I’ve never not seen that happen? It’s probably to prevent fraud and a lot of the time it’s just old people who fumble the payment and need actual assistance?

As long as the store person there can reset it remotely for me it’s fine, then I don’t have to wait and they don’t need to come over.

I think it’s different when the payment times out, I’ve had that happen when the payment terminal crashed for no reason. Then it automatically resets back, so you can try again. But a failed payment is different from a rejected payment.

The other day the payment wasn’t approved for me (broke AF). The terminal beeped, the checkout counter went to a “Please wait for a representative” screen and the tower next to my checkout station went blinking green.

Luckily a very nice lady from the store yelled from her workstation if I needed help. I said I didn’t, just broke and needed to use another card. She reset my counter with her terminal and I was good to go. But it definitely feels like you did something really wrong.

Not as bad as running through the checkout without paying tho. I saw a man with his daughter of about 5 or 6 I think. She had one of those kid carts and tried to run out as the father was trying to pay for the sandwiches they were buying. All of the alarms went off, flashing lights, beeping gates, audible alert, the whole shebang. The kid got really scared as everyone just laughed as the father said: Hold on honey, we actually need to pay. The staff could easily disable the alert, but had to manually reset the gates. They needed to call it off on their headsets as well and two times staff came running to check if everything was alright. That’s not a mistake the kid will make in the future I bet.

No no you don’t understand, the free market will have a bunch of companies just dying to jump into this huge opportunity the market created!

Any minute now…

Aaaaaaaanyyyyy minute…

Guys? Any minute right? Right?

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Yeah this is called AI washing. Basically firing people, outsourcing all the jobs, stripping a company till there is nothing left. The goal is to maximize profits till the company is basically dead and then sell the husk. Because it’s done under the AI label, customers and other interested parties see it as being innovative and not just money grabbing.

Uhm 30MWh? That can’t be right…

In the past 5 years on average my home has used around 3.5MWh per year. We live here with two persons so that would be around 1.75MWh per person per year. Now let’s say we are very efficient and say the average person would need about 2.5MWh per year, that’s still one order of magnitude off from your number.

I can’t believe the average person in Vienna uses that much energy, especially not those living in apartment buildings.

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Ah they include everything in that graph, so the entire energy requirements of the nation divided by the population. So this includes agriculture, industry, transportation (including gas for personal vehicles) etc.

This is a pretty unfair comparison, as the people in the city would only need to generate the power for living there. Industry can have its own power sources. And in my experience many farmers have huge solar installations on top of their huge ass barns. They produce so much energy they often have their own energy infra building next to their property.

So if you include all of the energy for stuff that isn’t living, you should also include all of the surface area for stuff that isn’t living. In other words, way more than just the city itself.

And getting 100% of that energy from solar probably isn’t the best idea, it should be a mix of sources to make sure power is always available.

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This is about datacenters and HPC, hence the reference to Meta.

If you have time to draw your gun, aim and murder someone, you have time to step to the side.

She was just trying to clear the road and was stationary. The only reason she sped off is because she was fucking dead with her foot on the gas.

Fuck ICE, please Americans do something about this.

Ew humans

Is this the most bizarre tech? These things seem lame as hell to me. Except for the knife, that’s cool. I’ve seen those ultrasonic cutters used in hobby and industry and those work well. Using them in the kitchen I don’t know about, especially given the price, but still a cool thing.

Thanks! I hate it!