MarcScott

The self-checkouts at ALDI in the UK are very efficient. This is partly due to the barcodes, which occupy about a third of the packaging. Additionally, rather than requiring a staff member to scan their ID barcode for assistance, a simple metallic tag is used. This tag speeds up the process, especially for approving alcohol purchases or correcting weights.

The Tesco self-scan system is also cool. I can easily scan items and place them directly into my bags, bypassing the need for a trolley or basket. Although I'm occasionally checked to make sure I'm not shop lifting, which can be inconvenient during larger shopping trips, it happens infrequently enough not to be bothersome.

I always opt for self-checkout or self-shopping. While it may save costs for the retailers, it also saves me time.

We did not domesticate wheat. It domesticated us.” Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (2018)

Sometimes Dang sees an article that never made it to the front page that he thinks we'll enjoy. He shoves it on to the front page for a while, so it gets some visibility and upvotes.

I tried for ages to get DALLE to draw me a cartoon spider, but gave up in the end. All the other cartoon animals that I asked it to create were perfect, but it could not draw a spider with eight legs. It's like the one thing that every child knows about spiders, but DALLE just wasn't able to it, no matter what prompt I tried.

It reminded me of https://27bslash6.com/overdue.html so much that it just started to make me laugh with each new attempt.

I'm getting the same, across all the services.

This has some benchmark graphs after the first page - https://www.phoronix.com/review/raspberry-pi-5-benchmarks

$60 and $80 according to https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/introducing-raspberry-pi-5/

They found it

Debris found from F-35 jet in South Carolina after US pilot ejected

My child (now sixteen) has had unfettered access to technology and the internet since he was about four years old. He's had old tablets and laptops, and a mobile phone (since about the age of nine). I don't monitor his use, or use parental controls. He's familiar with macOS, Windows and Linux, and can build his own PC. I fail to see any negative effects with my attitude towards his use of tech.

Your docs at https://moonbitlang.com/docs/syntax/ are unreadable due to the text and background colour

Only on HN would people complain about a kids' hospital getting a little extra money from the copyright of a book, which was the author's intention.

As it happens, I'm off to GOSH this morning, to teach kids on the dialysis ward how to use Scratch.

The time I take reading the news each day (BBC news and The Guardian) is the time it takes me to use the toilet each morning. I scan headlines, and only read articles of interest. I spend way more time each week on this site, than I do reading traditional mainstream news, and usually skip articles with paywalls and just come to the comments section to get a synopsis.

I used to be an avid receiver of traditional news media. I listened to BBC Radio 4 for about three hours a day, particularly Today on my commute into work and PM on my commute home. Then Any Questions on Saturday, and often The World at One at lunch.

I'm done with it all TBH. This site tends to surface most things that I find important or have an effect on my life. I honestly don't need to know what is happening on day X of the invasion of Ukraine. I much prefer reading about what's the latest going on with reproducibility studies of LK-99 than the political machinations of random ministers in parliment.

I wrote this about 6 years ago when the then PM was trying to do the same thing - http://coding2learn.org/blog/2017/06/11/dear-theresa/

I was speaking to a gym buddy the other day, and she said she was looking into ChatGPT as she was a copy writer and was aware that her job might be at risk within the next few years.

I talked to her about prompt engineering for a little, but not sure that I really got through what I was talking about.

I did actually make that point in this comment - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36528598 and I apologise for my poor choice of wording.

First off, thank you for the debate. It's what I come to HN for.

Out of interest, of the list in the first table, are there any books that you agree should not be accessible to young people?

I find it interesting that parental pressure, probably heavily influenced by political, cultural and religious leanings, can influence what a library can have in it's inventory.

Should the Quran be available in libraries in Wyoming? Should the Bible be available in libraries in Pakistan?

Thank you. I haven't read the book, so I have no idea from which stance it views her life. It very well might be a racist book, and contain false information. Now I am going to have to read it, to make my own judgement.

Isn't this just an Appeal to Extremes argument?

I already stated a book that shouldn't be in school libraries, one that is debatable, and one that should probably be included in libraries.

My point about book banning or excluding, was that in the UK, as far as I am aware, we don't have any centralised list of books that can't be in a public or school library. It is left to the judgement of the librarian and not central or local government.

