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These types of identical house suburban hellholes are the exception, not the norm. Mostly it's the newer developments being built out in the middle of nowhere that look like this, and presumably so the builders can skimp out on construction costs by making (or attempting to make...) everything the same for each one. Plus the HOA, "but muh resale value!" factor.
I live in an American suburb. All the houses in my neighborhood, and all the others in town, are different. We don't have an insane HOA and I can paint my house whatever color I want. We have quite a few services, shops, and various eateries (to be fair, three of them are fast food joints) well within walking distance. With sidewalks. And in some places, even a bike lane.
This area was built up in the 1940's through the late 1950's in the post-war boom.
Ach, crivens. First it's tha' hands on the hips. Then it's tha' pursin' o' the lips. Then the tapping o' tha' feets. Waily, waily, waily...
Negative. Being struck with water pressure is what opens the detergent door. That's why it's sprung like a mousetrap and so easy to jostle open accidentally. You can take the door and dispenser apart if you like and you will find no electronics in there. Also, if you look carefully at the middle/upper wash arm you'll see that it has one nozzle I was talking about on the tip that points outwards, not up. That's the one that makes the stream designed to hit and open the detergent door.
Of course, the dishwasher's program determines when to blast it at full pressure to pop it open. So it is "timed" in that sense.
Another possibly related wrinkle here is that I an given to understand (I am by no means an expert) that there is not a single square inch of dirt anywhere within the United States that is not considered by the Postal Service to fall within the boundaries of a ZIP code. Regardless of the population level of that location (even if any), any mailbox staked into the ground anywhere will have an associated ZIP code which will inherit the name of some city/town/borough/whatever by default. This is regardless of how many miles are between that location and the city in question, or how much it makes sense.
Everywhere in the country is somewhere, even if it's the middle of nowhere, according to the post office.
For added giggles, here is one of my oft-reposted pictures, which happens to be more-or-less in the, er, "city center" of Tartown, PA which is on the MABDR route in the saddle of a random mountain in the middle of the woods near the Southern border of Pennsylvania.
Tartown is an abandoned "unincorporated community" within the ZIP code 17320, which ostensibly covers Fairfield in Adams County, PA. "Community" is a strong word. There is in fact no such place as Tartown, except there is. Information on it is sparse, and it contains no development, no remaining buildings, no utilities, no government, and no population. However it is a named point on a map that has a defined location and presumably will forevermore, as long as the records are kept. Thus it is a town.
...For a suitably small quantity of "town."
I still use the "y u no [whatever]" guy pretty frequently. That one has some legs.
Technically USB A male-to-female extension cables are also forbidden, at least in terms of USB 1/1.1/2.0 and were never supposed to exist. That's not to say that they didn't, because they certainly do, and sometimes even manage to work in the process. But the original USB spec specifically envisaged that a passive extension cable should never be available to the consumer, probably for the simple reason that the maximum allowable cable length was 5 meters with no ifs, ands, or buts. And USB 3.x is only 3 meters. If allowed, people would inevitably daisy-chain so many cables together that their connected device would stop working, and then whine at the manufacturer/retailer/Microsoft about it being "defective," so this was nipped in the bud in advance.
All that said, I have nevertheless accumulated about 20 of the damn things over the years in varying lengths and levels of quality. I have violated the official cable length spec with impunity and more often than not gotten away with it, albeit usually only for low-demand devices like keyboards.
I have a flashlight that does the same for its charging port. It's also capable of being used as a power bank by plugging another device's cable into that same port. I'm not entirely sure just how much protection circuitry is behind this and I haven't cared enough to subject it to anything heavy duty.
People will start calling their settlement a "village" here when they've decided to start being pretentious about it. Expect to find a winery there, or a studio where someone with frizzy hair makes inscrutable physical art, or a bunch of horse enthusiasts.
Yes, it's an example of the "everyone fled" variety. Well, almost everyone.
There are named towns in the US with populations in the single digits. This can be due to either the population moving away, fleeing, or simply dying off over time -- Centralia, PA leaps to mind -- or because it's just a cluster of a couple of houses at a crossroads that would otherwise be in the middle of nowhere. There may not necessarily be a post office or any other services there.
In fact, there are "towns" in the US in that they are named on the map and have a defined location filed with the state/county/Postal Service, but they have no inhabitants at all. In many cases this is because a planned development never actually happened.
I take umbrage at all these popsci articles that keep breathlessly insisting that the new wondermaterial is as "strong" as steel without meaningfully specifying how. Because inevitably it only matches just one mechanical property of steel, if it even manages that (so also look out for weasel words like "nearly as strong as steel").
As strong in terms of tensile strength? Shear strength? Hardness? Elastic modulus? Abrasion resistance?
