TIL: Your "identical" strings might not be identical — the NBSP trap. P.s. translated from gemini.

Spent way too long debugging why exact-match comparisons kept failing on strings that looked 100% identical on screen. Same font, same spacing, copy-pasted from the same source even.

Turned out one string had a regular space (U+0020) and the other had a non-breaking space (U+00A0,  ) between words. Completely invisible in Excel, in a browser, anywhere — but == treats them as different characters.

Where it came from: I was pulling text from a web app (Angular-based), and devs had used   in the markup to stop certain phrases from line-wrapping. Every time I scraped that text, the "space" came along as NBSP instead of a normal one. Meanwhile my reference data (typed manually) used regular spaces. Cue silent match failures with zero visible cause.

reddit.com
u/East_Kaleidoscope304 — 2 days ago

Suddenly cry

Dear fellow parents, my two-year-old son occasionally experiences episodes of sudden crying during the night, which typically last for two to three minutes before ceasing abruptly. I have already ruled out teething discomfort and hunger as potential causes. I am reaching out to inquire if any of you have encountered a similar situation?

reddit.com
u/East_Kaleidoscope304 — 3 days ago

Not working send keys

Hey everybody.

Help please to solve a problem, also sorry for my english.

I am fulling up information from excel to company website.

In Website there are so many dynamic selectors.

After found need blank for me, robot by clicking button "change" opens mini window in wibsite. In here I can't make robot focus to this mini window or choose right selectors. So I start to use command "send keys"

It working good untill robot gets to regions and districts.

So here is a difficult part: 1.send keys ( tab, enter)

Will be dropdown list. In website have a finction typeahead, so robot while typing region it works, but in district nothing happens. I used wait, also nothing, I used message box, to check is it write(yes robot writes) well nothing helps. By the way function hardware keys also not working.

reddit.com
u/East_Kaleidoscope304 — 5 days ago

Angel for buying a house

Hey everyone looking for angel, I am from Uzbekistan, I need to buy a house, but mortgage loan in my country is kind a strange, the bank won't pay cost of asking seller. So I want even make an agreement with angel of returning investing with procents.

reddit.com
u/East_Kaleidoscope304 — 8 days ago

Looking for mortgage loan from abroad

Hey guys, I am from Uzbekistan is there any programm which give a mortgage loan to me. I need a buy an apartment max for 70 000 usd. My bank is kind a strange, if I found a house for 70 000 usd

I must order property valuation, then bank make his own and which will be lower they will give me a mortgage loan.

So if house 70 000

Property valuation showed 60 000

Banks 65 000

Bank will give only 60 000.

So difference I must to pay by myself.

I don't know what to do. Is there any advice

reddit.com
u/East_Kaleidoscope304 — 15 days ago

Compulsory insurance

Compulsory Civil Liability Insurance of Owners of Motor Vehicles - in Uzbekistan works very simple. Two sides of road accident call the police. Policeman after 2-4 months prepares documents and send them to crime court, then judge will read and give his order in 2-5 months. Then with amount of documents you need to go insurance company and will take payment in 1 months. No car rent or something special. And our kind of insurance from this year maximum costs 32 dollars for year.

What about your country?

reddit.com
u/East_Kaleidoscope304 — 15 days ago

Baby potty

Hey fellow fathers, my son is 2 years old, and I still not teached him how to make pee or pope on his baby potty, have any ideas or methods of teaching to make his special jobs on his baby potty?

reddit.com
u/East_Kaleidoscope304 — 16 days ago

Сложный момент

Самым сложным моментом в игре было, когда я не понимал, что враги бесконечные и надо выполнить задачу. А у вас какое было?

reddit.com
u/East_Kaleidoscope304 — 18 days ago

Main bluetooth

Usually I use buds 3, but while in car my phone main bluetooth uses cars, even when i wear buds 3, can I tell my phone for phone calls use only or mainly buds 3

reddit.com
u/East_Kaleidoscope304 — 23 days ago

Trust

Hey everybody, I work as an attorney for an insurance company. The company is located in Uzbekistan. The interesting thing is that in Uzbekistan there's such a negative relationship with insurance; people don't like it or some even hate it. But I always say that insurance is an asset for you. However, I believe there are a lot of insurance workers from other countries here.

