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by creinhardt 6y ago
As far as I know, the weather.gov api is hosted out of a single facility (the NCEP NCO), and if that building has any sort of network issue, the api goes down. At the very least it seems like using some sort of CDN would provide a bit more
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by creinhardt 6y ago
And it has a built in printer? SOLD
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by creinhardt 6y ago
This is a great idea! Is there an online version of this installation anywhere? Or a list of cameras you use? Also, love those VFD displays! I did something similar with the public webcam feed from the top of Mt Hood in Oregon. Made a lil s
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by creinhardt 6y ago
My hunch on this was that there probably was a misconfiguration with whatever service they're using to send out emails. If they don't have the sending domain whitelisted with whatever service they're using, it can look super
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by creinhardt 6y ago
This. Having been in a similar scenario, the most frustrating part is hearing "there's a problem, it's bad enough that we're disabling your account, but we can't even give you a hint what the actual issue was. We
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by creinhardt 6y ago
Most medium to large media companies do have their own sales staff for online advertising! The problem generally is that they can't sell enough local/direct-sold ads at a high enough CPM to sell out their inventory. This is where
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by creinhardt 6y ago
Also, I'd love to see ad serving go back to direct sold simple images and links, with no tracking or programmatic targeting involved at all. Obviously for 99% of websites this is impossible, but it'd be more equitable long term.
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by creinhardt 6y ago
Google's true customers are the people buying ads in the first place. They could care less about publishers. Banning one publisher (unless it's truly massive), isn't going to have much effect to Google's bottom line, so
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by creinhardt 6y ago
I think the NYT (and other very large publishers, WSJ, etc.) are the exception rather than the rule when it comes to subscription revenue. For a newspaper that serves a small town/mid size city there is a fixed number of people they ca
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by creinhardt 6y ago
I think people tend to underestimate how most publishers don't rely on subscription revenue to survive. All the money is in advertising, which is why I think you see less focus on trying alternative subscription models like this. It&#
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by creinhardt 7y ago
Yeah, this is the best one of these i've seen! Here's a SFW version too: https://www.goshdarnwebsite.com/
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by creinhardt 8y ago
A SFW version: https://www.goshdarnwebsite.com