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by vgeek 5y ago
"Porter was jailed overnight on suspicion of resisting arrest, but never charged." How is this legal? You get pulled over and held for no reason other than asking why you were pulled over? Combine that with the fact that the offic
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This comes across as conspiracy theorish, but sadly isn't if you consider Thumbtack/Nest? getting penalties & reversals within a week. Maybe it was a coincidence that they had GV investments? When a non-affiliated site gets pe
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This is what is sad. During that time frame, BroadbandNow was 100% better (listing all providers vs just paying) than AllConnect. I didn't really know how large RV was until discovering their acquisition of Imagitas from the USPS, so
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This is so much more creative and effort intensive, versus say, what Bob Baffert does with milkshaking & doping horses in modern racing.
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by vgeek 5y ago
This is great. QGIS has to be one of the best pieces of OSS that I've ever encountered. Sure it has a steep learning curve, but it has so much flexibility. Chloropleths/USDOT data/USGS data and LeafletJS are where I've s
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If you want to roll your own tiles, you get tons of flexibility with your own tileserver, which is great if you want to change naming rules/styles/etc.. It is a rabbit hole to go down, since mapping is inherently fun. http:/
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by vgeek 5y ago
I've used Postgis for read only data with indexes on the spatial data, maybe 25mm rows with multiple joins and on cheap hardware it can easily return results in under 100ms. Nowhere near 500qps, though. Depending on your application, s
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These ice cream machines are very delicate and require 1.21 gigawatts of power to operate correctly.
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Exactly this. There are tons of essentially new old stock mechanical watches from all over the world (Vostok and other similar brands) that can be had in the $100 range, and the $300-500 range has lots of solid watches (maybe also Hamilton?
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by vgeek 5y ago
I worked at a 3rd tier (being generous), rural private liberal arts college that has had roughly 50% of the department leave within the past 3 months. Some (including myself) due to the essentially mandatory return (they have a new WFH poli
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Number of searches will correlate, but they also have the black box of Quality Score (essentially a proxy for CTR, but they can manipulate CPCs/CPMs other ways), where they can arbitrarily set price floors for given auctions. There are
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by vgeek 5y ago
Ever since the frame recall, the prices have been ludicrous for Tacomas. 1G with the 2/3RZ engines will run forever with little-no maintenance-- multiple people in my family have ones approaching 400k miles. They're utilitarian, r
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Maybe they were developed using The Conjoined Triangles of Success?
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The float from _allegedly_ having $xx,xxx,xxx,xxx in assets.
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Looks fun. My corgi will chase my Arrma Senton, but both are slower.
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So this + Rainbow tables = pretty quick administrator rights for anyone?
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It sucks, but now is probably one of the best times ever to sell. Even bad tables go for $3k+.
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by vgeek 5y ago
Maybe a combination of jQuery Data tables and Apache eCharts? Both have various output options (csv, pdf, png) and look pretty good without much effort.
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by vgeek 5y ago
So Mayor Tommy Carcetti didn't make a difference?
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They're still interesting to see as one perspective of their culture. Some are benign, others kind of lean towards propaganda almost.
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by vgeek 5y ago
Google Optimize is the only 0 cost and hosted tool that I've seen. Unfortunately, you're giving more data to Google. Most a/b tools quickly evolve into paid due to the nature of their complexity and users. VWO is probably you
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by vgeek 5y ago
I bought the A1up Attack From Mars and the screen was atrocious, the lexan was bad, the flippers buttons inconsistent, etc.. After spending another $2k on a pc, 32" 4k screen, backglass monitor, piece of glass, Virtualpin control kit,
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by vgeek 5y ago
https://www.mail-tester.com/ is a useful tool for testing. Gmail is hit or miss, even when dkim/spf/dmarc are setup correctly. It may work 70% of the time, but it becomes a constant guessing game if you inboxed or
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulford_Act Will this type of legislation make a resurgence as a result?
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Following up on their "chicken" not being chicken-- https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucelee/2017/02/28/subways-den... Maybe they should rebrand from "Eat fresh" to "Maybe this
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I've switched from digital marketing manager type roles with direct reports to an IC dev role at a much smaller organization at that. The pace is _much_ slower with lower expectations, and people don't seem as receptive to your fe
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I wondered if this was to compensate from eBay's recent push to shift payments to their own system versus Paypal after their split-- but per https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/PYPL/financials , Paypal's reve
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"Don't be evil.*" *certain exceptions apply
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This is a good thing. Everyone _should_ be happy to pay an extra 5-10% if it goes to the workers.
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by vgeek 5y ago
After encountering a lot of the "truck as an identity not utility" people, many couldn't tell you the displacement of their engine (or even a turbo 4 vs v6 vs which one of the v8 options), if it is FWD/RWD vs 4wd or othe

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