Washington State ferries are named after Washington State cities.
Washington State ferries also travel between Washington State cities.
Perhaps you can imagine the confusing sentences that ensue.
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@CptSuperlative I've been told that naming is one of the hardest problems in system design...
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The destination cities are coastal whereas the ship name cities are all inland, but still…
But is there a Washington State ferry named "Pullman?"
@CptSuperlative @idlestate I was going to go for "City of New Orleans" ... >.>
“there are only two hard things in computer science: number 0, cache invalidation, number 1, naming things, number 7, asynchronous callbacks, and number 2, off by one errors”
https://journeys.dartmouth.edu/folklorearchive/2017/11/12/cs_folklore-3/
