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I recently became a dad, and right now the only way my 30-day-old will sleep is with the sound of our kitchen range hood, so I built a small one pager that mimics white noise, womb…

Ah, hardware products.

Can you explain why it makes a difference what the answers are? When using an open source library assumptions should be: - The code does what it advertises. - The owner is responsi…

Stress most times doesn't reveal itself like that. What you're describing is short term excitement and perhaps anxiety. Stress is a silent killer. It's basically being mostly unhap…

The dual landings for me were far superior. It was straight out of science fiction.

I'm very confused. Grade school problems? Didn't ChatGPT 4 ace the entire curriculum of MIT a while back?

Intelligence does not imply agency or consciousness.

I think you missed the fact that I'm talking relatively (i.e. within a software house as I say) and the quotes around "working class". Still, If we want to be pedantic and literal …

I don't work at Reddit but I take personal offense when someone so unfairly criticizes the "working class" of a software house like that (ie the non manager level software engineer…

* even at light speed

What would some common/helpful use cases be?

This was a 100m asteroid (city killer), not 1km.

Can you expound on the concerns?

IntelliJ supports editorconfig just fine. I'm not sure why you were disappointed, editorconfig does not advertise the features you mentioned. For more involved autoformatting you n…

I'm not following, how does memorizing algorithms correlate with intelligence and skill in the engineering discipline of the job?

I don't think that's nothing, you learned to code better :)

I'm not following. Clearly the grandparent comment misconstrued the article as to have been written by a male, as did I. They are talking about the author. For what it's worth the …

> 1 trillion chances per planet Not meaning to be condescending, that's not how probability works or is expressed. Also, the fact that the ocean "is a large place" says nothing abo…

I don't get this point. The probability argued would take this into account. It could be that the probability is _that_ small that even if you keep rolling you don't reach it.

A NAS setup or Backblaze. Personally I use both for redundancy.

The technique is called "windowing" and it's not extremely hard to implement properly. For react we have react-virtualized and react-window, and I'm sure there are other libraries …

They meant its API surface, not filesize. React is ridiculously small and simple for what it can do.