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Re: [OT] was: Buffer Overflow in LISP

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Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> writes:

> "Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb@informatimago.com> writes:
>
>> Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> writes:
>>
>>> taruss@google.com writes:
>>>> This sounds like a great premise for an April 1st post. Especially since
>>>> one could work autonomous drone delivery of the phones into it. Maybe
>>>> I'll try writing that next year...
>>>
>>> Someone wrote a program a while back, not even on April 1, that would
>>> simultaneously order a pizza delivered to some random location in your
>>> city, and call an Uber to get you to that location to receive the pizza.
>>>
>>> I don't know if there's a word for something funny and horrible at the
>>> same time, but that would qualify.
>>
>> The truth is that I've lived in a lot of different places (not
>> excessively many, but still), and strangely enough, a surprising high
>> number of them didn't have an address that was easy to find for people
>> not knowing where they were.  And mind you, all those places had
>> definite specific addresses, I'm not speaking of places in a desert, but
>> civilized streets.
>>
>> Therefore, I wouldn't find useless such a service, where you would meet
>> the delivery man at a place at an address more easily found…  At least
>> until NAC codes are generalized http://www.nacgeo.com/nacsite/
>
> There's always "what three words": https://what3words.com/
>
> Not yet sure if it's just a neat idea or a useful one.

Depending on what word you pluralize you get different positions in
different continents.  I deem that a defect, it shouldn't be that
sensitive to the spelling.

-- 
__Pascal J. Bourguignon__
http://www.informatimago.com

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Buffer Overflow in LISP yara.huss.113@gmail.com - 2019-04-25 03:52 -0700
  Re: Buffer Overflow in LISP shcv@sdf.org - 2019-04-25 09:21 -0400
  Re: Buffer Overflow in LISP "Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb@informatimago.com> - 2019-04-25 15:21 +0200
    Re: Buffer Overflow in LISP Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2019-04-25 11:04 -0400
      Re: Buffer Overflow in LISP "Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb@informatimago.com> - 2019-04-25 19:22 +0200
        Re: Buffer Overflow in LISP Spiros Bousbouras <spibou@gmail.com> - 2019-04-28 08:34 +0000
          Re: Buffer Overflow in LISP Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2019-04-29 12:31 -0400
        Re: Buffer Overflow in LISP a.daniel.eliason@gmail.com - 2019-05-23 08:35 -0700
          Re: Buffer Overflow in LISP Kaz Kylheku <847-115-0292@kylheku.com> - 2019-05-23 17:02 +0000
            Re: Buffer Overflow in LISP Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2019-05-30 15:50 -0400
          Re: Buffer Overflow in LISP "Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb@informatimago.com> - 2019-05-23 19:30 +0200
            Re: Buffer Overflow in LISP taruss@google.com - 2019-05-24 10:40 -0700
              Re: Buffer Overflow in LISP Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2019-05-24 10:45 -0700
                Re: Buffer Overflow in LISP "Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb@informatimago.com> - 2019-05-24 23:27 +0200
                [OT] was: Buffer Overflow in LISP Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2019-05-24 22:46 +0100
                Re: [OT] was: Buffer Overflow in LISP "Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb@informatimago.com> - 2019-05-25 01:00 +0200
                Re: [OT] was: Buffer Overflow in LISP Kaz Kylheku <847-115-0292@kylheku.com> - 2019-05-24 23:46 +0000
                Re: [OT] was: Buffer Overflow in LISP Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2019-05-25 01:35 +0100
                Re: Buffer Overflow in LISP Jason Cornez <jcornez@ravenpack.com> - 2019-05-29 16:10 +0200
                Re: Buffer Overflow in LISP "Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb@informatimago.com> - 2019-05-29 20:25 +0200
      Re: Buffer Overflow in LISP Vladimir Sedach <vsedach@oneofus.la> - 2019-09-22 21:26 -0700
        Re: Buffer Overflow in LISP Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2019-09-23 00:45 -0400

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