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In a lot of cases they’re not actually saving much money on these systems. They’re not cheap machines, require expensive outside contractors to be repaired, and also still require an employee overseeing them.

It might seem cheaper in the sense that one cashier can oversee 6 customers using the machines instead of serving one customer at a time, but most of the time, there’s only going to be one person checking out. The only time that 1:6 ratio comes in to play is during narrow periods in the day when the store is very busy, like around 5~7 when a bunch of people are finished with work and on their way home.

Perhaps it would save money if they were keeping every check out lane open all shift long without these machines, thus requiring 6 people who’s sole job is to stand there idly most of a shift, but that’s not what they did. There is a lot of other work that needs to be done in the store, straightening shelves, refilling empty slots from overhead, helping customers find stuff. So most of the time 5 of those “cashiers” would be going around the store doing that when things weren’t busy, and then just staff the registers during those rushes. Those staff are still there, doing other things.

The machines are actually more expensive and shrinking margins, but they give management more direct control over the employees, since they can task them strictly to certain things and not have to worry about them getting pulled off ad hoc to staff registers. The additional cost is passed on to consumers, in a functioning market customers would avoid stores that raised prices, but since most stores do this, customers don’t have much of a choice.

Recursively force delete the listed directory, so not just delete the directory, but go through anything below and delete that too, and the / is the root directory. So it deletes everything.

I think in the case of Utah it’s something beyond just wanting to spy on people. I think the LDS(Mormon) church legitimately wants to stamp out porn all together among it’s members. The first step to that is of course, getting a comprehensive list of everyone viewing porn, via ID collection. Then hand that list over to the LDS church, who can name and shame members they find on it.

Now, they probably will not be able do this everywhere, but, in Utah, it is absolutely with in their power given how much power it has over the state government.

Gee it’s almost like this is not a modern issue but rather a condition that has always existed and only become seriously problematic recently due to the narrowing of type of work and accomplishments that are valued in a modern economy. Almost like the issue isn’t people who have all these mental health conditions, but rather an economy designed to only be suitable for a fairly small number of personality types.

Yup, some groups in the conflict have developed some really interesting methods for producing usable parts from off the shelf commercial components.

A stockpile pile of such things is not particularly useful without the ability to source the input. Rounds, spare parts and lubricants.

As well as all the organizational elements needed to make use effectively. None of which can be planned around without a clear idea of goals and the conditions they are expected to be used under. Arguably knowledge and tools to produce such things with limited resources available is more useful than a massive easily targeted stockpile.

“jUsT uSe A cHeCk LiSt”

I TRIED THAT! GUESS WHAT? I KEPT FORGETTING TO CHECK STUFF OFF!

For a theory to be useful, there needs to be a way that it can be proven wrong. If there is no way the theory can be proven wrong, then it’s not a theory. Something that can’t potentially be proven false also can’t potentially be proven to be true.

The problem with this kind of off the cuff “but what if” stuff is that not enough thought has gone in to it to even know what could be tested.

I mean, the reality is that they’ve mostly just cannibalised the conservative voter base.

The election results show that they’re not exactly sweeping labor strongholds, a lot of labor’s losses coming from SNP, the greens, lib dems and Plaid Cymru. Which is to say, that the voters aren’t pivoting to the right, they’re just pivoting away from labor.

If anything, it seems like media efforts to shove the voter base to the right, and labor’s effort to chase the media narrative, has just driven traditional conservative voters insane, while making left wing voters pissed at labor for moving so far rightwards.

“Solves 40% of customer issues”

Or, 40% of users give up after being stonewalled by a bot.

Thermo dynamics, in short.

In long, because adding some heat recovery system to the engine block would mean decreasing the cooling efficiency of that block, thus making the block hotter, and decreasing the efficiency of the engine. Since the engine makes power based on the differential of heat/pressure from the top of the stroke and the bottom of the stroke. If you make the system hotter, then less energy can be extracted per unit of heat produced from burning fuel. Any energy generation from the waste heat of the block would be offset by efficiency losses in the engine it’s self.

Now, most engines don’t actually extract all the energy they could from that differential, which is why turbo chargers are a thing. They use excess heat in the gas exhausted out of the block, expand it to ambient pressure and temperature over a turbine, that turbine then runs a compressor, and that compressor raises the pressure at the air intake. More air entering the engine in the same volume allows for more volume of fuel without having more fuel than oxidizer to burn it, thus increasing the energy density of the charge, increasing the differential in heat between the top and bottom stroke, increasing power and/or efficiency depending on it’s tuning. But that’s not utilizing heat from the engine block, but heat in the exhaust.

In reality, an internal combustion engine and a turbine operate on the same principle. Make gas hot, it expands and makes a thing move. The difference is just that in a steam turbine, the gas being expanded with heat to do work is steam, and in an internal combustion engine it’s the exhaust gasses of the combustion it’s self that are expanding to do work. In a piston engine that expansion is acting on a linear reciprocating piston, but in a turbine it’s can’t on a spinning set of blades in a continual flow. In the middle there is the gas turbine, where the working fluid is the combustion gas and it’s working on a spinning set of blades, this is what a jet engine is.

It’s not just Reddit, so many companies try and shunt you off a mobile web page and on to their app, despite many apps being little more than a pre loaded mobile web pages.

Why? Because users can modify how they interact with a web page, they can install extensions that modify how the code from the website is run, or just deny web pages access to some other process. There is very little a company can do about that, they have no control on how the user chooses to run the page. But… with an app, users can’t modify how the program is run. No plug ins, no web extensions, no choosing not to run some part of it, just the software as distributed by the company. Meaning full fat ads and complete access to any information the OS will let them have, way easier to make money on users that way.

Technically, it’s possible to alter any program, but it’s very hard if don’t have the source code, and it’s illegal to do so in many cases thanks to section 1201 of the DMCA, especially if you try and distribute that modification or tell others how to do it.