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"none of the efforts have helped reduce the annual 4,000 reindeer road deaths"

https://apnews.com/general-news-801aa30308b24b459251c60d569d...


It doesn't follow that because the number didn't go down, that means the efforts did or didn't help. You need to think of the overall picture, are there other factors causing it to increase and would the number have been even higher without these efforts? The simple fact of the number not going down, doesn't really say much.

Have they had better luck with wildlife crossings since 2016?

https://transportation.libguides.com/c.php?g=849313&p=607536...


Slowing speeds would work

I don't know reindeer but white tailed deer, possums, raccoons, rabbits, and nocturnal birds don't care how fast you're going. As someone else mentioned, you can be stopped and they'll run into your vehicle.

None of these animals instincts prepared them for the cacophony and lightshow of transportation. Everyone doing 15mph might solve 90% though, but I'll let that be your running platform.


But lower speeds do make crashes a lot less deadly. Probably also less probable, as people have more time to react

The target group may well be strongly biased towards failures resulting in children born. Using birth control for, well, being in control. And we lack data on how bad messing with RAR regulation really is.. too much confounding effects from how bad deficiency & over-supplementation are on the mother.


Android ships a feature called bootchart which you can use to prove that most of the time your phone spends booting.. it is actually far from bottlenecked on storage or compute - bugs to be fixed; not worked around with even more complexity. Heck, some phones do not even stop playing their vendors fancy animated logo when they are finished before the animation is.


Does it take into consideration thermal and power? Doing too much too quickly can be bad for both, so sometimes it's worthwhile to go slower.


>pop-ups that let users reject tracking

No pop-up is needed to reject what is already banned union-wide. Therefore, a banner that is trying to collect my explicit+specific+informed+voluntary consent to partially lift that ban is not a "pop-up that lets users reject". Its a "pop-up that lets users surrender" some of their rights & freedoms.


Is there an opt-in for sharing such analytics/telemetry/statistics/insights (or whatever the euphemism treadmill is at now) -- or did all customers "consent" to this simply by using private settings "used by at least 20 users"?


Why should this require opt-in? I don’t see anything wrong with publishing interesting statistics.


I'm not seeing a way to opt-out on any settings page


Content that kind of looks like technical docs, but without linking authoritative sources, date when it was last reviewed, software it was verified against etc.

Nowadays with AI slop websites all over the place, plus formerly legitimate newspapers not attributing sources & edits either, this may not seem that special. But w3schools earned their reputation when that was exceptionally rude. Also, straight up wrong all over the place. But that is more of a symptom. And to be fair a lot of the software back then was straight up wrong, too. Tough job documenting the reality of the WWW correctly while IE was around.


It does align with industry standards: I am now getting dehumanized by Google after three searches including inurl or site filters.


Google started aggressively mark visitors who go beyond the default results page with 10 results. They bulk together advanced users with bots.


Well, that makes sense; when you do that you're stealing from Google and or their advertisers.


Before StackOverflow pivoted towards "AI", community-moderating dupes was definitely one of the best features. Of course, it only works with humans acting like humans - judging by word similarity only will not suffice to bring the intended benefit for all users.


In German language (kwT) remains reasonably common. "kein weiterer Text" = no further content. Often still duplicated in the body, because people read their messages on all sorts of funny devices / in all sorts of funny clients.

Even better than any such marker: Rearranging so the acronym (e.g. LGTM, NAK, ASAP) or greeting/valediction is the last word, ticking off both the formalities and the EOM marker simultaneously.


This has been going on for so long, other parties feel justified in their similar decisions. E.g. try this accessible-for-some-browsers search result page behind the fastly "Client Challenge": https://pypi.org/search/?q=pip


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