Zach Banks @zbanks@mastodon.mit.edu
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I'm disappointed that the coffee shop called "Seven Grams" is named after the amount of grounds used to make an espresso, and not after the LD50 of caffeine of a smallish person.
To be clear I'm totally fine with "2 day = Tuesday," it just feels inconsistent
Amazon's perception of time:
- Get it by Friday with 1-day shipping!
- Get it by Tuesday with free 2-day shipping!
"Delete and re-draft" is a great new feature
Relatedly: the Blu R1 HD is > 2 years old, and is now costs~50% more? What?
Also this shouldn't help either: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/11/chinese-company-installed-secret-backdoor-on-hundreds-of-thousands-of-phones/
I need to replace my cheap smartphone soon.
Should I get another cheap (<$100) phone, or just go for an iPhone 8?
If the former, what's the cool new cheap smartphone? (previously: Moto G, Blu R1 HD)
You Won't Believe How These five Ex-finance Bros Are Disrupting Coffee Shops With Puppets
EXTREMELY TERSE MARkUP FORMAT REVIEW:
-latex: \no
-bbcode: return to 2002 from whence you came
-org: (decf :emacs)
-markdown: the unix of markup
-mediawiki: how do I still remember everything
Find out How These two Ex-Googlers Are Disrupting Ramen Cups With Blockchain
C++
You pay dearly for what you need
fat stacks of lux hubs
Future IRC part message here
Also in this scenario, for maximum hardk0re-ness, you spell out the hex digits with their NATO phonetic names (e.g. "zero-alpha")
wired: "Okay, echo *rambles off some hex* pipe x x d dash r dash p pipe s h"
half-answer:
"Okay, type every letter as I say it. Every letter is lowercase and I will explicitly say 'space' and 'enter.' v i m enter i d u dash s h s space star escape b e tilde colon percent bang s h enter. Ah, okay, I see now"
Also people hitting enter too early 
Does anyone have any tricks for effectively spelling command lines out loud? Common problems are:
* Word boundaries: two words vs. twowords vs. two/words
* Capitalization: snake_case vs. CamelCase vs. kebab-case etc.
* "one" vs. "1", "systemd" vs. "system -d", etc.
Cheap roomba!
