Paul Ganssle @pganssle@qoto.org

Hmm... Should I take a few hours to buy a new computer now, or should I wait until my existing computer completely falls apart and buy one in a panic later... Choices, choices...

(Just kidding, it's definitely going to be the second one)

7 y/o: "What's Columbus Day?"
Me: "<General explanation of who Columbus was>... So basically, it celebrates when Europeans discovered America."
7 y/o: "Oh, so basically it has no purpose."

Though I will admit that there are also NO OTHER REASONS for putting lazy imports in a context manager. It's just the backwards compatibility use case and no others.

I further contend that other than `contextlib.suppress`, there is no other situation where lazy imports in a context manager could be dangerous.

*Ahem* I hereby affirmatively state that the ONLY ergonomic way to functionally backport lazy imports would be to use a context manager. Even a *genius* could not come up with a better way.

#python

I think I should have used Cunningham's law instead of asking questions in [this post](https://discuss.python.org/t/pep-810-explicit-lazy-imports/104131/176). I suspect I would have gotten more people weighing in.

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First time going to a baseball game since I was a child and I am impressed with the degree to which every aspect of this is mild to moderately unpleasant, starting with the fact that in order to access the tickets it was *required* to download the "MLB Ballpark" app (which is apparently different from the "MLB" app).

Me: "We might go to a bookstore."
Son: "Aww, I don't want to go to a bookstore, it's probably very crowded because so many people like books."
Me: "Ha ha"
Bookstore: *actually is fairly crowded*

I told my 7 year old that if we moved to London he would probably get a British accent eventually and now every 5 minutes he worriedly asks me if he has started talking British yet (he has yet to interact with a British person).

My credit card when I buy gas on a highway near my house: "Seems pretty sus... 🤨"

My credit card when I order zero calorie sauces from Spain, delivered to someone else in the Netherlands, with that person's name as the cardholder: "All good bro, enjoy your sauces! 👍"

I can't tell if their fraud detection are not that good or if they just know me really well 😛

Oof, didn't realize that I didn't affirm my PSF membership this year and now the website is rejecting my password and when I try to reset it. Hopefully I can get it sorted out in the next... 90 minutes I guess? 😬

MVP of S'mores?