Very few things impress me as much as this did. It has taken a clever idea to the next level of simplicity. I was expecting something similar to the one AvE took apart, but this one is completely different.
I'm not sure if the cells are custom made or if they are standard zinc air cells, but the way they've been used is extraordinary. Do standard zinc air cells liberate gas when discharged slowly without a ready source of oxygen?
I don’t get why people hate the COBOL programming language so much. It might be old but so is the C language and SQL queries but neither of them is called obsolete. COBOL has some advantages in the office environment – it’s very easy to read and understand and all of data storage routines are up front. Plus usually each part of a COBOL program is quite simple – far less complicated than the casts, pointers and direct memory access functions in C – and much less prone to programming mistakes.
Sources: Esri; TomTom North America, Inc.; Pitney Bowes Software Inc.; iconectiv. https://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=ae1af68c36284b808e2c460cff503a44
In the modern era, it’s important that everybody know how to do a little computer programming. Not an expert on every langauge, but basic profinency on the concepts behind computing coding can make individuals much more productive. It’s hard to describe how many times before, I’ve used little bits of code to make my life better, to automate processes, to find solutions to problems that nobody else has addressed.
Each area code in NY State has a little over 1 million residents outside of New York City, due to most of state traditionally having 7-digit dialing.
While in theory, within a area code can have 10 million numbers, there are restrictions on numbers that can be used in North American Plan, which gets you down to 7.9 million numbers. It wouldn’t work for example to give somebody the number 911-5424.
But it’s actually much less then 7.9 million numbers per area code, because they allocate numbers out of local exchanges, and many numbers remain unallocated but in ownership of local exchanges and carriers.
| NYS Population by Area Code | |
| Except for New York City-area codes, most areas codes in NYS have had between 1 to 1.5 million residents. | |
| Area Codes | Population |
|---|---|
| 212, 332, 646, 917 | 1,576,574 |
| 315, 680 | 1,439,945 |
| 347, 718, 917, 929 | 7,070,371 |
| 516 | 1,367,966 |
| 518, 838 | 1,413,733 |
| 585 | 1,093,867 |
| 607 | 750,511 |
| 631, 934 | 1,485,367 |
| 716 | 1,371,842 |
| 845 | 1,398,633 |
| 914 | 1,002,679 |
| Andy Arthur, 3/30/23 Source: Area Code Map, 2020 US Census Tracts. |
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