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382Whistles t1_j8tamlv wrote

They suck. Farm ore than the pizza.. but i digress..

It was once an acceptable pizza and a good deal, good delivery service ... last century. It has been that long since I ordered one.

I've have had a few bland slices since. My mass produced precooked rewarmed elementary school slop was better.

The corner shop is better and cheaper if you pick it up, a dollar more delivery and pretty fast, some crazy weekend delay every few years but hey. Similar pie to old Dominoes crust really, sweeter sauce no-H.burn.

Dominoes did create the time standard for food delivery that all similar service is now based on really. I think they shaved about 20 minutes off the average food times.

They cheaped out 1900s and have been surviving on a logo. Once market recognition is strong enough, it's really hard to fail anymore; "We're dumb". (i did ad work..disgusting uses of cool tricks, just look away)

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bothunter t1_j8t952g wrote

This had nothing to do with OCR -- it was due to compression artifacts. Specifically it looked for common patterns and created a lookup table to save space. It's just that some numbers and letters look similar enough to that algorithm that it didn't notice that a 6 and 8 were different "patterns"

And that was the issue -- nobody was using the Xerox to scan the text -- they just wanted it to make identical copies like all other Xerox machines did in the past.

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Goalie_deacon t1_j8t3o3d wrote

Nah, she thought he died in a shootout with the cops, not later by suicide. She also thought the big lawsuit that ended the 30 minute guarantee was by the Noid family, not related to a fatal crash from a bad pizza driver. Basically crossed up facts from different stories.

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