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yep, only in chicago. In every other city in the US you turn on your turn signal and eventually someone will let you over. Not Chicago
To err is human to really elephant it up you need a computer
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You have clearly never driven in eastern Massachusetts. A turn signal is considered a sign of weakness. It's how we can tell the out-of-staters from the Massh*les.
If you don't tailgate, someone WILL try and get between you and the next car.
If a car CAN be fit between two other cars, it WILL be fit between two other cars. Regardless of the prevailing speed of the cars on the roadway. 75mph in bumper-to-bumper traffic on Rte 128 and that BMW will barely fit ? He's coming in your lane. Close the gap if you don't want that to happen.
If you drive less than 15 mph slower than the posted speed limit in the left lane, you WILL be passed on the right in very short order. And get a single-finger message in the bargain. If you can't be passed on the right, well there's always the shoulder, or the breakdown lane. Or extreme tailgating.
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Slacker007 wrote: ...very dangerous driving conditions.
With or without snow, NY is a dangerous place to drive (or do anything else for that matter).
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I think not only for driving...
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
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David Crow wrote: NY is a dangerous place to drive (or do anything else for that matter).
Aside from QAnon, where else do you get your info?
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W∴ Balboos, GHB wrote: where else do you get your info?
Flat earth society and bigfoot sightings.
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I moved from Vermont to Virginia to escape the snow and now it is snowing here. Ugh.
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South: hurricanes.
West: tornadoes and (these days) all sorts of intense weather year round
West Coast: Between fires and earthquakes, the weather's fine (especially in the Northern areas if you really really like rain) or stay south for extended droughts.
Here, Long Island, NY, we have a small chance of hurricanes, warmer winters and cooler summers than would be expected (thanks to big bathtub called "Atlantic Ocean") and, if you don't count Superstorm Sandy (cough cough) then we don't flood as the water runs off our island into the sea.
So - I thought I'd want to move away to somewhere better - but it's really an endless trade-off.
Really - no place to hide - just a classic case of "pick your poison".
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For those of us who love snow migrating south isn't an option.
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Winter Wonderland 
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Holland? Not really. But there is nothing like heading south after the snow has fallen, but not so far. Just close to the border to Austria and the mountains. On some lonely field with that scenery I would like go flying with the helicopter again, after a whole year of not being able to do anything like that. Even the virus helps, because the road may actually be full of people who wear wooden shoes in cars with yellow/black license plates on their way to the mountains.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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It will be interesting to see how they reach Austria with this boat. 
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Maybe taking the long route via the mediterranean and using the Tagliamento river?
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You should know even better than me what the weather and the sea is like on that route at this time of the year. You guys are not the Vikings! 
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Still waiting as they keep changing the local prediction. A lot of rain now predicted in the middle of it. Predicts now 4"-6" in most places, but one threatens more like a foot, another, 1"-3".
South of the south shore of Long Island - the rain - mix - snow line is going to waggle back and forth across us. Then all the nice wet snow will freeze solid.
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we had that snow about 3 days ago. in the midwest. It was wet heavy and annoying. But it looks pretty after. After what? Spring?
To err is human to really elephant it up you need a computer
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Will Thursday be at "work from home" snow day? Oh wait, we've all been working from home since March! 
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Snow is perfectly fine when the snow is dry, it is five to ten degrees below freezing and staying there!
The terrible conditions are when it temperature swings around freezing all the time - slush, ice, ice cold rain ... Zero is actually a lot colder than ten below! Besides, when it "warms" up, the winds come.
I'd much rather take a calm day with the sun shining from a deep blue sky at twenty to twentyfive degrees below zero, and dry snow plowed two meters high, than slushy streets with cars spraying all over you, and the ice cold rain is going right into your bones at two degrees plus.
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One reason I left that part of NY when I graduated high school. (A dying economy being the main reason.)
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I'm having one of those mornings where I try and catch up on new features they've stuck in C# and .NET. I have to say I don't always like what I read, maybe I'm a coding language Conservative or something, but I do sometimes come around to new features about five years late.
Nullable reference types (they're nullable already surely?) (Embracing nullable reference types | .NET Blog) is one such example that when I first heard about it a year or two ago I thought it so preposterous that I would never activate it, and sure enough there are no ?s at the end of my strings to date. Now do I dig in or accept change?
A null reference, well a null pointer, ultimately a bad address in memory just seems to me an inherent trap with computers. I first did it 40 years ago on a Commodore VIC20 before they had invented exceptions, the thing would just go mental until you switched it off. And every day since for that matter but usually by production such errors are gone. In development they're a good pointer (hey, a pun!) to where things aren't quite right yet.
I like things the way they are (were). How do you like nullable reference types?
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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Rob Philpott wrote: How do you like nullable reference types?
If this is a valid answer for you... So far I haven't used them (yet?)
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
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Perfectly valid. I like it too!
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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That's a difficult one.
I haven't started using them, but I suspect I probably should on the basis that the more errors I can catch at compile time rather than run time means less errors I have to specifically test for or code to handle.
I can't help the feeling that there are too many C++ and VB fanboise trying to get the nastier bits of of their original code into the C# spec though: var without Linq, dynamic, and so on does kinda dumb down the language without adding any benefit in the real world.
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