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Cloud based clock. Don't you mean NTP? We've had this technology for years! If it's connected to the internet, it's a pretty fundamental piece of pretty much any networked OS. You can ensure correct time this way.
NTP is fine but so is pulling time off a server header if it's phoning home to report status.
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What I’m understanding is that the order is placed, meaning it’s in checkout. But he’s not actually fulfilling it, meaning he didn’t ordered/paid for ice creams for real.
Someone on Twitter also mentioned ice cream orders don't actually get filled until you arrive at the restaurant (which does make sense), providing an extra fail-safe for this.
I don't have much sympathy for a huge corporation like McDonalds, but isn't this is kind of an asshole move by the developer?
Digression: If you're red/green colorbind, the https://mcbroken.com website is pure frustration. All the dots look the same to me. Fortunately the iOS accessibility color filter works wonders. After enabling that (in deutan mode) I now see green and gray/purple dots.
I knew iOS had a strong accessibility story, but I had no idea it could compensate for color blindness.
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Here's some detail, as someone that has worked with those machines before (internally and externally). In the good old days the soft serve and shake machines were taken apart every night and every piece was washed and bleach-sanitized by hand. Then it was reassembled in the morning. This would leave a lot of room for error and possible contamination in the process. And the sight of a shake machine hitting full pressu…
Since you and the OP are here, I have a random question: were the blizzards ever made with liquid plastic ingredients? It probably sounds insane, but someone from a plastics company spoke at my high school and said this was the case since it was easier to ship and needed no refrigeration. Now, decades later, I'm wondering if this was just complete nonsense or had an element of truth to it. I've been able to find noth…
I'm not a chemist but I've recently come to realize that the meaning of the term in the popular psyche has probably changed over the decades, taking on largely negative connotations, because of its association with a small subset of materials (albeit large by volume), most of which are either toxic, a pollution problem, or both.
AFAIU, in industry "plastics" is just a blanket term for moldable organic materials that chemists are constantly inventing. They're not necessarily sourced from petroleum, nor necessarily toxic. It's a ridiculously huge category of material, and plastics really were and probably always will figure prominently in our future. And I would assume that some traditional, even edible materials have been subsumed into the plastics category given the general scope of the term and the industry itself.
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The most basic version of this would be an Google Maps embed, but you'll quickly run into styling and interaction limitations. Not the author, but McBroken looks to be built with Mapbox's Javascript library, so you'll need to break out a text editor. They have some good starter docs here: https://docs.mapbox.com/mapbox-gl-js/example/simple-map/ You can learn a lot by signing up for an API key from Mapbox and tweaking…
Thank you. Do you think the side panels (especially the dynamic one on the left) are a part of the Mapbox interface, or something separate?
LOL! It's so ridiculous that this is a problem so often. I was in McDs once when the service guy was there. I overheard him say it would be $9,000 to fix just the shake side of the machine. I thought to myself, "That's a lot of milkshakes! There's a grocery store in the same parking lot... gallon of ice cream, some milk, and a blender. Problem solved."
So yes, the customer can go home and make their own milkshake (unless they are on a trip and can't go home to make milkshake). But the store owner can't depend on a consumer grade blender to make 50 milkshakes in an hour.
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Since you and the OP are here, I have a random question: were the blizzards ever made with liquid plastic ingredients? It probably sounds insane, but someone from a plastics company spoke at my high school and said this was the case since it was easier to ship and needed no refrigeration. Now, decades later, I'm wondering if this was just complete nonsense or had an element of truth to it. I've been able to find noth…
Not the same, but plastic-y chemicals have been used in fast food before. https://www.eater.com/2016/8/8/12403338/subway-yoga-mat-chem... https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2014/03/06/286886095/al...
Not sure where this data is coming from but for months now I've been ordering ice cream through the McDonalds app only to find out when I get there that the machine is broken and that they can't cancel or refund the order, which ultimately results in a stressful cash refund. It's happened multiple times at various locations around Manhattan. Eventually I'll just use this method to get 30-day cash loans on my credit c…
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Considering that all of these machines come up/down cyclically and automatically for sanitizing (pasteurizing) purposes, as described higher ITT, you're a great example of how data can be massaged to drive whatever narrative you want.
You're assuming fleetwide homogeneity. It's possible that there's a disproportionate number of machines in minority areas misconfigured. It's possible that there's a disproportionate number of machines in minority areas that are old-style manual-clean. It's possible that there's a disproportionate number of machines in minority areas disabled for some other reason (ingredient supply disruption? Demand not worth the c…