The question is, how is trust in insurance companies in your country? What do they do to make people buy an insurance policy?

reddit.com
u/East_Kaleidoscope304 — 1 month ago

Icons

Hey guys, updates my s24ultra for one ui 8.5

And changed something. Send how you guys design your phone. I do not understand how to put pictures in every button(((

u/East_Kaleidoscope304 — 2 months ago

Chilren

There is so many boys and girls with problems

1.want to find a friend;

2.want to find a job with huge salary;

3.want to meet for bf or gf;

4.do not what to do in after 18 year

I wish give any advice, but If I am wrong please correct me:

1.if you need a friend do what you interest and do not scare to say hi, and call him or her to ask for advice of your similar interests, but after hobby damn do not scare to ask for a walk.

2.there will not be a huge salary if you will get kind a salary the shortly you will become really badman, with you will not realize it. Huge salary will get by practice by connections.

3.use tinder use any apps for a meet remember you hobby may bring you to relationship. You 18 teen you think your age partners don't want relationship. Yeah it is scary but if you guy write me I will send you good questions for girls (p.s. sorry ladies I am guy, so I found only for boys)))

4.go find a any knowledge which bring you to good future. No I don't mean go be doctor and find cure for cancer. Even basic I work in office new practice guys wish to live in center and don't know office softwares. Damn if you want to live in city you need knowledge office jobs. But in village you need village knowledges. (But if you want to find cure for cancer, good choose).

5.Marriage well it will be a russian roulette you will met a partner which can change because you also can change.

Bye.

reddit.com
u/East_Kaleidoscope304 — 2 months ago

Normal future

Hey guys, I need advice, I need to take care of future my son, I mean I want to save money or invest money to his future. For his 18 year he get some more money for finance start.

I putted money to bank-deposit. But nowadays percent is to low.

I will be thankful for any advice or ways.

P.s. English is not my native language so my last post had been deleted for corrected by AI.

reddit.com
u/East_Kaleidoscope304 — 2 months ago

Dad-to-dad advice needed: Building a future fund for my son from Uzbekistan (Global investing hurdles)

Hey fellow dads and investors,

I’m reaching out because I’m focused on the long game. I have a young son, and my goal is to build a solid financial foundation for him by the time he turns 18.

Up until now, I’ve been playing it safe with a standard bank savings account. The term just ended, and looking at the current rates, I realized that staying in a local CD (Certificate of Deposit) is basically watching the money slowly lose its value to inflation. Just letting it sit there feels like wasting the most valuable asset we have right now: time.

Right now, I’ve managed to set aside $1,100 as a starter. We’ve got about 10–15 years ahead of us, which is plenty of time for compound interest to do its thing.

Here’s the catch: We’re based in Uzbekistan. We don’t have access to PayPal, and getting into international brokerage platforms often feels like an impossible quest. Our local market is pretty limited, and I want to diversify into something more robust.

To those who’ve managed to invest globally from restrictive regions: How are you accessing international markets? What platforms actually work for residents here and allow for legal, long-term wealth building? I’m looking for reliable instruments—ETFs, index funds, or solid stocks—that I can just 'set and forget' for the next decade.

I want to hand my son more than just a sum of money; I want to give him the result of disciplined, smart fatherly planning.

I’d appreciate any advice, personal stories, or platform recommendations you might have. Thanks for looking out!

reddit.com
u/East_Kaleidoscope304 — 2 months ago

Концерт

У вас есть возможность попасть на любой концерт в любое время, какой концерт вы бы выбрали и почему?

reddit.com
u/East_Kaleidoscope304 — 2 months ago

surface pro

Assalomu aleykum, surface pro versiyasini olmoqchiydim hzr pulim 7 ga yetyapti, ishlatganlar bormi? nima maslaxat qilasizlar, 7 uzi yetadimi yoki 8 oliymi? ishlatganlar oramizda bulsa yaxshi va yomon tomonlarini aytinglar (hamda surface bookniyam uylab turibman)

reddit.com
u/East_Kaleidoscope304 — 2 months ago