Unclear if this is a parody.

Occasionally you’ll find a true angel of a post who, unprompted, provides the answer just in case someone might need it in the future.

Automation-prone fields like writing, software, and app development saw a 21% decrease in job listings

Maybe, but hard disagree that software is being automated away.

It’s the concentration of money and its interests. It corrupts purpose.

You are kind. You did good.

Missing type or identifier.

A const what?

Also, I read that you have to assign a const when it is declared. Something doesn’t feel right about this statement.

Meant, in this context, refers to the conditions that humans have faced over a long period of time and may be more suited to coping with from a survival point of view. I’m an atheist, so I find it strange that you chose to read my comment as highlighting intentional design. Certainly, AI has existed for a much shorter time than the phenomenon on a human encountering the death of a loved one. Indeed, death has been quite a common theme throughout history, and the tools and support available to cope with it and relate to other human experiences far exceed those for coping with the potential issues that come with AI.

I think one can absolutely speak of needs and adaptation for something as common a human experience as death. If you find something belittling about that opinion, I’m not sure how to address you further. I may simply have to be wrong.

I had this conversation with my wife once. I let her know that it is my advance wish that you must allow me to complete the cycle of life. Anything else, any reconstruction of me that technology allows, is to me, an abomination. Keep the pictures, keep the memories, but don’t keep me here when I am gone.

I refrain from judging the decisions of others where possible, but this is my personal wish.

I don’t believe humans are meant to manage loss in this way — stretching out an imitation of our loved one. As painful as it is, I personally believe humans need to say goodbye. I feel this gets in the way of feeling and truly accepting the loss so that a person can move forward.

Loss is truly heavy, but I do not believe this is better or healthy.

Oh my gosh I had those! They did actually smell good with a quick sniff, but I hated them so much I threw out the rest.

Get something like Bergamont; something so few people actually genuinely like, but smells fancy with a quick whiff. Boring and unexpressive after 30 seconds.

Alternatively, try something like cupcakes or vanilla icing. The kind of candle that would give you a headache.

It’s also practical because the gift is cheap without looking cheap.

I’m sorry to say that I’m speaking from personal experience.

Off-brand scented candle set.

It says I don’t know you at all, but here’s your present.

Correct! It’s a disturbingly large proportion. Some medications absolutely require one, and people who just drove up will tell you they didn’t bring any form of ID whatsoever.

Brother, Pharmacist:

Just because we called doesn’t mean your prescription is ready. Listen to the message

Just because your doctor said they sent in your prescription… it means nothing. He or she probably asked an assistant to send it or put it in their inbox.

Like 1 in 3 people drove here without a drivers license.

For the sake of estimation if we say the lifetime earnings of an average person is $1 million, and it takes 15 seconds for the blue shell to complete one lap (one normal person lifetime income), then from the moment you toss that shell you’re going to be waiting at your games console for 21 straight days before that shell hits Elon Musk to make up for the lapping you over 200,000 times.

This is actually a massive underestimation because the real median lifetime income is much less globally, and I’m only including an estimate of his net worth not his actual lifetime income. I failed to exclude all of his purchases.

If you do it by net worth and by age and assume you both live the same length of time, you’re gonna be waiting a few months before that shell hits while you wait for it to complete on the order of 1 million laps.

I’m impressed that the computer was usable with the failed CPU fan.

No you are right! Honestly it was several years ago and I struggled to remember exactly what I came up with before I left.

In our application we for example never use dynamic memory allocation. It has to be done very carefully so we don’t crash. Problem is there’s lots of sneaky ways one can accidentally do it from the standard library.

strtok is a worst offender that comes to mind. Global state. Pretty much just waiting to bite you in the ass and it did, multiple times.

When I became a team leader at my last job, my first priority was making a list of parts of the language we must never use because of our high reliability requirement.

Right, that’s how it should work. Unfortunately that’s not how it actually works most of the time in consumer.

Many devices don’t provide an option in the UI to open an inbound port on IPv6. For example, the latest and most expensive Linksys gaming router blocks all inbound connections and there are no options for different behavior. It doesn’t support opening any ports for v6.

The most recent TP link device I tested for my dad doesn’t even have a firewall. If you know the global IP, you can connect to any port you want.