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[โ€“] IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I don't think you can in good faith compare...

Ooh, that's just one of my pet peeves. Such a stupid fucking phrase. The only way to know if you "can't compare" two things is to do a comparison between them and come to the conclusion that the two things are very different. I can compare self checkout to a kumquat if I want to.

Now for some actually useful conversation, let's compare number of steps for vending machine vs self checkout (since that's the closer of my two examples).

Vending machine:

  • insert payment
  • push button to select items
  • pick up item
  • repeat all steps until you have the number of items desired

Self checkout:

  • scan item or place item on scanner/scale and push buttons for item type. This only counts as one step, because you are never doing both to the same item
  • repeat first step until you have all items desired
  • insert payment
  • pick up items

It's the same steps in a different order.

[โ€“] petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 day ago

is to do a comparison between them and come to the conclusion that the two things are very different.

Mate, they did that. That's exactly what they did, and they told us how.

repeat all steps until you have the number of items desired

Holllld the fuck. My self checkout has a loose limit of 25 items, who the hell is getting 20 items from a vending machine?