I don’t mind a call but I really appreciate the people who ask via message first!

It would be really hard to guarantee it. There are definitely times it has taken more than an hour to go around the store. It takes at least 45 mins on a normal trip, and the more kids that are with me the longer it takes. You need a lot of groceries when you’re eating for 5.

It definitely takes me longer than 30 mins to get through the store.

But the “why” is that I think a single customer being overcharged by this system is too many. I know it happens a lot by accident at the moment because staff screw up the paper price tags, but having it by design is no longer an honest mistake.

And worse, the answer to this problem is probably going to be “facial recognition” and I hate that even more.

I can only see it working when the prices are changed for a full day, after the store is closed/before they open.

I can see how it would be feasible to change each day. I still hate it though.

How is it legal for a price to be different between when you read the price on the shelf and when they charge you?

Thanks for the tip, very helpful since I’m looking for MAX safety!

NZ here, shows:

You might be right. Looking close up the edges don’t stand out as being faked, I just didn’t look that close before. Though the arm on the right (his left arm) is full in focus and the box right next to it is very out of focus.

To be honest it’s been so long since I’ve seen a photo that wasn’t autocorrected up the wazoo that I can’t remember what things are supposed to look like anymore.

Isn’t it just the thing that smartphones do these days where they slightly blur the background to make the person stand out more? Like you might do adjusting the focus, but faked.

I am at the point I don’t know what’s satire any more. But at the very least it’s real.

From the blog post someone else linked, it sounds like they do have this process but it’s just a process it’s not enforced by their control software. So someone has made a change without following the process, and they mention prioritising getting enforcement into their control panel or whatever.

Personally I think they have a much better track record of not making dumb mistakes than I do…

Isn’t this just the path of an immature company?

There’s a guy who is probably a programmer and he makes a thing, starts trying to sell it. Nothing here stands out as bad intentions, it just makes me think of what it might look like if I tried to start a company (a lot of stumbling).

Plus the blog post is pretty clear it’s their personal views. They spend a lot of time talking about the AI crap but when using Kagi it seems less intrusive than Google, and you can turn it off.

I dunno, I’ve seen this blog posted around a few times and there isn’t anything in here that puts me off so long as I treat it as what it is, a subscription for that month, not an investment in the future. If the company goes bankrupt because the CEO spent investors’ money starting a t-shirt company then I’ll just use a different search when they shut down.

Probably worth noting I use a relay email address not my main one, but I do that for almost everything.

That’s just cruel, at least I let the rest of the song play!

My thinking was more about the initial heating of the water. What happens to the steam after it’s used to turn turbines? Does it float back down to a settling area ready at 50°C or something ready to be picked up for another loop, or is the water lost and and endless supply of new water is pumped in? If the latter, you could save on fuel by using the data center outflow as the inflow of water to the system (starting from 40°C or something, instead of from room temp or colder).

It seems both types exist, though the ones that reuse water do so by feeding cooler water into wet cooling towers and cooling the steam with some new water. I don’t think having warmer starting water would help here, most likely it would be bad.

The kind that use a continuous supply of fresh water do exist and are common, but it seems like they don’t build them anymore due to environmental impacts. There’s possibly an opportunity with existing ones to build a data center next door and pump the warmer water to the power station for reduced fuel usage in heating the water?

Something else I have seen is building a data center next to a water park, using the warmer water to provide heated swimming pools. I thought that was a brilliant way to reduce energy wastage.

One of my kids loved chop suey until they worked out it said that, then now wants to skip it every time.

Honestly I’m surprised that was the reason they don’t like it, and not because I used to blast it in the morning to wake them up.

I mean there is possibly an opportunity to use water from cooling data centers to feed back in to steam powered power generation (like nuclear or fossil fuel stations), or is that not how it works?

The more you learn about memory the more you realise that doing this is totally justified.

That’s really cool! But those hints don’t help when I have no idea what order a bird is in 😆

We can demand his firing but unfortunately he’s one of three founders, he’s unlikely to be fired. But I hope it’s a wakeup call to them that they should have a policy of keeping their mouth shut on politics, including all board members.