>The process is also impossible to cancel.

This sort of thing should probably be illegal.

I bet they picked the name to be confused with tinygrad

My problem is I didn't understand what this was, refreshed the page and lost what i was reading to the ether.

If you are on a computer, you might be able to see the previous links that were loaded in your web browser's Developer Tools > Console. The Wander console tool writes logs there to describe what it is doing internally.

They couldn't use a bigger battery because they needed that extra space for their profit margins.

An older post from this blog, the linked article was updated recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44622608

It's already starting to get slow too

Won't be long until Trump declares war on Motorola and takes out the head of Mototollah in a preemptive strike in order to protect competition and ensure market fairness. But most importantly of all, to ensure Palantir and national security can still be provided to our strongest allies. It's not a leadership change operation. Just a 72-hour operation.

Why would this be tremendously pleasing to test?

You get money!

Of course you don't get to keep the money, but it is yours for a moment, even if just to count it.

And beyond that, you get to see your code operate a physical machine that you can touch.

How many of us get to do that?

Yeah exactly. The test lab had an ATM which you call the function and it spits out money (that you don’t get to keep, but still).

Wouldn't that be Monopoly money anyway?

Doubt it, the bill reader checks all the bills before dispensing, so it would be bypassed for monopoly money.

Maybe they used $1s or something.

Nah, they get 'test money' to load into the dispensers, and it's something banks will also buy for things like ATM demonstrators.

https://shop.dieboldnixdorf.com/atm-demonstration-currency/p...

(We haven't really had "ATM demonstrations" in a long time specifically, but there was a bit of time in the early adoption era to get a fake card into a customer's hand and let them play with a demonstration machine in your lobby or in an office to get to see how convenient it was to get the play money out. See also the tabletop demonstrator Triton built, the ATM Jr - https://triton.com/about-triton/innovative-history/)

You will lose your sovereignty and your economy we will be integrated, making you de facto slaves.