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• Greg Tingey commented on We're sorry we created the Torment Nexus
  David L Of course the alternative name for a "15-minute city" is ... A Village. As Kipling noted, long ago, London is "The Little Village" - a giant village, made up of lots of smaller ones. Or .. "Commuting form the early-Medieval village to the Roman City" { Walthamstow-to-Londinium } Adrian Smith My limes last months (!) - but then, they are still growing on their tree, so there....
• Pigeon commented on We're sorry we created the Torment Nexus
  Not that long ago I put 20 packets of tea leaves through one by one, and the assistant came over and told me that it was possible to put just one through and then enter the multiple by hand. However, by the time she had finished walking over, I had already finished scanning the tea leaves (pass across the scanner and drop on bagging area, scan - drop, scan - drop, at a rate of >0.5Hz); I also couldn't see the thing on the screen she was pointing to that makes it do it; and I couldn't believe that if...
• Pigeon commented on We're sorry we created the Torment Nexus
  But bananas famously self-irradiate, so they ought to last for ever, whereas in fact they go off quite a bit quicker than most fruit... Dunno what happens if you feed them 14C23H4......
• lankiveil commented on We're sorry we created the Torment Nexus
  Our local supermarket (UK, Co-op) has self checkouts that do without the scales in the bagging area entirely and, as far as I can tell, don't have any cameras / AI / other smarts to make up for it. It all appears to operate on an honesty system as there are no security staff, no random checks of your bag, and frequently the only staff member in site is manning the till in the tobacco / lottery kiosk. As a customer it's a fantastic system as you can breeze in and out of the store in no time at all....
• David L commented on We're sorry we created the Torment Nexus
  Co-op It all appears to operate on an honesty system as there are no security staff, no random checks of your bag, and frequently the only staff member in site is manning the till in the tobacco / lottery kiosk. I think the term Co-op explains the lack of security....