For everyone comparing an EU-wide initiative to country-specific ones keep in mind that EU is composed of 28 sovereign states. Many individual countries already have their payment systems, and have had for a long while.
It's not equivalent to India, or the US.
It'd be more comparable to ASEAN (11) or the Arab league (22).
Businesses with slim margins in Germany simply do not have Visa/Mastercard -- only "EC", the German network. Thay means it's not a matter of passing on cost, but it's a choice for the consumer: cash or EC.
If I had to guess, having subbbed to the EC network, or any of the other country specific ones, merchants would simply get the new one as well automatically.
Similar things are happening with online ID where an EU-wide provider is being rolled out and if you as a service provider need KYC-type ID you integrate only with it. Under the hood the user can use any of the national IDs.
LLMs are perfect for smart and curious kids who ask so many questions they annoy adults like I did. Smart kids can teach themselves many things using them
How would kids know if what they are taught by adults is correct? The same way they would verify what LLMs say. By repeated questions to different models and checking for consistency. My parents sent me to young earth creationist schools so don't act like people are any more reliable than Opus 4.5 or Gemini 3
It seems to me that you may not have read the comment in question - it wasn't that LLMs are a good toy, it was just that LLMs are good at a particular aspect of the authors writing.
Just because the main purpose of the forum is technical things of interest and intellectual curiosity, doesn't mean we can't be human and show empathy and caring.
It's nice looking for sure but much more complex than using `wkhtmltox` with `pngquant`, `optipng` and/or ImageMagick `convert` locally - esp. since the learning curve seems to be about equivalent.
Yeah, I thought that as well. So I was wondering if that's some kind of a joke, or maybe modern html is so fucked up that all usual solutions became obsolete since the last time I did that.
While I agree that it's a trash site and an embarrassment to its roots as The Chronicle's website, anyone like yourself who notices how bad it is would do well to take it as a reminder that your adblocker is missing or not working. It appeared as though it were a normal site to me with ublock origin.
Just paying it forward. As a visible minority in Canada, I am subjected to this kind of passive aggressive, plausibly deniable ad hominem on a regular basis - and often by the very same Canadian white progressives who claim to have been educated out of such bigotry and racism. When in Rome...
It's not equivalent to India, or the US.
It'd be more comparable to ASEAN (11) or the Arab league (22).
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