Is "The Life of Rosa Parks" inappropriate for children? Should it not be available in school libraries?

Clearly I would agree that Fifty Shades of Grey should probably not be available in a school library. I would debate, given its historical significance, whether Mein Kampf should be included. But a book about the life of Rosa Parks should be mandatory in school libraries.

I'm a UK resident, and might not be understanding things correctly. We don't do book banning or excluding over here.

Crapita is right. When I was a teacher I was forced to use SIMS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_Information_Management_...

It's possibly the worst software I have ever had the misfortune to interact with. It started as a Microsoft Access database, written by a teacher, was taken on by a council, and then expanded to be the largest MIS in the UK.

It has always been slow, refuses to cache data on the client side which results in data loss if your wifi signal switches off, has the most clumsy UX I've ever seen, and despite being a modern piece of software it makes Curses look like an advanced UI from the next millennium.

John Oliver did a pretty good piece on this - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtxew5XUVbQ

Why limit this to text based communication? How about also limiting what you say when talking with friends in a pub, just in case the conversation gets recorded and then leaked? What about conversations around the dinner table with your family? What about chat between you and your significant other in the bedroom? What about things you say out loud when on your own? What about your thoughts?

It's no more complicated than measurements and weights in the imperial system.

We're a weird country. We decimalised our currency, our weights and measures in shops and science, but we can't let go of imperial measures. Amongst the general population, people are far more comfortable talking about miles and miles per hour, than kilometers. Land sizes are still measured in acres and hectares. If you ask anyone their height, you'll probably get an answer in feet and inches, but ask their weight and they're more likely to tell you in kilograms rather than pounds and stone.

There are also coins called the Sovereign and Britannia, which are both legal tender, although not in general circulation. Both are minted from 24 carat gold. The Sovereign has a face value of 1 pound and I think the Britannia has a face value of 5. There actual value, on gold markets, is hundreds of pounds, and for a Britannia is over a thousand. Because they are legal tender, and could theoretically be used to buy a bottle of milk, they are exempt from VAT and capital gains tax, when buying or selling.

There's also enduring slang for some some values of cash, that doesn't necessarily have an accompanying bank note. A Pony for 25 pounds and a Ton for 100 is still fairly widely understood, but mostly heard these days in Guy Ritchie movies,.

There are a lot of comments here saying that printers and scanners are complicated! Really? More complicated than your microwave, fridge freezer, television? More complicated than your car?

Printers and scanners aren't complicated, it's just that we don't really need to use them much anymore... until we have to. 99 times out of a hundred I don't need to scan because I can just take a picture on my phone of any hard copy document. I don't need to print because people are happy to receive an electronic document by email.

If I never had to drive again, I'm pretty sure I'd forget how to operate a car after a few years. If I'd never operated a washing machine in my life, I'm pretty sure I'd struggle to put on that first wash. Every time we have a power cut, and my oven refuses to work, because the clock is not set, I just push buttons randomly until it works. Instructions for resetting the clock are just not worth remembering, as it only happens once a year or so.

There's nothing complicated about these devices. I used to bootleg VHS tapes by hooking up two player/recorders. That's a skill that's completely useless now. These devices are just becoming obsolete, so we don't bother learning how to use them. I'm pretty sure I'd be unable to start and drive a Model T Ford, and I don't see any shame in that.

We had a far more recent one in the UK, that does have a Wikipedia article - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_horse_meat_scandal

The dojo was cool, and the roof garden, plus the Western themed poker room and the Victorian drawing room with secret book cases that led to other rooms. It was the most extravegant place I ever visited, and as stated, it was almost empty.

Still I got to have a couple of free beers and walk off with branded t-shirts, hoodies and even a baby-grow.

One groundhog won't be reporting in - https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/fred-la-marmotte-die...

I hit a question limit on the last attempt, which I've never seen before.

I tried this prompt

>I want you to play a game of 20 questions with me. You will ask me questions, one at a time, to try and determine which animal I am thinking of. You will use my answers to inform your next question. You can guess the animal I am thinking of at any time, but you must make a guess after your twentieth question.

It appeared to break at question 7, but it might be experiencing high usage at the moment.