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by vgeek 5y ago
Software only tables do have all types of neat features that can't be matched mechanically-- namely the variety of "mini game" type tables that Zen has used on their own tables. I think the Stern AC/DC sub-table + Banza
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Popularity has exploded the last what, 3-5 years? Prices on Pinside are kind of insane as of lately. How much can be attributed to deeper rulesets (plus the beautiful LCD screens and LEDs) vs the uptick in the barcades where pinball co-exis
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The great part is that this is Stellantis we're talking about. They can barely make a vehicle that lasts as long as they finance them for and now they're talking about introducing subscription software?
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Why does it have to be Christmas and not Festivus? We can start airing our grievances here.
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I was investigating solutions for sensor SMS notifications & the best IoT type SIM plan that I came across was https://www.hologram.io/pricing/flexible-data . $1.50/line per month, $0.19/outbound SMS, dat
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Solutions to non problems that introduce larger problems are inherently bad solutions. Point 1) there are more bad actors wash trading, manipulating markets and pump & dump scams involved in crypto than any other markets. (Even ignori
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"Blockchain is so great, it had to invent off chain transactions to be practical" isn't the best argument for real world feasibility. LN has lots of centralization with popular nodes, if you're still paying for an on cha
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I have a corgi/beagle mix, so she loves to smell and doesn't have to crane her neck as much as a standard beagle. She loves to smell everything , so areas where other dogs have been are slow to traverse. She is smart and seems to
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Traffic enforcement is just a state/municipality funded jobs program. On the interstate they seem to solely target speeders, while ignoring the packs of cars following <1s behind each other-- which should be easy enough to spot whil
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How has a mortgage lead generation site raised nearly $1bb? There is another identical site named lower.com (creativity must be prohibited in the mortgage space? At least in the insurance space they use random names like TheZebra) that has
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Would a simple Pivottable using ODBC suffice?
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"We know what is best for you, consumer!"
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I've pondered this, too. Why not a DMOZ 2.0 type concept, where you seed the index with high quality sites and grow from there. Freshness won't matter as much for most topics, so crawling X times per day probably won't be nec
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The results keep getting "refined" so as to suit the popular 80% of queries, while getting much worse for any technical or obscure queries. Forced synonyms and "people also searched for" are typically useless and almost
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Frameworks run amok? Unecessary complexity to solve even more unecessary complexity. There are tons of smart people in tech who get bored and like to create things. In the 2000's many of smartest people were in finance and created CDOs
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https://dataforseo.com/ This is probably the most economical option. Semrush and Ahrefs have APIs that may be of interest, but they have a monthly subscription vs just purchasing credits.
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Yes. The decentralized web already existed. It was phpbb/vbulletin (or self hosted website) powered and had niche forums for all types of topics. You had an identity specific to that site, with each behaving as their own community with
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by vgeek 5y ago
10 companies are founding members, this Laravel blog lists 9, only omitting Symfony?
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Dollar Tree can't be beat for things like cleaning supplies, commodity-type CPG items like soap and seasonal decorations-- but those items likely aren't where they make their money (they average a 30% GM, imported trinkets will ha
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I assumed this was a step in conditioning users to search for the brand (and maybe click on the brand's ad, or a competitor's, instead of the organic listing halfway down the page) instead of navigating directly. They don't e
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One of Click and Clack's (of NPR's Car Talk) stories come to mind, where they replaced the stolen battery with a junky used one to spite the would be 2 time thief.
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The fun of DHTML menus and your Homestead website, complete with neon green hit counter and guest book.
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The unit above acts as an insulator, so you have a heated/cooled unit above you versus outside temperature. The ground itself is a fairly good insulator, too.
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https://mobile.twitter.com/atomicthumbs/status/1032939617404... Could this be related?
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WHT used to be the place for hosting. Psychz.net is old school, but William Lu was always solid back in the day. (+1 for someone from WickedFire, too)
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For eBay, I just search "1u server" or a specific make/model ("dell r720") then filter down from there. Once you find a combo that works, then search by that specific model or view the seller's other listings.
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https://xkcd.com/2030/
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Self hosted Matomo with rewrites so as to capture all JS-enabled visits. It doesn't integrate with Google Ads (so no GA segments as target within Ads), but it keeps data private. This is kind of futile, though, since 80%+ of traffic is
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How long until they come up with their own coin & ICO-- Bloom Institute Tech Coin? It probably won't be as onerous as most ISAs, at that.
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Obligatory Charlie eats a pear clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNdERWR3id0

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