Sounds like someone is being "overenthusiastic" about interpreting the KYC/ALM regulations.

Combined with the FSFE not being your "usual" charitable or business organization so setting off auditor red flags and perhaps raising the risk profile of Nexi as a payment processor.

Charles Eames said that "design depends largely on constraints".

If you know in advance, then one of the constraints on the design of that function is that it's on the critical path and that it has to meet the specification.

You're stating the obvious that you need to consider its implementation.

But that's not the same as "I have a function that is not on the critical path and the performance constraint is not the most important, but I'll still spend time on optimizing it instead of making it clear and easy to understand."

I'm very impressed that was written by an LLM.

Does that make the OP an "authoring mechanic"? Or an "AI editor"?

Douglas Adams had it right, the problem is not that the answer was useless, it was that people didn't know what the right question was.

One of CS's heroes lauding another. I feel I know both author and subject better for reading this.

We are all very lucky to have lived through the foundation of a new science and new engineering over the last 50 years.

A bit more than 50 years. Grace Hopper retired in 1966. It's true that Grace kept un-retiring, but the most crucial stuff is all before she retired. Invention of what we'd think of as a linker-loader (which Grace called a compiler) and of the broad concept of high level programming languages all happens in the 1950s.

I rounded down to the nearest half-century :)

I hope to live through to 2050, just to see what's going to happen.

This is awesome for local development of AWS service based software, allowing developers to develop without having to enable AWS access, or handle them stepping on each other's toes with S3 bucket names, or Dynamo table names, IAM roles etc.

I got airpods (Pro v2) and got the squishy memory foam tips from a 3rd party that are a) comfortable, and b) actually stay in my ears.

I hate normal headphones because they make my ears get sweaty and are heavy and uncomfortable.

I told my (now 88) father that if he bought another desktop PC he was on his own.

Tough love works.

He loves his 24" iMac, it just works and I can fix things remotely if necessary (it hasn't been).

This is the way.

> Decent package manager, brew is awful compared to apt.

Use Macports. Installs itself properly out of the way in /opt. Works with the Apple frameworks (eg Python), allows multiple versions of software to be installed in parallel (using port select).

> Window snapping can only be done on Apple keyboards not on external keyboards.

Yes, you need some free 3rd party apps for affordances that should be built in. Hardly a deal breaker.

Rectangle allows you to set the hotkeys for window snapping and sizing for example.

As for scroll directions, yes, it's different to Windows, but it's the same on the Mac and iPhone. Didn't take very long to adjust.

Agreed that the new Settings app is a PITA and obviously inherited from iOS and sucks, but how often are you accessing Settings?

Looks like an awesome launch.

Given all the privacy breaches already in this space, what auditing are you planning to ensure that PII is not held anywhere in the stack after KYC/AML/ID confirmation?

This goes beyond ISO27K/HIPAA/SOC2 etc to an actual code/storage audit that confirms that PII is only held ephemerally and completely encrypted at rest otherwise, unavailable to anyone, including internal access and/or law enforcement etc.

I started on the MICOM (Microcomputer Club of Melbourne) BBS that was started and run by Peter Jetson around 1983/84, initially with a single phone line. It was home grown software, but eventually became part of Fidonet.

I found an old listing for it. I don't think Peter still runs it :)

3:633/371 Micom CBCS