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Post by shock »

Mo3 wrote: post #404
maaaaattttt wrote: post #399

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I used to walk to school in sometimes very cold weather (-35 Celsius). Once, in order to try preventing the inside of my nose to freeze, I put my scarf over it. The scarf froze very quickly and I ended up with ice around my neck... Now that I’m thinking about it, I wonder how people will manage masks this year with COVID in cold countries. TL;DR: don’t put a scarf over your nose in very cold temperatures.

Would a coronavirus survive in these conditions anyhow? Or, remain transmittable?

Cold acts as a preservative for viruses. In labs which do experiments with viruses, they keep viruses in freezers for a looong time.

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Post by exolymph »

corobo wrote: post #400
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If your "joke" is structured to sound sincere and be misleading, it's clickbait.

If your joke is structured to sound sincere and be misleading it's called a joke... that's literally what a joke is

Uh, no, many jokes count on the audience being in on it.

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Post by kelnos »

istorical wrote: post #127
tenebrisalietum wrote: post #113

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Why? What are you going to do different if you are told it is broken versus down for maintenance? You're still not getting any ice cream?

One implies neglect or incompetence, the other implies a limitation of a system. Some people would look down on a franchise or a restaurant or a business that had super high failure rates. Like if the comedy section of Netflix went down every 3 times you tried to visit that section. As opposed to Netflix having some system level limitation requiring them to perform some magical dance and perform some spell every few…

This is McDonald's we're talking about. No one walks into one expecting spit-and-polish and Michelin-starred service.

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Post by tmearnest »

travisjungroth wrote: post #364
nixgeek wrote: post #191

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Since they need internet connectivity to phone home status to McCloud, I don't know why they wouldn't just run an NTP client to keep their time synchronized and accurate? Moreover the $750 you reference must be a commercial product since you can do GPS on a Raspberry Pi for < $50 easily? Which product are you thinking works for this scenario? Think I've seen everything from $300 to $13000 solutions for this over the…

Or a G Shock with radio based time correction is $90. Not saying you could use the watch, but maybe the receiver is available.

And use some computer vision on the raspberry pi to read off the time? I love it! This is why they don’t let me work on hardware.

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Post by superhuzza »

maaaaattttt wrote: post #399
HenryBemis wrote: post #394

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Back in the day I worked in a dairy company as an IT guy. When the RFID antennas would need a reboot I had to go to the deep freeze storage (-40 Celsius), walk in with a ladder, climb the ladder, switch off and then on (IT crowd style), wait to see the green light bleeping, and then climb down and leave as fast as I could. The whole thing would take 40-50 seconds (I was counting EVERY time). I couldn't wear gloves, b…

I used to walk to school in sometimes very cold weather (-35 Celsius). Once, in order to try preventing the inside of my nose to freeze, I put my scarf over it. The scarf froze very quickly and I ended up with ice around my neck... Now that I’m thinking about it, I wonder how people will manage masks this year with COVID in cold countries. TL;DR: don’t put a scarf over your nose in very cold temperatures.

>TL;DR: don’t put a scarf over your nose in very cold temperatures.

Weird, as a Canadian who has been through many -35 days, I absolutely use a face covering, whether that's a scarf, neck gaiter, mask...Never had any problem like that.

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Post by chapium »

joezydeco wrote: post #415
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Not sure if this is the same thing, but I recall reading a case study in 2006 on McD's cloudifying their kitchen equipment. The project was apparently a huge failure and was eventually stopped due to runaway costs.

Do you have a link to that anywhere? The 2006 timeframe does fit with the LONWorks effort. The McD implementation used....powerline networking. Man was that a kludge.

I don't sorry, but it was probably a HBR case study.

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Post by joezydeco »

xeromal wrote: post #374
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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…

Did you work in Oakbrook? I was on a team that was trying to make a few smart restaurants. We got to about 50 before the project was canned but we were trying to put everything from fryer oil life to what the platens were cooking and HVAC all on a touch screen. It was a lot of fun.

I’ve worked for a few commercial equipment makers. Talked to Oakbrook and Romeoville but never been inside.

Every time McDs changes CEOs I feel bad because that means almost every current project is going to be shitcanned as the new person tries to make their mark. Are you still there now?

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Post by kortex »

wahern wrote: post #225
d23 wrote: post #155

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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…

"The future is plastics!" 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 moldab…

Former chemist, yeah this always bugs me. Laypeople use "plastic" to refer to mostly inexpensive injection molded parts, but it really includes everything from LDPE bags to glass fibre reinforced nylon powertools to Rayon fibers to thermoplastic elastomers.

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Post by HenryBemis »

maaaaattttt wrote: post #399
HenryBemis wrote: post #394

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Back in the day I worked in a dairy company as an IT guy. When the RFID antennas would need a reboot I had to go to the deep freeze storage (-40 Celsius), walk in with a ladder, climb the ladder, switch off and then on (IT crowd style), wait to see the green light bleeping, and then climb down and leave as fast as I could. The whole thing would take 40-50 seconds (I was counting EVERY time). I couldn't wear gloves, b…

I used to walk to school in sometimes very cold weather (-35 Celsius). Once, in order to try preventing the inside of my nose to freeze, I put my scarf over it. The scarf froze very quickly and I ended up with ice around my neck... Now that I’m thinking about it, I wonder how people will manage masks this year with COVID in cold countries. TL;DR: don’t put a scarf over your nose in very cold temperatures.

Heh.. many people commented on that. Perhaps you had a "single layer" that made it hard since the droplets/water from your exhale got stuck in the fabric, and together with the atmosphere's humidity created this effect.

In such cold climates I wear an ultra long scarf (2m-2.5m), I wrap my neck/jaw/ears 3-4-5 times (depending how tight) and I tuck it in my jacket. The outside of the scarf freezes, the inside remains warm. I also try to breathe by my nose, less humid.

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Post by withinboredom »

daemin wrote: post #416
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Excellent! I once went to a local burger place - they have a menu full of the various types of burgers, all loaded with everything. My kids are super picky, so I asked for a burger, with nothing except the burger and the bun. Server looked confused - but which burger did I want? It became apparent that while I could ask for a preset item and ask for removals, I could not actually go fully off menu. So I had to ask fo…

I get the feeling that it's also easier for the cashier to put it into the point of sale / ordering system. There are buttons for specific menu items, and then buttons to remove things from them, but no buttons to build a burger from scratch.

I remember working at the drive thru for Wendy’s. I learned all about some clever orders that saved you $0.50-2.00 by ordering things a certain way. I can’t remember anything specific, but I remember one time asking, “so you want an X?” And they came back with “no, put it in exactly how I told you.”
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