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ch00f

@ ch00f @lemmy.world

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  • Removed

    Trans people in Kansas are being ordered to surrender their drivers licenses

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  • I assume the ID should also reflect your hair color and height at birth too?

  • Burger King will use AI to check if employees say ‘please’ and ‘thank you’

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  • I used to work for a consultancy that tried to bill themselves as experts in VR/AR. This is back in 2017 or so. We helped a client make a 3D tracking system with VR/AR applications, and this client let us kind of run with it.

    Anyway, I was sort of head of this AR/VR thing, and we were always desperate for free advertising, so I somehow got pulled to provide my thoughts on the impact of VR/AR on the grocery store industry for an article in "The Grocer" or some other industry mag.

    Leading up to the call, I was trying to think of what I'd say. My thoughts were on building out virtual grocery stores to test customer reactions before building them for real. Bring in some test subjects, see how they plan their route, how they react to different placements of goods. Track their eye movements to see if the new end-cap design is working. Time how long they spend in the store, etc. Are the aisles too narrow and claustrophobic. I got the idea from another client who was using VR to test out new detergent bottle concepts (apparently a one-off of a blow-molded bleach bottle is crazy expensive).

    Well my consultancy had been purchased by a multinational conglomerate a year or so prior, so I got a phone call from some C-suite ass who wanted to brief me on what they wanted me to say to the magazine.

    His idea was a service where you could have a store employee wear some kind of camera rig so the customer could sit at home in VR and pilot the employee around the store. This would essentially replace curbside pickup, but with the added benefit of "allowing the customer to pick which apple they want out of the bunch."

    I resolved to ignore that advice, but the whole magazine thing ended up falling through anyway. I quit within the year.

  • Might as well make Mankind's Mr. Socko its own species

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  • Employa destroya 🫵😫

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  • Yeah, I haven't gone since. And I'm not going to not tip because it's expensive. It's just that when you're paying $18 for a cocktail, you don't exactly expect the bar to turn into a vending machine.

    This was also after being told I was "in the wrong line" for the cocktail I wanted to order. And other people were walking in wearing basketball shorts. It was really quite a scene.

  • Employa destroya 🫵😫

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  • It was $18.

  • Employa destroya 🫵😫

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  • I once went to a fancy rooftop bar where I was asked to pay in full (with tip) up front for a cocktail. No idea how that place is still in business.

  • Yeah Why Are They

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  • I (American) remember visiting the UK for the first time when I was like 8. I remember thinking it odd that they referred to "car accidents" as "car crashes."

    They're not all accidents.

  • Expecto patronum my ass!

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  • I like how Misfits and Magic handles this where wizards straight just have never heard of nuclear weapons.

  • Man accidentally gains control of 7,000 robot vacuums

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  • But he soon discovered that the same credentials that allowed him to see and control his own device also provided access to live camera feeds, microphone audio, maps, and status data from nearly 7,000 other vacuums across 24 countries. The backend security bug

    I feel like "bug" is doing a looot of heavy lifting here.

  • Honda unveils new electric moped cheaper than gasoline equivalent, no motorcycle license needed

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  • Wondering when they'll start making two-wheel drive motorcycles. Something trivially easy for EVs. Not so for gas.

  • Gottem

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  • Double plus good idea.

  • Little baby has a plushie friend now

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  • Gottem

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  • Also, the nocebo effect is real.

  • What's a joke or reference in a piece of media that you saw but didn't understand until years or even decades later?

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  • Daredevil's sensei is Stick. TMNT is Splinter. The baddies in Daredevil are "The Hand," in TMNT, they're "The Foot."

    And the radioactive mutigen that mutated the turtles came from the same canister that blinded Murdock.

  • it's so blatant once you notice it

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  • it's so blatant once you notice it

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  • As someone who used dude-Siri when I still carried Apple hardware, people always asked why I changed it.

  • conspiracy rule

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  • Ah thanks for the correction. Makes sense that it had to happen during TLI since the SM engine wouldn’t have enough fuel for TLI, entering moon orbit, and exiting moon orbit.

    I guess in my memory I was thinking they wouldn’t do such a maneuver without an immediate abort plan, but I think the SM engine could do an immediate about face or at least (obviously) get back to Earth on the free-return path after one loop around the Moon.

  • conspiracy rule

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  • It orbited Earth several times before heading to the Moon. The maneuver that connected the LEM to the top of the command module happened in Earth orbit.

  • Bag it and tag it, bby

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  • A friend of mine studied penguins in Patagonia. When trying to wrangle one to study it, it suffered a heart attack and died. He was destroyed by what had happened.

    He kept its ankle band and wore it on a necklace. Despite being just a stamped bit of steel, they’re apparently highly regulated, so it’s rare to have one that’s not on a bird (not exactly sure if him having it was 100% above board).

    When he got married, he had it fashioned into his wedding band.

  • Fuck AI @lemmy.world
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    Basically every AI ad

  • Electrical and Computer Engineering @lemmy.world
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    How is STM32F407 more expensive than STM32H725?

  • Fuck AI @lemmy.world
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    I decided to look at the McDonald's AI ad shot by shot to find all the issues

  • Fuck Cars @lemmy.world
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    Seattle citizens protest the lack of bus lanes by "racing" the 8 bus in the silliest ways possible

  • 196 @lemmy.world
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    Ann Rule

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
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    Is there a good selfhosted service that can download and rehost tiktok links from a web ui?

  • Self Hosted - Self-hosting your services. @lemmy.ml
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    help

    “docker compose run” isn’t doing what I think it’s supposed to

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
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    Is there a way to batch export music from funkwhale for use in other apps?

  • Self Hosted - Self-hosting your services. @lemmy.ml
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    Any mobile keyboards (iOS or Android) that can transcribe using a self-hosted Whisper instance?

  • Lemmy.world Support @lemmy.world
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    I'm having trouble scrolling on lemmy.world

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
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    Does it ever make sense/is it possible to move certain docker volumes to another physical volume, but not all?

  • No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world
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    What happens to all the used guns?

  • Home Automation @lemmy.world
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    My password is like 20 random characters. I have no idea who Chris Jones is. I woke up to this.

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
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    Question about what to put on RAID and what to put on NVME

  • Woodworking @lemmy.world
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    Best way to finish this box?

  • Gaming @lemmy.ml
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    looking for story-based moderate puzzle games that can be played from the couch

  • Asklemmy @lemmy.ml
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    People under 25, how many of you are aware that you can get 1080p HD TV programming (and many live sports) for free over the air with no app sign-in or susbscription fee?

  • retrocomputing @lemmy.sdf.org
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    What’s the best method for documenting a ROM that I’m reverse-engineering?

  • RetroGaming @lemmy.world
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    Anybody tried one of these RPi based N64 cart dumpers off Aliexpress?

  • Fuck Cars @lemmy.ml
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    What Adults Lost When Kids Stopped Playing in the Street

    www.theatlantic.com /family/archive/2024/07/play-streets-children-adults/679258/