Hacker News: graywh

New comment by graywh in "Zip Code Map of the United States"

graywh — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 17:48:24 +0000

ZIP codes also span county boundaries that aren't state boundaries -- I know of several in my county alone

New comment by graywh in "Game Genie Retrospective: The Best NES Accessory Ever Was Unlicensed"

graywh — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 20:38:59 +0000

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

New comment by graywh in "Google Maps Doesn't Know How Street Addresses Work"

graywh — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 02:43:33 +0000

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?

New comment by graywh in "Street address errors in Google Maps"

graywh — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 02:37:25 +0000

double-check it on openstreetmap.org

New comment by graywh in "Street address errors in Google Maps"

graywh — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 02:36:10 +0000

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

New comment by graywh in "MLB says Yankees' new "torpedo bats" are legal and likely coming"

graywh — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 19:32:21 +0000

the rule for FG/XP attempts is for the safety of the long snapper, not the kicker

New comment by graywh in "Hotel booking sites overcharge Bay Area customers"

graywh — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 21:03:09 +0000

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.

New comment by graywh in "Web apps built with Ruby on Rails"

graywh — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 17:00:32 +0000

> Batteries included.

this is the Python standard library motto

New comment by graywh in "Proteins in blood could provide early cancer warning 'by more than seven years'"

graywh — Wed, 15 May 2024 13:49:38 +0000

we've been searching for blood biomarkers for cancer for decades -- I'm sure we've found several by now

New comment by graywh in "Whistleblower Josh Dean of Boeing supplier Spirit AeroSystems has died"

graywh — Thu, 02 May 2024 17:17:32 +0000

32 whistleblowers in the last 3 years

New comment by graywh in "Why can't my mom email me?"

graywh — Thu, 11 Apr 2024 17:18:40 +0000

the government still uses them

New comment by graywh in "Pyenv – lets you easily switch between multiple versions of Python"

graywh — Mon, 25 Mar 2024 14:58:41 +0000

can I interest you in R?

New comment by graywh in "How French was medieval England?"

graywh — Fri, 26 Jan 2024 22:09:54 +0000

in English, we refer to smashed-together word(s) as "portmanteau", a French word that is a portmanteau itself

New comment by graywh in "Should you go for 2 down 8?"

graywh — Wed, 24 Jan 2024 16:22:08 +0000

kicking range would be meaningless in this situation

if you fail, you still trail by 8

New comment by graywh in "Should you go for 2 down 8?"

graywh — Wed, 24 Jan 2024 16:20:28 +0000

if the Bucs use that timeout, the Lions could still get the clock to around 11 seconds before needing to punt

New comment by graywh in "Children, left behind by suburbia, need better community design"

graywh — Wed, 22 Nov 2023 15:56:51 +0000

"suburbia" generally refers to areas that were built out in the last 70 years, not towns that are 300+ years old

New comment by graywh in "Ethernet Is Still Going Strong After 50 Years"

graywh — Fri, 17 Nov 2023 22:19:54 +0000

I'm still using the coax for my OTA antenna

New comment by graywh in "Electric heat to cost 77 percent more than natural gas, federal agency says"

graywh — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 16:01:10 +0000

the report is from the US Energy Information Administration

New comment by graywh in "Electric heat to cost 77 percent more than natural gas, federal agency says"

graywh — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 16:00:21 +0000

> 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.

New comment by graywh in "Tragedy of return to hostile offices"

graywh — Mon, 13 Nov 2023 15:29:33 +0000

cubicle walls or not, windows are often blocked by office walls