In this case it's compressive strength. No other properties are mentioned except weight. That's not terribly impressive from a mechanical engineering standpoint. From a chemistry standpoint, sure. But steel -- even then, there are oodles of potential steel alloys -- has a rough compressive strength ranging from 500-ish to a maximum of about 1500 MPa. Big whoop. Most ceramics meet or handily exceed that, and quite a lot of them are significantly lighter than steel. So why don't we build airplanes out of those? Because their other properties are completely unsuitable for the task, especially for large pieces. In particular they're much too brittle.
You want to know what else has a compressive (and tensile!) strength of up to 500 MPa? Aluminum. Guess what we build airplanes out of.
I've held multiple times before that it possibly would have been better off if it were a more focused, linear experience possibly akin to how the newer Deus Ex games worked. Within those you had the freedom to screw around in the area/mission you were in and given a wide latitude to complete things as you saw fit, but it definitely excised the wannabe GTA filler in the middle.
2077 had an excellent series of incredibly well-directed moments, both within the main story missions as well as several notable side missions, but the stuff in between made little sense especially given the story framework of V living on borrowed time with a ticking bomb in their head. But sure, let's save up and buy nine apartments, collect all the gold class weapons, stock your garage with all the cars, traipse all over down finding all of Delamain's rogue taxis, do a sidequest for this random chump, see a concert, check all these cyberpsychos off our list...
There is incredible detail in the world if -- but only if -- you stop to search for it. There are a lot of things most players will probably miss unless they're specifically pointed out, and while that's certainly neat it also means that the lack of discoverability means the time spent on many of those details ultimately turns out to be wasted. 2077 is thus a weird hybrid of a linear and open world game and as a result feels both too constrained and to unfocused at the same time. It's all to easy to get derailed, and alas to some extent you have to let yourself get derailed to accrue enough XP and equipment so you don't get your ass handed to you if you just try to stick to the main storyline, even though that storyline is written as if it's supposed to be a single linear narrative.
Don't get me wrong, I still enjoyed the game. I just would have presented it much differently if I were in charge.
Inaccurate. You won't find out about the $4000 hat charge until you randomly get a bill in the mail for it four months later. It's also already been denied by your insurance. When questioned on this, because your declaration of coverage clearly states that it includes hats, your insurance will claim that the hospital charged it under the wrong code and somehow this is your responsibility.
Specifically in your face because one of the nozzles on the middle spray arm is aimed outwards to hit the latch on the detergent dispenser door.
This is so. At the bottom of the article it says:
To help us give customers who use T-Life a smoother experience, we are rolling out a new tool in the app that will help us quickly troubleshoot reported or detected issues. This tool records activities within the app only and does not see or access any personal information. If a customer’s T-Life app currently supports the new functionality, it can be turned off in the settings under preferences.
So yes, it can only see itself, i.e. within the T-Mobile app. It's still dumb.
I'm not well versed enough in Android app development to answer whether or not one userspace app can even access the screen contents of another app without root or special permissions, but it wouldn't surprise me if there are several roadblocks in that path on the part of the OS for obvious reasons.
Ballista > Catapult.
(Orbital ion cannon > Ballista.)
I also maintain that Breath of the Wild was superior to Tears of the Kingdom. Apparently this opinion makes Zelda fans incredibly salty.
Historically a masterpiece has been a (or the) work that demonstrates an artist is capable of utilizing their medium to its fullest extent, i.e. it has been mastered. Per ye olde Wiki:
Historically, a "masterpiece" was a work of a very high standard produced by an apprentice to obtain full membership, as a "master", of a guild or academy in various areas of the visual arts and crafts.
In that light, I'd say the best qualified would be games that completely utilized the capabilities of the platform they were designed for or, perhaps of interest to more people, expanded what everyone thought could be done with those systems. Games which were furthermore well polished and complete, and did not have much room for improvement taking into account the constraints they had to work with at the time. (For instance: No duh we could make Mario 64 run at a higher framerate and have better textures to look nicer on hardware now. That doesn't mean it wasn't arguably a masterpiece of its time, on the system it was on.) This doesn't just have to be technical stuff -- It could be the way the game used storytelling, its gameplay mechanics, or anything else.
You can configure the app to transfer your images and videos in full original quality but the transfer of large files takes forever, even in the best of conditions. I did the math and the app transfers data at something like 480 kbps over Wi-Fi which is beyond awful in this century. I don't know if this is a limitation of the camera hardware itself (I'd doubt it) or the app. But needless to say, transferring large batches of images is an excruciating experience that I've certainly resolved never to do again. It's just barely functional if you want to get a picture off to share or chimp at on your phone's larger screen, but in my opinion can serve no other purpose since it's so damn slow.
The fact that these places always exclude the filter from their price and treat it as a "gotcha" add-on is deeply hilarious.
You have to replace the filter when you change the oil. That's just how it works. It's not special and it's not extra. It's literally the intended procedure.