Re: McDonald's unveils first automated location

2022-12-30 Thread greg zegan via PLUG-discuss
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Re: McDonald's unveils first automated location

2022-12-30 Thread greg zegan via PLUG-discuss
reading this right now.https://liberalforum.eu/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Liberal-Read-No-17_Empathy-as-a-Pillar-of-Liberalism.pdf Using my Debian Linux machine.;-)If you remember that csc200 course I took back in 98' and the question of : "If you could write a program that would put people

Re: McDonald's unveils first automated location

2022-12-30 Thread Jim via PLUG-discuss
This doesn't surprise me a bit.  30 years ago I worked in some fast food places and I saw the unreliability of many people who work there.   The trend is toward more of the 'I don't have to work. Everybody owes me.' attitude.   I saw something a couple of years ago about a fast food place that

Re: McDonald's unveils first automated location

2022-12-30 Thread Jim via PLUG-discuss
I can't help but think about what might have happened if the guy who bought the router wanted to use it. On 12/29/22 07:05, Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss wrote: 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.

Re: McDonald's unveils first automated location

2022-12-30 Thread Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss
On 2022-12-30 15:19, George Toft via PLUG-discuss wrote: Pick-a-part is a great place to find brains :)  It helps to know where the ECU is and how to remove it (automotive brain surgeon) otherwise, you'll be paying someone else to extract it and ship it to you and pay someone else at $175/hr

Re: McDonald's unveils first automated location

2022-12-30 Thread George Toft via PLUG-discuss
Pick-a-part is a great place to find brains :)  It helps to know where the ECU is and how to remove it (automotive brain surgeon) otherwise, you'll be paying someone else to extract it and ship it to you and pay someone else at $175/hr to install it.  It rapidly becomes cost-prohibitive to

Re: Python project ideas

2022-12-30 Thread greg zegan via PLUG-discuss
I concur.I am taking a short python course right now and would love to know how to prepare for interviews.what skills are needed to perform well on entry level, intermediate and advanced roles please? On Friday, December 30, 2022 at 02:20:10 PM MST, T. Zack Crawford via PLUG-discuss

Re: Python project ideas

2022-12-30 Thread T. Zack Crawford via PLUG-discuss
I don't really know what your question is or what you are trying to do, but I'll mention my immediate thoughts on what you wrote. Python is a very strong language and you can do A LOT with it. It is very popular in data science and for web applications via flask. It excels in writing abstracted

Python project ideas

2022-12-30 Thread trent shipley via PLUG-discuss
Python UTF8 Treeview Project Feedback Request I want to move beyond classroom assignments and Exercism.org toy exercises and start work on my own project. A major motivation is to have something to show if I make it to an interview for a software curation and writing job. This kind of view of a

Re: McDonald's unveils first automated location

2022-12-30 Thread Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss
I assume you do not take part in the automated checkout because it reduces labor? I do not go that far. I think we are using too much technology and that is why I avoid the automated checkout. I'm a programmer and I do not like the tech shift we making. I do not like chips in cars. As the

Re: McDonald's unveils first automated location

2022-12-30 Thread Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss
About 20 years ago I posted to a tech list that I thought H1B was a bad thing and I got roasted. On 2022-12-29 19:40, George Toft via PLUG-discuss wrote: 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