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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
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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
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
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

we've been searching for blood biomarkers for cancer for decades -- I'm sure we've found several by now
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
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
the report is from the US Energy Information Administration
> 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
this wasn't the usual "pretend to be a victim" bit
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

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.
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

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