I believe that minimizes capacitance. My question is why diagonal at all. Maybe it helps with adhesion during the manufacturing process?

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Electrical Engineer here. Pretty sure the slit is to break up the metal in the card so it won’t interfere with NFC.

If you look at an NFC antenna, it’s a big coil of wire. It’s energized by an oscillating magnetic field that passes through it. Faraday’s Law dictates that when a magnetic field oscillates, an electric field will form around it. This electric field generates a current in the antenna that powers the NFC chip.

In a metal card, the current will flow in the card instead and draw energy away from the NFC chip. This slit blocks that current flow so that the current flows in the antenna instead.

Considering Buy-n-Large is basically Wal-mart, I think you could argue that it would similarly serve poorer communities. Like any good virus, they can’t kill the host.

I keep trying to block reddit, but half of the good practical advice and troubleshooting help is trapped there.

If anybody has a giant directory of active messageboards, I’m all ears.

Well after whatever period of time, the option to even request a chargeback on your account portal goes away. Not sure how you’d even proceed at that point, but I imagine it involves an incredible amount of being on hold.

If tens of thousands of people started requesting chargebacks for the same product at the same time from a new vendor, I don’t think Visa would be quick to side with the vendor.

As I pointed out a year ago, this phone never existed.

They just waited until it was too late to do credit card chargebacks before pulling the rug. I’ve seen it on Kickstarter dozens of times.

https://www.nfb.ca/film/to_be/

Knowyourmeme references both.

If all the medium range stuff is just last year’s high end, I can live with that.

i cri evrytim

He was surprised it was $8 in an amusement park.

This was also like 14 years ago. Might need to update the dollar amount when I tell this story.

A friend of mine moved to SF right out of college. A year or so later, he told me that he visited Busch Gardens Williamsburg which is a theme park near where we grew up. It was originally owned by Anheuser-Busch, so you can get beer basically anywhere in the park.

He had this to say:

“You know, this is the first time I’ve been since turning 21. I was surprised to see how cheap the beer was. They were only charging $8 a pint.”

so 1b is 1 butt or approximately 481l.

If you want to go really old school, get a ham radio license, then buy a handheld with APRS.

You can send out 5W packets with your GPS coordinates, that can be received and relayed by any radio in range. This can work completely off-grid, so no cell service required.

Getting your Technician license is super easy.

especially ironic since it’s a post about spreading misinformation for free.

The book about sentient apes spreads misinformation for Exxon?

I read the book a few decades ago, and I don’t remember that part.