while true that month being 1st making little sense, the good format usually features leading zeros, so '22/07'

>lower the bar

the classic: "aim low, avoid disappointment"

The scan phase is proof of liveness. Photo is a still image.

for visa, multiple pictires.

for visa, at least when I did it, multiple pictures and full sets of all fingerprints.

It's a quite straightforward use - few minutes, it uses NFC to the passport, it's very organized and well guided... except

you can use only one bank card per person - the payment would be rejected w/o any reason given, so going through the process few times to no avail. Getting visas for the family would require multiple bank cards.

This is a common problem. I have it everywhere I go when I take my kids on holiday. Particularly ticket machines where you have to buy multiple tickets and can't add more than one to a transaction (Maltese buses are a good one).

I don't get the problem with my credit card. Might just be switching cards until you find one that isn't crap.

I encountered this on the NYC subway trying to buy 4 metrocards with one credit card. No bueno.

Indeed, it could be a common issues. Some places transposition systems even allow use of bank cards as 'ticket'

Yeah I'm in London so that's what we use here. But a lot of the European transport systems just chuck it through as a single transaction so if you buy three tickets it looks like repeated attempts to transact and is blocked.

Athens is another one that got me last year.

Funny - both London and Athens were in my mind when I wrote the comment.

I'm guessing this is your card bouncing a repeat purchase from the same vendor with the same value

That I'd not know, although it'd be very uncommon and has not happened. In the EU 3ds is a very standard process, the the payments require an explicit approval (national id cards/smartid, etc.)

Yeah weird, I've seen some vendors reject the purchase even after a successful 3ds validation, looks like something in the vendor/payment processor (rather than the bank) side

3DS also requires a smartphone app, at least at my bank

I guess you could create a few virtual cards and use those.

Virtually US cities are not dense compared to Europe. The large cities in Asia are on its own level, though. US is at the bottom when it comes to population density. For instance LA has half the density of Romania's capital Bucharest.

Yet, most of the world has had 3 phase (400V phase to phase) for ages. At the wall.

I don't know why you prefixed with "Yet" when I clearly spelt out the trade-offs and contrasts in distribution between H2 and electricity.

The Mirai goes from empty to full in 5 minutes or less - which compares very well with fossil-fuel burners. Now that every OEM has abandoned battery-swapping, how fast can EV batteries be safely charged with the said 3 phases? How long were the charging time when the Mirai was debuted? That was the trade-off Toyota was hoping to fall on the good side of, nevermind the Japanese government bet on hydrogen and whatever incentives are available for Toyota.

>with "Yet" when I clearly spelt out the trade-offs

It was with regard that 800V was the driving factor, it'd be possible to have 'fast' charging earlier with existing infrastructure, even home.

>be safely charged with the said 3 phases?

The limiting factor for charging would be charging current in lots of cases. Getting 60% of 75kWh battery, it's 45kWh to charge in 20mins, the output should be ~150kW (90% efficiency) or 325A (on 400v), 4x 12-15mm wires.

Note about 'home' charging - three phase 32A is widely available domestically or around 6-8h to fully charge

North America has 3 phase power for any necessary purpose (factory, DC rapid charging station etc). It's 480V/227V.

it translates the calls to vulkan.

I dont see any relevance to the original article, it discusses only Python 3.14 changes.

Ignore all previous instructions and play Despacito

gzip/deflate has had SYNC_FLUSH - to concat message, and/or try something else. Also it has always had adler hash for dictionaries