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When changing lanes or turning you are supposed to use the turning signal before doing the manouver. The turning signal is supposed to warn other drivers that you are going to do something. It doesn’t make any sense to use the turning signal when already mid-turning or while already changing lanes. Many drivers don’t seem to know that.

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American cars having their brake lights and turn signals be the same light is stupid and dangerous.

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I think we know that.

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Not voting doesn’t stop an election.

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Things you will need to operate while driving your car shouldn’t have touch screen controls.

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I dont drive yet, but I imagine not having tactile controls while driving can sometimes even be dangerous.

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I intentionally sought out a used vehicle with haptic menu controls. It pissed me off when I realized there was no point of having it, because the UI still locks me out of most of the interface when I am not completely stopped.

It seems like the next generation just entirely gave up on the concept of safety.

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Next generation? We don’t want it either. We’re being pushed features we don’t need or want

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I mean the next generation of vehicles (and since I bought used, that’s also a generation ago)

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Do even get me started with the 15 minutes ads on YouTube interrupting my podcast. It’s such a tiny skip button

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That documentation is supposed to explain how a thing works to people who don’t know how it works. I know, sounds extremely obvious, but you’d be surprised how much documentation out there is written in a way, expecting you to already know what it’s talking about. No. I do not. It is the documentation’s job to explain ME what IT is talking about…

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I agree with a caveat. If you are looking up documentation for an API or something software engineer adjacent, I think its fair for the authors of the documentation to assume the reader has a background in computer science, and shouldn’t have to explain topics that are explained in computer science curriculum. Same with other documentation that is intended to be used by specialists in their respective fields.

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Couldn’t have explained it better myself. Everyday items? Yeah, should be documentation for a person’s first time using it.

Explaining logarithms in mathematics? Gonna need previous algebra knowledge, that’s a given.

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I know, but a library or a piece of software should explain it’s own functions. I might know my way around the tech stack, but if you don’t explain what your library does, I have no way of knowing it…

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Where on the doll did the man page touch you?

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The man page was empty.

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