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Shame Boy posted:Oh absolutely, though from what I understand the coke freestyle machines raise the cost of the syrup by like 800% because it comes in what are basically ink cartridges now, but that just means it costs the restaurant 0.08 cents per gallon instead of 0.01 cents lol coke is turning into hp
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Getting blown up by the Pepsi armada because I put their syrup in a coke cartridge too close to the coast
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https://projectionsinc.com/unionproof/union-buster-stop-using/
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Shame Boy posted:Oh absolutely, though from what I understand the coke freestyle machines raise the cost of the syrup by like 800% because it comes in what are basically ink cartridges now, but that just means it costs the restaurant 0.08 cents per gallon instead of 0.01 cents when i worked in a restaurant we didn't have those giant self-serve kiosks with the touch screen. the syrup came in what was basically boxed wine with a hose attachment on the bag and i think we calculated it out that you'd have to get a customer like 14 refills before the store would lose money on a soda order
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Those are the 2.5gal boxes you're talking about and they run about $50 apiece now, maybe more. I just want a soda fountain so I can buy boxes of Sun Drop syrup when I go to Tennessee for a visit. And then to drink Sun Drop for the next year.
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Initially I thought coke replacing the big boxes with dumbass small cartridges was a horrible scam but then I realized the people most affected are small business owners, and according to a friend that works at a mcdonalds "I don't give a gently caress if they cost more, lifting boxes full of 2.5 gallons of syrup multiple times a day was a pain in the rear end and this is way easier."
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They still sell the boxes, and will for a long rear end time. I never minded having to change them when I worked at bars and restaurants. Way easier to manhandle than beer kegs. But servers never could hump the boxes up to the rack or even hook it up right half the time, and I got used to doing it in every kitchen I worked in. One bar I worked at tried to make the servers keep up with keg changes. Watching a 95lb woman try to drag a keg 5 feet to a line was always funny.
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tbh the weasel words of "ask at the counter about your broken cup" and throwing the serviceworker under the bus when they gotta tell someone the robot won't give them more soda for free is a pretty slick move
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Business Gorillas posted:tbh the weasel words of "ask at the counter about your broken cup" and throwing the serviceworker under the bus when they gotta tell someone the robot won't give them more soda for free is a pretty slick move do coke freestyle machines show ads? honestly shocked if they don't (yet)
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Jul 30, 2021 03:17
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could sell premium ad-free cups for a markup
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Yeah, "please watch this ad while we get your refill ready  " on the soda kiosk screen.
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the time for a coke freestyle machine to reset to the main selection menu is roughly exactly as long as it takes for the bubbles to fade preventing you from fully filling a cup and Im fairly sure this is designed
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I saw a lady change a cartridge in a freestyle machine once and she let me take a picture of it. it was kinda fascinating and the first thing I encountered that used rfid tech. the carts are these long prisms that look like a skinny 12 pack of soda. refilling it with a new cartridge looks and sounds like an 80s weapon load out montage.
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I know coke is pretty solidly entrenched in every place that it's installing freestyle machines, but I've always been kinda fascinated by these places that have adaptable and basically universal BiB systems that they can change pretty easily if coke ever stops supplying them, switching to a unique machine with proprietary cartridges with inbuilt DRM. I'm sure most places don't have a choice, but it is a sort of sneaky way for coke to really sink its claws into a place.
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My favorite thing about coke freestyle machines is how much goddamn lag they have for seemingly no reason. Like I've seen a bunch where they removed all animation, I'm guessing to try to fix this, and it still has a bafflingly large amount of input lag between when you tap the thing and when it goes to the next screen. I've also just seen some kind of new revision of them at a Wawa, it's got a 16x9 screen and less (but still annoying amounts of) input lag. But the funnest new feature is that it now has a loving camera built in. The camera wasn't doing anything (that I can tell, anyway...) but boy think of the exciting features you could add! Smile and pose excitedly with your Empty Coca-Cola Product Cup while we verify your Refreshment Levels before a refill is authorized
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the lag is because the system has to wait while it scans, stores, and transmits all your biometric data first
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Shame Boy posted:My favorite thing about coke freestyle machines is how much goddamn lag they have for seemingly no reason. Like I've seen a bunch where they removed all animation, I'm guessing to try to fix this, and it still has a bafflingly large amount of input lag between when you tap the thing and when it goes to the next screen. Roller rinks are starting to use facial recognition that doesn't work and employees aren't allowed to override so I can only assume that hilarity is about to ensue with banned customer lists across all customer facing industries.
