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@topspin said in In other news today...:
On roads best described as "that's not a speed limit, that's a challenge."
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
Do you mean more efficient because of
a. ISA differences
b. longer time spent optimizing the ARM core for real-world workloads
c. transistor level technological efficiency advantage
d. all of the above
e. something else entirely?I mean on average in aggregate. They have a very good design, very good implementations, and a very good compiler that does an excellent job of issuing code for the system (probably due to very good tuning of the cost models in the instruction-level issuer). I don't know how well it copes with some of the complex optimisations done at the very high level of other compilers, but it sure does a good job on producing code for embedded systems. The overall effect is to get you excellent bang per Watt, a tremendous metric in lots of cases.
There are tricks that can be done that aren't supplied by ARM… often because the IP for them is owned by someone else. And if pure speed is what you want, other architectures are much better.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
@mott555 said in In other news today...:
hills that will literally send you airborne if you go at the legal (but unposted) speed limit of 55 mph as well as sudden curves that you can't navigate at that speed...
Reminds of the posted speed limits of 80kph (as opposed to the unposted general limit of 100) when I visited Ireland. On roads best described as "that's not a speed limit, that's a challenge." (Not necessarily bad roads, but really narrow)
I wish I were Irish now.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
or at least install a shot-clock and make everyone hurry TF up.
I don't think payment methods make the biggest time difference. Rather, it's the way that people load, unload, and reload their carts.
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@PJH said in In other news today...:
@PleegWat said in In other news today...:
The housewife with a full cart tends to barely take more time than the millennial buying a single microwave lunch.
Just wondering whether this is a positive observation about the housewife, or a less positive observation about the millennial...
:why-not-both.swf:
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Bad onebox, bad! Actual headline:
Japanese woman of the extinct Jōmon people lived 3,800 years ago and had a high alcohol tolerance, smelly armpits and a high-fat diet
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@PJH said in In other news today...:
Bad onebox, bad! Actual headline:
Japanese woman of the extinct Jōmon people lived 3,800 years ago and had a high alcohol tolerance, smelly armpits and a high-fat diet
Why would any of this be surprising?
I saw somewhere the alcohol was the key to our success because it was safer to drink than available water.
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@Karla said in In other news today...:
I saw somewhere the alcohol was the key to our success because it was safer to drink than available water.
I thought that was only in the west, while in the east (China etc.) people figured out how make tea.
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@Karla said in In other news today...:
safer to drink than available water.
It still is. That's what I choose to believe at least.
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@acrow said in In other news today...:
@topspin said in In other news today...:
@mott555 said in In other news today...:
hills that will literally send you airborne if you go at the legal (but unposted) speed limit of 55 mph as well as sudden curves that you can't navigate at that speed...
Reminds of the posted speed limits of 80kph (as opposed to the unposted general limit of 100) when I visited Ireland. On roads best described as "that's not a speed limit, that's a challenge." (Not necessarily bad roads, but really narrow)
I wish I were Irish now.
Obligatory:
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
@Karla said in In other news today...:
I saw somewhere the alcohol was the key to our success because it was safer to drink than available water.
I thought that was only in the west, while in the east (China etc.) people figured out how make tea.
That may be...it was a while ago.
The statement still stands for the other "discoveries".
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@Karla said in In other news today...:
Why would any of this be surprising?
Because high alcohol tolerance didn't persist to this day in most of Asia. That is surprising.
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@Bulb said in In other news today...:
@Karla said in In other news today...:
Why would any of this be surprising?
Because high alcohol tolerance didn't persist to this day in most of Asia. That is surprising.
Yeah, ok, as per @topspin 's comment.
The other 2 "discoveries" shouldn't be.
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[said the complainant] "It's just pictures of Morrissey with his new album. He's not doing anything inappropriate but his name is a by-name for questionable views at the moment.
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@PJH said in In other news today...:
[said the complainant] "It's just pictures of Morrissey with his new album. He's not doing anything inappropriate but his name is a by-name for questionable views at the moment.
Why are those views?
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@MrL said in In other news today...:
@PJH said in In other news today...:
[said the complainant] "It's just pictures of Morrissey with his new album. He's not doing anything inappropriate but his name is a by-name for questionable views at the moment.
Why are those views?
Support for far right political parties.
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
@MrL said in In other news today...:
@PJH said in In other news today...:
[said the complainant] "It's just pictures of Morrissey with his new album. He's not doing anything inappropriate but his name is a by-name for questionable views at the moment.
Why are those views?
Support for far right political parties.
Well, their logo is ugly af, thath's for sure.
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Poseidon for Britain.
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@Karla said in In other news today...:
@PJH said in In other news today...:
Bad onebox, bad! Actual headline:
Japanese woman of the extinct Jōmon people lived 3,800 years ago and had a high alcohol tolerance, smelly armpits and a high-fat diet
Why would any of this be surprising?
I saw somewhere the alcohol was the key to our success because it was safer to drink than available water.
It was surprising to me because I hadn't consciously realized that genetic science had advanced to the point that they could tell these things from 4000 year old DNA.
