- axusMy friend's eSIM experience with Tello was pretty good. Their kid got their first phone with an eSIM, and it was stolen a few months later. They were able to transfer the number to a new phone from the Tello website.
- It's useful for large orders where everyone wants time to review the menu and/or customize the toppings. Will spend a few minutes entering everyone's order to the app and checking out.
At the drive-through speaker spend 10 seconds saying the code instead of 90 seconds ordering, with no chance of mistakes. The line still needs time to move, so the time savings isn't as big as it sounds, the order accuracy is what I appreciate.
You might save another 30 seconds at the payment window, they ask if you had a mobile order and then give you the receipt.
If the line has moved too efficiently, you will receive your drinks and be asked to wait in a reserved parking spot. This is the "time-out corner" for patrons with too many customizations on their large order, its still more convenient than picking up inside. In 5 minutes someone will bring the rest of the order to you.
The app has "20% off orders over $15" as a large incentive to use it.
- Mobile customers are a kind of second-class citizen for McDonalds, though they have instructed the drive-through salespeople to always lead with "Will you be using the mobile app today?". MCD uses location tracking to only submit the mobile order once you are in range of the store.
Should probably add that in-store customers are third-class citizens; drive-through orders without customization get priority.
- Yes I made the assumption that the person who "put the plan together" did their own diligence of reviewing it before emailing, but maybe that is too charitable for an "AI plagiarist".
If someone sends me incomplete work I will judge them for that, the history of the work relationship matters and I didn't see it in the blog post.
- Why can't the plan be judged on its merits? Rigorous verification of the idea is a good thing that should happen anyways. The main potential problem I see is transmission of privileged information to a third party.
I assume they are working at a business to make money, not a school or a writing competition.
- Nothing would happen to Mr. Huang, he's free to talk to anyone.
- Have you browsed Google Play? :) Or Amazon appstore for that matter.
- Let's say not as popular as other games, but it was popular enough to pirate in the US.
- Democracy with Chinese Characteristics
- Maybe the poster IS Gemini 3?
- Today an email purportedly from Google said I will need to send age verification on my 20yo account, or they'll stop targeting me for advertisements and showing me inappropriate material. This sounds like an excellent deal for me, not going to bother determining if its a phishing attempt.
- The government might spend the money on giant AI data centers instead, this donation is going directly to something helpful.
I've been thinking about a synthesis of communism and capitalism, where instead of levying dollar taxes, the corporations transfer 0.5% of control (stock, etc) to the government per year. Adjusted for how much the government already controls.
- There was no Android, app store was new, there were no app bootcamps. In 2025 if you wanted to offer a hands-on quantum computing class for Computer Science (not Physics), you'd need to pick a corporate product.
- I love that the AI decided to "hack" the site by spamming
- If it takes 10 years for AI product recommendations to reach how toxic Web Search is now, that would be a welcome stretch of time.
- Ask a human who does. If there are no competent humans on-call before the procedure starts, reschedule the procedure.
- If the new devices didn't require subscriptions, ads, or cloud verification of manufacturer authenticity, we'd be more excited to buy them.
- I did get the feeling that all of these "problematic" behaviors were simply about saving everyone's time.
- Here's a job posting for CBP: https://www.usajobs.gov/job/849185400 I'm having trouble finding the ICE requirements, my understanding is even less than CBP. The ones without firearms training won't have guns, fortunately.
Compare to state police officers, who go through half a year of academy. FBI needs a college education or two years work experience, and then they do another 1000 hours of training.
If you've ever watched real cops working, the difference in training / professionalism is obvious. They will identify themselves, and be familiar with the case history before dragging anyone away.
Here's one of the apps used: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_Fortify . ICE agents aren't psychic. There's a database of people who's legal status has expired, the database is not perfect. An ICE official decides who is guilty and issues a civil arrest warrant. The supervisor sends agents to where the computer has tracked them, and the agents arrests if the computer says so. There's no judge issuing the warrant before, or trying the case afterward.
These are a real changes in America, we have a right to speak about it, and it's reasonable to guard against these tools being turned on Trump's "enemies within" next.
- It's the untrained masked men with guns dragging people away because the computer said to, that's the new heavy-handed method that America has not seen before except in WW2 Germany and the Soviet Union.