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ALDI ditched self-checkout. Folks were too slow and/or thieves.

Didn't ditch at the one near me. They greatly expanded self checkout actually and are down to 1 lane with an employee ringing people up as opposed to ~12 self checkout stations

Just a reminder that there are two completely separate store chains called "Aldi": Aldi Nord and Aldi Süd. Depending on where you are, you may be referring to a completely different Aldi.

Not for much longer.


I guess we now know why they jacked up the prices this week. Bribes ain't cheap.


You may be bribing the wrong people. Clearance Thomas will rule in your favor wheb you sue for permission in exchange for a footlong sandwich and a 20% off coupon to Bed, Bath, & Beyond.


They had top men working on the logo. Top men.


Why change the title?

"Google Fulfilled ICE Subpoena Demanding Student Journalist’s Bank and Credit Card Numbers"

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html


Just a thought, maybe the poster was using original title but source later updated it.

https://web.archive.org/web/20260210171513/https://theinterc... -- "GOOGLE HANDED ICE STUDENT JOURNALIST’S BANK AND CREDIT CARD NUMBERS"


Agreed. The way it’s written now sound weird.


The Crazy Horse Memorial has been going since the 1940s. It's progressing nicely.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crazy_Horse_Memorial


If I'm reading all this correctly, it sounds like Apple has a system that will automatically play unintended music at various times from the music library. The only way to prevent this is to completely wipe out the entire library.

And the chief complaint is that there is an album in the library.


> If I'm reading all this correctly, it sounds like Apple has a system that will automatically play unintended music at various times from the music library.

No, in this case the play command was coming from the attached device. Apple’s product was complying with the command in the only way it could, by playing the songs in the library.


Of course it's not the only way to comply. The more sensible default is to continue playing whatever's in your queue. So if you had nothing there, noting would play.


That’s right. Various connected devices are over-eager to assume the user wants to play media, and command the phone into do so unexpectedly. This is fine if there is no media to play, but then all of a sudden, thanks to Apple’s decision, there was unwanted media to play, and this album would be the one always playing.

So the album didn’t cause the problem but it revealed it.


If I'm reading correctly, the bug is in the car's audio control system.


Most cars work this way so phone makers should design around that.


Both are annoying as hell, but people found a workaround, and that album screws it again.

But yes, it's still the insult on top of the injury.


Because the presence of that album is what creates this bug and the user never purchased or downloaded it themself.

I have this same problem but it plays my wedding playlist from nearly 20 years ago. Some terribly annoying song I no longer like. I assume it’s too much work to delete my library and so I just deal with the annoyance.


If you guessed the 19th century, you were off by a bit more than 16 years.


And here I complain about people erroneously specifying EST all summer along. They’re only off by 1 hour.


I skip specifying Standard or Daylight time altogether, and just use ET (or CT, MT, etc). Much easier on my brain, and nobody actually cares which they're in at the moment.


"Fixes"


Yes, fixes.


No, it sorts it.


CSS it, say it, sorted.


Sorts it, right proper.


Ember is working through a migration replacing their build system and bundler with Vite -- all while maintaining backwards compatibility to a version released in 2021. Ember will be fun to watch in the coming year.


Depending on how you count it that could be a version originally released in 2018 i.e. the version they are aiming to support is 3.28 which you should be able to easily update to from 3.0 (which was released in 2018) since it's a minor update with no breaking changes


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