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[23:51:06] <systemd> ^ 03Are US Ports Empty and What Impact Does the Tariff Have on Global Shipping?
[23:51:04] <c0lo> Tariffs at work https://www.youtube.com
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[17:00:28] <drussell> Need to run into town and get some larger bolts for this exhaust system I'm repairing and modifying for a customer... L8R! :)
[16:57:33] <drussell> I wish those had barcodes on their arse so you could just scan a cute one and order them in a 6-pack carton :)
[16:56:57] <Ingar> I only see the blonde, the redhead, ...
[16:56:31] <drussell> You know you've been playing with too many barcodes when you can just "see" what the code says... :) LOL
[16:55:55] <Ingar> I can almost read code 3of9
[16:55:36] <Ingar> your barcode guns scans near-IR at high fps, the scanner makes one image
[16:54:46] <Ingar> we also do barcode detection on scanned documents, and that's a whole different beast
[16:54:06] <drussell> Indeed. There are many things that I cringe at when people buy the chinesium model... LOL
[16:53:54] <Ingar> "occupational deformation" we call it in dutch
[16:53:21] <Ingar> it's a professional thing
[16:53:15] <Ingar> don't worry, I jsut get triggered by barcodes and barcode guns
[16:53:12] <drussell> For real, actual use, I would spend the couple hundred bucks and buy a better one, of course...
[16:53:02] <Ingar> :)
[16:52:41] <drussell> I wasn't expecting much given the low, low price, but was plesantly surprised how well it works. Perfect for MY application...
[16:52:01] <Ingar> that didn't last long
[16:51:41] <Ingar> at some point, we tested some cheaper ones (because you know management goes "omg expensive!")
[16:50:50] <drussell> Yeah, I had worked with Symbol branded ones before for someone in their musical instrument store
[16:50:26] <drussell> LOL :)
[16:50:18] <Ingar> I ususally get to configure them because I'm the only person who once took the time to go through the manual :D
[16:50:09] <drussell> But for screwing around at home?! Geez, these things are amazing for the price!
[16:50:00] <Ingar> we're using them in warehouse management
[16:49:51] <drussell> Yes, exactly... :) Something real
[16:49:40] <drussell> Has worked great for me, though if I were deploying to a real retail environment, I would not use a cheap chinese clone like this
[16:49:18] <Ingar> for professional situations, I only recommend the datalogics
[16:48:29] <Ingar> all the cheap guns are crap
[16:41:39] <drussell> Hopefully they just use a standard 18650 cell and make it easy to change, don't see that listed specifically, just says takes one Li-ion battery, included, 2600maH
[16:40:01] <drussell> They still look kinda nifty, those ones have wired USB, bluetooth or dedicated wireless to USB mini-dongle like a typical non-bluetooth mouse or keyboard or whatever... 3-mode
[16:38:48] <drussell> Interesting, the cheaper version on that page only does 1D type "barcodes" but the $68 CAD one does 2D matrix and QR codes too... Obviously takes more processing power I'd think
[13:56:35] <systemd> ^ 03Amazon.ca
[13:56:35] <drussell> https://www.amazon.ca looks interesting, actually
[13:50:23] <drussell> There are bluetooth ones with rechargeable batteries in 'em for like $10 more
[13:42:54] <c0lo> Yay! One more USB port to stick one more cable into.
[12:28:32] <drussell> It is a device that Just Works™
[12:27:56] <drussell> It comes with a whole book of configuration barcodes that you just scan to change it's behavior if you want. I think the only thing I changed was to have it add an [ENTER] keypress after a code is scanned.
[12:24:32] <drussell> The thing was like $25 when I got it, has been worth every penny! lol
[12:23:43] <drussell> virtually
[12:23:36] <drussell> It actually uses a camera instead of a laser so it can scan all SORTS of codes. Quite nifty, actually... and birtually instant when you blip the bleepy button
[12:22:51] <drussell> It can scan QR codes and whatnot also, so you can even encode up to several KB of data into your own codes if you wanted to using any QR code generator utility
[12:22:03] <systemd> ^ 03Amazon.ca
[12:22:03] <drussell> https://www.amazon.ca
[12:22:01] <drussell> I can confirm that this cheap USB one works just as good as an expensive Symbol brand one or somesuch:
[12:21:39] <drussell> Having a barcode scanner is actually pretty handy. I got one a few years ago mostly just for scanning serial numbers to put on customer invoices more easily than keying them in manually, but now I use it for all sorts of things!
[11:31:13] <c0lo> Opening a diet beer or a foster in front of a friend? Deserves a bad meme punishment!
[11:05:40] <chromas> Maybe it was a diet beer or a fosters
[11:03:49] <systemd> ^ 03When your friend has bad meme taste...
[11:03:47] <c0lo> https://www.youtube.com
[11:03:47] <c0lo> Wasting a good beer on a bad meme?!?
[11:03:46] <c0lo> This world went nuts!
[11:02:20] <c0lo> I think the local workforce is earning their pay alright. I can tell by the length of the queues.
