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#41

Great Lakes and Ohio Valley / Re: Indiana Notes

Last post by seicer - August 30, 2025, 10:51:17 PM

US 40 for All project website

#42

Road Trips / Re: CoreySamson's Road Trip Re...

Last post by pderocco - August 30, 2025, 10:46:50 PM

Where I grew up in Massachusetts, grates are common on bridges, because snow can fall through the openings, or be pushed through by tires. We probably had more snow than you do in OK.

#43

Traffic Control / Re: Normally covered/dark/blan...

Last post by CoreySamson - August 30, 2025, 10:33:28 PM

I found an interesting dark electronic sign in Claremore, OK today here...



Seems like it should light up whenever a train is crossing the parallel tracks, similar to the Houston example I posted earlier in the thread. But this one looks like it has been here a lot longer than that Houston one (at least since 2008, according to GSV).

#44

Traffic Control / Re: Unique, Odd, or Interestin...

Last post by CoreySamson - August 30, 2025, 10:19:05 PM

Some signs from today's day trip:

The letter A that way?


That's a really big sign for not that much information.


Ewwww.
https://maps.app.goo.gl/eooKBPpDsNSiybTz6

#45

Mid-South / Re: Construction begins on Sou...

Last post by msunat97 - August 30, 2025, 10:02:28 PM

The highway 82 expansion from Starkville to Winona took forever so the slow pace of this project fits

#46

Mid-South / Re: I-49 in Arkansas

Last post by msunat97 - August 30, 2025, 10:00:28 PM

Would Oklahoma DOT put up the funds and do the work to run I49 on their side of the border or is I49 from Ft Smith to Texarkana exclusively an Arkansas thing?

#47

Off-Topic / Re: Random Thoughts

Last post by Max Rockatansky - August 30, 2025, 09:44:05 PM

My wife's friend from college got her a box seat ticket at the Fresno State football game tonight.  It looks nice from the photos, especially since she is getting free food.  I'd like to have gone but I'm okay sitting down drinking the last couple beers and watching my game on TV.

#48

Traffic Control / Re: Unique, Odd, or Interestin...

Last post by vdeane - August 30, 2025, 09:39:37 PM

NY strikes again:

Marketplace Mall guide sign by Harvestman Man, on Flickr


And no, nothing has ever graced the lonesome right side of this sign.

This sign has since been replaced.

#49

Off-Topic / Re: Minor things that bother y...

Last post by Scott5114 - August 30, 2025, 08:44:07 PM

Computer popups that want me to upgrade or change something or another, but the only options are [UPGRADE NOW] or [REMIND ME LATER].  But the option I really want is [NEVER, SO DON'T ASK ME AGAIN].

Won't you think of the dollars, though? If you answer something so callously and with such finality as "Never, don't ask me again", it makes the dollars sad. What if you really do mean never?

Won't you think of the dollars, in their time of need? Their time of needing more dollars?

Sometimes it's not even the dollars, it's "the team that came up with this feature has a KPI of getting X% of users to actually use it, and if they don't use the feature because it sucks, the team's manager will have a hissy fit about it".

I suspect that's happening with every app that has an AI feature for some reason now.

Why the hell would I need an AI to read a newspaper? Isn't the newspaper itself supposed to be summarizing what happened? If I needed a summary of the summary, isn't that what the headline and lede are for?

That one usually is the dollars, but in the even dumber way of "these investors with lots of money think AI is the future, so if we stuff our product full of AI they'll give us some of their money". Tech investors love hyping up technologies that they're momentarily obsessed with (see also anything related to the blockchain).

I'm rather pleased that NFTs seem to have died an ignominious death.

#50

Off-Topic / Re: Minor things that bother y...

Last post by TheCatalyst31 - August 30, 2025, 08:41:20 PM

Computer popups that want me to upgrade or change something or another, but the only options are [UPGRADE NOW] or [REMIND ME LATER].  But the option I really want is [NEVER, SO DON'T ASK ME AGAIN].

Won't you think of the dollars, though? If you answer something so callously and with such finality as "Never, don't ask me again", it makes the dollars sad. What if you really do mean never?

Won't you think of the dollars, in their time of need? Their time of needing more dollars?

Sometimes it's not even the dollars, it's "the team that came up with this feature has a KPI of getting X% of users to actually use it, and if they don't use the feature because it sucks, the team's manager will have a hissy fit about it".

I suspect that's happening with every app that has an AI feature for some reason now.

Why the hell would I need an AI to read a newspaper? Isn't the newspaper itself supposed to be summarizing what happened? If I needed a summary of the summary, isn't that what the headline and lede are for?

That one usually is the dollars, but in the even dumber way of "these investors with lots of money think AI is the future, so if we stuff our product full of AI they'll give us some of their money". Tech investors love hyping up technologies that they're momentarily obsessed with (see also anything related to the blockchain).