It’s not rocket appliances

Something something candlemaker’s petition

Holy color gradient batman

I think it’s a D-tier article. I wouldn’t be surprised if it was half gpt. It could have been summarized in a single paragraph, but was clearly being drawn out to make screen real-estate for the ads.

Arch-packaging-haskell moment

They crave that mineral

I pay attention to credit card readers.

I have gotten to know their makes and some models. I have developed preferences. When I go to a run down establishment and they have a nice reader, I am pleasantly surprised. I know that walmart uses ingenico isc250s, and they do not support tap. I know that dunkin has high quality readers, and sometimes tim hortons does too, but less frequently.

When leaving a place, I might say something like “damn, you don’t see that model of verifone very often”, and my friends will look at me funny.

Semi-related, did you know that most receipt printers have embedded telnet servers in them?

At what point does a collection of microservices become a monolith that uses http instead of a bus 🤔

This is cyberpunk as hell, and awesome.

Unfortunately apple does not expose mac addresses to apps, so iPhone users can’t do it :(

Had to write a paper in college with 100 citations.

We used zotero for citation management, and it would dump a bibtex file on demand.

The paper was written in markdown, stored in git, and rendered through pandoc. We would cite a paper with parentheses and something resembling an id, like (lewis).

We gave pandoc a “citation style definition”, and it took care of everything. Every citation was perfectly formatted. The bibliography was perfectly formatted. Inline references were perfect. Numbering was perfect. All the metadata was ripped from pdfs automatically. It was downright magical.

Look, the monks in belgium could survive on beer alone for months at a time, and surely coors lite is not that different. I’ll be fine!

Me: “Computer, I’m licking two paperclips that I’ve stuck into the vga port. I’d like to taste the rainbow. Send video to the port, please?”

Computer: “Sure thing boss!”

Me: “Alright, now, can I put my presentation on this projector over hdmi?”

Computer: “No fuck you, hdmi protocol negotiation failed, and I’m scrambling your audio outputs for the rest of the day too”