Robots can work well in warehouses. Amazon’s have been a success, for example. This just sounds like whomever WalMart hired to design this didn’t know what they were doing and Walmart got screwed. Maybe they tried to automate the wrong tasks, or leaned too heavily on the sales pitch of “AI magic” rather than understanding what they were buying.

The article also mentions Kroger’s failed dive into automation. From what I can find online, the automation worked, but it was a flop because it was expensive and underutilized — it wasn’t worth the money spent because it was focused on filling online orders that dried up.

https://www.wsj.com/tech/amazon-warehouse-robots-automation-942b814

https://retailboss.substack.com/p/krogers-350-million-lesson-why-big

https://macrohint.com/krogers-2-6-billion-warehouse-meltdown-the-untold-story-behind-the-biggest-automation-failure-in-modern-grocery/

Haven’t ridden in one yet. But I’ve had one pass me on the right using the emergency lane.

Thanks. I couldn’t find anything when I searched. I doubt this is the only chemical they could use for that. It’s always about money — like what’s cheapest, or what’s subsidized. Sad sad sad.

Why would you need to use perchlorate in a grain bag?

It’s all a grift. This is just another way to funnel government money to his pals and supporters.

It’s going to be difficult to use this to educate people when public education is being dismantled state by state.

What a weirdo.

Please stop sourcing your links from cbs news.

The braking with one pedal driving is much more immediate. The car doesn’t really coast. Instead, you slowly let off the accelerator and the car drags to a stop. It takes a while to get good at, kind of the same way you have to get good at letting off a clutch in a stick shift. If you let off the accelerator abruptly, you will feel the car braking immediately. You have to let off slowly. Trying to drive the traditional way while this feature is turned on creates the “seasick” lunge.

Sorry if I’m not good at describing it. If you get a chance to test drive an EV that includes this option, try it. I mostly keep this feature turned off on my EV because I don’t really see any improvement in range with having it on.

There’s a video demonstrating it here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-mVMEfoIZw

What might be making them sick is one pedal driving. It’s off by default. This option allows the driver to immediately apply regenerative breaking when letting off the accelerator pedal.

When this option is turned off, an EV coasts just like any other car.

Not sure if this is true anymore. DFW is fairly red now. East Tx has always been red. Latinos along the border have been voting red in spite of themselves (such as Uvalde and Laredo).

I have no idea how West Texas votes these days.

Houston and Austin areas are consistently blue.

Didn’t this dude write “Look Homeward Angel”? One of the worst books I have ever had to slog my way through. Maybe he shouldn’t be talking about wasting talent.

That’s ok. They’re taking away digital content too. So far just movies, not games (yet).

https://www.msn.com/en-us/entertainment/movies/sony-is-deleting-over-500-movies-that-people-bought-from-their-digital-libraries/ar-AA26PnQO

I wonder how many of these Wisconsin farmers turned down solar or wind installations on their land? Renewable power installations can keep farms afloat during lean years.

Sounds like a class action. Some corporate buyer or school will probably sue. I predict the judgement will end up being a coupon for $100 off one of the new googlebooks.

Also belongs on oldschoolcool.

I mean, can’t several things be worked on at the same time?

When funds are tight? No, they can’t. There are finite engineering resources. The more new features you add, the more bugs are introduced, and the less resources there are to fix any of them (old or new).

Enjoy your one free year of credit monitoring.

Womp womp.

Stores around here have already been putting up “penny shortage” signs so they have an excuse to charge extra. A penny isn’t much, but they know that it adds up quickly.