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Cake day: June 30th, 2023

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  • tempest@lemmy.catomemes@lemmy.worldHonest mistake
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    2 months ago

    Cameras are there to lower insurance premiums. That’s why for years and years every security camera video looked like it was filmed on a potato because there was no incentive to upgrade. The rise of phone cameras has caused the price of 4k cameras to plummet though so they are getting better.


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    2 months ago

    Yeah most self checkout at grocery stores is hot garbage for all the reasons you mentioned and more.

    My favorite self check out experience is at Uniqlo. You walk up to what is effectively a plastic bucket with an iPad attached. Toss your shit in the bucket it shows you what it thinks you put in there and you click ok and tap you CC. It takes like 30s.

    Grocery stores are just cheap and won’t put the 5 cent RFID tag on things.







  • They don’t care about performance, they care about cost.

    There are two different customers here. The site wants to serve the absolute minimum required resolution they can get away with before the user goes somewhere else. This saves money on bandwidth and storage. The ad networks customers are the advertisers and they want their ad to be high quality and presented quickly so it’s harder for the network to trim the fat.