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Martin

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  • 'It hasn't delivered': The spectacular failure of self-checkout technology

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  • I don't recognize these pain points. I always use the self checkout and it's usually quick and painless. My experience is.

    Edit: seems I made the assumption that everyone uses wireless scanner handles.

    1. When we enter the store we scan the ID to get a wireless scanner handle.
    2. Collect your wares, scan with the handle, placing them directly into the bags along the way.
    3. Put the handle back and blip your membership id (card or qr code on phone) again to start the checkout.
    4. Blip your payment card.
    5. Walk out

    Every once in a while I get caught in a random check, which is kind of a pain, but it's so infrequent that it is acceptable.

    Is this not how it usually works?

  • So many resources could be saved...

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  • You pay to get your car serviced but with your phone you don't even have that option. When the manufacturer drops support, you don't even have the option to pay for prolonged software support.

  • Tesla is banned from driving schools because of new turn signals

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  • Tesla is banned from driving schools because of new turn signals

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  • Those are way more sensitive so there is no need to turn hand over hand. The downside is that that sensitivity can be really hard to handle at high speeds.

  • Tesla is banned from driving schools because of new turn signals

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  • Don't give them any ideas!

  • Why a kilobyte is 1000 and not 1024 bytes

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  • Also - hard drives, floppy disks, etc have always referred to their size in base 1000 numbers

    That is not true. For a long time everything (computer related) was in the base 2 variants. Then the HD manufacturers changed so their drives would appear larger than they actually were (according to everyone's notions of what kn/mb/gb meant). It was a marketing shrinkflation stunt.