@ArchiteuthisFlux Come up with two more, and we can improve the names of quarks (except for Charm)!
I keep forgetting this isn't Twitter and external links won't effectively hide this post. So here's a @crowdsupply update where I talk about the rationale behind this.
https://www.crowdsupply.com/architeuthis-flux/jumperless-v5/updates/single-board-computer-fans-rejoice
@adafruit I agree on the Alex drawers: I use them with Target's "Brightroom" line of containers to organize Lego bricks.
@adafruit Here's my first computer, a Motorola 6800 evaluation board. It was maxed out with 768B of RAM. I'd write my programs in assembler, hand assemble them, wrap them in S-records, and key them in on a teletype (hooked up to a serial port connected by a 1/4" stereo plug). I still have it, it still works (but now sports 16kB of RAM. #firstcomputer #retrocomputing
I got a spam email claiming a payment problem with Disney. It had a link that redirected to an AWS site that redirected again. I tried to report it to Amazon, but their form has a box for "Complete email header and body", but then rejects it "We have identified that your submission may contain potentially malicious content." It's a waste of time anyway, as Amazon doesn't care if their money comes from scammers, as long as it keeps coming in.
If a credit card reader is unable to read a chip, it defaults to reading the mag stripe. But when it sends the transaction to the payment processor, the processor checks the card number and the fact that it has a chip reader, and denies the transaction because it should have been a chip. At this point, the card reader should say "chip read failed" instead of "see cashier".
A bug in Apple Music displays the wrong album artwork for some tracks, and one intrigued me: "Thumper: No one left the Disco alive". So I looked it up. The first track is entitled "Peptide Influences The Folding And Intracellular Transport Of MHC Class 1 Free Heavy Chains" and consists of ten seconds of screaming. The other tracks are some solid punk.
AI assisted programming boils away the joy of writing code leaving only the tedious obligation to debug the work of a precocious psychotic novice.