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konfusinomicon··on USPS now offers official ZIP Code boundary polygons
nice! but DMAchoice has no effect on EDDM delivery, it only affects mail that is directly addressed to you. anything addressed to Postal Customer, Residential Customer, or any of the other names they use can not be stopped. Even if you put a sign on the mailbox that says 'No Junk Mail', a postal carrier is legally obligated to deliver EDDM correspondance to every stop on their route
konfusinomicon··on USPS now offers official ZIP Code boundary polygons
most people dont know that zip codes are specific to the postal service and dont have anything to do with actual municipal government boundaries. the hierarchy of geo boundaries and the ways to locate and communicate within them is way more interesting than one would believe!
konfusinomicon··on USPS now offers official ZIP Code boundary polygons
this data has been monetized for decades
konfusinomicon··on USPS now offers official ZIP Code boundary polygons
blame EDDM, aka junk mail, aka physical SPAM that you can not opt out of. its a jobs program that I suppose also benefits the paper product recycling industry
konfusinomicon··on USPS now offers official ZIP Code boundary polygons
bottom line is that this should be open source and available on the US governments dataset website.
konfusinomicon··on Earliest evidence of cannabis use found in ancient Siberian tomb
they will ruin it by crossing it with whatever commercial strain that seemingly everything is derived from these days. gone are the days of old where variety was the spice of life. where are the strains like the early 2000s NY haze and diesel when we need them most!
konfusinomicon··on We've built an open-source feature flag server for 11 years
managed in the sense that values keep getting thrown onto the pile and then people somehow manage to never think about or touch them ever again regardless of their temporary nature
konfusinomicon··on Beam: Reflection's 501B open-weight model
forget the data....sell it and go live your life!
konfusinomicon··on Samsung accidentally freezes its smart fridges with a software update
damn I really like my samsung fridge and dishwasher that ive had for just over 2 years. Hopefully my fate is not the same cause that dishwasher is quieter than a church mouse. if it is, back to the scratch and dent appliance store for something else I guess
konfusinomicon··on US halts flights at busy East Coast airports, says fiber line cut
last time this happened in my area a local farmer was burying a cow and took out the whole towns connection
konfusinomicon··on Muse – Meta’s personal AI agent
just wait til its got all the sweet sweet meta glasses data that is about to come pouring in.
konfusinomicon··on 216M Spy TVs – The LG Smart TV Problem [video]
there is a tiny physical switch right next to the power button on my lg tv that supposedly turns off the tv microphone. the remote mic has no such switch though
konfusinomicon··on Advertise in ChatGPT
that kind of agility requires coffee, amphetamines, and copious amounts of IPA. the cyber-athlete electrolyte trifecta
konfusinomicon··on Italy's Bending Spoons, Owner of AOL and Vimeo, Files for Nasdaq IPO
I guess somebody out there has gotta make the croutons
konfusinomicon··on RIP social media. What comes next is messy
you must be fun at parties
konfusinomicon··on The X-Files has made me nostalgic for a time I never experienced
for 200 billion you better throw in knowing what you know now in to the mix, then it would pay for itself
konfusinomicon··on Can you stop beans from making you gassy?
can confirm. worked in a very small office with a guy who didn't give a damn. silent but deadly doesnt do it justice. between that, a single bathroom right across from the secretaries desk (the unfortunate lady she was), and the sound of coworkers breathing, it was unbearable to say the least
konfusinomicon··on GPT-5.5
soooooo about Claude going down. we're gonna need you to sign in on Saturday and make up for lost time or unfortunately we're going to have to deduct the time lost from your paycheck. and as an aside your TPS reports have been sub-par as of late..is everything OK?
konfusinomicon··on PHP 8.6 Closure Optimizations
not designed, it was destined
konfusinomicon··on Learn Claude Code by doing, not reading
im fiarly certain the knob on the machine that controls length of redundant comments and docblocks is cranked to 11. it makes me curious how much of their bottom line is driven by redundant comment output.
konfusinomicon··on Police used AI facial recognition to wrongly arrest TN woman for crimes in ND
iirc the dog was a dangerous animal and had attacked people and animals uprovoked quite a few times. didnt hear about it so not sure about the horses, but typically people dont just execute horses when they aren't injured or at risk of living out a traumatic existence. who knows, media spins and all that jazz, but I wouldn't hesitate to end a liability of a dangerous dog or a horse in suffering that had no chance of recovery, however reluctant id feel in the moment
konfusinomicon··on CERN uses tiny AI models burned into silicon for real-time LHC data filtering
turns out we still needs more vibes
konfusinomicon··on Thoughts on slowing the fuck down
same experience here. trust deficits so rampant i question if ive ever been right once in my career. dont forget the lack of the word 'iterate' in the decision makers vocabulary. and as soon as the word sunset is uttered you know your in for a bumpy ride once again
konfusinomicon··on Humans 40k yrs ago developed a system of conventional signs
I like to think that bird song, evolved over millions of years going back to their dinosaur ancestors, is a language that encodes vast amounts of information that our brains can't even begin to understand the complexities of
konfusinomicon··on Using AI generated images to get refunds
back to the blockchain!
konfusinomicon··on Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros
its wabbit season I guess
konfusinomicon··on How Charles M Schulz created Charlie Brown and Snoopy (2024)
snoopy is the perfect dog name
konfusinomicon··on Robert Redford has died
my favorite performance of his! its a movie that keeps you on the edge of your seat the whole time. so many anxiety inducing moments, especially for those who fear the ocean
konfusinomicon··on Hosting a website on a disposable vape
living that cloud life
konfusinomicon··on Using Claude Code to modernize a 25-year-old kernel driver
yes they do! those are the humans that pass down those lost arts even if the audience is a handful. to trust an amalgamation of neurally organized binary carved intricately into metal with deep and often arcane knowledge and the lineage of lessons that produced it is so absurd that if a catastrophe that destroyed life as we know it did occur, we deserve our fate of devolution back to stone tools and such.
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