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Baton Rouge truck accident lawyer at $1000


Yeah I had to turn off dark reader in firefox to see the examples "properly".


I agree, I noticed the same thing. To my eye it appears smudged.


Appears to be about $37 for a grocery bag with handles

https://www.dependableexpendables.com/products/silent-grocer...


Agree the correct abbreviation is min.

Nitpick: could be wrong but I don’t think minutes is an SI derived unit.


Yeah, it's under "Non-SI units accepted for use with SI", so more ISO than SI, but has standards for how it's used with SI units, esp since M has meaning there


I think most people want computers to be predictable and repeatable _at a level that makes sense to them_. That's going to look different for non-programmers.

Having worked helping "average" users, my perception is that there is often no mental model at any level, let alone anywhere close to what HN folks have. Developing that model is something that most people just don't do in the first place. I think this is mostly because they have never really had the opportunity to and are more interested in getting things done quickly.

When I explain things like MFA in terms of why they are valuable, most folks I've helped see usefulness there and are willing to learn. The user experience is not close to universally seamless however which is a big hangup.


They used to send you free CDs to hand out if you asked!


I hope I didn't throw away the ones I had!


In my recollection, Firefox used to ask you which profile you wanted to use on launch. I don't think I've seen that in years.


IIRC you can use the -p flag to open that menu on launch. It also opens when you haven't set a default profile. And it's possible to access other profiles via about:profiles.


You can decide if you want to get asked at startup.


I find myself writing a very simple style of python that avoids list comprehensions and so on when working in a shared code base.

For a language where there is supposed to be only one way to do things, there are an awful lot of ways to do things.

Don’t get me wrong, writing a list comprehension can be very satisfying and golf-y But if there should be one way to do things, they do not belong.


I find list and dict comprehensions are a lot less error prone and more robust than the “manual” alternatives.

I would say unless you have a good reason to do so, features such as meta classes or monkey patching would be top of list to avoid in shared codebases.


> I find list and dict comprehensions are a lot less error prone and more robust than the “manual” alternatives.

I find them easier to understand and explain, too.


> For a language where there is supposed to be only one way to do things

That's not what the Zen says, it says that there should be one -- and preferably only one -- obvious way to do it.

That is, for any given task, it is most important that there is at least one obvious way, but also desirable that there should only be one obvious way, to do it. But there are necessarily going to be multiple ways to do most things, because if there was only one way, most of them for non-trivial tasks would be non-obvious.

The goal of Python was never to be the smallest Turing-complete language, and have no redundancy.


If I have to write Python like Go, I'd rather just write Go. (Not disagreeing with you, but this is one of many reasons that Python is the least-favourite language that I use on a regular basis.)


The WHO is organizing some evacuations internationally

> the World Health Organization supported the transfer of 32 children and six adults to Italy, Belgium and Turkey, but more than 14,800 patients are still waiting.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/16/malnourished-p...


Are there legitimate organizations to donate to that are effectively evacuating people?


Thanks, that’s a good link! Shared.


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