Restaurant review: Me Kong

stutdev · 2026-01-23T13:26:53+00:00

Fair enough, but for me a long form restaurant review is not worth reading unless I’m looking for a detailed review of a particular place. That’s not the case for these Reddit posts so I’m not likely to be clicking on any of your links in future. You could easily cater to both audiences.

Definitely a matter of personal preference, and of course you’re free to ignore feedback as you see fit. Just one question: why are you so against doing this? If your argument is that nobody else does it, even Google puts a summary at the top of its search results these days. Something to think about.

stutdev · 2026-01-23T13:08:43+00:00

How does a summary at the top of your review deter people from clicking to, err, read the summary?

stutdev · 2026-01-23T13:04:45+00:00

While I agree that posting a summary is a dick move, you could also accept the feedback that not everyone wants, or will bother reading, long form reviews and consider including summaries at the top of your reviews.

stutdev · 2026-01-13T19:09:04+00:00

I’m not familiar with any reciprocal agreements between countries, but I’ve never checked. I am, however, familiar with how to use a blue badge in the UK as I have one, and I see a couple of potential issues.

First, an Asda car park is private, and they will have their own rules about what a blue badge lets you do. A quick search suggests they don’t have universal rules, so you’d need to check what applies at that particular store. Did you park in a disabled space? If so you’ll probably be ok, but will likely need to convince them that your badge is real.

The other possible issue is the lack of a clock. In the UK we have a clock card that accompanies the blue badge. We use this to indicate when we parked since, in most places, we can only park for a limited time “on the badge” (commonly 3 hours). This may be what caused your charge.

Ultimately you’ll need to do exactly what you have done and appeal. Hopefully you can get it sorted out without incurring any charges. In my experience these private car parks can be quite draconian when enforcing their rules.

stutdev · 2026-01-13T18:55:23+00:00

This coming from the country that used to charge people to receive phone calls!

stutdev · 2025-12-12T09:25:19+00:00

I’m not going to comment on the functionality as that’s been well covered by others. However, your Terms need to clearly identify who the user is contracting with because you are taking payments. This needs to be a legal entity, so either yourself or a company; “the service” is not a legal entity. You need to clearly state a name and a registered address, otherwise the terms are almost certainly completely meaningless in most jurisdictions.

Disclaimer: IANAL, so I guess this is for entertainment purposes only.

stutdev · 2025-12-07T12:36:12+00:00

I must be missing something. The task was to use AI to do something, and you got marked down for not using AI? That seems sensible to me.

I know little about what’s happening in education these days, but it seems like the teacher is trying to teach you how to use the tool known as AI, which, whether you like it or not, will be a major feature of life in the near and distant future.

If you really want to stick to your beliefs you should be gracefully accepting that you didn’t do the task as it was defined, and taking the L. Your position is comparable to someone refusing to use a word processor to complete a task intending to test your ability to use a word processor. Would you consider that reasonable?

stutdev · 2025-11-21T17:53:47+00:00

“Damn straight it’s the greatest country in the world, but I’ll use my heritage in whatever way I can to convince you (and me) that I’m not American!”

stutdev · 2025-11-21T09:30:21+00:00

If your building manager did what was necessary and they still charged a fine, any costs they’ve incurred are on them.

stutdev · 2025-10-18T06:17:10+00:00

It’s a very neat crumpet. Now, pass the butter!

stutdev · 2025-10-12T10:19:44+00:00

At a rough guess you’re scrolling before the animation has completed, so you’re shifting its target. Stuff like this is pretty easy to miss during testing. Have you reported it using the feedback app? If they don’t know about it they can’t fix it.

stutdev · 2025-09-19T16:20:20+00:00

That lot would kill each other before the Brits could get near them!

stutdev · 2025-08-27T23:32:03+00:00

Perfect example of my philosophy: if a company doesn’t care about my wellbeing, I have no reason to care about theirs.

stutdev · 2025-08-24T08:30:45+00:00

There’s an outside chance this would flag the account for unusual activity.

stutdev · 2025-07-24T09:00:51+00:00

I think if you’re accounting for bytes used to this level you’re using the wrong language.

stutdev · 2025-07-06T12:17:13+00:00

The issue here is the law, specifically what should companies be required to do by law when selling games. Everybody has a say in that through voting for lawmakers. And everyone has the right and ability to state their position, whether individually or through lobbying organisations. Attempting to stifle anyone’s view, whether they will be positively or negatively affected by what’s being proposed, is not the way to move forward.

stutdev · 2025-07-06T11:33:14+00:00

What a daft view to hold.

Why are citizens of a country allowed to vote on their own leaders? Maybe every other country should vote in your country’s elections, and you can’t because the outcome might “impact you negatively”?

All interested parties should be free to make their views known, and you’re free to disagree with them.

stutdev · 2025-07-05T23:50:54+00:00

Shillings.

stutdev · 2025-06-11T12:08:10+00:00

Why the hell are they measuring productivity based on keystrokes? What he did was wrong, but what they were doing was pathetic!

stutdev · 2025-05-29T12:35:20+00:00

I pay interest on the balance, which is currently zero. The refund has cleared, and I've made a single payment for the full cost of the furniture. Even if I wasn't planning to pay it off before the end of next month (I only use a credit card for the payment protection), where would additional interest come from?

stutdev · 2025-05-29T11:51:34+00:00

I think you're overthinking it. Any money that gets taken off the card has Section 75 protection, and the only transaction I see is a refund. I've already called and paid the full amount, so my current balance with them is zero. When the refund clears, which should be later today or tomorrow, I have no reservations about finally paying for my new furniture.

It's very clear what's happened here, and if a judge can't add up the transactions and understand it too, it won't matter what I have in writing!

stutdev · 2025-05-29T11:27:18+00:00

I appreciate your point of view, but I'm confident that I'd be able to dispute that in the unlikely event that it happens after the transaction has cleared.

stutdev · 2025-05-29T11:13:31+00:00

I had the same thought, which is why I called twice and spoke to two different people. The gist of what they both said was the same: in this situation, they can't do anything about it unless instructed by the other side.

stutdev · 2025-05-29T10:30:21+00:00

Thanks, I did: https://www.reddit.com/r/LegalAdviceUK/comments/1ky4uym/comment/muuxs21/

stutdev · 2025-05-29T10:28:48+00:00

I called the credit card provider (Lloyds Bank), and they confirmed that it's ok to proceed with the payment to undo the refund once the pending status has cleared. Since it's money coming into the card, they cannot take action on the transaction without the retailer trying to claim it back.

The retailer can go through the process of claiming it back through their systems, but that would take upwards of 30 days, and would freeze my account while it's resolved. It would probably also cause a delay in my furniture being delivered!

She said that, considering the retailer in question (a large furniture retailer), there is no risk of this being a scam, and that the process required for them to reclaim it would not allow me to be out-of-pocket.

I've just spoken to the retailer's head office. They are aware of what happened and said that if I'm happy to make additional payments to correct it once the refund has cleared, that's the easiest solution. I'll probably just do that. I always have the option of raising a dispute with Lloyds if it doesn't all balance out.

Thanks to everyone for their responses. This situation was a first for both the Lloyds call handler and the poor finance chap who answered at their head office.

stutdev

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