tiramichu @ tiramichu @lemm.ee

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No idea if that specifically is related.

But a lot of fields have convention of ranking A,B,C,D etc with A being better just because it's the top/first.

I wish the best for you, and hope you find yourself a better boss soon.

I wouldn't be surprised if it's more effective for the CS to type that way in this setting.

Normally, I agree with you. I hate when people send lots of tiny messages instead of one long one. It is annoying, and constantly captures and diverts your attention. Big message is better because you can process it all in one go and it is less context switching.

But think about the scenario here. You've got a customer on the other end who themselves may have a very low attention span. They are in the middle of a customer service exchange, and this might not trigger a notification the same way a messaging app would, so the customer can't really do other things during this chat, they have to just keep it open and watch and wait for the CS response.

In that circumstance I bet typing in lots of small messages makes your average customer feel like the CS is 'fast' and 'responsive' and gets them more favourably rated afterwards.

Can you imagine the absolute misery of working for someone like this.

A person who thinks developers are all useless, and has total contempt for any skills that aren't "business" stuff.

A person who thinks tech is easy and you can "just" do this and "just" do that and everything will be done, always telling you "this is so easy I could do it myself" while any contribution they make only makes things worse, and if there's any kind of hold-up it's because you're either "lazy" or "incompetent"

No thanks.

To be fair, this is probably just a bad translation / bad phrasing.

I expect what they mean by this is "to continue without signing up"

It's a pretty common pattern on ecommerce sites. You can sign in with an account, or you can make a one-time purchase without an account.

And of course if you don't have an account they still need somewhere to send the confirmation (and in this case, probably send the tickets)

He wasn't wrong, it was a great video

The line has to go up.

More engagement = more views = more ads = more money for the shareholders

Doesn't matter how that engagement is generated, whether it's human content or AI trash.

Late stage capitalism is hell.

Generally, the wine is made with extract from animal penises, with the belief that drinking it will give you sexual performance and vitality.

I'll give it a pass, personally

Exactly this, it's a within-industry term that has leaked out to members of the public. It simply means "we put a lot of money into this, and we expect to make a lot back (for our investors)"

As for where the 'A' terminology came from then that itself is likely a reuse of other entertainment industry terms.

In the old days when you released a record album, you'd put the best tracks on the 'A' side and the less popular ones on the 'B' side.

Similarly, we talk about 'A-list' celebrities abs 'B-list' celebrities, and use the term 'B-movies.' to denote low budget.

And so what happens wben something gets "bigger and better than A?" Well, you just add more A's!

"Not a retro company," but yet the stated "something new" is all about reviving classic IPs.

Maybe try building some new IPs, if you really want to be new.

Happy Crimes

Goblin mode, 1930s style

As a kid, like 9 years old, I wasn't able to get a real Tamagotchi. I had a cheap knock-off version that had a little dog in it.

A bunch of my classmates were upset because their Tamagotchis ended up dying of neglect during the school day, but my fake-ass tamagotch has this weird bug where if you held down all the buttons at once it would freeze up and stay that way until you pushed something else.

So I basically had a Tamagotchi with a 'pause' function, that wouldn't die when it was frozen.

My dog never died until the batteries finally ran out. Nice work, fake Tamagotchi :)

Explanation from an article linked from the parent one:

"Phones at the time didn’t have much processing power, so the server did most of the work. For example, if you changed your weapon or materia, the server would generate a brand-new file based on your choices and send it back to your phone. Even a lot of the game’s text wasn’t stored locally — it was sent dynamically from the server when needed. Because of this, a huge amount of the game’s data never made it onto the client."

In the UK where this ticket is from, if you buy a ticket from the machine in the station it will spit it out in potentially multiple parts (because one isn't enough space for all the information)

You can see this ticket says "Valid only with Travel Ticket", which means this is the second of two parts. The "Travel Ticket" (not pictured) is the one that actually allows you to travel on the train, and the seat reservation part (pictured) is the one that gives you a seat.

Normally the machine only gives what you need, so if there is no seat reservation you'll get the travel ticket only.

So the mystery isn't that there is no reserved seat, but that because there is no seat, this ticket doesn't even need to exist. The machine could have just not printed this ticket at all.

Not quite the same, but we do have "andfinally" for quirky and silly news.

https://feddit.uk/c/andfinally

Named after the tendency on TV to put lighthearted news pieces like these at the end, to give people something to smile about after all the depressing stuff.

Exactly this. The majority of super-popular names now will all be "old person" names in future.

In turn, the "old person" names of the recently deceased generations, like 'Florence' and 'Edith' are starting to reappear and be given to children again, because with that old generation dead they are freed from the old-people stereotype and seem good again. It's cyclical.

Amongst all names, there are some which are conversely a lot harder to date. Names that are always being given, but never top the popularity lists. Names like Mark, Thomas, or Matthew. Harder to date people with names like these, because there's always plenty of them.

It's AIs ans automated systems all the way down at this point. No humans in the loop, just machines talking to machines.

If the air fryer had an inside camera so you could see how things were doing, that would actually be kinda cool!