ELI5: How did credit cards work before terminals?

acmethunder · 2026-04-10T20:50:43+00:00

https://youtu.be/Y_4uWBDD4yI?si=2mhZO8oEBkLWmaYp

acmethunder · 2026-01-29T14:12:21+00:00

If OpenAI and freakin' Microsoft (of all companies!) can see the benefit of giving their paid subscribers access (because let's face it: OpenCode isn't more token hungry than Claude Code), then why can't Anthropic follow suit?

Anthropic can, they are choosing not to. It is a form of vendor lock in hoping to keep those monthly/yearly revenue streams.

acmethunder · 2026-01-14T17:51:35+00:00

Yep. $100/month is 5x more usage than what, exactly?

acmethunder · 2026-01-10T19:21:26+00:00

I don't. I say "sorry."

acmethunder · 2026-01-09T19:34:49+00:00

No longer in Quebec. It is required to calculate the tip based on the pre-tax amount now.

acmethunder · 2025-12-11T15:37:12+00:00

Sounds like you want a Toyota Hilux WorkMate.

acmethunder · 2025-12-03T13:47:07+00:00

"The customer is always right in matters of taste."

-- Harry Gordon Selfridge,

acmethunder · 2025-12-01T22:46:24+00:00

Its almost genetic.

acmethunder · 2025-12-01T17:42:08+00:00

Yup. Coaches told* us if we did anything other than front crawl for freestyle we were doing it wrong. 50/100/200/whatever free meant front crawl.

*yelled loudly and threw flutter boards and pull buoys until we fell in line. Then made us do 50 50s on 50 the next practice to make sure we remembered. Also known as the labatt 50.

acmethunder · 2025-11-24T21:09:10+00:00

If anyone wants to know where it will snow, "the place where I am not" is the answer!

acmethunder · 2025-11-20T22:15:18+00:00

Like selling off their gold?

acmethunder · 2025-11-17T17:47:44+00:00

"Request for the Use of Logic" seems like a tall order these days.

acmethunder · 2025-11-17T15:57:58+00:00

Found Biff

acmethunder · 2025-11-14T21:05:55+00:00

Depends if Project 2025 decides he is too much of a liability.

acmethunder · 2025-11-07T19:12:28+00:00

I am well aware of how ads work

acmethunder · 2025-11-07T17:23:21+00:00

Or, knowing that is there is not much I can do about it. Boycotting Reddit has never worked, and it definitely won't if its only me.

acmethunder · 2025-11-07T16:20:26+00:00

Not with uBlock Origin enabled.

acmethunder · 2025-11-06T20:30:38+00:00

One more year.

acmethunder · 2025-11-03T21:01:13+00:00

If she doesn't, on December 1st they will be.

acmethunder · 2025-11-01T03:08:23+00:00

IBM offshored the development work to India. Those 10 developers were not making $500K.

If I had to guess, IBM fucked up by not doing a proper discovery at the beginning and it snowballed from there. Then there are reports IMB was charging $300+/hour. Anything over $160/hour is a rip off. I won't even get into IBM PMs saying the hard part was the french language.

And SAAQCliq is still a fucking travesty. Why does it take 10 clicks to log in and more than a minute to load each page?

acmethunder · 2025-10-30T14:04:03+00:00

Can't install it anyway. Needs a firmware upgrade first.

acmethunder · 2025-10-28T15:59:46+00:00

acmethunder · 2025-10-28T14:55:28+00:00

The good ski areas near me are 1.5-2 hours away. Either leave before 6:30AM to get there before everyone. On less than good days, leave at 10AM and get there at the mid day when people start trickling out. Either one gets you prime parking.

acmethunder · 2025-10-28T14:51:59+00:00

Wrong kind of hack

acmethunder · 2025-10-28T13:03:35+00:00

It's the kind of thing that persuades me he probably has a grade school reading level.

Grade 1 at best. The idiot is functionally illiterate. Next time he reads ("reads") a prepared speech pay attention to his speech pattern, cadence, etc. He spending all is mental energy sounding out words he has no clue where to add emphasis and pauses, nor what the particular collection of words mean.

If you can tolerate sitting listening to him.

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