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by fvdessen 3y ago
I've been making APIs in django for years and for each project, at some point the API behaviour needs to differ from the model. It is not clear from the README how would one handle that use case.
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by fvdessen 3y ago
Fun story: A colleague had to fly to the USA for work, but when he arrived they noticed some mistake in the paperwork. They couldn't send him back because an Icelandic volcano had erupted, so they gave him orange overalls and chains an
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by fvdessen 3y ago
The Turing test lets the examiner have whatever conversation he wants with the machine. So the examiners can ask to solve math problems, recognise shapes, interpret poetry, perform whatever task. It doesn't matter either if the machine
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by fvdessen 3y ago
I think the strong version is probably impossible to beat, because even if the machine has all the same capabilities as the human, it will probably give away its nature one inconsequential way or another, just like a foreign person usually
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by fvdessen 3y ago
I once implemented a knuth style renderer to properly typeset books into html. IMHO If you want to do advanced typography you need to algorithmically set the width and offsets of spans and use spacer elements. Otherwise all that complexity
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by fvdessen 3y ago
I've had the 'chance' to work with some deeply manipulative persons in the past, the kind who goes to your desk and say 'Hey, I noticed you started to speak to X again, and your performance seems to suffer as a result&qu
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by fvdessen 3y ago
Indeed, but if the majority of users uses the wallet, then business can now afford to do stricter identity verification for the users that don't.
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by fvdessen 3y ago
It is illegal in the EU to ask for unnecessary personal information and the wallet app can authenticate you without giving your name and address. So I don’t think it’s as bad as it’s made out to be
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by fvdessen 3y ago
I’ve been using one of these id wallets since a few years (itsme) and it’s been a huge quality of life improvement. I don’t have to create accounts, passwords, etc; I just login to the websites, it’s like a global single sign on. While the
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by fvdessen 3y ago
I think we’ll be able to use the wallet app we want since they should all be compatible.
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by fvdessen 3y ago
Itsme is one of the best apps I use on a daily basis, I understand it is starting to expand internationally, I suspect it will be extremely successful. Another good innovation is PEPPOL.
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by fvdessen 3y ago
What 'killed' the tech market in Europe is having 27 countries with different languages and laws. It is extremely difficult to scale a software company in that environment. The regulations unify the market and is the only way out.
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by fvdessen 3y ago
This would make room for a competing platform
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by fvdessen 3y ago
The reason why we tend to only consider 'real' desktop OS such as Windows or OSX is that those are the generalists platform where content is produced and work is being done. The others are special purpose devices
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by fvdessen 3y ago
Emergency vehicles sirens only need to be loud because they have to be heard by other drivers in their cars, which are sound proofed to not hear their own noise. Normal car traffic absolutely goes through walls, you think you are used to it
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by fvdessen 3y ago
The lack of quiet in the city is almost entirely due to the cars. Less obvious is the lack of community, but car-streets acts as barriers that prevent people from meeting each other. This is really noticeable if your city has a car free day
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by fvdessen 3y ago
I used to think like that, but the city I live in has regular no car days that made me change my mind. The first and biggest pollution is the noise. The ambient car noise has a huge effect on stress level and sleep quality. When you remove
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by fvdessen 3y ago
A big part of wanting to live in a big house far away from the place you go is that it insulates you from the pollution you bring with your car to the place you go. This is basically a prisoner dilemma, you enjoy the common goods of the cit
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by fvdessen 3y ago
Once again it is completely ignored that the whole online identity thing is a solved problem, in the EU. Millions of Europeans use eIDAS apps daily and enjoy single-sign-on across EU websites, can sign docs, make payments etc. etc. And ther
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by fvdessen 3y ago
In Europe there's eIDAS. You install an app on your phone that can be used to identify yourself. This is used to sign documents, payments, single sign on to other apps / websites, etc. During onboarding you will need to verify you
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by fvdessen 3y ago
This story is either fake or exaggerated, the number of roaches in xroach is constant, and there's a hard limit as they are statically allocated (I checked the original source code)
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by fvdessen 3y ago
Indeed! I believe Itsme also has the ability to provide anonymised tokens -- to be able to vote online -- but nobody uses it yet
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by fvdessen 3y ago
Itsme identifies you as a person. You can't have multiple accounts. So a Itsme signature is a proof of personhood (in addition to a proof of identity)
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by fvdessen 3y ago
"Proof of Personhood" is indeed a critical component of internet infrastructure. In Belgium we have an app for that called "Itsme" and it is becoming more and more the go-to single-sign-on tool. Instead of scanning your
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by fvdessen 3y ago
Another little known technique to have proof of personhood is to ask your government for a passport
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by fvdessen 3y ago
Materially, the USA is better off, that’s for sure, but in the west we’re well past the point where being better materially means having a better quality of life.
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by fvdessen 3y ago
And yet with all that money you can’t buy European quality of life in the USA
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by fvdessen 3y ago
Enlightened dictatorships and associated authoritarian measures can work extremely well but with the risk that things go for the worse when the leadership goes mad, corrupt or impotent. They are efficient but fragile systems. Democracies an
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by fvdessen 3y ago
Interestingly Meta went with a django monolith for their new app and their goal was definitely in the order of 100 million concurrent users.
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by fvdessen 3y ago
Indeed that's what I meant, but cannot edit my comment.

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