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Re: Edge Computing at Chick-fil-A

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Post by joezydeco »

btown wrote: post #235
joezydeco wrote: post #94

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From what I understand, merchants can do a quicker swipe (basically record the card # and transaction amount without waiting for authorization), but the merchant fees are slightly higher because of the possible higher fraud/chargeback rate. It's up to the chain to decide on what to do. Perhaps CFA can do it even better since they could possibly keep a database of bad cards at the edge. Remember those books that cashi…

Or keep a Bloom filter of hashes of repeat customers’ cards on the edge to accelerate their experiences.

The goal is to detect stolen/deactivated cards. Not sure how that helps.

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Post by dalore »

raiflip wrote: post #286
beckler wrote: post #272

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I have a friend who used to be a shift manager at Chick-fil-A. I can't remember exactly what he called that process... It was like meet and greet or walk and talk, but it's surprisingly efficient for the drive thru. He said it cuts down the average wait time for customers around 15% at his location. I don't know what it would be like at NYC since it's not a drive thru.

It's crazy efficient. When you walk in someone with a tablet takes your order, and by the time you get to the cash register your food is ready. Works so well because the employees are able to catch customers at the end of the line.

I guess it also stops people from leaving. Since once you made an order you're more invested to stay and pay for it. But if you were in a long line you might get fed up and go somewhere else (or get a phonecall to do something etc).

Re: Edge Computing at Chick-fil-A

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Post by dalore »

donkeyd wrote: post #332
burgreblast wrote: post #297

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Here's "Line busting" the drive thru 68+ cars deep. It's astonishing the WiFi goes out that far. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIQWyYQ0EYg FWIW, also an edge approach, with Prometheus etc.

Slightly off-topic, but what's the reason that Americans all tend to line-up at the drive thru? I was in LA, there was a huge line at the drive thru, so we parked, went inside and got our orders really quickly.

At McDonald's at least the drive through is prioritised over walk ins. That said if the queue is still long it might be quicker to walk in. But inside if orders come at the same time they do the drive through order first.

Re: Edge Computing at Chick-fil-A

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Post by mattbrewsbytes »

uncreativebrian wrote: post #300
mattbrewsbytes wrote: post #16

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A myth about manufacturing jobs is that they all went overseas. Reality is that most of them were replaced by robots and automation. Low skill, low knowledge, repetitive work is key target for automation. Fast food workers wouldn't have large downstream effects. Automated truck driving would though. There are likely entire towns right off of highways that depend on humans passing through daily - restaurants, repair s…

Hey this is Brian -- I wrote the article. I do want to add that Chick-fil-A isnt looking to replace jobs with "robots". We really want to assign our restaurant team members to tasks that add maximum value to customers, which are generally service oriented (iPad in Drive Thru, personal service in the dining room, etc). Our automation will help our team members be more effecient and enjoy their jobs more rather than re…

Of all places I doubt CFA would replace workers, having nice, helpful people is the second awesome-est thing there (chicken and waffle fries tops that).

I can see the automation and analytics helping staff appropriately and offer more options for efficiency and waste reduction.

Re: Edge Computing at Chick-fil-A

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Post by api »

monocasa wrote: post #161
api wrote: post #97

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Don't most modern SD cards contain some wear leveling logic? I did a bunch of research on this a while back and the conclusion I found was: yes, but buy name-brand better rated cards to avoid cheapo cards that do not do wear leveling or do it very badly. It's nowhere near as good as SSD drives, but it's better than just a naked flash chip... unless I'm wrong.

Yes, but it's not enough. Even the brand name cards aren't worth shit; you need to buy "industrial" cards. Source: tried to get a root filesystem to work on name brand SD cards for a high availability product.

Hey if you see this can you answer one more question:

How much abuse was your high availability product delivering to these cards in terms of writes? Was it something like a video recorder, database, cryptocurrency, or some other application that did large amounts of write I/O?

I ask because we're about to ship something that uses SD cards, but the I/O is very low. It's a network appliance and doesn't do anything locally that is high write throughput.

Re: Edge Computing at Chick-fil-A

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Post by psychometry »

uncreativebrian wrote: post #296
psychometry wrote: post #18

When it comes to Chick-fil-A, there's also the regressive side in addition to the modern and traditional sides. https://hornet.com/stories/chick-fil-a-anti-lgbtq-donations-...

Hey, this is Brian and I wrote the article. I have worked at Chick-fil-A for over 17 years. I will volunteer time to take a phone call with anyone that is interested in hearing my first-hand experience with Chick-fil-A and its culture over the years. Just reach out on LinkedIn if you are interested and we will schedule some time.

I'm sorry, but whatever positive experience you've had as a member of the organization does not simply negate the negative effect the ownership has on our society.

Re: Edge Computing at Chick-fil-A

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Post by psychometry »

ve55 wrote: post #44
sincerely wrote: post #36

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Eh, regardless of my personal thoughts on the topic, the ethics of eating animals are a lot more controversial among the HN crowd than LGBTQ rights.

Chik-Fil-A is not an arbiter of LGBTQ rights. Their small 6-figure donations to organizations that focus on other issues do very little in the grand scheme of things. Do you really think Chik-Fil-A is directly causing more suffering by donating to a few charities in amounts this small than by raising in captivity and then killing billions of chickens? I see no way to reasonably argue that.

The "other issues" that organizations like Focus on the Family are concerned with are just a reprehensible as their anti-LGBT bigotry.

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Post by stochastic_monk »

dbrueck wrote: post #340
hogu wrote: post #316

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https://www.forbes.com/sites/clareoconnor/2014/03/19/chick-f... Anti gay marriage

I understand that you disagree with the CEO, but how do you get from there to the conclusion that he is not open-minded?

Because he claims that homosexual relationships do not deserve the same state recognition as heterosexual relationships.

Re: Edge Computing at Chick-fil-A

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Post by [deleted] »

pvg wrote: post #80
factsaresacred wrote: post #70

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Yes, instead of relying on dictionaries, words should mean whatever you want them to mean.

Bigotry does not just mean 'intolerance towards those who hold different opinions from oneself.' It's a silly definition, not what I want it to mean.

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Post by kbutler »

pvg wrote: post #308
Fellshard wrote: post #287

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I have a pretty personal beef with the idea that language can simply be contorted to supposedly mean whatever someone feels like it should mean, as heading down that road is basically abandoning meaning and communication altogether, and is wholly incoherent.

Yeah but... I didn't say any of that.

> It's a silly definition, not what I want it to mean.

You wrote this intending to say, "I'm saying the dictionary definition is silly, not that bigotry should mean what I want it to mean."

Instead, the sentence says, "The dictionary definition is silly, [because it's] not what I want it to mean."

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