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The most surprising place I’ve seen it in is in the name of a certain street[1] in Barcelona, where it is used for pronounciation purposes.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avinguda_del_Paral·lel

OsmAnd is awesome, I use it especially when walking in new cities.

For cycling though, I’m a happy user of cycle.travel[1].

[1] https://cycle.travel/map

> So let's just wait until there's 15 minutes of error - a couple of millenia from now. Then move the UTC prime meridian about 3.75 degrees / 400km

Perhaps a couple of millenia down the road, we have the technology to speed up/down the rotation of the Earth in order to keep it synced with UTC.

For one, the distance to the moon is about 1000 times the distance to earth.

It also disallows drivers behind the vehicle to see through it to see what’s in front. Of course there are plenty such vehicles on the road already (trucks, RVs, etc), but it would probably be detrimental to road safety if this feature becomes popular among automakers.

That’s how you lose trust, if it later is revealed that they didn’t.

Altitude camps, ie spending a week or two at altitude, a few weeks before targeted events is very common in cycling. The Canary Island of Tenerife, with roads up to 2300 meters is quite popular in the pre-season thanks to its great climate.

Badly timed such blocks of training, like doing it too close to the event the athlete is peaking for, is detrimental. The body needs time to recuperate.

Nautical miles are globally used and are older than the imperial units by a couple of hundred years[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nautical_mile

> Of course, there is a reason for the separation of the closing and locking functions, but not the opening and unlocking functions

There’s also a psychological aspect to performing the separate action of locking.

There are trains in Denmark that only have the ’close’ button. Quite jarring the first time.

German high-speed trains (InterCity Express).

> directly streaming movies to consumers was techincally impossible anywhere in the world.

Yeah, a 33.6 kb/s modem vs a station wagon hurtling down the highway with a dvd is a fair fight.

Another small northern European language here that got an (hopefully) auto-translated version. Completely unreadable. Even if done by a human it is pretty much translated word for word with no feeling for the target language at all.

Ever heard the saying ”wrong side of the tracks”?

How does https://cycle.travel/map/ perform routing-wise in Amsterdam?

(Unaffiliated happy user.)

The Euro coins, on the other hand, have a country specific side. So with eight denominations and (about) 24 issuing countries there are 192 valid different coins. And then each country can issue two commemorative €2 coins per year.

> saved by the bell

I think/thought that’s a boxing term?

In the late 90’s I wanted to try this Linux thing, so I followed a tutorial. First step:

    fdisk

Yes, that was my Windows partition going bye-bye.

With airplanes, a lot of maintenance routines depends on the number of cycles (takeoffs+landings). No one knows how many cycles this sub was safe to perform, but just because it had successfully performed N dives, does not imply that N+1 is safe (or even N for that matter).

> To change my mind based on that would be a mistake.

Not if the change was to completely disregard anything that that user posts.

Valid code != best (or even good) practices.

And then there’s 747 Dreamlifter in 2013[1].

[1] https://simpleflying.com/boeing-747-dreamlifter-wrong-airpor...

> Outside of the US airtravel is still relatively similar to rail.

I live in the EU. There is nothing similar. Two hours at the airport being put in several different queues, often in a high stress atmosphere.

Train travel: Five-ten minutes at the station, all done.

Yes, I’m partial to trains.

Slightly easier to start using Type::Tiny[1] than switching languages.

[1] https://metacpan.org/pod/Type::Tiny

DBIx::Class::Helpers and DBIx::Class::Candy are nice layers on top.

> East/West roads are numbered even, while North/South roads are numbered odd. None of that exists in Europe.

The E roads of Europe are generally numbered that way too[1], though exceptions exist.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_E-road_network#N...

> But then, there used to be a letter for 'th', too.

Which, with time, turned into the ”Ye” of ”Ye olde <thing>” [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_articles#Ye_form

They have a filter for that (that I always use).

That’s a good use case for Sticky keys[1] for able-bodied people that wish to remain so.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sticky_keys

The ”How not to travel America” playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_japiE6QKWrCfn7NFL86bRSW...

Don’t miss the similarly named Europe trip either, for anyone new to GeoWizard.

> America/NATO

They are not the same.

The list of Nato operations can be found here[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_NATO_operations