williamscales

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.

Agree the correct abbreviation is min.

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

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!

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.

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.

Dang, this would suck. I really like Kodak film, like Portra 400 and Ektar 100.

Writing’s been on the wall for quite a while though. I’m not surprised.

I’m guessing Amazon could have info on their side about your eero. Without knowing more about the router’s cloud functionality it’s hard to say what exactly they would have.

I guess it could be trained to respond to those sort of queries by offering to compile a list of some finite number of web pages. Then it could be prompted to visit them and do something (check images, say).

Maybe that would result in limited fetching instead of internet wide fetching. I dunno, just spitballing.