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  • Speed limits are set by civil engineers using a whole host of scientific data, local ordinances, state laws, and FHA rules.

    You’re vastly overestimating the sophistication involved in speed limit setting. Look up the concept of 85th percentile speed for more information.

    As a caveat, this doesn’t apply to every country, but it certainly appears to for the U.S, given that multiple DOTs list it as the “common method for setting speed limits”.







  • It’s going to be significantly more than the year 33000 before we run out of 64-bit epoch timestamps.

    The max value for signed 64-but epoch values is more than 292 billion years away, or 20 times the age of the universe itself.

    So yeah, we’re basically solid forever with 64-bit





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    6 days ago

    Honestly spreadsheets are kind of great for some things. I’m sure most of their bad rep comes from being applied to the wrong problems - see businesses using it for basically everything.