This entirely depends on the quality and calibration of the self checkout machine. My local grocery store has very well maintained machines, and I can personally scan items a tad bit faster than the experienced checkers who do it all day long. However, when I go to other stores, especially non-grocery stores, the machines are slow as hell and have that "tutorial" mentality that you describe. The one at my local grocery store has the ability to bypass every single thing it says. It could be mid-talking, and you can already scan 2-3 items ahead of what its reading. It'll ask questions like "choose a payment method", but if your credit card is already in the machine, the voice line plays, but the prompt clears itself out automatically by detecting the card reader's processing.

As far as your thought on polling: my particular grocery store, even if NOBODY is in line for the checkers, the self checkout will still have people queue up. It is by far and away the preferred method here. But admittedly, I also live in an area that is mostly tech workers, so we're not afraid of using a screen and buttons ourselves, since that's our day jobs.

100% this. During game development (or really any software development), placeholder content is very commonly used. This is essentially a Lorem Ipsum, but for voice, that got missed during release build. During development, you'll see this all the time, like placeholder textures, or placeholder text, or placeholder whatevers. And its also quite common to use placeholder content that is close to final content, so in this case, a sound file with the voice, just not done by a human. Simple mistake to overlook when the placeholder content is closer to the real final content.

Maybe... just maybe... its actually because of the "algorithms"

We as consumers of these platforms know our content wont even reach people that follow us. This is a constant complaint on every major platform now, such as Xwitter, Facebook, YouTube, etc. The algos are all optimized for ad impressions to make $$$. Normal user posts that are not paid/promoted only reach maybe 1% to 10% of a given user's audience. And when your audience is your circle of friends/family that may be only about 100 total, that means maybe 2-5 people of that group will even see what you have to say. Who the hell would have the motivation to post at that point? Literally opening a window and shouting outside will have a larger audience.

It Really Whips the Llama's Ass

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

what do you think he'll be doing in this "hospital prison"? that's just a nice headline to say that the kid is now on some secretive ops team.

I've searched several products when I first noticed this "feature" - Amazon Basics products tend to have a more favorable AI generated "review" compared to competitors. This of course was a very small sample size that I checked by hand, so don't take it as absolute fact. But there was a very noticeable lack of negative wording at all in Amazon Basic products.

But that's where this gets hairy. This is Amazon using AI to generate content about a product, and like the summary says, is not fully indicative of user's ACTUAL reviews. This gets into an untested legal gray area.

I started noticing the AI reviews on Amazon a couple weeks ago. All I can say is that they're comically bad. How long until Amazon has a lawsuit on their hands for misrepresenting products carried on their site, either by consumers, or by vendors?

VIEWERS may be, but are advertisers? In the end, to the business, that's the only thing they really give a shit about.

Swift broke the Beast Quake record. And then another concert not too long after broke that record again.

Thing to consider with concerts vs Football is that concerts have a shitton more people because people are also on the field itself, and I'm sure the stands have seismic reduction due to this being an earthquake prone region to begin with, something less likely to exist on a flat field on the ground.

-shrug- fuck if i know, its just a bunch of loaded buzzwords from what I can tell LMFAO

https://tanzu.vmware.com/tanzu

If you think VMware is just a hypervisor product, you're several years behind the times. VMware has had containerization products for quite some time now too.

Really...? Using MTV saying it is a zombie version of its former self?

Remember when MTV was... MUSIC Television !?

There are apps that do, and honestly, this pisses me the fuck off. For instance, my banking app prevents it. But ya'know what? I'd like to have a fast snapshot of my finances that I can drop somewhere as a record for personal reasons... but NOPE! (unless of course I hack around it, but that's a pain in the ass, and at that point I just hop on a desktop and download/screen cap there)

"ZFS eats memory for breakfast"

This is a misconception that's lived for far too long. I actively run OpenZFS on 1GB Raspberry Pis just fine. OpenZFS has its own filesystem cache, the ARC, so it is reported as "used" RAM, instead of "cache" RAM by the OS, but also has the ability to evict the ARC if there is memory pressure, just like the OS does with its native cache. If you used an OS like FreeBSD, it properly and accurately reports the ARC separately from "used" RAM so it isn't a concern mentally, as you'll get accurate reporting.