[10:41:40] <janrinok> but then I would need a barcode reader.
[10:41:11] <Ingar> you caould make barcodes for your most used shell commands
[10:40:42] <Ingar> a computer sees a barcode gun as a keyboard
[10:40:20] <Ingar> fun fact
[10:36:34] <janrinok> I agree, I refuse to use self-scan. If I did so I would be taking away someone's job. Self scanning isn't any faster, indeed it is often slower.
[09:53:37] <Ingar> support your local economy
[09:53:13] <Ingar> so now I plainly refuse to do the work a store clerk is payed for
[09:52:38] <Ingar> but it was actually the check that was wrong
[09:52:29] <Ingar> until their random checks marked me as cheater
[09:52:14] <Ingar> self-scan was a thing here
[09:26:50] <chromas> Some places have a handheld scanner. You should be able to scan faster with it since it has a trigger instead of a timeout
[09:24:48] <chromas> I've seen the boxes with barcodes but of a different format probably
[09:24:09] <inz> But what would be even better, is if there were multipacks of things like cat food, with their own EANs, so a single scan would suffice
[09:21:57] <Ingar> you have no idea :D
[09:21:54] <inz> Local Lidls do actually have a + -button you can tap; I find it quicker already at 3, since it's hard to find the correct rhythm with the barcode scanner
[09:21:53] <Ingar> scanning barcodes
[09:20:08] <chromas> Would be great for your cat food situation, but I bet in cases of under 20 items it's probably faster to scan over and over than to dick around with the touchscreen and laggy ui
[09:19:40] <inz> One of our big chains also had scales on quick checkouts, but they, too, were disabled (and later removed from the design altogether).
[09:17:31] <c0lo> Would be much easier to scan one of the many identical items and then key in their number on the terminal - the functionality is available for the personnel but not for the customer.
[09:15:08] <c0lo> Now that they disable it, I can scan an item and put it back into the trolley.
[09:14:00] <c0lo> The scale under the packing area was just a security check. Malfunctioned most of the time - assume you have about 10kg of grocery on the packing area of the self-checkout then you put a 50g item - not gonna be registered with its correct weight, thus checkout error and call a hooman for an error reset.
[08:58:06] <chromas> Might have to try it. Would be nifty if that was programmed in here
[08:57:35] <chromas> I never thought of scanning a can then weighing a stack of them
[08:46:58] <c0lo> My sleep is barely 6h/night, WFH (no elevator and commuting), the supermarket disabled the scales at checkout (so I can scan a single tin of cat food 24 times)... things are looking a bit better.
[08:08:34] <systemd> ^ 03When Your Life Flashes Before Your Eyes
[08:08:31] <chromas> https://www.youtube.com
[04:31:54] <drussell> At least this one has a good mantle in it now, since it is the one with the twisty-sparker igniter in it...
[04:31:19] <drussell> Holy crap, that's way brighter than the one that is in the other lantern, but that could be a clogged generator or somehting too...
[04:24:56] <drussell> Heh, I don't have a geiger counter here, but I'm pretty sure the mantle I just put on one of my old propane lanterns is still one of the thorium-doped ones... Heh... Heh... Am I extra glowy now?! :)
[02:04:22] <chromas> How many people are really defacing their own cars though? It's been well established spergs have been all over the place scratching them and sometimes seeing them on fire
[02:02:49] <chromas> Need lots of oil to prevent premature evaporation
[01:32:43] <drussell> Fish oil prevents evaporation, perhaps? Hmmm..
[01:31:04] <halibut> I hope not. I might evaporate from all the anti-fishy.
[01:31:01] <systemd> ^ 03Tesla profit plummets 71 per cent, Elon Musk vows to spend more time on carmaker - ABC News
[01:31:00] <c0lo> https://www.abc.net.au
[01:30:39] <drussell> Is that the opposite of doing something fishy? ;)
[01:29:59] <drussell> Must have done something karma-worthy at some point? ;)
[01:27:56] <halibut> I only remember being at 4 karma or so. Thanks for all the karma!
[01:27:17] <devbot> Command failed: fork/exec /misc/command_handler.py: permission denied
[01:27:17] <bender> uppers of halibut are: drussell: 1, TheMightyBuzzard: 1, Runaway1956: 1, progo: 1, SoyGuest93544: 1, Bytram_dewey: 1, c0lo: 1, FatPhil: 5, Bytram: 10, chromas: 1
[01:27:17] <halibut> !karma-whoup halibut
[01:23:55] <devbot> Command failed: fork/exec /misc/command_handler.py: permission denied
[01:23:55] <bender> Unknown command
[01:23:55] <halibut> !whoup halibut
[01:04:16] <systemd> ✓ Sub-ccess! "03First Confirmed Footage of a Colossal Squid" (14p) -> https://soylentnews.org
[01:04:13] <c0lo> =sub https://schmidtocean.org
[01:01:13] <bender> halibut: 22
[01:01:13] <c0lo> halibut++