I remember reading long ago that the Eskimos were the only traditional culture that did not have any psychoactive substances (including alcohol). Also that American Indians (AKA Native Americans) had a high rate of alcoholism because they didn't traditionally drink alcohol and so those prone to alcoholism had not already been weeded out from the gene pool.
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@PJH said in In other news today...:
It's just pictures of Morrissey with his new album
I'd say just being pictures of Morrissey was enough. Even...
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in In other news today...:
@PJH said in In other news today...:
It's just pictures of Morrissey with his new album
I'd say just being pictures of Morrissey was enough. Even...
See, also:
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Well, that happened.
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@e4tmyl33t said in In other news today...:
Well, that happened.
Too late to help her party, the country, or her reputation. Maybe if she'd have stepped down months ago, something might have gotten done.
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@e4tmyl33t Quickly, @CountDankula, now's your chance
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
@e4tmyl33t Quickly, @CountDankula, now's your chance
I'm gonna send in a write-in vote for Lord Buckethead.
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@e4tmyl33t said in In other news today...:
@hungrier said in In other news today...:
@e4tmyl33t Quickly, @CountDankula, now's your chance
I'm gonna send in a write-in vote for Lord Buckethead.
He did seem to be the most sensible of the bunch.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in In other news today...:
Too late to help her party, the country, or her reputation. Maybe if she'd have stepped down months ago, something might have gotten done.
I commented in December how it was plain contradictory to vote against her deal but not let her lose the confidence vote. And even if they didn't want to oust her with a vote of no confidence, she should've just stepped down anyway.
Edit: Now waiting for Boris Johnson to turn a shit show into a real shit show.
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@PleegWat said in In other news today...:
@topspin said in In other news today...:
@anonymous234 said in In other news today...:
@DogsB Having to use human cashiers will reduce the "generational divide"? This does not even begin to make sense.
Is it because young and old people tend to use different options, so we must shame the young people into rejecting their preferred choice so older people won't have to see others with slightly different behavior to their own?
Yeah, I hate it when young people use credit cards to pay their pack of gums, and it takes forever. OTOH, I also hate it when old people... well, they take forever anyways no matter what they do.
So, really, the problem is people. Give me a supermarket without that, TYVM.Filed under: or at least install a shot-clock and make everyone hurry TF up.
I generally pick my line almost exclusively based on the number of people in it. The housewife with a full cart tends to barely take more time than the millennial buying a single microwave lunch.
You're neglecting the significance of people who insist on paying with antiquated means such as cash or check. Or, worse, they pay with cash and don't even have it ready in hand already, because either they're too lazy or their EBT card didn't cover the full purchase and only then they realize that they have to dig some change out of their purse.
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@brie Over here, check just doesn't happen. In the last 25 years over which I can state this with certainty, I have seen people pay with check exactly never. Even cash is rare, and I don't recall recently being held up by someone wanting to pay with it.
People whose payment fails multiple times in a row generally get relegated to the information desk.
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@PleegWat regarding checks: our Greatest Generation seems to be stuck on the worst payment method, for some reason.
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@brie said in In other news today...:
@PleegWat regarding checks: our Greatest Generation seems to be stuck on the worst payment method, for some reason.
I don't see what's especially bad about it. As long as you have your personal system down to write one. Seems like it's the same or quicker as a card.
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@jinpa I don't see how it could be anywhere near as quick. For card payment, you either tap the thing (a couple seconds total if it's a slow terminal), put in the chip and type your pin (upwards of 10-15 seconds, again if it's slow), or maybe swipe and sign. With a cheque you have to write the name, amount, amount in words, etc.
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@jinpa How long does it take for you to pay with a card? Even chip transactions don't take as long as it takes for someone to hand-write a check.
In addition to signing your name and printing the amount that you're authorizing, you also have to write the amount out in English. It's supposed to prevent fraud by making it harder for someone to alter the amount before cashing it, but at the cost of taking longer to write it out.
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@PJH said in In other news today...:
She was first unearthed from the Funadomari shell mound, on Rebun Island off Hokkaido's northern coast back in 1998
How many other times and places has she been unearthed?
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@brie said in In other news today...:
@PleegWat regarding checks: our Greatest Generation seems to be stuck on the worst payment method, for some reason.
It's a lot easier using a check to pay for the junk at the garage sale down the street... (actually, they want cash)
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in In other news today...:
MORRISSEY’S cat thinks his owner is a knob
All cats think that of their humans.
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@dcon said in In other news today...:
@brie said in In other news today...:
@PleegWat regarding checks: our Greatest Generation seems to be stuck on the worst payment method, for some reason.
It's a lot easier using a check to pay for the junk at the garage sale down the street... (actually, they want cash)
And you should be paying them in cash, unless they accept barter or something more newfangled like venmo or paypal.
Established businesses tend to accept plastic because it's a hell of a lot easier to just contract it out and put in a system that works smoothly and quickly.
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@brie said in In other news today...:
@jinpa How long does it take for you to pay with a card? Even chip transactions don't take as long as it takes for someone to hand-write a check.
