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  • 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?









  • sandalbucket@lemmy.worldtoScience Memes@mander.xyzLPT Do it.
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    11 days ago

    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.