lol these statuses always read like trembling balled up fists on a fat angry toddler

I believe it’s a holdover from older oven technologies. Like gas ranges with an always-on pilot light and manual gas on off pipe valves you were supposed to close before travel. IIRC those were the origin many historic city fires in dense housing, and the reason for a lot of current gas safety like the sulfur/bad-eggs additive that makes unburned gas an lot easier to detect.

But nowadays the worst that awaits those who return after forgetting the oven is generally… just a bigger utility bill instead of losing everything and maybe killing people.

Don’t forget the bread and the milk!

I suspect the user above you doesn’t care about that technicality. They’re just blaming victims for not being as virtuous as we are, which is small.

Scratch blow close 9/10. (With a personal mouse. Computer lab mice had clearly seen some things and needed the alcohol.)

Adding to the above, one of the challenges of GD is how to know whether the global optimum reported by the function isn’t just one of its many imposters (local optima). That’s the “big picture” he’s talking about. Working with Elon was a dead end.

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But is LTO next? Is AI coming for my tapes??

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Finally, the era of vibe command has arrived. WCGW?

Oh you mean the two-syllable thing. That was more for the joke lol

I think it works as a rule of thumb: if message is simple enough that context makes it obvious, two blinks will suffice. But no, it wouldn’t be useful as an actual lexical cypher.

LOL. Doesn’t that mean it’s completely ambiguous?

Well granted, it’s high-context communication. But I’m willing to bet you’d know what I meant if you were trying to merge and I double-tapped lights.

Three would make me wonder if it’s an ongoing flashing light.

Yeah IME three is less general, usually reserved for a problem or need for caution, like if someone is driving at night with all their lights out or a visible chassis/drivetrain issue, or there’s a cop/wreck ahead.

I’d certainly interpret it that way if it fit.

The only issue I’d see with that convention is that in many scenarios in which you’d use it — other driver makes room for you to merge, brakes early to let you turn left, and so forth — you (should) already have half of the hazard lights actively repeating, which could muddle the message. But otherwise I like it.

Another random convention I learned early on was rapid triple-tap beams (i.e., like a strobe) = “speed trap ahead”

Rock on. Were there any instances of local parlance you found peculiar or surprising?

(Edit: real answer) For most acknowledgements, I double-tap a light — beams, brakes, or hazards depending on current lighting conditions and relative position of other driver — because most things I would say to them are two beats long:

• “Thank you”
• ”Sorry”
• “My bad”
• ”Go on”
• ”Nice drift”
• ”You drunk?”

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Hmm, my RC400L only pings when IMSI catchers are detected. I think Flock camera alerts are still mostly driven by community gis databases.

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