WTF Bites
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@Rhywden you should take a moodily-lit picture of an entree!
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@Polygeekery Hm, there's been a QR-based payment system spreading over restaurants around here lately, but nobody's crazy enough to require using it. Though last summer I was in this one pub where they accepted this app or cash, but no cards, and the purser just happened to explain to someone he likes that app because it makes things faster for everyone while cards tend to slow things down too much so in busy hours.
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@Polygeekery Sounds crazy. My favorite restaurant puts QR codes on the bill, but you can go up front and pay normally if you want or just leave cash. Their menus are one laminated page, double-sided, that live in stands at the tables.
If there's one thing that a business should try to make easy for you, it's giving them money.
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@Polygeekery Hm, there's been a QR-based payment system spreading over restaurants around here lately, but nobody's crazy enough to require using it.
This idiocy needs to stop. Online menu is fine to look the place up and decide if you want to go there. But requiring your guests to bring their own devices just to see the menu is.. there's no other word for it: retarded.
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there's no other word for it: retarded.
Slurp. The menu is delivered through a third-party marketing site who will (try to) set cookies on said devices and read "required diagnostic information". What, when, how many people, how long you looked - everything is on the table
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This idiocy needs to stop. Online menu is fine to look the place up and decide if you want to go there. But requiring your guests to bring their own devices just to see the menu is.. there's no other word for it: retarded.
One restaurant I know will supply you with a tablet for reading the menu. I can't quite remember if you can place your order with them, or if the staff numbers are simply high enough that that's never a question anyway.
It is a very very good restaurant, and charges appropriately.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in WTF Bites:
there's no other word for it: retarded.
Slurp. The menu is delivered through a third-party marketing site who will (try to) set cookies on said devices and read "required diagnostic information". What, when, how many people, how long you looked - everything is on the table
Maybe so, it's still retarded.
The surveillance idiots can "make money" with that information all they want, the restaurant owner is still going to lose money over pissing off non-idiotic customers with this bullshit.(ETA:
for the fish)
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the restaurant owner is still going to lose money over pissing off non-idiotic customers with this bullshit.
A recipe for disaster, as it were.
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This idiocy needs to stop. Online menu is fine to look the place up and decide if you want to go there. But requiring your guests to bring their own devices just to see the menu is.. there's no other word for it: retarded.
One restaurant I know will supply you with a tablet for reading the menu.
Yeah, happened to me twice. Bot times I told them "this is exceptionally stupid" as I was walking out.
Now I just ask if there's a paper menu immediately when I see this QR crap. If there isn't I leave.
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If there's one thing that a business should try to make easy for you, it's giving them money.
The first thing they should make as easy as possible is buying their stuff. They're failing on that level also.
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This idiocy needs to stop. Online menu is fine to look the place up and decide if you want to go there. But requiring your guests to bring their own devices just to see the menu is.. there's no other word for it: retarded.
One restaurant I know will supply you with a tablet for reading the menu. I can't quite remember if you can place your order with them, or if the staff numbers are simply high enough that that's never a question anyway.
It is a very very good restaurant, and charges appropriately.
Plus you get a free tablet to take home with you.
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@dkf Yeah, I had that with a Sushi restaurant where you ordered the type of Sushi you wanted through the iPad they provided. Had the added bonus that you could see what the different offerings looked like.
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you could see what the photos chosen for the different offerings looked like.
FTFY. Never trust a photo of food to resemble what you'll get if you order it.
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@ixvedeusi said in WTF Bites:
you could see what the photos chosen for the different offerings looked like.
FTFY. Never trust a photo of food to resemble what you'll get if you order it.
In my experience, Sushi usually manages to actually look like the photos.
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@ixvedeusi said in WTF Bites:
you could see what the photos chosen for the different offerings looked like.
FTFY. Never trust a photo of food to resemble what you'll get if you order it.
Yesterday, I passed a billboard that featured some kind of sandwich sold at a convenience store. I thought, "That looks pretty good. I'm sure reality doesn't live up to the picture."
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On today's episode of "What's broken on Twitter now"... their own link shortener service can't access their API.
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the purser just happened to explain to someone he likes that app because it makes things faster for everyone while cards tend to slow things down too much so in busy hours.
Well, duh. They're making the customers do their job.
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Texas Roadhouse has gotten this pretty correct so far - they still have physical menus and a server to come and take your order, etc. Once your order is in the system, the kiosk on the table lights up with a "Pay Now" button that you can use whenever you feel like it, or if you don't then the server will eventually come back to cash you out as per the usual. And the kiosk has games you can rent to entertain the littles too.
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But requiring your guests to bring their own devices just to see the menu is.. there's no other word for it: retarded.
I usually bring a device of my own for seeing the menu.
My glasses.
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@ixvedeusi said in WTF Bites:
you could see what the photos chosen for the different offerings looked like.