In addition to signing your name and printing the amount that you're authorizing, you also have to write the amount out in English. It's supposed to prevent fraud by making it harder for someone to alter the amount before cashing it, but at the cost of taking longer to write it out.
Most people I see paying by check (fairly rare by now) get it mostly prepped while the cashier is working, which often includes them bagging stuff after everything has been rung up, so really no extra time at all. Then they just need to write the amounts. Sure, it takes a few seconds longer than other methods might, but I've seen plenty of people who also don't have their debit card out or don't notice when the machine asks them to approve the total amount.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
don't notice when the machine asks them to approve the total amount
This is always fun. Different stores have different limits when they require you to sign. So the approval process can be different. (One store I go to always requires a signature. Costco has a very high limit - I rarely hit it. Safeway's I think is $50.)
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@boomzilla I haven't used a check for groceries in years, but when I did, yes, I wrote everything but the amount and signature while the cashier was working. Write the amount in numbers, 2 seconds; write the amount in words, 3-4 seconds; sign, 2 seconds. The time-consuming part was showing the cashier your ID, the cashier typing your DL number into the terminal while looking back-and-forth between the terminal and your ID, waiting for approval, then running the check through the printer that endorses the back, but still maybe only 30 seconds. Have we as a society become so rushed that half a minute ruins our day?
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@dcon said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
don't notice when the machine asks them to approve the total amount
This is always fun. Different stores have different limits when they require you to sign. So the approval process can be different. (One store I go to always requires a signature. Costco has a very high limit - I rarely hit it. Safeway's I think is $50.)
My grocery store still asks you for a yes/no confirmation. Their limit for signatures is currently $100.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@dcon said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
don't notice when the machine asks them to approve the total amount
This is always fun. Different stores have different limits when they require you to sign. So the approval process can be different. (One store I go to always requires a signature. Costco has a very high limit - I rarely hit it. Safeway's I think is $50.)
My grocery store still asks you for a yes/no confirmation. Their limit for signatures is currently $100.
Signature? What is signature? With having to buy expensive gluten-free stuff, I routinely spend well over $100 almost every trip to the grocery store. Chip-and-PIN, never signature.
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@brie said in In other news today...:
@dcon said in In other news today...:
Established businesses tend to accept plastic because it's a hell of a lot easier to just contract it out and put in a system that works smoothly and quickly.I think it's more for the sake of the customers who want to use plastic.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@brie said in In other news today...:
@jinpa How long does it take for you to pay with a card? Even chip transactions don't take as long as it takes for someone to hand-write a check.
In addition to signing your name and printing the amount that you're authorizing, you also have to write the amount out in English. It's supposed to prevent fraud by making it harder for someone to alter the amount before cashing it, but at the cost of taking longer to write it out.
Most people I see paying by check (fairly rare by now) get it mostly prepped while the cashier is working, which often includes them bagging stuff after everything has been rung up, so really no extra time at all. Then they just need to write the amounts. Sure, it takes a few seconds longer than other methods might, but I've seen plenty of people who also don't have their debit card out or don't notice when the machine asks them to approve the total amount.
There are also poorly designed UI's. At my pharmacy, in particular, I have to pick up the pen three separate times because that's what the UI requires. Not to mention stopping to glare at the cashier who gives me instructions because she assumes that all customers are illiterate.
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@jinpa said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@brie said in In other news today...:
@jinpa How long does it take for you to pay with a card? Even chip transactions don't take as long as it takes for someone to hand-write a check.
In addition to signing your name and printing the amount that you're authorizing, you also have to write the amount out in English. It's supposed to prevent fraud by making it harder for someone to alter the amount before cashing it, but at the cost of taking longer to write it out.
Most people I see paying by check (fairly rare by now) get it mostly prepped while the cashier is working, which often includes them bagging stuff after everything has been rung up, so really no extra time at all. Then they just need to write the amounts. Sure, it takes a few seconds longer than other methods might, but I've seen plenty of people who also don't have their debit card out or don't notice when the machine asks them to approve the total amount.
There are also poorly designed UI's. At my pharmacy, in particular, I have to pick up the pen three separate times because that's what the UI requires. Not to mention stopping to glare at the cashier who gives me instructions because she assumes that all customers are illiterate.
Oh, you're at a pharmacy? That's different.
Yeah, . Now you have to accept different things, sign it. Thanks, Obama! (I presume)
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@dcon said in In other news today...:
@brie said in In other news today...:
@PleegWat regarding checks: our Greatest Generation seems to be stuck on the worst payment method, for some reason.
It's a lot easier using a check to pay for the junk at the garage sale down the street... (actually, they want cash)
I can't find any way to request cheques (or paper bank transfer orders) on my bank's site. And indeed a quick googling indicates they're going to stop cheque processing completely starting 1 January 2020.
I have paid swipe-and-signature exactly once, 20 years ago, in a French backwater. Every other transaction that wasn't cash has been swipe-and-pin, chip-and-pin, contactless-and-pin, or just contactless (below €25 per transaction and total between pin confirmations).
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@Benjamin-Hall said in In other news today...:
Maybe if she'd have stepped down months ago, something might have gotten done.
Considering the alternatives...
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