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Maybe the first usage of QR codes that actually makes sense to me. People don't want to scan codes to go to urls, but they do want reliable ways take messy huma
by kennywinker 11y ago
Maybe the first usage of QR codes that actually makes sense to me. People don't want to scan codes to go to urls, but they do want reliable ways take messy human-reable data and put it into software. I hope more uses like this come up.
QR codes were originally invented for inventory tracking. This is just an extension of that.
- xfour 11y agoOnly problem with this is it discourages shifting to paper-less business. Remember when that was a goal of business and government. It's been so successful via the fact that it's simply easier than shuffling papers about. That being said, it is clever, sort-of a 255byte or so flash-rom storage on a piece of paper.
- stingraycharles 11y agoI think that things like migrating away from a paper-less society is best done in small steps. Who knows, things like these might actually speed up the process!
- wereHamster 11y agoSome countries have already done it. It's not impossible or even that difficult if you get behind it.
- GFK_of_xmaspast 11y agoIs "going paper-less" a moral imperative?
- jakub_h 11y agoI love the way in which LibreOffice can export a PDF with the original document still embedded. If a scannable code on a paper document could contain all the data needed to recreate it without any loss, you'd get effectively the same thing in a tangible form.
- fit2rule 11y ago"This PDF is a Webserver, which will serve this PDF." (See Chapter 9). https://www.alchemistowl.org/pocorgtfo/pocorgtfo11.pdf https://www.alchemistowl.org/pocorgtfo/pocorgtfo11.pdf