FTFY. Never trust a photo of food to resemble what you'll get if you order it.
It does at a really good restaurant. I'm sorry for you if you've never been to one; photos aren't always lies.
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Texas Roadhouse has gotten this pretty correct so far - they still have physical menus and a server to come and take your order, etc. Once your order is in the system, the kiosk on the table lights up with a "Pay Now" button that you can use whenever you feel like it, or if you don't then the server will eventually come back to cash you out as per the usual. And the kiosk has games you can rent to entertain the littles too.
Offering additional options for ordering/paying/calling the waiter/whatever is fine. Good even, I encourage it. Offering only one retarded option is the problem.
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@ixvedeusi said in WTF Bites:
you could see what the photos chosen for the different offerings looked like.
FTFY. Never trust a photo of food to resemble what you'll get if you order it.
It does at a really good restaurant. I'm sorry for you if you've never been to one; photos aren't always lies.
Ok, sushi and British food, then
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Fucking MS weboutlook shit. ☠🗲🖕
I'm pretty sure they changed something in the past few days. Previously you could click on e.g. "Inbox" to get back to the Inbox list after opening an email out of the Inbox.
Not anymore. Open up an email in the Inbox. You can now hammer that Inbox link and nothing will happen. You can click on any other folder to get its listing (and then you can go back to the Inbox to get the Inbox listing). Or you can click the obnoxious "X Close" button somewhere hidden. But not on the Inbox link.
Who the fuck thought that was a good idea? Fire them out of a cannon into an Uranus-intersecting orbit.
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Who the fuck thought that was a good idea?
Probably a bug. Microsoft are a small company, they're doing their best.
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Given this will be an expiring video I don't think it deserves its own thread and I don't see anything more specific so it goes here:
Plane Crash Hurts Cows Feelings! Pilot is Alive! – [18:30..31:06] 31:06
— Probable Cause: Dan GryderTL;DW: Small airplane made an emergency landing in a
fieldpasture. The rancher now demands a compensation for the emotional damage to his cows that were grazing nearby (but nowhere near so close they'd get hurt).
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@loopback0 said in WTF Bites:
Microsoft are a small company,
That explains them
testingdeveloping in production. Maybe some day they can afford a separatetestingdevelopment environment.Not that I'm a huge fan of the cloud, but I hear you can get some pretty good deals on Azure. They should give those guys a call.
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@ixvedeusi said in WTF Bites:
you could see what the photos chosen for the different offerings looked like.
FTFY. Never trust a photo of food to resemble what you'll get if you order it.
It does at a really good restaurant. I'm sorry for you if you've never been to one; photos aren't always lies.
Ok, sushi and British food, then
Yeah, but who'd want to look at an accurate photo of British food?
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Offering additional options for ordering/paying/calling the waiter/whatever is fine.
Foot pedal.
Good even, I encourage it.
Foot pedal.
Offering only one retarded option is the problem.
No. Foot pedal.
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@HardwareGeek said in WTF Bites:
@ixvedeusi said in WTF Bites:
you could see what the photos chosen for the different offerings looked like.
FTFY. Never trust a photo of food to resemble what you'll get if you order it.
It does at a really good restaurant. I'm sorry for you if you've never been to one; photos aren't always lies.
Ok, sushi and British food, then
Yeah, but who'd want to look at an accurate photo of British food?
Dunno, perverts?
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It does at a really good restaurant.
The really good restaurants I've been to never had photos of their dishes; you want to know more about a dish than what's written on the menu, you ask the waiter.
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@ixvedeusi said in WTF Bites:
The really good restaurants I've been to never had photos of their dishes
Yes they do have photos. In the major newspapers in their restaurant reviews.
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cards tend to slow things down too much so in busy hours.
Recently I was on a skiing trip with some family. We went to a bar on top of the slopes (not really my thing usually, far too expensive and when I'm out there I want to ski, not have an average-tasting overpriced drink, but whatever).
Because it's in the middle of nowhere, their (mobile) phone line was very patchy and as a result the cards didn't go through (almost everyone here only has debit cards which have to phone home, and taking imprints of the card is never done, if that ever was here). Or rather, it did randomly go through... sometimes a few minutes later... or not...
My cousin was queuing for all of us and spent maybe 20 min trying to pay. There was a huge queue before and after her, of course. We all finished our drinks before she could pay. In the end she gave up and came back to our table (and her drink!), by which point the rest of the group gather all the cash that we happened to have and someone else went back to pay. It wasn't quite enough, but almost, and the manager accepted all that and even gave us free coffees in addition (he clearly was stressed by the whole thing, which you can understand!).
