dwyerm
The problem for us -- and likely for those in Australia now -- is that converting physical address descriptions and lat/long becomes a little more fraught. We described road restrictions as being "on the road that is found between X1,Y1 and X2,Y2." A separate layer would snap those X,Y coordinates to the road network and find the road between them. Before the move, that meant converting to "Highway 6 Southbound from milemarker 16 to milemarker 28"
But when you moved the world, X1,Y1 no longer landed on Highway 6, and instead snapped over to the frontage road. Your restriction now read as "Highway 6 Southbound, down to exit 21, around the corner to the frontage road, then down the frontage road". And your restriction that used to say "stay off this one section of road" now says "stay off the highway, the frontage road, and don't use this exit."
The ADA requires 'paratransit' service for persons whose disabilities prevent them from using accessible, non-commuter, fixed route bus service. In many cities paratransit is handed off to taxi services.
But that said, what's wrong with a dark-colored toilet?
This wasn't entirely bad to meet up with people outside of your circles, but you needed some way to control the firehose. And, you know, I think that's still not a solved problem. I think I would be more keen on social networks filtering me feed if I had more control over those filters.
It reminds me of all the old Windows users accidentally dragging their start-bar and covering the whole screen.
Now, in addition to Jake's American Furniture Warehouse, there's the whole Furniture Row business holding the territory. Now IKEA is trying to find a way in.
Whole books have been written about the Furniture Wars! It's kind of crazy.
[1] https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/ [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19144280
"Well, I get Free Miles(tm) with the Chevrolet, but it throttles at 70MPH and the radio only plays Pandoa. Or I can get the exact same car from Crysler, with no throttling, but the miles come in bundles of 1000 and radio apps are $5/month."
The bottom half is filled out with Canonical, Google, RedHat, Cisco and Adobe.
So, to your idea, I also appreciate the idea of one, trustworthy, site that would do all of that for me. The thing is, Amazon is that site, for the most part.
But I strongly recommend a video that covers the second race. Not to be confused with the 2009/2010 Citizen Pictures video, this one was put out by a studio in Aspen and I think was produced for the Outdoor Life Network.
The problem is that I'm not sure how one would legitimately source the video today. But if you stop by my place I'll offer you a beer and arrange a showing...? I'll look it up tonight and let you know if I can find a source.
The first year, Rockport was a sponsor and loaded them up with their best trail running shoes. The Tarahumara didn't perform well, although that could also be because of other gear issues and that they were not sure that the aid stations were for them. The second year, they stopped by the local landfill for old car tires, and made sandals from them. They set records that year. It was a bit of an embarrassment to the title sponsor...
Worse, the offset was right there in black-and-white in the release notes that we failed to read.
By the way, I apologize for being flippant about it. Location is just one of those things -- like time -- that too many people think is simple, but actually has devilish details that bite the unwary. You are fortunate that lat/long is sufficient and I hope you remain wary.
In my experience, the problem is that it isn't as exact as you'd think, especially when your measurement passes back and forth between reality, the idealized cartesian lat/long, and node/distance understandings of road networks. At a previous company, our map provider moved the entire United States three meters to the west and we spent the next week re-adjusting endpoints that were suddenly in medians, on overpasses, etc.
tl;dr: Nothing's easy.
I have a suspicion that the trend towards browsers being 'helpful' with the URL field is contributing to mistakes like these.
Consider for comparison my recent experience purchasing a wedding gift from Bed Bath and Beyond. They had done everything right to capture my purchase: They hosted the wedding registry, kept the new couple's address hidden, and by not allowing me to select "I'm buying this somewhere else" made it difficult for me to get the item cheaper from another retailer.
Despite all of that, I still abandoned the cart and came back to Amazon. BB&B requires Verified By Visa, and I require my credit card provider to not be stupid about security, so my card was declined with no recourse.
Mind you, Amazon has declined my payment before, too. But they only did it once, more-than paid for their mistake, and haven't troubled me since.
Amazon is a monopoly like Visa and Mastercard are monopolies. They enrich themselves while facilitating commerce. While I'm uncomfortable with that power they hold, I wouldn't want to be without it.
People generally don't take pictures of rolling green hillsides. But they very often take pictures of rolling green hillsides with sheep on them. So if you ask the robot to draw a picture of rolling green hillsides, it will include sheep. Or, if you ask it to draw a picture of the savanna, it will want to include giraffes.
Now you're being asked to find a bus in a photo without a bus because it's a street scene, and every street scene has a bus in it.
I haven't read her book, yet, but her Twitter[2] is often full of amusing anecdotes like this.
[1] https://www.telcomhistory.org/connections-museum-seattle/