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Here you are very wrong. Look at https://www.cdc.gov/motorvehiclesafety/seatbelts/facts.html#tabs-2-3 https://www.cdc.gov/motorvehiclesafety/seatbelts/facts.htm

Here you are very wrong. Look at https://www.cdc.gov/motorvehiclesafety/seatbelts/facts.html#tabs-2-3 https://www.cdc.gov/motorvehiclesafety/seatbelts/facts.html#... or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seat_belt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seat_belt

jcelerier 8y ago
that's exactly what I mean. Seatbelts won't save you every time but they save you enough times that they are mandatory. > In another study that examined injuries presenting to the ER pre- and post-seat belt law introduction, it was found that 40% more escaped injury and 35% more escaped mild and moderate injuries.[83] I don't know how many bugs can use of all possible explicit typing and compiler warnings avert but I'd wager that it would be at least as high a percentage.
- wrmsr 8y ago
  And as a former motorcyclist the idea of putting a seatbelt on a bike is terrifying, but under the umbrella of 'mandatory' I'd have to risk getting cut in half in a fender bender 'because that's how it's done'. If you blindly follow guidelines without understanding why they were put in place and when they should be circumvented you do more harm than good. In this context specifically, a python thread, I've not even found formatters that 'just work' in python to the degree that they do in java - I get and support significant whitespace but that combined with the crazy calling convention frequently lead me to just have to suffix spans of lines with noqa because I'm communicating to the reader something that a dumb bot doesn't understand. And that's not even getting into the heavier stuff, I type annotate everything but mypy is beyond useless for my relevant codebases - it no longer just outputs walls of useless noise it straight up crashes, from the most minimal use of even descriptors much less metaclasses. Tools and policies are essential but at the end of the day humans and situations are still currently authoritative.

jcelerier 8y ago

that's exactly what I mean. Seatbelts won't save you every time but they save you enough times that they are mandatory. > In another study that examined injuries presenting to the ER pre- and post-seat belt law introduction, it was found that 40% more escaped injury and 35% more escaped mild and moderate injuries.[83] I don't know how many bugs can use of all possible explicit typing and compiler warnings avert but I'd wager that it would be at least as high a percentage.

wrmsr 8y ago
And as a former motorcyclist the idea of putting a seatbelt on a bike is terrifying, but under the umbrella of 'mandatory' I'd have to risk getting cut in half in a fender bender 'because that's how it's done'. If you blindly follow guidelines without understanding why they were put in place and when they should be circumvented you do more harm than good. In this context specifically, a python thread, I've not even found formatters that 'just work' in python to the degree that they do in java - I get and support significant whitespace but that combined with the crazy calling convention frequently lead me to just have to suffix spans of lines with noqa because I'm communicating to the reader something that a dumb bot doesn't understand. And that's not even getting into the heavier stuff, I type annotate everything but mypy is beyond useless for my relevant codebases - it no longer just outputs walls of useless noise it straight up crashes, from the most minimal use of even descriptors much less metaclasses. Tools and policies are essential but at the end of the day humans and situations are still currently authoritative.