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as long as it gets those blob dollars!

I used Mosaic Magic back in my high school journalism class to design a yearbook cover 20+ years ago! Turned out great - it won some kind of award iirc.

Area51/Rampart here. It was a better, simpler time.

One really nice use case for dithering that I've found is for building graphics for 8-bit (Pico-8 and Picotron) games and toys. I made a ruby script that can take a graphic and sca…

Of all the IoT contraptions and ecosystems, I hate garage door openers the most. My opener came with some sort of goofy base unit where you can hit the "close door" button and it'l…

The whole system is infuriating. I stay pretty well in one lane for what I want to watch, and if I _accidentally_ click on ONE music video, the whole feed is wrecked for months.

Almost all NFC you find these days is going to be a form of EMV and is encrypted. There was a form of contactless magstripe (MSD) that was not encrypted and has been phased out of …

There are some reasons it still exists, however, it is no longer required and merchants/POS systems ought to start phasing it out. In the US, the way we do tip on receipt is a lot …

Also interesting how there are such specific requirements at grocery stories. None of my US-based cards could be used in several grocery stores in the Netherlands. When the cashier…

The liability shift in the US that affected most retailers occurred in October 2015 -- basically, merchants are and have been liable for fraud that occurs on swiped transactions. I…

On this topic, if anyone can point me toward a US-based issuer where I can open an account and get a card that supports credit pin (not pin for cash advance on a credit card), I'll…

Same here. I only follow woodworkers and immediately unfollow anyone who gets outside the line of what i want in my feed. It has allowed me to find interesting niches in the hobby …

Proxima and Ultima by Stephen Baxter hit along this theme and are a pretty good read.

I'm one account flag change or one password reset from being in this exact situation, and it's terrifying. I have been an Audible customer since before Amazon bought them. Somewher…

Did you ever play Defend the Temple scenario? Spent soo many hours on that one and I havent found anything close in new games. Really hope this gets released on time and someone ma…

I have a wife, kid, and a whole mess of dogs. Job is fairly demanding and I have some other loose-ends from past projects that require some babysitting. I aim for at least 15 minut…

If you're doing online charges only, Stripe gets my vote. If you're building an app and need to accept cards in person, take a look at https://cardflight.com . I'm an engineer for …

Sure, but they're not going to even tell you if you're a good fit until you go through the entire expense of building for their gateway. I'd think one would spend that effort integ…

Did you get any decent action out of the API? I spent 2 hours tonight poking at it... Pretty certain I'm doing everything correctly, but I'm getting 403's and no usable errors.

This thing is a total disaster. Some of their example code: https://github.com/VisaDeveloperProgram/SampleCode/blob/mast... Docs are incoherent in just so many ways - and their qui…

Once your application is completely functional, you email them (lol) and then they go through contract negotiation and application/security/etc. review where you get your terms.

Their on-site tools are total garbage, so I tried playing with their API... and it was also a giant pile of trash. Random exceptions, timeouts, incoherent structure all around. 0/7…

Apparently the board swiped left.

This is from 2012? It'd be neat to see some in depth follow ups on stuff like this. I'm just now going from proto boards to building schematics and boards, so seeing the evolution …