Makes "what's your mother's maiden name" security questions extra stupid, it's just my mom's name.

Not a question, just words of encouragement from a dad who was in a similar situation. My oldest daughter was born when I was 20; I was in my third semester of university at the time. We managed to make it work, but my wife basically dropped her studies and became a full-time mom. It was a bit hard financially during university, but I managed to make it work and I graduated on time with pretty good grades, and I found a pretty good job right after. We were already planning on having kids (obviously after our studies), so we decided to keep going and we had a second daughter 2 years later (I was still in university at the time).

My oldest turns 15 next month, and she's growing up to be a very well-adjusted, gorgeous woman. She makes me very proud. Well, all 4 of my daughters make me proud (yes, I'm still with their mom. We married after university; there's no "children out of wedlock" stigma here).

He meant 3/5 (the mother) plus 3/5 (the child), so a total of 6/5.

Well, it is the superior siege engine.

To any non-js dev taking this too seriously: A good half of the technologies mentioned in this meme are redundant, you only need to learn one of them (in addition to the language). It's like complaining that there are too many Linux distributions to learn: you don't, you just pick one and go with it.

In Canada it happens too often: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/police-wellness-checks-deaths-indigenous-black-1.5622320

The scenario is usually the following:

• A person stops answering their loved one's calls or makes suicide threats to the loved one
• The loved one calls the cops to ask them to check in on them
• Said person answers the door with the weapon they were planning to end their life with in their hands
• Cops see a weapon, panic and shoot

What I don't understand is why cops don't just disengage / retreat from these situations. In most cases it looks like they were proceeding as if the person had to be stopped / apprehended.

Yeah, I once discovered an artist, even bought some albums, only to notice about a year later that the place I discovered them was now blocked in my country. If I would've come a year later, I would never have bought these albums.

I bought a car last summer, and I had my wallet out ready to buy an EV. I had only 2 criteria:

• Must seat at least 6 (I have 4 kids)
• Must be under 100k CAD (a bit beyond my budget, but I'm willing to stretch to avoid gas)

Guess how many models were available? 1 - the Tesla Model Y, 7-seater option. And I did order one, but they cancelled my order because they stopped selling that variant in Canada.

So that's why I didn't buy an EV. Manufacturers can't be arsed to build a car that meets my very simple criteria; they prefer making another boring 5-seater crossover or yet another humongous "luxury" SUV. I want a minivan, dammit.

Yeah, good code should explain the "what" without the need for comments. Good comments explain the "why".

Lexical (rich text editor by Facebook) recently "migrated" their Github discussions to Discord... I have a question that I can see was asked on the discussion, as it appears in my search results on DDG, but I get a 404 when I try to open it. The fuckers deleted the discussions!

Of course, Discord only has poor-quality answers to that questions as it gets asked every week and maybe gets answered in a different way every time. Quality of discussion is much lower.

Signal had something good when it could simply be your default messaging app on your phone, and it'd transparently send either encrypted messages, or plain-text SMS. Now that they've removed SMS, they've just turned into a worse Whatsapp (because nobody is on it). Network effects are important in messaging apps.

I'm in this picture and I don't like it.