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Re:Dolly Parton's Imagination Library
on Sunday October 25, 2026 @08:58PM (#50237665)
some governments provide funding -- Tennessee has been covering half the costs statewide
Re:In an $80 Motel Room, a Discovery to Shed Light on the Origins of Life
on Monday September 28, 2026 @11:32AM (#49879642)
s/country/world/
Re:Flock Credibility Lost as It Repeatedly Lies to City Councils, Poli...
on Monday July 20, 2026 @10:41PM (#48987434)
they (and others like them) also make zero effort to install poles complying with highway safety standards
Re:Zip Code Map of the United States
on Tuesday September 23, 2025 @01:48PM (#45350464)
ZIP codes also span county boundaries that aren't state boundaries -- I know of several in my county alone
Re:Game Genie Retrospective: The Best NES Accessory Ever Was Unlicensed
on Monday July 21, 2025 @04:38PM (#44640125)
a list of known games and tested "well-behaving" codes
the really fun part was exploring building your own codes and how/why they worked or didn't
Re:Google Maps Doesn't Know How Street Addresses Work
on Thursday April 24, 2025 @10:43PM (#43789647)
can they at least fix the interstate highway exits it thinks are splits? why do I need to be told to keep left at random exits?
Re:Google Maps Doesn't Know How Street Addresses Work
on Thursday April 24, 2025 @10:37PM (#43789618)
double-check it on openstreetmap.org
Re:Google Maps Doesn't Know How Street Addresses Work
on Thursday April 24, 2025 @10:36PM (#43789612)
hundreds of people in my city-county really think they live in a city in the next county over just because of the "city" label on their zip code
Re:MLB: Yankees' new ''Torpedo Bats'' legal and likely coming to a dug...
on Monday March 31, 2025 @03:32PM (#43538875)
the rule for FG/XP attempts is for the safety of the long snapper, not the kicker
Re:Hotel booking sites overcharge Bay Area customers
on Tuesday January 14, 2025 @04:03PM (#42703810)
I've had this happen when booking directly with an IHG hotel. My reservation in their system said I had a 2x queen room, but the hotel's end showed 1x king.
Re:Web apps built with Ruby on Rails
on Friday January 10, 2025 @12:00PM (#42657443)
> Batteries included.
this is the Python standard library motto
Re:Proteins in blood could provide early cancer warning 'by more than ...
on Wednesday May 15, 2024 @09:49AM (#40366940)
we've been searching for blood biomarkers for cancer for decades -- I'm sure we've found several by now
Re:Whistleblower Josh Dean of Boeing Supplier Spirit AeroSystems Has Died
on Thursday May 02, 2024 @01:17PM (#40238729)
32 whistleblowers in the last 3 years
Re:Why Can't My Mom Email Me?
on Thursday April 11, 2024 @01:18PM (#40004540)
the government still uses them
Re:Pyenv – lets you easily switch between multiple versions of Python
on Monday March 25, 2024 @10:58AM (#39817137)
can I interest you in R?
Re:How French Was Medieval England?
on Friday January 26, 2024 @05:09PM (#39149319)
in English, we refer to smashed-together word(s) as "portmanteau", a French word that is a portmanteau itself
Re:Should you go for 2 down 8?
on Wednesday January 24, 2024 @11:22AM (#39119181)
kicking range would be meaningless in this situation
if you fail, you still trail by 8
Re:Should you go for 2 down 8?
on Wednesday January 24, 2024 @11:20AM (#39119162)
if the Bucs use that timeout, the Lions could still get the clock to around 11 seconds before needing to punt
Re:Children, left behind by suburbia, need better community design
on Wednesday November 22, 2023 @10:56AM (#38380915)
"suburbia" generally refers to areas that were built out in the last 70 years, not towns that are 300+ years old
Re:Ethernet Is Still Going Strong After 50 Years
on Friday November 17, 2023 @05:19PM (#38311260)
I'm still using the coax for my OTA antenna
Re:Electric heat to cost 77 percent more than natural gas, federal age...
on Tuesday November 14, 2023 @11:01AM (#38264948)
the report is from the US Energy Information Administration
Re:Electric heat to cost 77 percent more than natural gas, federal age...
on Tuesday November 14, 2023 @11:00AM (#38264934)
> For one thing, the definition of “using electricity to heat their homes” used by the federal energy office appears to mean the use of electrical resistance baseboard heating versus natural gas heated-air furnaces.
Re:Tragedy of Return to Hostile Offices
on Monday November 13, 2023 @10:29AM (#38251299)
cubicle walls or not, windows are often blocked by office walls
Re:YouTuber Kitboga trapped 200 scammers in an Impossible Maze [video]
on Friday November 03, 2023 @04:20PM (#38134467)
this wasn't the usual "pretend to be a victim" bit
Re:10 Reasons to Fight Cashless Contagion
on Wednesday November 01, 2023 @03:12PM (#38103396)
Re:Why every microwave sucks these days, and the death of instant pot
on Thursday October 26, 2023 @09:58AM (#38025651)
but power levels are amazing for reheating (around 50%) and defrosting (around 25%)
and I would argue these are two of the major reasons to use a microwave
Re:What are roundabouts? The safety benefits of these circular interse...
on Wednesday October 25, 2023 @06:24PM (#38019122)
if roundabouts are already common and drivers behave, a mini roundabout can work
but if they aren't common, so you need to construct it in a way that requires compliance, more space is required
Re:Tire Dust Makes Up the Majority of Ocean Microplastics
on Sunday October 01, 2023 @09:51PM (#37733068)
We've also engineered our society to make cars too convenient and necessary.
Re:Kikkuli: Why do some people from the distant past become memes?
on Tuesday September 26, 2023 @04:32PM (#37665443)
one of my best friends going back to college (we're over 40), has never seen any Star Wars movies and it makes my wonder why we're even friends
years ago, I had a coworker from Pakistan; he liked to watch movies, but it took several Office Space references before he got around to it
Re:Lies My Calculator and Computer Told Me [pdf]
on Tuesday September 19, 2023 @10:39AM (#37570626)
and yet today I saw a website calculate 3.3 x 4 to be 13.200000000000003