Minor things that bother you

[Max Rockatansky]

Come out my way.  Caltrans is big on not even posting curve signs and advisory speeds.  Kind of makes mountain roads more fun IMO since you don't have your hand held regarding speed.

Southwest Wyoming says hi.  80 MPH two-lane roads with unsigned curves can be "fun" to navigate...and nobody to find your dead body for dozens of miles!

Simple solution, just don't crash.  I'm fine with the lack of hand holding.  If the conditions of the road aren't conducive to going the posted limit, then don't.

[thenetwork]

Come out my way.  Caltrans is big on not even posting curve signs and advisory speeds.  Kind of makes mountain roads more fun IMO since you don't have your hand held regarding speed.

Southwest Wyoming says hi.  80 MPH two-lane roads with unsigned curves can be "fun" to navigate...and nobody to find your dead body for dozens of miles!

Simple solution, just don't crash.  I'm fine with the lack of hand holding.  If the conditions of the road aren't conducive to going the posted limit, then don't.

80 MPH IS the posted speed limit on many 2-lane state highways in Wyoming.  Just because the 2 or 3 people who live on that 40-mile stretch know where the slower curves are doesn't mean not to sign and advise speeds on tighter curves for everyone else.

[Max Rockatansky]

Come out my way.  Caltrans is big on not even posting curve signs and advisory speeds.  Kind of makes mountain roads more fun IMO since you don't have your hand held regarding speed.

Southwest Wyoming says hi.  80 MPH two-lane roads with unsigned curves can be "fun" to navigate...and nobody to find your dead body for dozens of miles!

Simple solution, just don't crash.  I'm fine with the lack of hand holding.  If the conditions of the road aren't conducive to going the posted limit, then don't.

80 MPH IS the posted speed limit on many 2-lane state highways in Wyoming.  Just because the 2 or 3 people who live on that 40-mile stretch know where the slower curves are doesn't mean not to sign and advise speeds on tighter curves for everyone else.

I'm aware and I'm familiar from drives on such roads I've been on in Wyoming (and nearby Montana).  I stand by what I said, the driver is ultimately responsible for driving to the conditions of the road.  People shouldn't be blindly following posted limits in lieu of actually observing and adjusting for road conditions.

If you're asking me for an opinion, I say remove most of the speed signage.  It never struck me as having much use in these specific conditions. 

[Rothman]

Meh.  I do like having some indication of how sharp an upcoming curve will be without having to glance at GPS.

[vdeane]

Price Chopper/Market32 changed the threshold for when the resister would ask to redeem rewards points, so I didn't get prompted to redeem them today (IMO it should prompt if you're going to lose any but he end of the month regardless of how many you have, but instead it's normally if you have at least 500; I don't know what it is now) - and after I front-loaded some stuff last week so that I'd hit the 500 point threshold and have it prompt me!  I'd just ask for a manual redemption (annoying but standard) from the attendant, but I was tired and my brain isn't fully functional today, so I forgot.  This required me to go to customer service for help, where the refunded me cash for some items, re-ran them along with my card, redeemed the points, and have me hand back some of the cash (which thankfully let me get rid of the $1 bills they gave me, and thanks to the penny shortage, my change for that was just three quarters).

[kkt]

The whole idea of a customer loyalty gimmick being required to get the sale price on your items.
The price for one should be the price for all.

[vdeane]

The whole idea of a customer loyalty gimmick being required to get the sale price on your items.
The price for one should be the price for all.

There's a grocery store around here that's like that, and there's a downside - whenever an item goes on sale, it's inevitably low or out by the time I'm doing by grocery shopping from everyone snatching it up.  It got to the point where I had to switch stores because I couldn't get some of my regular items reliably.

[kphoger]

80 MPH IS the posted speed limit on many 2-lane state highways in Wyoming.

wut

[bugo]

I was once walking around the Plaza area of Kansas City with my parents and sister and wife and kids.  We were crossing at a clearly marked crosswalk, and there was a driver who was impeding the crosswalk.  As we walked by, I lightly knocked my knuckles on the car's bumper, as a lowkey way of griping at the driver for it.  After we were on our way, when the light turned green, she then proceeded to follow us for a block and a half, rolled down her window, shouted at me for touching her car, and demanded that I apologize.

