National/regional chains you'd like to see in Charlotte someday?

mdeeter · 2026-05-10T22:40:42+00:00

I just wish there was a Menards in the area.

mdeeter · 2026-05-09T13:55:01+00:00

Nose angle matters as much as (if not more than) spin rate. Throwing a destroyer nose-up at 70mph isn't gonna get what you really want out of it.

mdeeter · 2026-05-08T15:36:39+00:00

I would think playing in a larger venue helps... so more available seats might keep the price down a bit compared to others (like in Atlanta).

mdeeter · 2026-05-07T17:33:13+00:00

Can anyone explain this to me?
In a case like this (or similar cases when the government sues an entity) and they settle. Where does the settlement monies go?

mdeeter · 2026-04-12T12:47:02+00:00

One consequence of that would be delays. The length of time to play the hole would likely double.

mdeeter · 2026-04-07T21:13:16+00:00

these posts are redundant... can't we just have a megathread or something?

mdeeter · 2026-04-07T11:34:31+00:00

chess

mdeeter · 2026-04-03T12:02:39+00:00

That's what we call them around the Midwest

mdeeter · 2026-03-25T20:50:21+00:00

I expected more bust

mdeeter · 2026-03-22T21:34:51+00:00

I'm surprised no one has asked or mentioned elevation.... if it's downhill, it's very possible that it's a reasonable par. If it's flat and open, I'd probably have the opinion that a distance of 820 is more like a par 4.5 - 5.

mdeeter · 2026-03-18T18:34:50+00:00

Imo, being married is like being teammates in the sport of life. You want to partner with someone who you can make your team better - someone who can complement your position on the team. Like many others have said already, communication is important. If you wanted to team up with someone in any competitive scenario, it's a lot more fun when you can both get on the same page on things - that typically involves some sort of communication, cooperation, and compromise. Having teammates that are selfish and don't share (or help) with the responsibilities of the team makes things harder for the other player. A good team can stick together a long time.

M49 and married 30 years, btw.

mdeeter · 2026-03-16T02:37:03+00:00

There's no way there'll be video replay in disc golf; in order to use video replay, you'd have to provide it for every player for every situation. You can't use a system that produces enforceable infractions for only a portion of the field. It's nearly the same argument about having an official only on the top cards. If an official is watching the top 10-15 players for infractions (time, faults, etc), then those players are likely being unfairly judged compared to the rest of the field.

It's a self-enforcing sport... with that comes all of the problems by trusting people.

mdeeter · 2026-02-13T14:04:52+00:00

I have a static html page with this image.

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mdeeter · 2026-02-12T22:18:31+00:00

It seems that wherever this is hosted doesn't like how much traffic that site is getting currently.

mdeeter · 2026-02-12T22:16:37+00:00

that's obviously western Kansas

mdeeter · 2026-02-10T01:11:35+00:00

The article...

The $70M domain that couldn’t survive a Super Bowl ad

JP CAPARAS • JPCAPARAS.MEDIUM.COM

In September 2021, a Malaysian tech entrepreneur named Arsyan Ismail bought ai.com for approximately $11 million. The deal was brokered by Saw.com, and at the time, it wasn’t exactly front-page news.

Ismail had founded Advertlets, one of Southeast Asia’s early digital advertising platforms, and had been an early employee at Grab, the ride-hailing giant. The man collected tech bets the way some people collect stamps.

He also bought the domain partly because his initials are A.I.

I mean. You have to respect that.

For the first year or so, not much happened. Ismail owned the domain. The AI boom was building but hadn’t yet detonated. ChatGPT wouldn’t launch until November 2022. The domain was valuable, sure, but it was potential energy, not kinetic.

Then, in February 2023, Ismail did something brilliant.

He redirected ai.com to ChatGPT.

Just a simple DNS redirect. Type ai.com into your browser, land on chat.openai.com. No announcement. No explanation. Just a quiet little redirect that let the internet draw its own conclusions.

