SEPA transfer fields need to follow a standard. I think it's fine, we shouldn't put more control and censorship there (try to put Daesh membership fee if you want to get your account locked...)

However a chatbot should absolutely not be able to display arbitrary and clickable links outside a pretty tight whitelist (like, the bank FAQ).

I was a teenager when Switzerland introduced the mandatory ID check, in 2003 or 2004 iirc.

My carrier added 10 CHF credit to my prepaid plan for the trouble.

It's still fairly easy to buy a Lycamobile SIM/number that was enabled with a fake or stolen ID. Consequently some banks and services ban entire number ranges, which is not only ineffective but also affects people who committed the sin of keeping their first phone number even after moving to a proper postpaid plan...

Schengen is not FoM. Visa isn't an acronym. And CERN workers are on diplomatic permits anyway.

Lost me on the reply.

You're throwing a lot of words that you don't understand nor have much relevance to the topic.

Before bilateral agreements and the freedom of movement, not Schengen which was ratified much later and is completely irrelevant here, you needed a work permit, not a visa (lowercase), which anyway at CERN is the equivalent of a diplomatic permit given to all international and tax-exempt NGOs in Geneva/Switzerland. And of course you lose your CDL permit quickly after your contract expires.

Getting a B permit before FoM would specifically not have been as hard for you as for someone from another continent.

Getting a B permit in 2003 - 2004 was indeed hard enough experience that I ended up not staying there and refuse any job offer from Swiss companies to this day, regardless of the Swiss friendships I managed to make there.

My stay at CERN was temporary, and every single company where I had an interview clearly communicated to me that the paperwork to get a B permit instead of a Swiss national, or a foreigner with existing permit.

The need to switch permit status from the CERN diplomatic one into a B one, killed all conversations.

But lets be pedantic in the meaning of words instead, which I used for folks that never lived in Switzerland, that is what is relevant for the whole discussion about foreigners how experience Switzerland.

Bilateral agreements were signed in 1999 and freedom of movement enacted in 2002 so you must not have looked very hard. Also claiming that immigration from a country like Portugal was hard before FoM is extremely funny given the number of Portuguese immigrants in Romandie.

Words have a meaning and bringing diplomatic permits to the topic when they follow their own rules and are specifically outside any immigration quota is not particularly helpful.

It wasn't me that wasn't looking very hard, because apparently those bilateral agreements didn't cut it.

Yes, there are plenty of us in Suisse Romande, yet not everyone is welcomed, and plenty don't have it easy.

There are plenty of ways of folks land there, and true not everyone behaves the way they should.

But lets leave at this, because the discussion won't lead to any constructive place.

FoM doesn't require to stay in Schengen-Dublin though.

To be fair that's not specific to SVP's populist initiatives, the parliament pushes bills with nonsensical names all the time.

Yes. We can cap non-EU/EFTA immigration to zero but that's relatively small anyway. Getting out of Schengen-Dublin and more importantly the Freedom of Movement of workers would basically unravel all bilateral agreements.

And now with LLMs, writing glue in Rust is cheap.

The ML/AI ecosystem is a minefield, and pure Rust rewrites (Candle, Burn, ...) are still immature and incomplete. But I'm pretty sure we're eventually going to see the same uptake that's already happening in the data processing world.

LLMs are leveling the developer experience and productivity in a way that makes Python's strengths almost irrelevant, while it's still suffering from bad tooling (even with uv and friends) and poor performance.

AI/ML: interfacing with C++ libraries directly (or in Rust) is now a real option. For everything else, even 5 years ago I wouldn't have used Python, now there are even fewer reasons to do so. As far as I'm concerned the remaining use cases are notebooks and one-shot scripts.

Which is precisely a reason for not using Python, despite LLMs being good at it.

Why is that?