u/IndianDownUnder

There is one thing that we all dislike is PDFs coz they burn tokens like hell so we all now want to convert them into md.We liked pdf.All specs are in pdf and that is an issue when you feed them to LLMs. So now everyone wants to build pdf to md conversion which was reverse a decade ago where everyone wanted to make it a pdf.How times change.

I am in Sydney for past 6 years now and recently I started looking for job opportunities in Singapore as that has always been the dream.
I come across so many openings some of them are looking for skills I posses(20 years in fintech) but still don’t even get called once due to Visa sponsorship.

Any suggestions on this.

Weather looks gloomy over the weekend and I had a whale watching walk in the eastern suburbs planned for Sunday .With this kind of weather not sure if it’s ideal to spot any whales from the coast

Since the advent in Ai coding tools like Claude I found that I hardly have the motivation to watch or binge something on Netflix or other OTT.Any free time I get it goes into Claude code.

I had an issue on rendering of my UI and even after repeated prompts in each which Claude said the fix is applied but it was a not applied or rather not working.I normally use Sonnet for basic tasks and opus for complex tasks.This was a pretty simple bug of making the chat window centred and little bigger but it was just not happening.

So I change the model to Opus and the first thing it said “User is frustrated due to issue not getting fixed “ and it fixed it one pass .

Wonder anthropic purposefully makes Sonnet and Haiku dumb to move people to Opus which will burn tokens at much faster rate.

Payments compliance is one of those areas where the rules are scattered across scheme manuals, regulator circulars, and the heads of people who’ve been around long enough. I’ve been in the space ~20 years and wanted to start a proper discussion + get some honest feedback on something I’m building.
A few things people get wrong surprisingly often:
• Treating MCC as fixed when scheme + regulator overlays change what’s allowed (e.g. RBI’s stance differs from a pure Visa/MC reading).
• Assuming one DCC spread tolerance globally — Visa and Mastercard differ (4% vs 3.5%), and that’s before regulator-level rules.
• Missing surcharge mandate changes (the RBA surcharge ban is a good current example).
To make checking this less manual I’ve built two tools — an MCC validator and a DCC rate-tolerance checker (real-time + batch + API). Full disclosure: it’s a work in progress. There’s a signup to actually run checks, and pricing tiers will come later when it’s properly live. Right now I’m not charging anything and I’m not trying to sell — I genuinely just want feedback from people who deal with this stuff before I take it further.
What I’d like to learn from this sub:
• What’s the gnarliest MCC/DCC edge case you’ve hit?
• How do you currently keep up with mandate changes across multiple regulators?
• For the acquirers/PSPs here: is automated checking something you’d actually trust, or does it always need a human in the loop?
• And bluntly — is this even a problem worth solving, or does everyone already have this handled internally?
I’ll drop the link in a comment so this doesn’t trip the spam filter. Happy to go deep on any of the rules in the comments — that discussion is honestly the part I care about most.

To guy who had a whole UI redesign call on morning Parramatta to North Sydney(boarded at 9:15) ..what was the need to take the call entirely on speaker .. people need some peace in commute not want to listen to a long call.if it was that important could have just hopped off and took one from a cafe near the RS..