Re: McDonald's unveils first automated location

2022-12-29 Thread Jason Spatafore via PLUG-discuss
I'm kinda with George here. I went to a Circle K today that had a self checkout. It took 3x as long to checkout. I let the attendant there know that I did not enjoy the experience and won't return. But, I will use Amazon and delivery services. So I think the labor market will move away from

Re: McDonald's unveils first automated location

2022-12-29 Thread George Toft via PLUG-discuss
You won't be replaced by a machine.  You will be replaced by someone willing to do your job for $20-25 per hour. I've seen postings in a large company that stated they were paying Tata Consultancy $66K for H1B DBA's.  Tata takes 33%, which means the H1B Visa worker gets $44K, or $22/hr.

Re: dBase

2022-12-29 Thread trent shipley via PLUG-discuss
It looks like SQLite was meant to be a modest application's dedicated SQL enabled data store. It was never meant to be concurrent, multiuser or intensely transactional. A database professional would say that's a stupidly lazy programmer trick. On a similar note I've been reading software

Re: dBase

2022-12-29 Thread George Toft via PLUG-discuss
I made a mistake in an application by using SQLite3.  I read about SQLite's advantages over MySQL in that it has no network stack, so it's faster.  My testing showed that was kinda true - it was faster mostly, until multiple tasks started accessing the database concurrently.  I applied some

Re: McDonald's unveils first automated location

2022-12-29 Thread George Toft via PLUG-discuss
I'll pass on this for the same reason I don't go to Sonic and I won't use self-checkout at Albertson's/Walmart/Home Depot. Regards, George Toft On 12/28/2022 7:22 AM, Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss wrote: Thought you might find this interesting.

Re: McDonald's unveils first automated location

2022-12-29 Thread Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss
The article said the router had an internal hard drive. I wonder if it was logging and therefore that info was found in the logs. Scary!! On 2022-12-28 20:48, greg zegan wrote: Is this even possible?