A few years ago, I was crossing a street at a crosswalk. I waited until the light turned white, and as soon as I stepped out this woman in a gigantic black SUV was going in the same direction as I was, and she didn't stop, she just flew around the corner and nearly hit me. So I smacked the back of the SUV as hard as I could with my open palm. That bitch would have killed me if I hadn't been paying attention.

[bugo]

I do that sometimes at home, but in the car it's annoying to have to plug it in, turn up the phone volume, dismiss the warning message that max volume on headphones might damage my ears (well I'm not using headphones so don't worry about it), open the MP3 player app, optionally find something specific I want to listen to, and then hit play. All of that is handled automatically for me on FM radio.

My last car had a USB slot in the head unit. I bought a 128 GB thumb drive and filled it up with MP3 files. When I turned the key, the music started up automatically, and played the song that was playing the last time I turned the key off at that point in the song. It was very convenient.

Where do you get your MP3s from?

Soulseek.

[kkt]

I do that sometimes at home, but in the car it's annoying to have to plug it in, turn up the phone volume, dismiss the warning message that max volume on headphones might damage my ears (well I'm not using headphones so don't worry about it), open the MP3 player app, optionally find something specific I want to listen to, and then hit play. All of that is handled automatically for me on FM radio.

My last car had a USB slot in the head unit. I bought a 128 GB thumb drive and filled it up with MP3 files. When I turned the key, the music started up automatically, and played the song that was playing the last time I turned the key off at that point in the song. It was very convenient.

Mine is much like that, except it plays .flac files as well as .mp3!  I don't have to dream up some script to translate the .flac files I have at home from my ripped CDs into .mp3s.  I feel very spoiled having pretty much my whole sound library in my car with me.

[Scott5114]

I do that sometimes at home, but in the car it's annoying to have to plug it in, turn up the phone volume, dismiss the warning message that max volume on headphones might damage my ears (well I'm not using headphones so don't worry about it), open the MP3 player app, optionally find something specific I want to listen to, and then hit play. All of that is handled automatically for me on FM radio.

My last car had a USB slot in the head unit. I bought a 128 GB thumb drive and filled it up with MP3 files. When I turned the key, the music started up automatically, and played the song that was playing the last time I turned the key off at that point in the song. It was very convenient.

That sounds perfect. Let me guess, modern cars don't have that.

[JayhawkCO]

80 MPH IS the posted speed limit on many 2-lane state highways in Wyoming.  Just because the 2 or 3 people who live on that 40-mile stretch know where the slower curves are doesn't mean not to sign and advise speeds on tighter curves for everyone else.

70 mph is the max for any non-freeway road in Wyoming.

[kurumi]

My last car had a USB slot in the head unit. I bought a 128 GB thumb drive and filled it up with MP3 files. When I turned the key, the music started up automatically, and played the song that was playing the last time I turned the key off at that point in the song. It was very convenient.

It's amazing how my car and iPhone cannot remember where I left off, even though it would take a few bytes of storage to persist that information. Instead of resuming my language podcast, season 3, episode 17, 10:11, sometimes it's back to something like Aaron Adams and the Aardvarks, "Adventures along A1A"

[thenetwork]

80 MPH IS the posted speed limit on many 2-lane state highways in Wyoming.

wut

My bad.  Still 70 is a little unusual for me to see on a 2-lane road. 

[thenetwork]

80 MPH IS the posted speed limit on many 2-lane state highways in Wyoming.

wut

My bad.  Still 70 is a little unusual for me to see on a 2-lane road. 

However, tooling around at the posted 70 miles an hour and seeing this sign jump out 500 feet from the Colorado border ...

https://maps.app.goo.gl/RQyZaffEJvTdyAJQ8

[kkt]

My last car had a USB slot in the head unit. I bought a 128 GB thumb drive and filled it up with MP3 files. When I turned the key, the music started up automatically, and played the song that was playing the last time I turned the key off at that point in the song. It was very convenient.

It's amazing how my car and iPhone cannot remember where I left off, even though it would take a few bytes of storage to persist that information. Instead of resuming my language podcast, season 3, episode 17, 10:11, sometimes it's back to something like Aaron Adams and the Aardvarks, "Adventures along A1A"

My car does remember where I left off.  It picks up again mid-song.

