Had to use debit.

I think even AH accepts credit cards these days, though I haven't tried it myself.

In South Africa where I live, anywhere that accepts cards accepts Visa and Mastercard. Outside of the "informal business" sector (e.g. tiny "businesses" like a roadside stall), card acceptance is so ubiquitous I don't carry cash anymore and it's very rarely an issue.

Because this is a thing in most of Europe. Most people don't own a creditcard, and those that do use it mostly for online purchases outside of the EU. I don't travel to another continent without looking up how to pay for things when I get there.

I think you wastly exegarate your observations.

> Why would you expect to be able to use a creditcard in a physical shop in the Netherlands?

And then

> Because this is a thing in most of Europe.

Netherlands' anti-credit card stance is quite unique, perhaps only matched by Germany and their obsession with cash.

It’s generally a good idea to learn something about your travel destination and not to assume everything there is the same as where you live. The world is big and diverse.

Even more surprisingly to me - a pretty decent chunk of businesses even would accept AmEx. By no means all, but I recall it being basically nonexistent not that long ago.

And to be clear - much of my time was not in areas that get a ton of foreign tourist visitors.

Not saying your experience didn't happen, but given our very different experiences it might be something with your particular bank/issuer/card?

I suspect you're right: it depends on the specific card/bank, not whether it's credit or debit.

I was slow to try it and it’s great.

There's still an ongoing trick that some European businesses do where they'll try and get you to pay in dollars because they can arbitrarily set the exchange rate. It's obviously within "reason" but on the higher end for no purpose other than to make extra money. I find such behavior to be dishonest and deplorable.

Its an American company.

Thankfully though a lot of times these ATMs and such are avoided by American tourists because....we just use a credit card.

By the way, those fees are split with other folks. For example you might find that American Euronext ATM in a shopping plaza or outside of a storefront. Those European businesses are getting a cut of that exchange rate.

Doesn't really help if they only take cash, which is still common in Germany for example, but gotten a lot better in the last decade.

Ok so the scam is shared, great.

I didn't suggest otherwise?

> Ok so the scam is shared, great.

Yea, just making sure we're all aware that Europeans are positively complicit in this scam.

Implying we could or would not.

I wasn't implying that Europeans can't use credit cards. We were talking about tourists using credit cards versus cash.

I’d be interested to compare their rates to Wise. The credit cards here in New Zealand don’t come close. However we regularly get screwed down here, and sadly it’s not just foreign companies that do it.

Well for US-based "no foreign transaction fees" credit cards the rate is 0. There's no additional fee. For cards with foreign transaction fees you'll see something like 1% that goes to Visa/Mastercard/whoever and then the bank will charge a fee too, typically a percent or two.

But that's one thing, and then you have the actual currency conversion rates. I found an excerpt from an article that I think explains it well enough [1].

  "Typically, a purchase at a foreign merchant is made entirely in the local currency. The cardholder authorizes the purchase amount in the local currency, and the purchase price is not converted until the payment is processed.

  When you make a purchase at an international store, you may be asked if you want to convert your purchase to your home currency. This service is provided at the point of sale as a value added service and allows you to know the converted price at that moment—but don’t be fooled; it comes at a cost.

  While this may initially sound like a wise way to avoid fees, these charges are in addition to any foreign transaction fees your card may apply. These fees assessed by the merchant at the point of sale are called dynamic currency conversion or DCC. You can think of DCC as an added service and just like most services that make life easier, there’s a convenience charge. Plus, even when using DCC, you’ll usually be charged a foreign transaction fee by your card issuing bank unless your card has no foreign transaction fees."

[1] https://www.forbes.com/advisor/credit-cards/foreign-transact...

Harder is not always better.

There's more to it like how to pick the weight, etc... but the perfect rep piece I really enjoyed.

Also late to the party, but creatine is the body and more importantly the brains friend too.

The filtering you describe is trivial with COUNT(flag IN (...) AND state=...) etc.

If you want to retrieve data on the last comment, as opposed to an aggregate function of all comments, you can do that with window functions (or with JOIN LATERAL for something idiomatic specifically to Postgres).

Learning how to do JOIN's in SQL is like learning pointers in C -- in that it's a basic building block of the language. Learning window functions is like learning loops. These are just programming basics.

For anything that isn't just a basic row lookup from a single table, you should really just be writing the SQL yourself.

I did not know what "NVR" meant prior to reading the OP.

With the author's blessing, I took the doc's content and converted into into a more usable website: https://lastofus.posix.love

Would love to hear feedback if anyone has any!

Is it possible to get that headless Chrome browser + agent working locally? With something like Cursor?

    # Stream responses in real-time
    chat.ask "Tell me a story about a Ruby programmer" do |chunk|
      print chunk.content
    end

Concurrency support is missing from the language syntax and this particular library as a concept. This is by design, to not distract from beautiful code. Your request will make zero progress and take up memory while waiting for the LLM answer. Other threads might make progress on other requests, but in real world deployments this will be a handful (<10). This server will get 10s of requests per second when something written in JS or Go will get many 1000s.

It’s amazing how the Ruby community argues against their own docs and doesn’t acknowledge the design choices their language creators have made.

Say I am eating well, exercising consistently, getting enough sleep.

For a male in his 40s, what are the best bang-for-the-buck ways to detect cancer before it becomes life-threatening?

The Galleri blood test screens for a range of cancers (sensitivity varies by cancer) and is ~$900, although you need a doctor to order it. You also may not technically be within the intended use population unless you have some risk factors (e.g. you are older than 50, or have family history of cancer).

Colonoscopy is a good idea, given the rising rates of colon cancer among younger adults.

The 'paradox' of genuinely higher survival rates with early detection is explained by the fact that the survival rates are measured from the time of diagnosis. If a person with undiagnosed cancer is diagnosed after 7 years with said cancer, and then dies the following year, then he is considered to have had 1 year of survival. By contrast if somebody is diagnosed at year 1 and then dies 7 years later from the cancer, then they are considered to have 7 years of survival. They lived exactly the same length with cancer, but the survival times after diagnoses are markedly different.

This applies for most cancers. In my prior readings on this topic, the one screening that had a statistically significant effect on life expectancy was a certain type of colonoscopy, but even in that case the effect was quite small, something like 3 months IIRC. I think the overall take away is that outside of healthy living, do what makes you feel most comfortable. Even if they may not be highly effective, screenings would provide some people significant mental comfort. If you're one of them, more power to you. If you're fine without, then that's also great.

[1] - https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/09/180912133536.h...

Go to a dermatologist and get a mole map. Get your tests done on schedule when you should be.

Don’t smoke cigarettes, or work in a high risk job around carcinogens.

If you run out and get a bunch of random cancer tests, you are basically ensuring that you will get unnecessary and painful treatment for a finding that probably wouldn't have harmed you in the first place.

It's not a satisfying answer, but it's true. The reason most cancers are found late is because there's no effective alternative.

https://www.bmj.com/content/362/bmj.k3519

Colo , when appropriate , is good but not as a general interest test:

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2529486