McDonald's Receipt

 One small coffee, does the receipt have to be so big? 

Such a waste, McDonald's should know better 😊.

Claude vs ChatGPT

Me:

How come ChatGPT can access the link? 

Claude:

Fair question — the honest answer is it's a difference in what each assistant is allowed to do, not capability.

LinkedIn's robots.txt file explicitly tells automated tools not to fetch most of its pages, including post URLs like the one you shared. Anthropic configured my web-fetching tool to respect those rules, so when I hit a robots.txt block, I stop. ChatGPT's browsing tool is configured to ignore robots.txt in some cases, so it goes ahead and pulls the page anyway. Same web, different rules of engagement.

There's a reasonable debate about which approach is right — robots.txt isn't legally binding, it's a convention — but that's the policy I'm operating under.

Lufthansa Profile

My Lufthansa profile clearly specifies my preferred meal, but they never honor it, they have even told me as much.

So, Lufthansa, why do you offer this option in the profile if I still have to waste time ordering it separately in advance?

To make matters worse, you have to order a “special” meal at least 25 hours before check-in, so by the time you check in, it is already too late.

Santa Cruz Lemonade, too much Sugar

I used to like this lemonade, but I haven't bought it for some time. When I finally did, it seemed too sweet and Health Canada fully agrees 😊.

I wrote a review on https://santacruzorganic.com suggesting they use less sugar as  I'm sure it would taste even better. Let's see if they actually do it 😊. 

Anyway, I'm impressed by their transparency. Their lemonade shows 2.5 out of 5 stars (in fact 2.4 now because of my bad review), so they clearly don't filter out the negative reviews and only for this reason I should keep an eye on a half sugar lemonade from Santa Cruz.

It is very interesting as Santa Cruz kept responding to the negative comments that they had not not changed the formula, so why did I find it too sweet all of the sudden?

And I just read the explanation here What I learned when I gave up sugar for six weeks

One reason my cravings went down is simply due to reduced exposure to sugary food, which in turn altered my palate and reset my metabolism

And at some point I started to be more mindful of the sugar content of the foods and I have a story about this as well, but for later.

How will Netflix solve its glaring Stranger Things problem?

 https://www.msn.com/en-ca/entertainment/tv/netflix-has-a-stranger-things-problem/ar-AA1RjO7M

For Netflix, it must be like staring down the length of a sheer cliff face. 

The impending conclusion of Stranger Things represents not just the loss of the streamer’s most marketable property, but the end of an era.

What could replace it? 

Something even stranger and that would be DPRK TV. Nothing would beat it!

Event Registration Rewards

Whenever an event announces that the first X registrants will receive some kind of swag, a gold-rush stampede begins. More often than not, it’s the people chasing rewards (they are quick and ruthless), not the event itself.

Most of these events include a free account to test an application, tool, or platform by building a small project. That’s where the real value lies, and the reward structure should reflect it. Instead of rewarding speed at registration, reward actual usage:

1. First finisher → backpack + t-shirt + mug

2. Next 2 finishers within 1 hour → backpack + choice of t-shirt or mug

3. Next 10 finishers within 24 hours → t-shirt + mug

4. Next 10 finishers within 72 hours → mug

5. All other finishers (within 7 days) → entered into a draw for 100 mugs

6. All attendees (even if they didn’t finish) → entered into a separate draw for 100 mugs, to feel included and not discouraged, next time they will do better

Yes, this approach takes more resources to organize, but the outcome is worth it. Instead of rewarding fast clickers, it rewards people who actually explore the product. Some of them may end up liking, even loving the product, becoming its strongest evangelists.

After all, in technology, it’s not what you learn but what you ship that counts.

Fritz-kola

It was not easy to find it but I persisted, and nothing special, the same artificial taste. I will stick with Pepsi if I want to drink a cola.