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How does the phone confirm the payment without a network? With NFC the phone has a low bandwidth connection to the payment terminal that’s enough to sign the transaction.

EDIT: I found it. It uses special phone codes that still use the mobile network to do the payment. If I understand correctly it would still not work in places where there’s no reception, like some large buildings or air planes.

Do the QR codes work without internet? The NFC payment schemes do.

What France did to Haiti was despicable and a big part of why Haiti is the mess it is, but Haiti hasn’t been paying anything to France in decades.

Is there anyone invited to board who isn’t a raging warmongering psychopath?

Deutsche Rentenversicherung should send you an estimate of how much pension money you are going to receive every year. Assume that is optimistic, but a good baseline. I assume the matching program you mentioned is a Betriebliche Altersvorsorge (bAV)? Those usually also tell you how much they will pay you as a minimum, and another estimate based on normal economic growth.

Chances are that those together will not be enough to match your wage at retirement. So you should plan your savings so you can cover the difference for at least 16 years (which is the current life expectancy at 67 years old in Germany), and overshoot that if you can.

DB is the definite proof that German efficiency is a lie, but tourists using urban transports in big cities will usually have a good experience. Even the public transports in Berlin have got their shit together in the last few years, even if S-Bahn/DB are still a level below BVG.

Yes. And photos should also have a disclaimer about what kinds of edits were done, regardless if they were done manually or by AI.

I keep seeing stupid ideas in social media because people believe edited photos match reality.

The main limitation is the VRAM, but I doubt any model is going to be particularly fast.

I think phi3:mini on ollama might be an okish fit for python, since it’s a small model, but was trained on python codebases.