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I'm learning about digital signal processing and I use Desmos all the time as a scratchpad to plot the response of functions.

> My CV is pretty bad since it took me way too long to graduate

I don't put dates on my education anymore. shrug

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Does this actually work? Or is it just a joke?

I think that the intention of the FAANG comment is that statistically speaking there is only so much room for people at those companies. Not everybody is going to land there.

> fun, challenging, predictable, boring

All of these at the same time? Or sometimes one, sometimes another?

Godspeed, stranger. Sometimes just taking the first steps can be the hardest part of taking care of yourself. Keep it up, and best of luck during the new year.

Many of the folks in the unions can't even dream of spending thousands of dollars on a vacation.

Please tell us more about this. I'm really hoping there is a related Zero Mostel video that you can share.

    unbiased third party reviews

Where can I find these unbiased third party reviews?

Quantum Fourier Transform?

Umm... most people are really bad at relationships in middle school.

There's no way to win that argument, the LLM will take control of the vehicle and refuse to let you make any decisions at all after that point. If you're really unlucky, it will really go rogue and make its own decision to veer into oncoming traffic.

This site has some great recipes. It's really too bad that they'll never float to the top of a search engine because they're missing the obligatory long-form blog post preamble.

Well, sure, that's the HN answer, and that's what I would do, but not everybody is as technically inclined to just jump in and build their own thing.

I had my children playing one of the open source Minecraft clones for a few years, but after they saw all their friends playing Minecraft, they wanted the "real thing". It's not exactly the same game, and don't discount the value of shared experience with other people. Minecraft is as much about the community that you play with, and it's hard to get people to play an open source clone that sits in this uncanny valley of looking and playing just a little bit different than Minecraft.

I'm going on mid 40s and could have written a very similar comment, except my five year cycle is more additive than reinventive.

That's an amazing business plan. Usually step 2 is just a question mark.

    We can only create so many doctors, because its expensive to lock down a smart and ambitious mind for so many years

How many smart minds do we have reinforcing addictive online behavior?

After reading this I tried click-and-hold on a folder in the bookmark bar in Chrome. Lo and behold, even Chrome doesn't do what you want. I completely agree about a thousand cuts, and I'm often the kind of wild-eyed idealist that wishes that everything would conform to some universal set of gui standards.

Where's your series of simulation games?

Chris Sawyer knew how to crank out assembly code. He'd been doing it for several games, so maybe it really was the best way for him to develop this rather than futz about with C++ or whatever.

I'm so glad we're having this conversation. Early in my career I kept waiting for that moment when I would feel like I really knew what was going on... and the last several years I keep feeling like a fraud. I've been at it for two decades, but I'm afraid eventually people will figure it out and then how will I earn any money?

My neighbor gave me a great tip: check out anything by Terry Pratchett that I can find in the youth fiction section of the library. My wife and I are reading them to children ages 9 - 16, and all of them are liking the books.

That makes me think of this excellent TED talk: https://youtu.be/chXsLtHqfdM?si=kTaxu3KCBEYYadGA

(Spoiler) The TL;DW The presenter participated in a humanitarian group to establish an agricultural project in an African community. The effort was a disaster - hippos emerge from a river and devoured all of the produce. The presenter shares his insights about how to actually help locals by asking questions instead of telling them what to do.

Meh, when we got married she had assets that were easily more than 10x what I owned. I wasn't even able to make any real money until two years later.

This makes me think of Peter Norvig's blog post "Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years."

https://www.norvig.com/21-days.html

Here it is, I got the wording wrong in my previous message, but the idea is the same: https://www.reddit.com/r/bluey/comments/xk4lvw/not_my_child/

Edit: I have to admit that Muffin is my favorite character in that show. Make of that what you will.

> Oh, and my cat now has a nickname: Muffin. Make of that what you will.

My daughter sent me a meme with the punchline "When you think your child is Bluey but really your child is Muffin". Make of that what you will :)

Most of the music in Sleepytime is Gustav Holst's Jupiter, though I'm not sure right off the top of my head whether that is used for the credits.

Well, sure, but who knows if you're actually getting the genuine product?