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xsspup :blobhaj_hearttrans:

There's a bunch of fun replies that I haven't been able to keep up with entirely, but here's another fun postcode : 4825

It's non contiguous and has all these little broke on sections. It also crosses sate borders

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Daniel Carosone

@xssfox who has been gerrymandering the postcodes?!

Garth Kidd

@xssfox you’re SO close to being able to score post-codes on how cursed they are. I’ll just leave this here til.simonwillison.net/sqlite/s

GunChleoc

@xssfox The most common programmer's fallacies I encounter are:

- Sentences start with a noun
- Nouns have 1 singular form that maps to the number 1, and 1 plural form that maps to all other numbers

Both break down as soon as you ask people to translate your software to a language unlike English.

GunChleoc

@xssfox Two more postcode fallacies that I have encountered in the wild:

1. Postcodes have a maximum of 5 characters. Good luck entering a UK postcode into that German form...

2. British English for "Zip" is "Postcode". Send a zip file in Skype to get a good laugh

#i18n

Screenshot of a file for download in Skype. After the file size, it says "Postcode"
xsspup :blobhaj_hearttrans:

Fuck the people who say we shouldn't care about the users in 0872 because there's so few of them (~18k)

Many of these users are important and amazing. Many are vulnerable and need support. Entire communities of people.

Jean-Baptiste "JBQ" Quéru

@xssfox It would make more sense not to take care of US zip code 10118, since nobody lives there.

Jean-Baptiste "JBQ" Quéru

@xssfox The previous post is a joke, 10118 is the Empire State Building in New York City, which indeed has zero pemanent residents, but about 300 businesses, 7000 employees, and more than a billion US dollars of payroll.

Aphelion

@xssfox it would still matter even if there were only 18 people but...18k people is actually rather a lot 😳

cliffordheath

@xssfox Even Melbourne 2000 has discontiguous sections

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