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cynar

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  • Should get a discount or something

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  • In the UK, they've taken some tills out. About 4 tills become 16 self checkouts. They still have plenty of tills for normal checkout.

    It definitely lets less staff get more people through, in less time. So far, it's not been excessively abused over here. It's also made my life significantly less annoying.

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  • To be fair, that's a fairly universal problem. In the UK it's a basket Vs trolley split. They do have trolley self checkouts, but it's separate, and mainly intended for scan as you shop.

    On a side note, what's with American supermarkets not having baskets at all. Did I just have really weird luck?

  • Should get a discount or something

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  • I went to the US for a few days. Their self checkouts seem to be universally awful, compared to the UK or German equivalent.

    While the hardware is far less reliable, and more convoluted, it's the users that seem the main issue. Self checkout is generally intended (over here) to shift the fast, small shops out of the main queues. 1 big line and a dozen or more tills. In the states they treat it as just another till. Built for trollies, and 1 queue per till. Combined with a slow user and it becomes hell rapidly.

  • I bought a £16 smartwatch just because it used USB-C

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  • I've got one of the bands (10, I think). That seems to be a solved problem. I can't interact with it in the shower, but it doesn't go haywire.

    As for the heart rate, it's at least consistent. It matches what my blood pressure measurements report, and follows exercise, rather than steps.

    I'm bad at breaking or losing watches. I don't buy expensive smart watches, I aim for a cheap, functional one.

  • Popup Ads in Your Pickup Truck? RAM Trucks Now Feature Scammy Ads on the Center Display

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  • I think it's more that if you stop advertising, you start seeing a significant drop in sales. It's an easy experiment to test.

    The dark art is increasing sales via advertising. That's where the marketing people pull off the real bullshit.

  • Popup Ads in Your Pickup Truck? RAM Trucks Now Feature Scammy Ads on the Center Display

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  • Apparently it's mostly about familiarity. Even if we are annoyed at the time, we will often forget about it completely between then and shopping. By the time we are in the shop, we just have a vague sense of familiarity with the product. We instinctively buy the more familiar, as the "safer" option. It takes conscious effort to overcome this (which most people don't have to spare).

    In saturated markets, this leads to a zero sum situation. Every customer you get is stolen from a competitor. Apparently the tobacco companies actually loved the UK ban on tobacco advertising. Their ads were intended to counter the ads of their competitors. None of them were roping in new smokers at a high enough rate to matter. The only ones winning were the ad agencies.

  • Trump Threatens Federal Takeover of Washington After Member of DOGE Is Assaulted

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  • There needs to be room to escalate. Ultimately he's just a small fry patsie. By keeping it light, it sends a message, but makes it easy for police to keep it low priority.

    There's also the fact that we don't even know if it's related to his role. He might just have mouthed off at a couple of teenagers, and gotten "educated".

  • It must have been a whole lot more difficult to design and build tall buildings before computers existed

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  • They really are

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  • That's the danger. Stewing isn't confronting them. It's the difference between climbing into the water, in a leaking ship to bail it out, and climbing into to wallow in it.

    This is actually why therapy is so helpful to many. The setting makes you confront things properly. You also have a guide. They are a sounding board for you. They also act to keep you on an even keel, and pull you back, if you get too deep. They can walk into the trenches with you, without the baggage asking a friend for that help entails.

    The idea is to crystallise, into words, what is attacking you. By crystallising it, it is 90% resolved. Once you understand what it's trying to tell you, and accept (even if you don't agree) it loses its power over you, and fades, leaving the clean memories behind.

    The quote from dune is quite apt, even though it's aimed at fear. It applies to negative memories as well.

  • It must have been a whole lot more difficult to design and build tall buildings before computers existed

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  • I still love that the basilica cathedral, in Barcelona, was designed upside down.

    Stone only works under compression. If any area ends up under tension, it will just fall apart. String only works under tension, if it is under compression, it crumples. Critically, if you invert the model, the forces invert. The basilica was designed as a string model upside down. This made mismatched forces obvious, and is easy to correct.

    Historical designers had a lot of tricks, that we have mostly forgotten, to make things work.

  • Good morning, please have a thought you probably never had before.

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  • They really are

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  • Everyone is different, and that's ok. It might be worth considering however. I know for me, the negativity will linger until I express it. Having another person around also acts as an emotional regulator. Their emotional reaction to your stories acts to restabilise your own.

    Negativity and negative thoughts often grow in the shadows. By pushing straight into them, you can often resolve and disperse them. They exist to make you confront something. Once you've done that, their existence is no longer required, and it's easier to let them go.

    A few drinks, or some ice-cream traditionally helps this process.

    As I said, everyone is different, so what works for others, might now work for you. It's worth considering however, if it can help free up the good memories.

  • They really are

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  • I've found it helpful for lancing the feelings of loss and pain from otherwise positive memories. I want those memories, and I don't want them poisoned by the negative feelings. By going through them I can decouple them from the loss and express that. It also lets me vent it in a controlled way.

  • Inheritance

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  • The extreme masochists begin to back slowly away in alarm.

  • Make sure to feel insufficient

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  • That would make sense. Unfortunately, first class is at the front, and that boards first. It sort of flows from there.

    I've also seen enough people abusing the overhead lockers to completely break back to front boarding. They get on and just stick their bag in the first available space, before heading back. Now, when the people at the front board, their bag space is taken up already. They now have to fight to the back, on landing to get their bags.

  • What is the best Power Outlet, and why?

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  • The fuse is in the plug itself. It goes with the cable. That's the point of it! 🤣 It lets you down rate your cables from the breaker rating.

  • What is the best Power Outlet, and why?

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  • The fuses aren't to protect the circuit, they protect the end and intermediate devices. The breakers protect the actual circuit.

    E.g. you've got a thin flex for a low power lamp. You don't have to worry about a short allowing 40A to flow down a 2A cable.

  • What is the best Power Outlet, and why?

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  • Fuses mean protection is localised. If the socket is good for 13A, but the cable is only safe to 5A, you can fuse at 3A or 5A, and know it's safe.

    This is partially useful for extension leads. We don't have to worry about overloading a multiway extension. If we do, it will pop a 10p fuse, rather than cause a house fire.

  • What is the best Power Outlet, and why?

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  • For safety, the BS1363 (UK, type G) is by far the best.

    • It's fused. (Seriously why the hell aren't all plugs fused!)
    • Live and neutral can't be reversed.
    • Holes are gated (so no kids sticking spoons in).
    • High capacity, 240V at 13A gives 3kW of power.

    It's only real downside is its size.