@gumnos Exactly. Hence the question. Checking stuff out of the inventory must be as easy as swiping it across a scanner as someone takes it out of the fridge or pantry. Swipe ONCE, that is, and hear a beep. And that must be the entirety of the interaction. If it's not as simple as what the cashier at the store does in approximately 100 milliseconds, it's too complicated.
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Florian Haas (xahteiwi@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 07-Apr-2025 05:15:52 JST Florian Haas
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Florian Haas (xahteiwi@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 07-Apr-2025 03:04:28 JST Florian Haas
@silverwizard Wait... what? Over here (EU), pretty much any grocery item you buy anywhere (except maybe produce you buy at the farmers market) has its barcode on the packaging, usually in multiple spots... is that not the case in Canada?
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Florian Haas (xahteiwi@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 07-Apr-2025 02:51:28 JST Florian Haas
Have any of you built a check-in/check-out station in your kitchen for scanning your grocery items and adding and removing them from/to your #Grocy inventory? Presumably involving a laser barcode scanner and not a phone/tablet camera (which is rather slow)?
If so, sound off below.
Boosts appreciated too, of course!
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Florian Haas (xahteiwi@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 06-Apr-2025 17:02:18 JST Florian Haas
Do you want a truly useless fact? Here goes: Adolphe Sax, namesake (and inventor) of the saxophone, and John Philip Sousa, namesake (though not inventor) of the sousaphone, shared the same birthday (November 6). They were born exactly 40 years apart, in 1814 and 1854.
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Florian Haas (xahteiwi@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 25-Jan-2025 07:24:40 JST Florian Haas
@baconandcoconut That would be Oskar der Griesgram. @mahryekuh
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Florian Haas (xahteiwi@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 25-Jan-2025 07:24:39 JST Florian Haas
@mahryekuh Excuse me WHAT @baconandcoconut
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Florian Haas (xahteiwi@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 25-Jan-2025 06:21:54 JST Florian Haas
@baconandcoconut You'll find this a little difficult to pronounce but Viennese has "Grantscheabm" (literally "shard of grouch").
There is also the less localised "Griesgram".
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Florian Haas (xahteiwi@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Jan-2025 06:11:19 JST Florian Haas
My prediction is that the next German loanword to become a staple of the English language (after schadenfreude, weltanschauung, and recently verkehrsverbund) will be gleichschaltung.
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Florian Haas (xahteiwi@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Jan-2025 06:11:07 JST Florian Haas
Anyone who says "I've never struggled with addiction" should pause for a moment and think about sugar.
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Florian Haas (xahteiwi@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Jan-2025 06:09:39 JST Florian Haas
Here's a question which we'd have called a #LazyWeb post before search engine results turned to crap; now I'd prefer to use #ExpertWeb instead.
I hope a PoliSci person reads this: are there studies exploring the prevalence of political groups employing a strategy (covert or overt) of pushing people on the opposite of the political spectrum to splinter groups unlikely to meet the electoral threshold, in party-list proportional representation systems?
(Boosts would be great, thanks!)
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Florian Haas (xahteiwi@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 03-Jan-2025 23:02:29 JST Florian Haas
That's one proposal submitted for @pycon🇮🇹. The CFP still runs until 2025-01-06 AoE.
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Florian Haas (xahteiwi@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 28-Dec-2024 08:56:07 JST Florian Haas
You know all those pesky "your year in review" notifications that you're getting from a million apps?
The technical term for that is "annual recrap". Write it down, kids, and tell your friends.
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Florian Haas (xahteiwi@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 12-Dec-2024 04:38:57 JST Florian Haas
Anyone got a Pinebook Pro with an ISO (en-UK) keyboard layout that you're no longer using and looking to rehome? I'd love to relieve you of it.
(They're not making them anymore. Boosts much appreciated.)
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Florian Haas (xahteiwi@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 01-Dec-2024 06:55:57 JST Florian Haas
Are any of you #Pythonistas aware of an array of sorts that Python processes always keep in memory, with a size of 8 bytes times the applicable nofiles (number of concurrently open file handles) ulimit? I don't know where to start looking/searching. If that rings any bell at all, please holler. Thanks!
Boosts OK.
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Florian Haas (xahteiwi@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 04-Nov-2024 06:36:27 JST Florian Haas
There's a specific reason I am intensely grateful for the podcast editions of radio shows funded with public money: no advertising. God damn it's nice to be able to listen at length to someone saying something intelligent and not be interrupted by some fuckhead trying to sell you something you don't need, all the fucking time.
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Florian Haas (xahteiwi@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Oct-2024 00:07:27 JST Florian Haas
Fun facts:
The most sustainable commute comes with working from home.
The most fuel and power efficient commute comes with working from home.
The fastest commute comes with working from home.
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Florian Haas (xahteiwi@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 22-Sep-2024 20:22:34 JST Florian Haas
@Sweetshark Ja, "Stellenbesetzung" vielleicht, aber das klingt mir zu bürokratisch — deswegen bin ich noch auf der Suche nach einer Alternative.
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Florian Haas (xahteiwi@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 22-Sep-2024 20:22:20 JST Florian Haas
Frage in die deutschsprachige Runde:
Für mich heißt auf englisch "Hiring" das Einstellen von Menschen, deren direkte/r oder indirekte/r Vorgesetzte/r man sein wird. "Recruiting" ist hingegen das Anwerben von Menschen, zu denen man keinerlei Vorgesetztenverhältnis haben wird.
"Recruiting" nach dieser Definitition kann ich auf deutsch als "Anwerbung" bezeichnen. Fällt euch eine gute Übersetzung von "Hiring" in diesem Kontext ein?
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Florian Haas (xahteiwi@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 14-Sep-2024 05:22:13 JST Florian Haas
@bmacDonald94 No worries at all, the paraglider is an equally interesting story! 🙂
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Florian Haas (xahteiwi@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 14-Sep-2024 00:03:55 JST Florian Haas
@bmacDonald94 I do know about that story, but it doesn't answer the question: the paraglider doesn't ever need to float upward to descend from the top; the kite does need to gain some altitude in order to fly from the summit.
Also, Pierre Carter flew from the South Col, at 8,000m. That's "only" 90% of the height of the summit.