[TheCatalyst31]

Come out my way.  Caltrans is big on not even posting curve signs and advisory speeds.  Kind of makes mountain roads more fun IMO since you don't have your hand held regarding speed.

Being a flatlander, I appreciate when mountainous states hold my hand regarding speed around curves. It's nice to know whether you're dealing with a "slow down a little" curve or an "anything over 15 is a death wish" curve.

[Scott5114]

Come out my way.  Caltrans is big on not even posting curve signs and advisory speeds.  Kind of makes mountain roads more fun IMO since you don't have your hand held regarding speed.

Being a flatlander, I appreciate when mountainous states hold my hand regarding speed around curves. It's nice to know whether you're dealing with a "slow down a little" curve or an "anything over 15 is a death wish" curve.

Of course, the issue here is that different states have different standards for what needs special attention called to it. Then there's the issue of grades, which requires a little bit of experience to understand what they mean. A flatlander is likely not going to understand what a hill sign with a "6%" inscription means since they have no context for whether that is a lot or not. (It isn't, though I definitely wouldn't want to do it on a bicycle.)

[Max Rockatansky]

Come out my way.  Caltrans is big on not even posting curve signs and advisory speeds.  Kind of makes mountain roads more fun IMO since you don't have your hand held regarding speed.

Being a flatlander, I appreciate when mountainous states hold my hand regarding speed around curves. It's nice to know whether you're dealing with a "slow down a little" curve or an "anything over 15 is a death wish" curve.

Of course, the issue here is that different states have different standards for what needs special attention called to it. Then there's the issue of grades, which requires a little bit of experience to understand what they mean. A flatlander is likely not going to understand what a hill sign with a "6%" inscription means since they have no context for whether that is a lot or not. (It isn't, though I definitely wouldn't want to do it on a bicycle.)

To me, something like a gradient advisory has far more value.  When Caltrans posts an actual percent, they usually mean business.  I do question though the accuracy of some of their measurements. 

As an example, a cycling page I follow uses inclinometers and posts the data on their site.  They have CA 108 over Sonora Pass peaking at 17.7% instead of 26%.

https://pjammcycling.com/climb/166.Sonora%2520Pass%2520West

[Scott5114]

Given that percentage is calculated as rise over run, the exact percentage you end up with depends on exactly where your start and end points are. I was playing around with topo data estimating the slope of the street I take to the grocery store, and it was pretty easy to nudge the percentage by a point or two in either direction just by changing one of the endpoints I was measuring from. I have no idea what the official way of determining where the endpoints are is, but I would guess it's also something which varies from state to state.

[Max Rockatansky]

And that's part of the problem.  I've never found the data which Caltrans is using to determine the incline slope.  That information isn't in the Route logs (I would know, I have them).

[Scott5114]

Wayland (the graphics system designed to replace the X11 windowing system on Linux) has some sort of weird bug that sometimes causes Ctrl-key combinations to get routed to the wrong window. So if I copy from one window and paste in another, sometimes it'll also send a single "v" to the window I copied from. This can sometimes have destructive effects if I left whatever I copied selected when I changed windows (though every time that's happened I at least noticed what happened and was able to undo).

I haven't the foggiest idea what might be causing the bug, either.

[CoreySamson]

Come out my way.  Caltrans is big on not even posting curve signs and advisory speeds.  Kind of makes mountain roads more fun IMO since you don't have your hand held regarding speed.

Being a flatlander, I appreciate when mountainous states hold my hand regarding speed around curves. It's nice to know whether you're dealing with a "slow down a little" curve or an "anything over 15 is a death wish" curve.

I nearly always interpret advisory speed limits as "the maximum speed you could take this curve at safely if it was raining." But if the advisory sign has flashers, then I interpret it as "the maximum speed you probably should go on this curve regardless of weather." Of course, they are also very context dependent.

[JayhawkCO]

This is major to me, but minor to others likely.

Having a reorg at your job and now reporting to someone who lives on the other side of the globe, and then having meetings scheduled both at 7 AM and 8:30 PM.