@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.