Earlier quoted context omitted.
I live somewhere that a person pumps my gas for me. No ads!
Don't give them any ideas, or you'll have gas station attendants decked out in ads like NASCAR drivers.
Or just upselling the whole time...
Cooler screens
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Re: Cooler screens
#242Were these screens e-ink, wouldn't they allow for doors that are better insulated? This could yield lower power consumption, couldn't it? On the other hand, door insulation might be insignificant if the fridge is opened often enough. Which is likely what any retailer hopes for.
Given the importance of color to branding I think e-ink is a nonstarter in it's current mass-produced form.
Colour e-ink is available for retail purchase, and the colour reproduction is passable.
The refresh time is big fractions of a minute, but that's OK for static displays.
Obviously that misses the entire point of this parasiteware, which is advertising and tracking.
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#243Earlier quoted context omitted.
The ad industry is not Midas, but Mierdas: everything it touches turns to shit.
Anybody that uses "Midas touch" in a positive way completely failed to grasp the story.
You underestimate the mind’s potential. One can separately consider the tragedy and utility of his wish. (Guiding the reader to do so is kind of the purpose of the story, isn’t it?) As a bonus, doing so opens up delightful phrases like “shit Midas.”
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#244Earlier quoted context omitted.
This insight has caused me to essentially be blackpilled at my BigCorp job: Nothing means anything. No one is even trying to do a good job, and naively trying to do so one's self will probably just result in a PIP aka being fired.
Big tech is BS in exactly the way parent poster described but "doing a good job" doesn't usually get you PIP'd AFAICT. Just means you stay the same level for not rushing out half-baked features and very, very slowly people will realize you don't suck but it still won't help you get promo.
I'm not in Big Tech really, just a standard BigCo. IME doing anything productive in an enterprise environment means pulling out at least some legacy cruft constantly. Anything else means it accumulates faster than you can remove it. Unfortunately, almost every bit of cruft has someone that looks after it, so this naturally makes you enemies. The only realistic way to keep ones job is to constantly add to the pile, never remove from it.
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#245Earlier quoted context omitted.
In a culture where 'greed is good' turning (spoiler alert) your own daughter into inert gold is considered 'smart monetization.'
Yeah! We call that liquidity
we're creating value by turning everything into gold! most won't ever be turned into pure gold, so let us create our value as we see fit. we're hurting no one; you say we are, that this lump of gold was a person, well that skeleton over there was a person, too, and that person died without the pure GIFT of being turned into gold and becoming pure value. That could have been that person's religion! Are you saying that you do not respect freedom of religion! Look at this guy, he doesn't want to turn people into gold-colored value!
Re: Cooler screens
#246Earlier quoted context omitted.
Anybody that uses "Midas touch" in a positive way completely failed to grasp the story.
You underestimate the mind’s potential. One can separately consider the tragedy and utility of his wish. (Guiding the reader to do so is kind of the purpose of the story, isn’t it?) As a bonus, doing so opens up delightful phrases like “shit Midas.”
And yet, people feel the need to take ads, that can be almost perfectly described as having the Midas touch, and feel the need to invent those lame phrases.
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#247Earlier quoted context omitted.
You know what else enables thicker insulation and doesn't require a computer screen and e-waste? Thicker insulation .
A screen+camera would actually enable insanely good insulation, compared to glass. A 4cm/1.6" PUR sheet weights next to nothing and has a thermal transmittance (aka u-value) of 0.4 W/(m²K). That's about twice as good as modern, triple glazed windows.
You could just apply a large poster on the front of the door. No need for a screen that generates heat.
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#248Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's not feasible to make glass doors on coolers much thicker, or else they'd be too heavy to move for a significant portion of the population without a motor or hydraulics.
When do we get our transparent aluminum? I was promised it with Star Trek IV.
Re: Cooler screens
#249"How do we make the cooler door a more engaging experience?"
Imagine getting your raise request denied, meanwhile the guy asking these questions is an executive at your company. I could sadly see this concept coming to fruition in the future as a way for stores to make more passive money by playing ads on them (like gas station pumps do now in the US), but man do I not know a single other good reason to have them.
Re: Cooler screens
#250Very strange. The principal purpose of cooler doors is to be insulating and transparent. So I know where my sweet tea or whatever is, can find and buy it without frustration. The money gets collected faster by the business, and I don't quit coming to the store from frustration and annoyance.
Do anything whatsoever to interfere with that, you have a demonstrably worse device. You will spend money to lose money, installing stupid doors to produce a drop in sales.
I cannot possibly imagine this is a good idea.
And I cannot possibly imagine anybody involved in the chain of events that led to this being created, had an iota of sense.