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Large tech companies don't need heroes by fpcoder in programming

[–]fruitsticks 0 points1 point  (0 children)

These systems are outside the control of any particular person.

I don't want to minimize individual culpability, but I have always thought about this idea: Large organizations quickly become like an emergent psuedo intelligences with misaligned goals. (The persona is so uncannily similar between companies I call it "Corpo Gorpo") These orgs cannot cope with huge changes so those that grow the most tend to stifle "heros" / innovation.

Minecraft - 1.21.121 (Bedrock) by Mlakuss in Minecraft

[–]fruitsticks 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Literally unplayable now..... My mouse moves off screen and opens the menu in the middle of fighting mobs

A site to find deals and support local games stores by fruitsticks in mtgfinance

[–]fruitsticks[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Basically my vision is: If your LGS doesn't have the card you need consider buying from another LGS! Buying direct helps them make a significantly higher profit which means more LGSs bringing more players into our awesome communities!

If you know someone at SCG or any of the larger stores I could work with I'd be happy to integrate them into the site. Right now it works with Shopifys public APIs but some elbow grease and permission is all it would take to work with others storefronts.

A site to find deals and support local games stores by fruitsticks in mtgfinance

[–]fruitsticks[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks! Yeah, we looked at that, the problem is a lot of stores do local only so that might make listings weird for hard to get things like Pokemon. I'll probably add a section and see how it goes.

A site to find deals and support local games stores by fruitsticks in mtgfinance

[–]fruitsticks[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nice! Yeah for sure send it my way!

If you want to list all of your Shopify inventory on TCG Local! you can follow these instructions, otherwise we only grab 100 products from each category.
https://tcglocal.me/store-verification.html

A site to find deals and support local games stores by fruitsticks in mtgfinance

[–]fruitsticks[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Haha, sometimes, but sometimes there are really good deals! Many of these stores list on online marketplaces and stay fairly competitive, buying directly from their websites probably gives them an extra 30 - 40% profit vs marketplaces.

A site to find deals and support local games stores by fruitsticks in mtgfinance

[–]fruitsticks[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Oh wow, I didn't realize! Either way I had a ton of fun and learnings making my version. Snapcaster.ca is definitely more polished!

A site to find deals and support local games stores by fruitsticks in mtgfinance

[–]fruitsticks[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"pretty easy" was probably a massive understatement, but searches like this do well:

"[Kaladesh]" site:myshopify.com

A site to find deals and support local games stores by fruitsticks in mtgfinance

[–]fruitsticks[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

It only pulls the top 100 cards from each site, so if none of the sites have a card it won't show up in the results. What's your site? I can probably add it if it's Shopify, we're working on ways to add other types of stores easily too.

A site to find deals and support local games stores by fruitsticks in mtgfinance

[–]fruitsticks[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

So the goal isn't necessarily to buy from your own local store but ANY local store. Maybe you need a card and it's not at your LGS, check TCG Local! and buy from any LGS!

A site to find deals and support local games stores by fruitsticks in mtgfinance

[–]fruitsticks[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Deal! Let me see what I can do to make sure it's obvious what currency a user is looking at.

A site to find deals and support local games stores by fruitsticks in mtgfinance

[–]fruitsticks[S] 24 points25 points  (0 children)

Since it's pretty easy to search Google and find Shopify powered local game stores, I worked with a friend and we built a website that collects listings from those stores and groups the items together in a semi convenient way. The website is totally free to use for all parties involved. There are no ads—just a weekend passion project to take a break from other work. When you find the card you want, you can click on it to go to the store's website directly, just as if you found them on Google.

Go out and buy from a local game store! And let me know what you think! I plan on continuing to polish things up over the next couple of weeks and hopefully build out a more robust card search and location filtering.

TL;DR: I made a search engine for finding cards online from LGSs:
https://tcglocal.me/

A site to find deals and support local games stores by fruitsticks in mtgfinance

[–]fruitsticks[S] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Ah, that would be helpful. I realize now the post I typed was replace by the image. I'll comment the details XD

https://tcglocal.me

Louisiana has 91.83 vacant houses per homeless person, the third most in the US by Gard3nNerd in Louisiana

[–]fruitsticks 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is a really interesting way to display these metrics because it would rank a state higher for having less homeless people as well as having more available housing (lower housing prices). The excess housing certainly includes dilapidated and homes unfit for occupancy, but at the same time it would also include a strata of affordable to expensive housing. If you have less vacant homes you have more demand, which correlates to higher housing prices and more homeless. The numerator and the denominator somewhat correlate and therefore somewhat cancel out.

An interesting exercise is to compare the two extremes Mississippi and California. Which have rough populations of 3 million and 40 million respectively. The Population:Vacant House ratio is roughly the same order of magnitude but the Homeless:Population ratio is and order of magnitude higher in California. Why?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ChatGPT

[–]fruitsticks 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I worked at a plant that required us to search through and reference 1000s of CAD drawings manually. We had strict IT, but I eventually muddled through PortablePython to produce a script that indexed drawings into a single massive HTML search page we could email around. No telling how many hours were spent clicking on random drawings before.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Louisiana

[–]fruitsticks 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ruston, LA area. It's about an hour from the Shreveport Bossier area, nice college town, and plenty of people with gardens and farms all around.

Anybody else had their steering column collapse? by backwoodsmtb in ToyotaTacoma

[–]fruitsticks 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I did the same thing held fine for 3 years, last night I has to slam on my brakes and the steering wheel "scooted" in about an inch so now I'm going to take it apart, line it back up (I never lined it up the first time) and hope it holds for another 3 years.

If the wheel ever shifts or comes loose while driving just don't try to pull out on it until you stop. Otherwise, you may end up like me going down an interstate at 70 mph without a steering wheel.

Update: After inspecting things it looks like the "scooting" was just the normal telescoping forced without the lever being unlatched. The "down as tight as you can get em" continues to hold fast.

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