Potato chips, pieces of dark brown bread, almonds, cashews, and some piece of pie all gone in a flash.
Seagulls like potato chips too.
That is a very nice view!!! Absolutely beautiful!
A few month back I found a dead bird, called in the county special service, animal doctor came, they check for bird flue too sometimes, but this bird had flown into / against the window glass it seems.
so who and why is more important than the result
Sometimes. That's the Alemany Gap, a major fog channel between the ocean and the Bay. Usually we see a bunch of fog.
And it's cold. We leave the heat on all year.
If one assumes that DT or JL is always wrong, it saves a lot of energy otherwise wasted in thinking.
Yes, it appears the reader doesn't make a good contact with the pads on the surface of the credit card. I've found that I can "bend" the card to force the contacts higher into the reader and sometimes get it to work. If not, I just move to another kiosk. If I try to swipe the mag stripe, the reader complains and tells me to insert the card (so, it either KNOWS that my card is chipped and considers that a more secure interface *or* the mag stripe reader is just decorative.
Most of these things are BFM to the staff. "It doesn't work" is met with a careless <shrug>
The technology at Walmart, in particular, is pretty bad. Costco is even worse. As if the person responsible for conceptualizing the design didn't really understand the problem.
Don Y snipped-for-privacy@foo.invalid wrote: |---------------------------------------------------------------------------------| |"On 7/23/2026 1:07 AM, Martin Brown wrote: | |[. . .] | |> Older cards do still get skimmed for magstripe and PIN though and then used in | |> the USA overnight before the owner notices. | | | |Ah. Do the card companies not notice that anomaly? I made a | |purchase in a store and went back and made another. The first | |transaction "originated" here. The second, the sales person used | |a different "terminal" that was (virtually) located in another state, | |many thousands of miles from here. | | | |The credit card company denied that purchase. I went home, fuming | |about the episode -- to find SWMBO on the phone with the credit | |card company -- who had called "me" to inquire as to this | |"suspicious transaction". (only a few hundred dollars but I | |think that's one of the strategies scammers use to avoid detection?)" | |---------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
Financial firms do notice such anomalies. E.g. a financial firm telephoned a friend because she used a card on one continent and on the same day a thief used details thereof to steal on a different continent. (S.
My bet is the contact within the reader are quite dirty, and need an scrub with alcohol.
Yeah. If they were able to repair card readers they would have better career options available.
Oh I think they do know. Their problem is truly hard, how to make a criminal-resistant reader strong enough to handle gorillas but only cost ten cents in quantity.
Joe
Or, possibly eroded from too much abrasion. Note Walmart does has a lot of traffic and encourages self-check over a cashier station.
It must be a terrible place to work as the staff is eager to gripe about the mistakes their bosses make. E.g., baskets (not carts) should be positioned by the door so you can pick one up on entry. And, *disposed* by the exit so you can drop it off as you exit the store -- not 40 ft AWAY from the exit so you have to venture out of your way to "do the right thing".>
It's more than just the readers -- though they notably don't support tap to pay and are considerably slower than readers at other establishments in allowing you to "please remove your card".
Their touch screen to select produce items, etc. is designed so that -- instead of touching the 1.5" x 2" rectangle that contains the photo of the object you've selected -- you have to press a small *button* (within that rectangle) that is often past the bottom of the screen.
Their video surveillance gets confused if you leave your yet-to-be-scanned items off to the right of the kiosk (because they have neglected to leave you a place for them OFF TO THE LEFT!) as it can't sort out which items are being removed from your basket to be scanned and then placed in the bagging area *behind* the basket's location.
:-)
Jan Panteltje snipped-for-privacy@comet.invalid schreef: |---------------------------| |"Worked for Philips twice."| |---------------------------|
What do you think of Benyounes Elmrabat?
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I interviewed at HP in Palo Alto. The guy looked at my resume and said "The first thing you have to do is decide if you're an engineer or a programmer."
So I left.
It is a time-saving initial assumption. Neither is reliably wrong, but neither is right often to be worth relying on.
Actually, it is mostly methane, CH4 - the carbon still contributes a lot to the energy released when you burn it, so while does burn a lot cleaner than coal and appreciably clear than coal, it does contributed enough to anthropogenic global warming that we can't burn all that much more of it.
China imports about 10% of the coal it burns. It imports about 1.6% from Australia. It's CO2 emissions have levelled off recently, and we can expect them to start going down as the Chinese investment in renewable energy sources continues. America was in the same state when Trump got re-elected, but their emissions now seem to be going up by 2% per year.
It does help if you are trying to predict the long term result. "Trump" and "long term" don't usually show up in the same sentence.
Not all interviewers know about their stuff...
Actually, unburnt methane is much more effective as a greenhouse gas than CO2 by a factor of 80 over the first 20 years. It decays faster, but with that head start it still will molest our grandchildren.
Gerhard
ps. is it unburnt or unburned? Thunderbird flags both.
But as the world industrializes and electrifies, birth rates drop. So there will be fewer grandchildren to suffer the horrible fate of being alive.
And lefties have fewer kids than sane people; even better.
AI Overview Natural sources account for roughly 40% to 45% of global methane emissions. The largest contributors are wetlands, where microbes decompose organic matter in oxygen-poor environments. Other significant natural sources include termites, thawing permafrost, oceans, wildfires, and geological seeps.
John Larkin Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center Lunatic Fringe Electronics
Apparently I would have reported to that guy, and he was nasty.
John Larkin Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center Lunatic Fringe Electronics
It's not the industrialisation and electrification that is dropping birth rates, but better health care. People are only having as many kids as we need to hold the population steady - actually fewer than that right now, but we've just been through a bout of considerable population growth and there seems to be a bit overshoot in the control loop.
John Larkin has a curious notion of sanity. he thinks that Donald Trump has common sense.
The problem with AI is that it doesn't know what it is talking about.
Between 95% and 96% 0f CO2 emissions come from natural sources, but that doesn't stop the 4% to 5% we emit from being a accumulating problem.
Methane is oxidised to CO2 and water in the atmosphere over about 20 years by perfectly natural processes, and doesn't present a long term problem in the way that CO2 does. CO2 does get precipitated out a carbonates in the long term. but the time constant for that process is about 800 years which is inconveniently long.
Where does that 800 year timeconstant come from? Looking at the yearly variations on the overall CO2 concentration curve, I'd estimate that time constant to be of the order of only ten years.
Jeroen Belleman
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