Why Sweden Has the World’s Safest Roads
Nearly half the EU-wide average.
Sweden has also created 12,600 safer pedestrian crossings with features such as bridges, flashing lights, and speed bumps. That’s estimated to have halved pedestrian deaths over the past five years. The country has lowered speed limits in urban, crowded areas and built barriers to protect bikers from incoming traffic. A crackdown on drunk driving has also helped.
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Do not use ‘YYYY’ or ‘%G’ in time format specifiers
Formats the year based on ISO week numbering, which often is not what you want. Both have been responsible for high-profile production bugs (in Apple and Android).
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Why Sweden Has the World’s Safest Roads
Nearly half the EU-wide average.
Sweden has also created 12,600 safer pedestrian crossings with features such as bridges, flashing lights, and speed bumps. That’s estimated to have halved pedestrian deaths over the past five years. The country has lowered speed limits in urban, crowded areas and built barriers to protect bikers from incoming traffic. A crackdown on drunk driving has also helped.
(tags: sweden safety engineering road-safety pedestrian roads cycling)
Do not use ‘YYYY’ or ‘%G’ in time format specifiers
Formats the year based on ISO week numbering, which often is not what you want. Both have been responsible for high-profile production bugs (in Apple and Android).
(tags: apple android bugs time date year iso week formatting strftime posix)
Indian Government blocks 32 Sites, including GitHub, Pastebin, Imgur and Vimeo
Spectacularly inept. Pretty much every UGC site there is
(tags: ugc india filtering blocking terrorism isis github vimeo pastebin censorship)