Amusingly, the person from our group who did this second round went with all cash and jokingly said while leaving "you'll see, not only will he accept our lower-amount in cash, but I will get all of us free coffees!" So when he came back with the coffees, he was very proud of himself and kept bragging about it as he distributed them around... and then he noticed that he had managed to get one coffee for everyone, except for himself!
Back to the main story, we all left thinking the matter was settled. But the next day, my cousin noticed that actually the purchase had gone through on her card!
So she went back to that bar, and had another lengthy chat with the manager who apparently couldn't reimburse her immediately so he said he'd do that "right away at the end of the shift." Which I think (I kind of lost track of the story there...) didn't happen, the last time my cousin mentioned it she was saying the charge hadn't been reversed, and we were all telling her that at that point her best shot was to call her bank, get the transaction blocked and hope things wouldn't get too weird/ugly/costly from there.
So yeah, cards are not always great. Cash is good. I love cash.
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The rancher now demands a compensation for the emotional damage to his cows that were grazing nearby (but nowhere near so close they'd get hurt).
Huh, a Texas rancher, grasping and venal? But but how?
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status: Discord can not handle swiping the screen today. First I've seen this happen,..
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@HardwareGeek said in WTF Bites:
@ixvedeusi said in WTF Bites:
you could see what the photos chosen for the different offerings looked like.
FTFY. Never trust a photo of food to resemble what you'll get if you order it.
Yesterday, I passed a billboard that featured some kind of sandwich sold at a convenience store. I thought, "That looks pretty good. I'm sure reality doesn't live up to the picture."
Yeah, it's definitely much, much smaller! I won't fall for that again.
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@ixvedeusi said in WTF Bites:
The really good restaurants I've been to never had photos of their dishes; you want to know more about a dish than what's written on the menu, you ask the waiter.
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@hungrier Nope, nope, nope!
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@HardwareGeek said in WTF Bites:
@hungrier Nope, nope, nope!
Yeah, I mean, a little bit of Mr. Pibb added to hot coffee in the mouth of a RealDoll gives the same effect. Prudence!
is her name
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@ixvedeusi said in WTF Bites:
you could see what the photos chosen for the different offerings looked like.
FTFY. Never trust a photo of food to resemble what you'll get if you order it.
Thinking of photos of food I saw at some asian restaurants, I can happily report that the photos do not resemble the food at all.
Because, in contrast to the photos, food was great.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
status: Discord can not handle swiping the screen today. First I've seen this happen,..
They've also updated their t&c to keep your recordings. Poor bastards.
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Status: ah right, I forgot about that charging bug that stops charging if I initiated charging before booting the phone....
Pictured: phone on charge ever since hitting zero percent (forced shutdown) charging to 100 and then booting while remaining plugged in.
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Ever tried pasting a SQL query into teams to share with someone? Every time we do this, we get errors about weird characters showing up in the query.
Fucking teams.
interested
noises
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@boomzilla said in WTF Bites:
Ever tried pasting a SQL query into teams to share with someone? Every time we do this, we get errors about weird characters showing up in the query.
Fucking teams.
Agree, but no problem here with pasting queries.
At least when using the "Code snippet" setting, otherwise all whitespace including linebreaks are removed.
Does your Teams use a different character set than your code editor?
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@boomzilla
You did some SQL injection in Teams, and those "weird characters" are returned from your query...
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@nerd4sale said in WTF Bites:
@boomzilla said in WTF Bites:
Ever tried pasting a SQL query into teams to share with someone? Every time we do this, we get errors about weird characters showing up in the query.
Fucking teams.
Agree, but no problem here with pasting queries.
At least when using the "Code snippet" setting, otherwise all whitespace including linebreaks are removed.I pretty much never use the rich formatting stuff. Spacing and linebreaks seem to be preserved. Maybe next time I'll remember to do that and use the code thingy.
Does your Teams use a different character set than your code editor?
Could be. I don't see anything in Teams that tells me what encoding it's using, but it should be all simple stuff. Editor uses UTF-8. Seems to happen in both Oracle SQLDeveloper and DBVisualizer.
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@boomzilla said in WTF Bites:
@nerd4sale said in WTF Bites:
@boomzilla said in WTF Bites:
Ever tried pasting a SQL query into teams to share with someone? Every time we do this, we get errors about weird characters showing up in the query.
Fucking teams.
Agree, but no problem here with pasting queries.
At least when using the "Code snippet" setting, otherwise all whitespace including linebreaks are removed.I pretty much never use the rich formatting stuff. Spacing and linebreaks seem to be preserved. Maybe next time I'll remember to do that and use the code thingy.
Does your Teams use a different character set than your code editor?
Could be. I don't see anything in Teams that tells me what encoding it's using, but it should be all simple stuff. Editor uses UTF-8. Seems to happen in both Oracle SQLDeveloper and DBVisualizer.
Teams will emojify some character combinations. Also SQLDeveloper is hot garbage.
