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Mid-South / Re: AR Highway 612

Last post by intelati49 - Today at 08:22:35 AM

If anyone has the PDF from the letting for the XNA/West leg, I'll appreciate it. I can't seem to grok the ardot site to find it.

Pixel 6a

#2

Sports / Re: Arizona Coyotes players ap...

Last post by webny99 - Today at 08:21:06 AM

Utah Saints:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_Saints

No thanks on this choice - I'm not a fan of the same team names being used in multiple sports to begin with, and the Jazz irony makes it even more distasteful.

#3

Great Lakes and Ohio Valley / Re: Indiana Notes

Last post by silverback1065 - Today at 08:17:38 AM

The drawings show all of the US 31 signage crossed out. I don't know if that's on a separate letting, but they're not included in the ones for US 20.

can you post a link to the plans? 

#4

Traffic Control / Re: 1-2-3 Route number Additio...

Last post by hotdogPi - Today at 08:10:37 AM

1455 = KY 1303 + US 127 + US 25  by formulanone

#5

General Highway Talk / Re: Roads that you have been o...

Last post by Quillz - Today at 08:02:48 AM

Many. Driven on CA-1, CA-27, CA-150, US-101, and many others all before some incident shut them down for extended periods of time.

#6

Suggestions and Questions / Re: Slow Forum

Last post by Alex - Today at 07:54:23 AM

It's running quite slow for me as well.

The main site has been sluggish all week, so that may be factoring into issues here.

Looks like another call to Ionos is in order... 

#7

Off-Topic / Re: Technology Random Access T...

Last post by GaryV - Today at 07:44:23 AM

VAX Fortran had ISAM (indexed sequenced access method) back in the late 1970s

Maybe we were just late adopters then. I didn't start at the company until late 1981, and I know there were a few years at least before we had ISAM.

#8

General Highway Talk / Re: What's the Closest Interst...

Last post by -- US 175 -- - Today at 07:18:11 AM

I-37 would be my closest guess.

#9

Mid-South / Re: Texas

Last post by -- US 175 -- - Today at 07:14:09 AM

IH 27 improvements from Canyon to Amarillo announced.

https://www.amarillo.com/story/news/2024/04/16/txdot-construction-upgrades-to-impact-i-27-from-amarillo-to-canyon/73345835007/

This is *long* overdue.

[Fortrash:]

#10

Off-Topic / Re: Technology Random Access T...

Last post by Scott5114 - Today at 06:39:17 AM

I mean, from what you hear from the Unix old timers, neither Fortran nor JCL were any good at being programming languages, so I'm not entirely sure you should feel bad about not being good at them:

Fortrash: /for·trash/, n.
Hackerism for the Fortran language, referring to its primitive design, gross and irregular syntax, limited control constructs, and slippery, exception-filled semantics.

JCL: /J·C·L/, n.
1. IBM's supremely rude Job Control Language. JCL is the script language used to control the execution of programs in IBM's batch systems. JCL has a very fascist syntax, and some versions will, for example, barf if two spaces appear where it expects one. Most programmers confronted with JCL simply copy a working file (or card deck), changing the file names. Someone who actually understands and generates unique JCL is regarded with the mixed respect one gives to someone who memorizes the phone book. It is reported that hackers at IBM itself sometimes sing "Who's the breeder of the crud that mangles you and me? I-B-M, J-C-L, M-o-u-s-e" to the tune of the Mickey Mouse Club theme to express their opinion of the beast.

2. A comparative for any very rude software that a hacker is expected to use. "That's as bad as JCL." As with COBOL, JCL is often used as an archetype of ugliness even by those who haven't experienced it. See also IBM, fear and loathing.