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by mcv 5mo ago
From what I understand, Wero is identical to iDeal, which has been the standard Dutch internet payment system for decades. So I'm a bit surprised to see France claim ownership.
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by mcv 5mo ago
Wero is basically an EU-wide version of the Dutch iDeal system, which in my opinion is the gold standard of how internet payment should work. I shouldn't have to fill in any card numbers on the site of the merchant (which is unsafe). I
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by mcv 5mo ago
I'm going to have to look into this. I've got two machines using the same monitor (indeed work macbook and home linux). It's a curved 4K Samsung Oddyssey of some sort, and I can either switch through the monitor's menu,
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by mcv 5mo ago
"If they felt like it" is key here: in my experience, AI makes it very easy to not feel like anything and just trust whatever the AI comes up with. The barrier to diving deep into code, or researching any other topic by myself, ha
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by mcv 5mo ago
'T' is the second letter of the name 'Stan', the obsessed superfan in the song.
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by mcv 5mo ago
> the behaviour of something should be easily discoverable from the point/points its behaviour affects. or alternatively more indirection/obfuscation is worse. This is why I'm not that big of a fan of Tailwind and similar
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by mcv 5mo ago
I separate those too. Queries get their own file. Sometimes their own framework.
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by mcv 5mo ago
I agree. I don't really like Tailwind, nor similar CSS frameworks. The whole idea was to separate styling from HTML, and Tailwind is putting it back into HTML through the backdoor. It's just a way to do styling from your HTML with
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by mcv 5mo ago
I feel you. I'd prefer to stick entirely with local open source models. I tried using Aider and Qwen last week, and while it's still impressive what it can do with just local resources and entirely for free, its error rate is too
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by mcv 5mo ago
It is surprisingly common. My wife was recently diagnosed with sleep apnea, after a decade of sleep problems. Not sure why that took so long, because her dad also had it. He slept with an air mask, as does a good friend of mine. My wife doe
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by mcv 5mo ago
To me it really depends on how I'm using it. Sometimes it makes me feel smart, I'm solving problems I wouldn't have been able to solve before, and I'm learning a lot. And sometimes it feels like I've outsourced my t
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by mcv 5mo ago
But that is a choice. You could also build the affordable housing and grow the sustainable food. But then you have to decide not to let it be done by people who don't want to do that, but want to build luxury condos instead.
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by mcv 5mo ago
You're missing both points here. I don't think they're going to get a sweet free new revenue stream. I think they're going to get less traffic. And the stranglehold is not big tech over the newspapers, but big tech over
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by mcv 5mo ago
I don't think it's the demographics that have changed, but the state of the internet, and the awareness that big tech's stranglehold over our media is a problem. Of course the likely end result is going to be that legitimate
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by mcv 5mo ago
If your world view is based on "alternative facts", then I agree discussion is pretty much pointless. If the US isn't descending into fascism, it's only because it's already arrived there. I'm not denying tha
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by mcv 5mo ago
I was not aware of this behaviour when I bought it. But you raise a good issue: are they selling these at a loss in order to leverage some sort of lock-in? If that's the reason they're so cheap, that's important to know. I ho
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by mcv 5mo ago
It would have been so easy for Bambu to embrace freedom and privacy and continue to enjoy our loyalty all the way to the bank, but apparently they've got to burn down what they've got. I've got an a1 mini myself, and I'm
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by mcv 5mo ago
Portrayed? Have you seen the news at all in the past year? The US is descending into fascism really hard. Closing your eyes to it is not going to stop it.
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by mcv 5mo ago
You can clearly get indicted for it. But much more serious is the widespread government censorship that would be unimaginable in the EU.
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by mcv 5mo ago
Obviously there needs to be a desire to set this up responsibly. A government that doesn't care about privacy at all can force whatever they want. But the EU care a lot about privacy. They're got strong data protection regulation.
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by mcv 5mo ago
I think the important part is that parents talk with their children about the nature of porn. It's unavoidable that they're going to run into it at some point, and I think it's important that they understand that's not w
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by mcv 5mo ago
There are ways to do age verification without tying your identity to the content. A site could direct you through a proxy to the government's eID server with simply the request whether you're over 18. Because it's going throu
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by mcv 5mo ago
Not remotely at full speed. This is not a law, and is not in any way being enforced. Bad ideas get proposed too often, but usually they get rejected. I expect the same will happen here, although we should absolutely remain vigilant. I do sh
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by mcv 5mo ago
Exactly. Governments that really care about age verification should provide the tools to do so. They have the means to do so without violating privacy. Something like the Dutch DigiD service (the one they're about to sell to the US des
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by mcv 5mo ago
Surprised to learn that some guy I used to work with (Gabriele Columbro) is now apparently a very expensive executive director at the Linux Foundation. I had no idea his career took that turn. I think it's the same guy, at least.
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by mcv 5mo ago
One of the consequences of Gemma's speed is that you can run it on a GPU that's technically too small for it. I've run it on my 4070, and while the output wasn't blazingly fast, it was usable. (Though I haven't used
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by mcv 5mo ago
That's what I always did too. Then I removed it because I wanted to focus more on the kind of problems I solve rather than the languages I've worked in, and recruiters complained, so I put it back in.
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by mcv 5mo ago
I rewrote my resume in a way that sounds like exactly what you want: focus on skills that transcend tools instead of just the tools, and every recruiter asks me about tools.
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by mcv 5mo ago
Unfortunately many recruiters do look at that. I'm always a bit disappointed when someone wants me to rate my Java experience, or complains that my CV doesn't mention REST experience.
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by mcv 5mo ago
In my case it's not a lie: I reduced the time for a complex import process from 1 hour to 3 minutes, a 20 fold improvement. I included it in my CV, but now I wonder if I should take it out.

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