Prking

@Prking@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do some websites have a "Continue Reading" button?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There we go, a strong opinion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do some websites have a "Continue Reading" button?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
  1. Some people prefer pages to scrolling (it’s amazing the strength of opinion about this for either point of view)
  2. Advertisements are charged per impression. So each page counts as a new impression
  3. Be grateful websites no longer auto scroll web pages
  4. Some things lend themselves to page by page. For example very long articles (this is why books replaced scrolls)
  5. Be grateful that websites stopped animating page turns etc
  6. Sometimes web developers don’t care and just use a bought in package
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a difference between customers/consumers?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It depends also on what type of business. For example in Finance a consumer is a real person who buys/borrows uses something but a customer is a general term for a person, business, organisation or partnership that buys goods or services.

  For example, I might have an account at XYZ Bank and so might a company. We are both customers of XYZ Bank but I am a consumer and the company isn’t.

  [to complicate things small businesses might class as consumers in some jurisdictions]

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is there often a huge gap between a person being found guilty of a crime and their sentencing hearing?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it depends on several factors:

  In most jurisdictions time has to be allowed for the lawyers to examine the judge’s decision (if a judge has made the determination m) in order to decide if they want to appeal. Remember in some places the prosecution can appeal if the defendant was find guilty but not in all counts.

  If a jury made the decision then the judge also has to consider sentencing guidelines and weigh the evidence to determine the sentence. This might involve medical reports etc

  In some jurisdictions both parties need to make a case for a particular sentence.

  So in many cases it’s not as if nothing is happening.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If a vehicle were traveling through space at/near the speed of light, then what would happen if it turned its headlights on?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Surely that depends whether you’re in the vehicle (and can see the lights) or an observer outside of the vehicle

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Looking for matrix community⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Hi,

  What sort of thing do you like?

  There’s a good Star Trek community and a Lemmy.World general chat community.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy.world Host Errors and not able to join the Lemmy.world Pub⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Over on Matrix, there have been response time anomalies reported since earlier this afternoon.