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The article links through to a list of the most expensive: https://attorneyatlawmagazine.com/legal-marketing/why-law-fi...

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.

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.

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...

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.

The tax hit, too, depending on the type and amount of options

A lot of the moralizing pressure groups are also against sexual content on TV (at least historically they have been).

One of the slippery slopes here would be that initially they go after smaller players and then work their way up. Would they ultimately go after Amazon or Warner Bros? It’s not totally clear to me that they wouldn’t.

Definitely seems like the sort of thing that MKUltra would have looked at. Those folks were big into ideas like creating specific mental states in people.

Thank you for the added detail.

OK, so the method given for artificial coloring on that page. I'm curious if that works for lead chromate. It seems so simple that it must have been tried in this case? Regardless I'll file it away to at least try on stuff to avoid what colors it can detect.

I don't see any method for lead chromate in turmeric powder, unless I'm missing something.

I'm curious about getting a personal XRF device for this reason. They don't look "that" expensive, I found some for $5k to $10k on Alibaba. Is it overkill? Probably yes. Am I overly paranoid about my health and would also like to generally have an XRF device? Also yes.

I’m reminded of Feynman’s answer on explaining magnetism.

In other words, ICP were not so far off base when they asked “magnets, how do they work?”

Don't discuss anything about the PRC or its politicians? Don't discuss the history of Chinese empire? Don't discuss politics in Mandarin?

In my mind all of these could be relevant to Chinese politics. My interpretation would be "anything one can't say openly in China". I too am curious how such a vague instruction would be interpreted as broadly as would be needed to block all politically sensitive subjects.

I like the definition of several as “more than two but fewer than many”

Looks Photoshop has since v23.2 in 2022.

I mean, regardless of any argument about Whatsapp, shouldn't installing any app on a government phone that's not allowed be impossible? Sheesh. This shouldn't even be a discussion in the first place.

NextDNS has an option to block RRDs.

I don't know if it does anything for suspicious AS.

you can ship the device to your customers when it’s ready and meets your quality bar, and you can theoretically do it for free, because they are already paying a subscription

Which is exactly what Whoop _didn't_ do. It seems that the subscription model did not actually work for them.

you can be confident that they are aligned with your interests

Not at all, as this demonstrates.

If instead they are required to repeatedly earn your business

The trick is that Whoop dropped this requirement for themselves after they got folks to sign up and before they shipped a hardware update. Presumably they think they can keep running that back---lose all their customers, get new ones who don't know, rinse, and repeat. We'll see how that works out for them.

So, I mean, I think you have some great points but it just doesn't seem to work out that way in the real world.

Agreed. I used tiling WMs for a long while (ion3, XMonad) and it was such a productivity boost.

Then I was forced to use a Mac for work, so I was using a floating WM again. On my personal machine, ion3 went away and I never fully got around to migrate to i3.

By the time I got enough free time to really work on my personal setup, it had accumulated two huge monitors and was a different machine. I found I was pretty happy just scattering windows around everywhere. Especially with a trackball's cursor throw. This was pretty surprising to me at first.

Anyway this is just my little personal anecdote. If I go back to a Linux install I'll definitely have to check out i3 again. Thanks for reminding me :)

It seems like it would work really well for someone who practices zettelkasten. I spent some time trying to learn to manage my knowledge using it with Roam but it never quite clicked with my way of working.

Another one for the “not really using Roam any more” box

NB that Whoop did pull a fast one on users. People signed up with the promise they wouldn’t have to pay for hardware upgrades. Whoop recently dropped that right before releasing their first hardware upgrade.