NY has generally slightly weird school bus laws. They require a driver’s side emergency exit door, two swing-out stop signs, seatbelts, and they don’t paint the rub rails black. I have no idea why they have yellow rub rails, makes no sense at all.
Except that’s a rare thing to happen because it’s a serious crime.
Lol it’s not rare at all. I’m a school bus driver and it happens multiple times on each run. It’s not uncommon to have multiple cars pass me at a single stop.
including divided highways in their school bus law
Rural state? Whether or not divided highways make sense depends on whether or not kids are crossing these highways to get to their stops. Seems like that wouldn’t happen anywhere but you never know. In my district (Philly suburb) we design our runs so that kids rarely have to cross any street at all, and never have to cross even just multi-lane roads (let alone divided highways).
FYI I’m a school bus driver and our buses are equipped with these BusPatrol cameras. Our director of transportation told me about the financial arrangement, which I’m not sure most people know about. BusPatrol pays all costs relating to the cameras and their installation. They then get all of the ticket revenue generated ($300 per incident) until the cameras are paid for, after which the company splits the revenue with the school district (my boss told me this is a 50/50 split but Google says it’s about 60/40 in favor of the company). The money that goes to the school district is further split (50/50) between the school system and the police department, who have the responsibility for reviewing the recordings and mailing out the tickets. The “until the cameras are paid for” part is interesting: according to my boss, the installation cost of the cameras for our 40 buses was in the neighborhood of $1.5 million dollars, which seems a bit improbable. $37,500 per camera?
The revenue these things generate has to be fucking enormous. I’ve had runs where I get passed by 10 to 15 cars with my lights on and stop sign out. The main benefit to me personally is lowered stress. I used to get genuinely angry at cars doing this, and I would waste time and attention span horn-blasting them (one time I even had a cop pass me like this, driving with one hand and looking at his cell phone in the other hand). Now I don’t give a shit, knowing that they’re (likely) getting a big ticket for it.
I’m a school bus driver and we have these BusPatrol cameras on our buses. One of my stops in the morning is at a place where a divided highway becomes not-divided. In my state you don’t have to stop for school buses on divided highways, but my stop is about ten feet into the not-divided area. Most people stop anyway but a lot of people don’t. I’ve had people ask me whether they’re supposed to stop or not and I have to tell them that I have no idea. The drivers are not involved with the cameras at all – we don’t make the determination of whether somebody gets a ticket or not and we’re not told anything about how many tickets our cameras are generating.
Klingon don’t cling on.
My joke comment was based on love! I actually started my professional career with VB (3 no less) and it was an excellent language for what it was good for, mainly building good UIs. Sure, it could be – and was – used to create unearthly horrors, but that’s true of every language and platform.
Don’t cry, babe – at least I didn’t say Visual Basic.
I don’t think it’s even “they” any more.
I have this fear that he died of COVID during his first term and was replaced by a (much younger) imitator and deepfakes.
Whatever sense of self-importance a person has can’t survive the first day spent snaking shit out of a sewer pipe.
I had a boss who wrote a script to automatically remove all comments from code for pull requests. Since nobody ever added meaningful comments to their commits (or made any contributions at all to the alleged documentation), the code base was a complete mystery to the people who were actually working on it. God knows what it seemed like to new developers added to the project. But hey, comments are a “code smell” (his exact words) so it was all good.
His primary justification of his “comments bad” philosophy was that if comments aren’t kept up-to-date with the code, they can mislead and confuse future developers. This gets said a lot but it is something that I have literally never seen in 25 years of programming (I’ve witnessed – and participated in – a large number of project failures, and misleading comments have never been the cause of the failure). I pointed out that the same exact thing could be said about method and variable names but nobody ever advocates not using descriptive method and variable names; he had no response to this.
Visual Sauce Safe, for us oldheads.
No, I literally drive a school bus. I like the gig, but as a manager he is making something like eight times what I make (and probably a lot more than that).
Lol we were all laid off. He’s now a manager at Comcast and I drive a school bus.
I’m currently reviving a personal iOS project that I last worked on almost 10 years ago. At the time, I was working under a (much younger) tech lead who was a firm advocate of the “all comments are bad” philosophy and reported me to management as being technically incompetent because I commented my code. Thank god I’m technically incompetent because there’s no fucking way I could be making any sense of my 10-year-old code without those comments.
Somebody here is probably going to reply that nobody literally thinks all comments are bad, but I assure that you such people do exist in this profession.
Lol I haven’t coded on paper first since I started programming … in the '70s on my friend’s Commodore-20.
During the last two years of Clinton’s presidency, we had an actual fucking budget surplus. We could have been debt-free as a nation now, instead of sitting on nearly $40 trillion owed.
This one seems kinda crazy. Like, are stop signs traffic-control signals? I have many stops at stop sign intersections and it’s not at all unusual for late kids to be sprinting through the intersection to get to the bus. That’s exactly the kind of situation you want cars to be stopping for just in case.