This is my favourite kind of mistakes!
It shows you that someone knew enough to pick a word like CALIFORNIA, but for them, A and R looked the same, much like C and O. Something I totally saw with primary school kids learning our alphabet.
It's like us mistaking 手 and 毛, or 人 and 入, 目 and 日, etc. Looks idiotic when you're a native, but a fair mistake when you are a beginner.
You know, I don't think you got the right comparison (i do thank the cabin crew), but I think I see your point. I guess it could be seen as clapping at the end of a music performance, I suppose. Not everybody can line up to politely thank the conductor, or the artists, or whatever, so a communal gesture has to be enough. Sure why not.
I agree! There really should be no excuses at this point... you'd think.
Even in 2008 I already felt we were behind the loop, but apparently I was vastly underestimating how bigger companies just dgaf.
Nah, it's a "first time flying and there is a bunch of us and we're so grateful the pilot didn t kill us all" kind of thing.
Was on a flight this summer with some seriously unstable wind that made the landing a bit more impressive than usual and many people clapped. Return landing was smooth as fuck and sure enough, everybody was gangsta, then.
Divide et impera. Still as effective now as it ever was throughout history. Whether it's planned by nefarious parties, or naturally occurring from lack of teamwork.
The question bring why you'd keep working on something you got money for. Especially when you've been shown time and time again that people keep buying your games anyway. Seems more cost effective to pay those marketing people than your code monkeys...
I briefly worked for a company writing software for medical labs. You know, those labs that were completely swamped with work during Covid?
Anyway, that company was 15 years old, in 2016. And only starting to implement source version control. They used Pascal. In Delphi 97. With some Chinese plugins to make it usable.
The only machine that could actually compile the program was a virtual machine inside the machine of one engineer. And that dude who was supposed to train me fucked off with the passwords to the virtual machine after a week.
Needless to say, I ran away as fast as I could. I wonder how they fared, three years later.
But anyway yeah, it's terrifying how much vital, important software runs on thoughts and prayers, essentially.
It's a classic spoken language mistake. I knew a shop in Wuhan whose name was Crojing ("clothing"), iirc. I loved seeing these, haha!