I mean yeah with no context that looks weird A/F, but given a couple details it’s fairly self-evident why it be like it do.

1. Python doesn’t need a main function. It’ll just start running any top level code. This is nice for beginners learning programming because there’s no scaffolding or anything to set up. It just do the thing.
2. python uses double underscores (usually called “dunder”) to mark “special” things. __name__ is a global variable containing the name of the current module. There’s a couple more like __file__ containing the filename of the current module.
3. If you run a file directly __name__ gets set to "__main__". If it got set to something more sensible like "main" you couldn’t really call a file main.py without this breaking. Right now this only breaks for files called __main__.py but luck would have it that calling a file __main__.py already has a special meaning which makes these uses not clash.
4. Sometimes you want code to only run if a module is run but not when it is imported. Checking if __name__ is set to __main__ is the easiest way to do this.

Python for sure has a bunch of weirdness, but it all does mesh together into a rather nice programming language.

No it isn’t. Go try it without including any of this guys code. Don’t be a troll.

Because whoever wrote this went to great lengths to make it work. It’s by no means a feature of python. It’s a feature of their code.

Ecco sells metal shoehorns that are a) cheapish b) nigh indestructible and c) long. It’s honestly surprising how massive those things are. Could club a burglar to death with one and not dent it.

If the coating is starting to flake you need to stop using them. You’re really not supposed to eat that coating.

Sliiightly more debatable, but you’re not supposed to emphasize one over the other iirc. Go read the GDPR, for legalese it’s surprisingly readable.

Nothing. Having a toggle for “legitimate interest” is nonsense. The GDPR lists some exceptions to when you need to ask for permission, these are “legitimate interests”. Things like remembering someones IP to keep track of bans is allowable without needing to ask for permission.

Of course advertising agencies promptly went to work trying to bend the language of GDPR so they can claim they are a legitimate interest and therefore exempt. It won’t hold up in court.

The GDPR is surprisingly strict, and a LOT of the cookie popups you see in the wild are not at all compliant. To give an example: having your “accept” and “reject” buttons a different font size is explicitly not allowed.

I kinda like the square-ness of the camera bar after having used it a bit. makes it real easy to fish out of a pocket.

Wait what did I miss?

If you put the fan right in the window, it’ll suck the air right back inside around the fan. If you put it farther away the air stream has distance to widen and pull in more air. That way you can get the air stream to “cover” the whole window, Not allowing any to flow back in through that window.

You’ll see this sort of thing in action when firefighters are ventilating a house with fans. They’ll move the fans back until the air stream covers the entire opening it’s aimed at. Any less and the spots the air stream doesn’t hit are gonna have air flowing the wrong way.

A good trick I’ve found is that fans in long hallways are markedly more effective than pretty much anywhere else.

A macro lens produces a large image. It’s a bit silly but I guess once these things get a name it’s hard to get it changed.