"Price last checked June 5, 2023" for stuff around me.
How economical is your local Taco Bell?
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Re: How economical is your local Taco Bell?
#102Earlier quoted context omitted.
Apparently the prices are scraped from the mobile app. I installed the mobile app and for some reason, and that location can’t be found inside the mobile app. Actually, you cannot (I can’t anyway) order from that location from the website either. It just goes to show data cleaning is hard. It’s true for statistics and it’s probably just as true for LLMs.
Why does Taco Bell have an app? What is its purpose?
Many of their stores don't have cashier's. You have to use a kiosk or the app.
Re: How economical is your local Taco Bell?
#103For the umpteen millionth time, please please please do not use red/green for the scale, it is very difficult for colorblind people to distinguish, which is ~5% of the male population. Look at Colorbrewer for some alternative suggestions: https://colorbrewer2.org/
As a developer with a red/green colorblindness, I've had to point this out to UX designers I've worked with over the years. I ended up making a small game to show how frustrating it can be to use UIs that rely on color alone to express information. https://jdestaz.itch.io/colorblind-curse
Very well done. When I was color blind I just picked all 3s to get through level as quickly as possible.
Re: How economical is your local Taco Bell?
#104Earlier quoted context omitted.
Apparently the prices are scraped from the mobile app. I installed the mobile app and for some reason, and that location can’t be found inside the mobile app. Actually, you cannot (I can’t anyway) order from that location from the website either. It just goes to show data cleaning is hard. It’s true for statistics and it’s probably just as true for LLMs.
Why does Taco Bell have an app? What is its purpose?
Can’t tell if serious.
Everything has an app. And pretty soon everything will have an “AI”.
Re: How economical is your local Taco Bell?
#105Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why does Taco Bell have an app? What is its purpose?
I would imagine they let you order food and then when you arrive your food is already made?
Essentially yes, except they make it when you arrive (at least if you pick up in the drive through). This is good design, because food from Taco Bell has an expiration date of about 3 minutes after it's cooked. It's good (well, not good, but it's food) right when it comes out, but once it cools down a bit it becomes essentially inedible.
Re: How economical is your local Taco Bell?
#106"Price last checked June 5, 2023" for stuff around me.
same
Re: How economical is your local Taco Bell?
#107For the umpteen millionth time, please please please do not use red/green for the scale, it is very difficult for colorblind people to distinguish, which is ~5% of the male population. Look at Colorbrewer for some alternative suggestions: https://colorbrewer2.org/
it's also not the proper scale type for sequential data (red/green is diverging, but there is no central value defined in the linked map).
Re: How economical is your local Taco Bell?
#108Earlier quoted context omitted.
Where in the USA do you live? For my parent's house in Texas City there wasn't really a grocery store for ten miles and I'm not even sure delivery apps were available there. It's like trying to call an Uber in league city... MAYBE you'll get one in 30 minutes or something. I'm curious if you think it's because Americans are too lazy or undisciplined or stupid or something to find and cook food? Is it hard to believe…
Per Google maps, there is an HEB, Kroger, Aldi, and Walmart Supercenter within 5 miles of what looks like all the populous parts of Texas City, TX. I am not making value judgments. I just know that the availability of ingredients and knowledge of how to use those ingredients is there for the taking for most Americans. Maybe people don’t have time, maybe people don’t find it worthwhile to cook for households of 1 adul…
There's also a lot of indie restaurants in Texas City. Sure right off 146 there's a sea of chain restaurants but head down Palmer to 6th and you'll find a number of indie places to eat along the way.
Re: How economical is your local Taco Bell?
#109For the umpteen millionth time, please please please do not use red/green for the scale, it is very difficult for colorblind people to distinguish, which is ~5% of the male population. Look at Colorbrewer for some alternative suggestions: https://colorbrewer2.org/
As a developer with a red/green colorblindness, I've had to point this out to UX designers I've worked with over the years. I ended up making a small game to show how frustrating it can be to use UIs that rely on color alone to express information. https://jdestaz.itch.io/colorblind-curse
This is terrific. Thank you for sharing
Re: How economical is your local Taco Bell?
#110For the umpteen millionth time, please please please do not use red/green for the scale, it is very difficult for colorblind people to distinguish, which is ~5% of the male population. Look at Colorbrewer for some alternative suggestions: https://colorbrewer2.org/
Thank you for this resource.