to how it was originally defined and used elsewhere.
Or maybe I am just wrong.
Probably the second.
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When I took my motorbike test back in 2000 I was taught to ride defensively by understanding the following:
If a driver does not make eye contact with you they cannot see you.
Always assume that other drivers are about to do something that will endanger your life.
Ride in a manner where when another driver endangers your life you can get out of the way quickly, whether that is by accelerating or braking.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Defensive Driving means you give up your rights at every junktion or action while driving.
Foresighted Driving means you don't drive defensive, but you try to get the situation before someone else f***s up and in this case you would give up your rights.
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It's where da dude who's driving and, going into a yard, proclaims:
"De fence, I've hit it!
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Object Oriented..umm Meta-Data
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy.
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Persistent storage with (limited) error correction.
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Both as well as all of the above answers.
Sometimes it acts as instructions but at the same time it can be partly looked at like data I think.
Take for example when you look for genetic markers to identify disease. But maybe it isn't like data but rather instructions. And you look for malicious code. I don't know.
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More like BIOS - so it is software...
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Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Richard Dawkins has written about this at some length. He used a recipe and a blueprint rather than programming language and a database as his metaphors, but the point is the same: DNA is much more like instructions than it is like data.
See for instance this blog[^] (can't vouch for its quality, just googled quickly and superficially it looks relevant).
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It is the ROM! Everything comes stored in it including the programs and the data.
The sh*t I complain about
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Literal spaghetti code! 
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Many times I get a bit confused, how do I call women at work.
Girls
Ladies
Female
Women
I see most of the times, "Female" fits it right, but as a non-native speaker & a biology student once at schools, I tend to relate this more closer towards Biology. As in, "Forward the profiles of Female applicants"... [for Cloning? ].
"Girls" sound a bit teen-ish. Ladies & Women don't seem to fit the context well many times. And we are just left with "Female" word alone?
Just wanted to know if "Female" certainly feels alright, or it sounds a bit "biological" even for a native speaker?
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy.
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I guess it depends what you are talking about and to whom! 
You could also refer them/her as 'she', 'that bitch', 'a colleague', 'them'
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I've worked with plenty of blokes to whom the term 'bitch' could also be applied
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Haha, great workplace, hey?! 
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