Remember QR Codes? They’re More Powerful Than You Think

Re:Remember QR Codes? They’re More Powerful Than You Think by tobr on Friday November 01, 2019 @08:12AM (#21417907)

Then we have very different ideas of why QR codes are bad. I think they’re bad because they waste space with something that is completely useless to human senses. They should be replaced with good OCR, not with manual typing.

Teach machines to make use of human language instead of teaching humans to make use of machine language.

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Re:Remember QR Codes? They’re More Powerful Than You Think by papln on Friday November 01, 2019 @04:27PM (#21423346)

99.9% of the information in your computing life is not human readable; it's encoded in radio waves and electrical pulses that your senses can't interpret.

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Re:Remember QR Codes? They’re More Powerful Than You Think by tobr on Saturday November 02, 2019 @05:25AM (#21426696)

You can’t experience them with your senses at all, which is completely different. You can see a QR code, and in fact you have to see it to be able to use it, so it takes up space on signs, in magazines, billboards, etc.

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