Ben Simo 🐋

Q: When I was 4, my sister was 2. I am now 44. How old is my sister? Programmer: 44 - (4 - 2) = 42 Tester:

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Arcade Z80 is tired after decades of playing games with humans.

@AskeBay The advanced search feature to match all words usually reports no results when there are many listings with titles that match all words.

@AskeBay Recently, search has been showing me items that are close to only a small part of my query. This results in so many irrelevant results that it becomes painful to find what I seek; especially when my query specifies technical specifications of a product that are in listing titles

Hey @eBay, Your recent changes to make search more fuzzy have destroyed the shopping experience. What used to be fun treasure hunts are now filled with frustration as you fill search results with irrelevant items. Do you hate your customers?

The Alexa mobile app is still horrible when there is an inconsistent data connection. It no longer pops up alerts, but is instead, incessantly yells at me: sorry! Sorry! Sorry! Sorry, you're sorry! Sorry! Sorry! Sorry! Sorry! Sorry, your mobile device. Sorry! Sorry! Sorry! Sorry

@JenMsft How do I know which one is the obsolete one?

I don't know who needs to hear it, but it's time to get rid of that obsolete cable you've been holding onto for years

I think I have identified the illegal alien who is eating pets. I saw it on TV. It must be true.

@zaphodikus @ChuckvdL @dominos I've noticed a decrease in excess Amazon packaging arriving at my house, along with an increase in receiving goods damaged due to improper packaging. They've gone too far. Now they waste resources shipping broken things two ways, and waste my time and fuel on returns.

@QualityFrog @ChuckvdL @dominos I still recall, back in 2017 abouts going to an amazon warehouse site tour, and then afterwards raising a support ticket about their packaging. By 2019 their packaging had vastly been scaled down to the point part of it goes into my compost heap now. We all have to push our case.

Hey, @Dominos, Stop telling people in my house to recycle your pizza boxes. My city does not permit pizza boxes in the recycling, and has threatened to take away my recycling privileges and fine me. Stop it!

@zaphodikus @ChuckvdL @dominos s/put the pizza/put the pizza boxes And if I lose my blue recycling bins, it'll cost me $30 per month more to replace them with back trash bins and put stuff that could be recycled into the landfill.

@zaphodikus @ChuckvdL @dominos It's a problem when the city finds pizza boxes in my recycling bin and threatens to take away my recycling and fine me on a repeat offense. It is a problem when Dominos repeatedly tells people in my house who buy their pizza that they can put the pizza in the recycling bin.

@dominos I don't have time to read and understand over 16,000 words of terms and policy documents to provide you feedback via your customer support bot. You're already wasting my time, injecting stress into my life, and got me put on a puts-unacceptable-items-in-the-recycling watch list.

@QualityFrog We appreciate your feedback. Please feel free to share it with us at bit.ly/DPZSMSupport. You’ll be prompted at the end to enter reference #7336067. *Zane

@akalsey @dominos What we are permitted to put in the blue recycling and green yard waste bins here has been significantly restricted for the past 4 years or so due to frequent excessive contamination slowing down processing, and damaging sorting and mulching machinery.

@QualityFrog @dominos In California, we are required by law to put used pizza boxes in the container formerly known as green waste. This container is now called “organics” even though organic dog poop and human remains aren’t allowed.

A new candidate for the open #deskcat position is demonstrating his keyboarding skills.

Computer programmers making computers make interactions with people worse by demanding people do things that computers can do better. Also, computer programmers making computers block and frustrate people with games of "Guess the undisclosed data structure".

Went thru a restaurant drive thru for the first time in a long time. Was required to scan a QR code and read and agree to the terms of service for using their order-taking AI to continue. #TrappedInTheDriveThru

@akalsey This ATM is not at my bank, but is the one I use most often because it is the closest to my home and its owner has a reciprocal agreement with the banks that I do use to not charge each others' customers ATM fees. The 2nd closest ATM has other problems. :)

@QualityFrog The problem is that you have not yet switched banks.

This ATM often reports my correctly inserted card is inserted incorrectly and then it freezes up and doesn't return my card for a long enough period of time to cause concern that it ate my card.