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Good thing I'm never drinking coke again ever since it was reformulated to a sucralose abomination over here in Singapore
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Adjectivist Philosophy posted:The first real job I had was at a snack bar with a soda fountain and I vividly remember my boss losing his poo poo because I threw out a few cups that got stepped on and had dirty shoe prints on them. He said cups cost them 10 cents each and looked at me like some teenager was going to sweat 40 cents in cups? The smallest size was sold to customers for $5, equal to a full hour's pay for me at the time. Boss in this instance being owner or general manager? rear end managers generally dgaf but I've been wrong before
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this site is insane quote:Improve Employee Engagement With These 5 Types of Videos when an employee dies on the shop floor, play your “poo poo happens, nothing can be done” video
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Colonel Cancer posted:Cryptocurrency are like some kind of a horrible brain virus I could see myself reading about in some lovely sci-fi novel. Imagine, using tons of rare metals and complicated manufacturing machinery just to burn electricity to create absolutely nothing of value, and year by year it's only growing bigger. Lmao I’m imagining a world where AI robots can catch an incurable crypto mining virus like it’s cordyceps. Androids being hijacked against their will to clamp to an overhead power line while their silicon brain turns to mush performing some hashing algorithm that was written hundreds of years earlier.
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BattleMaster posted:When I first heard of bitcoin I thought it was a way of compensating people for lending computing power to other people - like folding@home or seti@home but you get tokens in return that have value because they can be sold to people who want to use them to buy computing power. Or something. The problem with using any of these is that they’re expensive to verify. Cryptokiddies could and would give bad, fake results for protein folding and pollute the whole database. Cryptographic hash algorithms are, as a class, expensive to compute and cheap to verify. Few real world problems are.
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poo poo POST MALONE posted:and the first thing I encountered that used rfid tech. That seems unlikely, RFID is in everything. Article surveillance tags, credit cards, passports, toll collection systems, transit passes.
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commie kong posted:this site is insane If someone shows me a prehire video, I will suddenly realize that's I'm a better fit elsewhere, yes.
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poo poo POST MALONE posted:I saw a lady change a cartridge in a freestyle machine once and she let me take a picture of it. it was kinda fascinating and the first thing I encountered that used rfid tech. Wait til you change an office printer toner cartridge - it's like loading a shell into a tank cannon! KA CHUNK!
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Platystemon posted:The problem with using any of these is that they’re expensive to verify. that literally the definition of np, like 90% of real world problems are in np what are you talkin about
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Fame Douglas posted:That seems unlikely, RFID is in everything. Article surveillance tags, credit cards, passports, toll collection systems, transit passes. okay I'll clarify and say "the first time I saw someone interact with RFIDs actively in a way that was clear to me what was happening".
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im gonna get an mrna vaccine that lets me think real hard and poop out a custom rfid
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Hold out for the tentacle one. Think of how good two extra arms would be! You would be a hit with the Japanese too!
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bob dobbs is dead posted:that literally the definition of np, like 90% of real world problems are in np what are you talkin about Also since we were talking about it, BOINC has stuff in place to keep people from submitting garbage, because even without monetary compensation nerds would absolutely do it just to get the highest score. I think the main way it handles this is by making at least two nodes compute each work unit and requiring that they match, which is rigorous enough currently but if there were money in it you'd probably get people just launching a billion nodes to ensure that it gets both copies a reasonable number of times or whatever. But the thing is it's centralized, so you don't need a bunch of complex balkanization and poo poo, you can just ban people and take all their protein moneys or whatever.
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here's a free DIY homeowners tip if you hang up a wall shelf and it turns out to be slightly crooked...dont tear it down and start over instead hang up a couple pictures next to it and use your level to set them at the same angle fellas, your wife will never know the difference
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The Nastier Nate posted:here's a free DIY homeowners tip I like this whimsical gaslighting technique. Just keep making your house more and more askew until it's the weird perspective shrinking hallway from willy wonka while denying anything's wrong.
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Groverhaus
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Yinlock posted:can't really think of a better place to put this https://twitter.com/fordm/status/1420094149064372227?s=20 Hobby Lobby Hammurabi Code
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skooma512 posted:Groverhaus Just don't do it in your Lebensraum
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those mismatched windows needed space to live
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skooma512 posted:Hold out for the tentacle one. Think of how good two extra arms would be! You would be a hit with the Japanese too! damnit! i wonder if its too late to get both?
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Shame Boy posted:I like this whimsical gaslighting technique. Just keep making your house more and more askew until it's the weird perspective shrinking hallway from willy wonka while denying anything's wrong. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5-Vp5lG-R8
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Shame Boy posted:I like this whimsical gaslighting technique. Just keep making your house more and more askew until it's the weird perspective shrinking hallway from willy wonka while denying anything's wrong. 
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gently caress the homeless, let the children do a capitalism https://www.king5.com/article/news/...84-cca5f58be3b9 
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