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901.
by ssl-3 6mo ago
I mean, eventually the people working there would take notice. "Oh, look. Banana Man is doing it again." :) That said: I've never, ever weighed meat at self checkout. In fact, I've never had a cashier any weigh meat
902.
by ssl-3 6mo ago
They're different risk profiles. When a thief takes a steak from the cooler and walks out the door, they don't know who that person is. And while they may have video of parts of this, they don't necessarily see enough to pro
903.
by ssl-3 6mo ago
Police may not care about stealing fifty dollars worth of steaks one time by entering a PLU of 4011 and declaring them to be bananas. It's hard to prove, and even if everyone takes the time to prove it: Then what? A misdemeanor? But
904.
by ssl-3 6mo ago
Just look on eBay. It's full of used electronic shelf tags, sold in bulk -- usually, with prices still on them. :) The sellers don't know anything about how they work so it will take some digging to find the right ones, but havin
905.
by ssl-3 6mo ago
It doesn't really change anything. Previously, a criminal could just print their own shelf tags. They'd probably do this somewhere other than in the store to get the details right, but it was doable. (We've all probably see
906.
by ssl-3 6mo ago
I'm a long-time Linux user who might actually be in the market for a just-works upgradeable laptop[1] that comes with Ubuntu. I already know that combinations of hardware and software can be stretched and tweaked to do really interesti
907.
by ssl-3 6mo ago
I'm not sure which I like more: A no-name lithium polymer battery going through its chemical charging process near me every night while I sleep, or a no-name lithium polymer battery doing the same thing somewhere else in the house eve
908.
by ssl-3 6mo ago
I'm not sure if your point is that Amazon's price is too high (as you previously stated), or if your point is that Amazon's price is too low (as you've now stated). But I am sure that I cannot accept both of these things
909.
by ssl-3 6mo ago
I actually did not. I launched it to again later and it prompted for an update. So I updated it, eventually. And that sounds easy, except it wasn't: 1. The Play Store should do better at keeping things actually-updated. There was a
910.
by ssl-3 6mo ago
On one hand: It does seem a bit late to regulate that. On the other hand: I used to work with a briefcase full of different phone cables, when the people that paid me had the swell idea to offer the service of transferring phone books bet
911.
by ssl-3 6mo ago
IBM PC DOS 2000 was a thing that was published and sold. It would have ran fine on a system similar to what you describe. It addressed the only pressing thing in that space at that time that PC DOS 7 did not: Y2K compliance. (I never had
912.
by ssl-3 6mo ago
Does your iPhone maintain its water resistance after this procedure? According to my read, under the EU rule, that's a requirement along with the easy-to-swap batteries. Myself, I've had bad luck with getting things sealed up jus
913.
by ssl-3 6mo ago
The Samsung phone I use these days has a "Protect Battery" mode that can be toggled (both manually and with automatic user-defined routines). It limits maximum charge to 85%. For those who want it: That's the ~same thing,
914.
by ssl-3 6mo ago
That's true. More-modern phones can be IP-rated without a cover for the USB port like the S5 required. That doesn't mean that a modern phone of vaguely S5 shape, with an S5-esque battery door, can't be fitted with a more mod
915.
by ssl-3 6mo ago
Galaxy S5 had a tool-free replaceable 2800mAh battery, with hard sides for protection. NFC. Wireless charging (as a user-installed option -- again, no tools, but did add some thickness and weight). USB 3 with OTG. HDMI over MHL. An exc
916.
by ssl-3 6mo ago
Apple switched to USB C years before legal standardization took place. (actually, which single-vendor connector are we mourning, here? I forget.)
917.
by ssl-3 6mo ago
The same Europeans that were miles ahead with their GSM standard? We can compare that to the US. Here, we stayed stuck with power-thirsty analog phones for many years before bouncing through a litany of mutually-incompatible digital non-st
918.
by ssl-3 6mo ago
> At least ICE car fires can be extinguished, and without special equipment. That's not quite right. It's not like a non-special equipment like bucket of water or a garden hose (and I, for one, always travel with one of each!)
919.
by ssl-3 6mo ago
It comes together quickly, though. They don't need to learn how to become a company that knows how to sell advertising; they can instead just pay some other entity to do that. It's OK to not have complete vertical integration. (
920.
by ssl-3 6mo ago
TFA works fine either way. It's OK that it is subject to interpretation.
921.
by ssl-3 6mo ago
I think there's a couple of things going on here. The first is AI-generated content. This can start with nothing more than an idea. Some of it is uniquely-presented stuff that's actually kind of interesting: I got sucked into a
922.
by ssl-3 6mo ago
This whole conversation has lead me to finally configure a Compose key for my Linux desktop. I used to most-often write the em-dash as two juxtaposed dashes, which was kind of half-assed. But now, I've repurposed the otherwise-disused
923.
by ssl-3 6mo ago
It is. The work I do requires me to have things like tools and ladders with me. A sedan doesn't quite cut it (I've tried), and SUVs are awful for every practical road-going purpose. So these tools and ladders are out in the van (
924.
by ssl-3 6mo ago
Eh? I didn't address that specifically, but the prices were OK. They were within a sensible range of what local shops were charging for the same/similar widgets. Sometimes Amazon was a bit more expensive (and they brought it over
925.
by ssl-3 6mo ago
Trucks can be rented. When then-wife and I were remodelling the tired old house we lived in, we didn't own a truck. We talked about it (and in this instance, had space for one), and we mathed it a bit. The numbers quickly showed tha
926.
by ssl-3 6mo ago
That's true. They do better-prepare an applicant for a job that filters on a person's ability to accomplish arbitrary things in a vacuum that is completely disconnected from the real world. That's probably a good thing to fi
927.
by ssl-3 6mo ago
That's certainly one way to abstractly automate a task: Just pay someone else to do it. (This is a concept that regular people employ every day in the real world.) Another way to automate this particular task is that some typewriters
928.
by ssl-3 6mo ago
Copy that, thanks. The third-party replacement bits look OK-priced to me, I like the idea of a UV light (which is at least simple and safe), and since it's dumb then it's certainly simple to automate with a switched outlet. I&#x2
929.
by ssl-3 7mo ago
People have been writing comparative statements with punctuation for as long as we've had things to compare and written language to punctuate. Your bot detector is broken.
930.
by ssl-3 7mo ago
Nothing external needs my precise location to navigate with a map. An approximate location is sufficient to deliver to my device a map of an area I'm in, and of the overall route, and all of the details that are useful for navigation.

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