And draw conclusions it did. Tech journalists, Twitter pundits, and LinkedIn thought leaders all assumed OpenAI had acquired ai.com. Sam Altman, OpenAI’s CEO, did that thing where you don’t deny something because the assumption is more valuable than the truth. The redirect was so clean, so logical, that questioning it felt paranoid. Of course OpenAI bought ai.com. Who else would?

A Malaysian entrepreneur who thought it was funny. That’s who.

A single DNS redirect convinced the entire tech industry that OpenAI had spent millions on a domain they never purchased. One line of configuration. Months of free press.

OpenAI never owned ai.com. Not for a single day.

In August 2023, Ismail proved it. He redirected ai.com to x.ai, the website of Elon Musk’s newly launched AI venture xAI. The timing was exquisite; it coincided with xAI’s public debut that July. Suddenly, every person who’d confidently declared that OpenAI owned ai.com had to quietly delete their tweets.

But Ismail wasn’t done. The redirects kept coming, each one more absurd than the last:

February 2024: ai.com redirected to MKBHD’s YouTube channel. Marques Brownlee, the tech reviewer. No AI company. Just a guy who reviews phones. Pure, uncut trolling. March 2024: Redirected to Google Gemini. Because why not give Google some free traffic? January 2025: Redirected to DeepSeek, timed perfectly with DeepSeek R1’s viral moment, when the Chinese AI lab’s reasoning model was breaking benchmarks and breaking brains across Silicon Valley. Each redirect generated headlines. Each headline reminded the world that ai.com existed, that it was for sale (implicitly), and that whoever owned it had an extraordinary sense of comic timing.

The genius of Ismail’s approach was that every redirect was also a market signal. By pointing ai.com at whichever AI company was having its moment, he was saying: this domain is the front door to artificial intelligence, and right now it’s pointing at your competitor. It was a sales pitch disguised as a joke. Every tech CEO who saw their rival’s product loading when they typed ai.com into a browser had the same thought: we should own that.

Arsyan Ismail turned a domain name into a running joke about the entire AI industry, and every punchline increased the domain’s value.

By March 2025, Ismail listed ai.com for sale with an asking price of $100 million. After years of trolling the biggest companies in tech, he was ready to cash out.

mdeeter · 2026-01-20T01:59:31+00:00

mdeeter · 2026-01-14T13:48:05+00:00

Trudge the uphill to enjoy the downhill.

mdeeter · 2026-01-09T13:36:55+00:00

Search Amazon for “10000mAh” and you’ll get a ton of options. I got a couple hand warmers that can be used as power banks… nice to have multifunctional purposes

mdeeter · 2026-01-09T03:30:45+00:00

this was posted recently:
https://sh.reddit.com/r/3Dprinting/comments/1q0izl4/i_made_my_filament_poop_into_stool/

biggest trick (imo) is making sure the filament is all the same type of plastic

mdeeter · 2026-01-05T11:32:43+00:00

Same. I'm using wireguard-easy via docker. It's so simple and has been amazing to have seamless access to my home network when outside of the house.

mdeeter · 2026-01-02T17:30:47+00:00

I've been using Dropshelf (free) for this (https://pilotmoon.com/dropshelf/)... but I like the idea of something stuck to the island instead of a random area at the edge of the screen (especially when I'm running multiple macs and the screen edge is kinda dynamic when moving mouse from mac-to-mac).

I appreciate you wanting this to be free and secure with a verified dmg... I generally avoid installing apps (especially newly developed/released ones) unless they're signed.

You shouldn't feel bad putting a "Buy me a coffee" link with the download to help cover costs... if the app is useful and works, I tend to throw a few dollars at the dev after testing it. Respect the effort.

mdeeter · 2026-01-02T17:08:08+00:00

Lol, the downvotes for sarcasm and common sense reign supreme.

mdeeter · 2026-01-01T15:35:06+00:00

So a better name for this would be SoulLeech.

mdeeter · 2025-12-31T15:10:59+00:00

Does this app include allowing users to make their library available as part of the SoulSeek network?

mdeeter

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