Things you always wanted to know the answer to [Vol. 5]
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Rusty Old-Banger said:
Sway said:
They've a sensor so that they co-ordinate. One is the master.
It's so that you don't just get a weirdly discordant rhythm that might confuse.
This. (Highway worker)It's so that you don't just get a weirdly discordant rhythm that might confuse.
a temporary roadworks traffic light to turn to green any quicker than it was planning to do ?
Nethybridge said:
Rusty Old-Banger said:
Sway said:
They've a sensor so that they co-ordinate. One is the master.
It's so that you don't just get a weirdly discordant rhythm that might confuse.
This. (Highway worker)It's so that you don't just get a weirdly discordant rhythm that might confuse.
a temporary roadworks traffic light to turn to green any quicker than it was planning to do ?
How do you think it works in daylight?
98elise said:
CivicDuties said:
hidetheelephants said:
CivicDuties said:
Truckosaurus said:
Alickadoo said:
If you couldn't read or write, wouldn't you get someone show you what your name looked like written down, and then practice copying that?
Yeah, why didn't the illiterate just learn to read and write? (I suspect there were many who could 'mask' and sign their name but not properly read what they were signing).Those were the days, huh.
So if someone was trying to play a "didn't happen" card, or an "anyone is free to learn to read and write card, then they can foxtrot oscar. Yeah times are different now, thankfully, but this is lived memory to me. The poor old girl was so frightened of her parents and husband, even after their deaths, and also the fear of imaginary superstitions (the Catholic Maltese version of Jesus and God, and also the old pre-Christian Middle Eastern concept of the "Evil Eye" dominated pretty much her every decision) that she found it difficult to function.
So that's why, for some people, there are barriers to learning things. I expect this situation persists in some places in the world.
Edited by CivicDuties on Thursday 25th April 15:19
I can't remember what the crux of the issue was that revealed it, but I think it may have been the introduction of some computer or computerised system. Before that he just got through daily life by routine. He'd sit in the break room and leaf through newspapers and magazines that were lying about but be looking at the pictures, not ingesting the words. In retrospect people realised that when announcements or notices were pinned to the board he'd either pay close attention to the resulting conversation or ask something like "so what do you make of all that, then?" or "so what does that mean for us, then?" and so get conversational run-down of the contents. He filled in his time sheets by copying the relevant parts from one already completed by someone who had worked the same hours that day. And his wife 'ran the household' in terms of bills and orders and things like that. He did have a signature, but whether it meant anything (to him or anyone else) who knows?
Jordie Barretts sock said:
Obviously not. The little box on the top of the traffic light is radar.
How do you think it works in daylight?
Decades ago many were on a time-clock in the day and had a simple light sensor that could override the time-clock at night. The rationale being that traffic density was higher in the day.How do you think it works in daylight?
But radar is so cheap these days that even base spec Polos and Golfs have it, so it doesn't surprise me that traffic lights do too.
Edited by Clockwork Cupcake on Friday 26th April 20:49
Clockwork Cupcake said:
StevieBee said:
Why are there no aeroplanes at Heathrow airport on Google maps Satellite View? Not one:
Didn't we do this quite recently? I have a definite feeling of Deja VuI know they used stacked images to get rid of clouds so some movable things may disappear in the final image but seems to me that to show the entirety of Heathrow as close to being entirely empty would require deliberate selection from a great many images to create that impression.
Clockwork Cupcake said:
StevieBee said:
Why are there no aeroplanes at Heathrow airport on Google maps Satellite View? Not one:
Didn't we do this quite recently? I have a definite feeling of Deja VuAnd yes, we did have this quite recently and the response to "was it during covid?" was that if it was, everything would have been parked up as almost nothing was flying
stemll said:
And yes, we did have this quite recently and the response to "was it during covid?" was that if it was, everything would have been parked up as almost nothing was flying
My recollection was that we postulated that it was indeed during Covid but then someone in the industry came along and said that during Covid it was like a plane parking lot and they couldn't move for them. I don't actually remember what we concluded though.
Clockwork Cupcake said:
stemll said:
And yes, we did have this quite recently and the response to "was it during covid?" was that if it was, everything would have been parked up as almost nothing was flying
My recollection was that we postulated that it was indeed during Covid but then someone in the industry came along and said that during Covid it was like a plane parking lot and they couldn't move for them. I don't actually remember what we concluded though.
Clockwork Cupcake said:
StevieBee said:
Why are there no aeroplanes at Heathrow airport on Google maps Satellite View? Not one:
Didn't we do this quite recently? I have a definite feeling of Deja Vudroopsnoot said:
And on that subject, isn't there an entire thread somewhere where someone argues about the presence of headlight sensors in temporary traffic lights, where even the input from someone who designs such lights for a living wasn't enough to persuade them?
A phenomenon not exclusive to temporary traffic lights, sadly.Abbott said:
Clockwork Cupcake said:
stemll said:
And yes, we did have this quite recently and the response to "was it during covid?" was that if it was, everything would have been parked up as almost nothing was flying
My recollection was that we postulated that it was indeed during Covid but then someone in the industry came along and said that during Covid it was like a plane parking lot and they couldn't move for them. I don't actually remember what we concluded though.
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