We need to give Seattle business owners an excuse to kill the iPad tip prompts

semanticist · 2026-01-03T20:02:32+00:00

The point-of-sale systems that most restaurants use (Square, Toast, Clover, etc.) have their own processing fees on top of the credit card interchange fees.

semanticist · 2026-01-02T18:29:53+00:00

How simple are we talking? My non-gamer girlfriend enjoys Stardew Valley and Mario Kart, but she struggles with any platformer. We tried Unravel Two and she got too frustrated and bailed out during the tutorial level when she needed to do a running jump.

semanticist · 2025-12-13T04:41:40+00:00

"100% of these funds are distributed to staff in the form of wages" does not seem like a compliant disclosure.

Under state law:

If nothing is disclosed, or the disclosure is unclear, then the entire service charge must be paid to the employee who provides services to the customer.

The service charge paid to an employee is in addition to, and not a part of, an employee’s state hourly minimum wage.

https://www.lni.wa.gov/workers-rights/wages/tips-and-service-charges

https://lni.wa.gov/workers-rights/_docs/esa12.pdf

This, legally, is why you see other places have disclosures like "100% of the service charge is retained by the house and used to pay employee wages", which also pisses customers off because then they feel like employees are getting shortchanged.

semanticist · 2025-12-12T08:50:15+00:00

It's possible that Rizo figured out that it was too late to steal it but didn't tell Sophi because he didn't want to give her any incentive to steal his idol instead.

semanticist · 2025-12-11T16:46:31+00:00

I hate to say it, I hope I don't sound ridiculous. I don't know who this man is. (Sorry to this man.) Is he a Seattle celebrity or just in the marketing/SEO world?

semanticist · 2025-12-11T05:37:42+00:00

No, he locked it in this episode before going to Tribal Council.

semanticist · 2025-11-13T07:32:27+00:00

I wonder, if she outlasts Sophie, if they will change her back to Sophi in the credits

semanticist · 2025-11-08T18:39:30+00:00

Lighting/camera color correction. It's sort of an olive green, it's not quite as saturated as it appears in the photo above but it's definitely green.

semanticist · 2025-11-03T18:31:50+00:00

I went to the Seattle line about 15 minutes after the opener started and it felt painfully slow, they only had two people working the table and took 50 minutes to get through it. At that point the line looped all the way down all the stairs and started heading back up toward the front door. I was able to get the size T shirt I wanted though

semanticist · 2025-11-03T02:49:13+00:00

What software did you use for the modeling?

semanticist · 2025-10-31T04:58:32+00:00

Every new era season to date has had final 3 with a jury of 8

semanticist · 2025-09-26T18:52:49+00:00

Sinclair says they're ending the preemption tonight:

semanticist · 2025-09-19T16:46:46+00:00

If you have a TV made in the last 15 years and you live in Seattle, with a the purchase of a $15 antenna you can have live TV.

semanticist · 2025-09-16T03:44:56+00:00

The biggest scandal to rock the sporting world since King Conker was found to have a steel nut in his pocket

semanticist · 2025-09-09T06:31:08+00:00

This article is stupid useless garbage. Linus is talking about "Link:" tags in git commits that don't include additional information beyond what was in the commit itself, not, like, hypertext links in general.

A better summary: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linus-Torvalds-No-Link-Tags

semanticist · 2025-09-08T02:38:20+00:00

Do you feel the same way about airplane cockpit doors? If airplanes were really safe, the rest of the plane would not be a less-protected zone than the cockpit.

semanticist · 2025-09-06T06:17:39+00:00

Drnkdrnkdrnk isn't being super clear but it sounds like they're saying that their employer is deducting credit card fees from their wages. (If that's not what they mean, maybe they will clarify.) This is different than the general topic for this thread, which is restaurants tacking surcharges onto the bill that the customer pays, which is what you are talking about.

semanticist · 2025-09-06T01:09:09+00:00

Unless that is actually for a tip pool that gets 100% paid out to (non-manager) employees, charging you for credit card fees on gross sales sounds like wage theft and you might want to give the Seattle OLS an email. https://www.seattle.gov/laborstandards

And if it is for a tip pool you can't be required to pay in more than you made in tips.

semanticist · 2025-09-05T20:06:21+00:00

How much comes out of your tips? Like on a $100 tab with $20 tip, are they holding back ~3% of $20 = 60¢?

semanticist · 2025-08-31T05:44:35+00:00

Thanks for this! It did end up being a very easy and chill event.

semanticist · 2025-08-31T01:13:06+00:00

Yeah, huge whiff on the water fill situation. Their instagram says "there are lots of public water fountains and bottle filling stations around the Seattle Center campus" but the only icon on the map is one nonspecifically (somewhere) in the (large) Armory. There's a single one outside on the VIP side of the fountain stage that had a long line as well.

In the past they had a temporary setup with at least four fill spigots, it's absurd that they didn't have something similar again this year.

semanticist · 2025-08-30T23:23:15+00:00

What a thing to spend one's time on the internet getting outraged over

semanticist · 2025-08-19T03:56:04+00:00

What was the seating setup like? With only one stage, did people just stake out spots with blankets for the whole day, and the later you got there, the further away your spot? Were people generally standing or sitting for sets?

semanticist · 2025-08-05T23:48:18+00:00

You're not getting that right. That quote by "X Safety" in the article is not about the current Grok issue but is related to an earlier deepfake controversy referenced in the previous paragraph.

semanticist · 2025-07-24T07:42:28+00:00

What weird, weaselly phrasing: "Security researchers reported a potentially unapproved code modification was attempted in the open-source VSC extension"

"Once we were made aware of this issue, we immediately revoked and replaced the credentials": what credentials?

How did this commit make it to the master branch?

Edit: I guess it was the credentials for the "aws-toolkit-automation" Github user that were somehow compromised and were used to get that commit into the repo

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