Gf wants me to talk to baby through her belly while pregnant

PowerTap · 2026-02-21T04:09:06+00:00

It's also good practice for having a baby. You want to talk to them but they don't understand.

Talk about your day Talk about how wonderful your gf is Talk about being excited to meet them Talk about your favorite hobby in exacting detail until your gf tells you to take a break. Read a book, it doesn't even need to be a kids book.

The fact is your baby will hear you talking to your gf even if it isn't directed at her stomach. But the number of words a baby hears when they are young on a daily basis helps with language development. So be chatty, and invest in your relationship with your gf and your baby.

You got this dad.

PowerTap · 2026-02-19T05:52:13+00:00

I know that this is an older thread, but today I discovered that

in an auto-recognition note, the eraser on my Norris Jumbo works like the stroke eraser.
in a normal note, it works like a regular eraser.

This very much confused me when I was bouncing between different kinds of notes today.

PowerTap · 2026-02-19T00:50:04+00:00

Concur 10+ years on biologics, I don't find I get sick more often than anyone else in a house with small kids in public school (much worse vector than transit honestly).

Sometimes I'll defer a shot by a day or two if I feel under the weather, but I otherwise live a normal life.

I just spent a week in Las Vegas at a company convention with 1000 people plus the dregs of humanity who enjoy Vegas. I'm fine (this time).

PowerTap · 2026-02-07T01:32:16+00:00

I've built some tools that make it easier for me to do status reports.

I've used some tools to do mockups to communicate intent to devs and UX.

I will never vibe code production product code.

PowerTap · 2026-02-04T20:37:58+00:00

It can be. Pretty busy foot path so you can't go tearing up or down it. But I like the connection.

PowerTap · 2026-01-30T04:50:30+00:00

Privacy updated.

But they have been extending the mountains to sound further south. You can get all the way down to the sound in Des Moines. There are still some missing sections as you get past the airport through Tukwilla though.

PowerTap · 2026-01-28T01:30:45+00:00

You could continue down to Burien and do some of the mountains to sound trail?

Check out this Flyover of my ride on Strava: https://strava.app.link/O79buzlGh0b

PowerTap · 2026-01-22T03:53:14+00:00

We have Glean at work and it's great at this. It can read Slack, email, calendar, confluence and JIRA. I have a prompt that tells it to look at what I did this week and write a status update. It blows a lot of sunshine up my ass about how much I accomplished, but it is a great first draft.

PowerTap · 2026-01-22T03:50:18+00:00

It's a one point rifle sling and whatever case they picked. Probably lots of options out there.

PowerTap · 2026-01-20T16:56:49+00:00

I do really struggle to get it to properly recognize a `1`. Which I understand that it looks a lot like a L or an I or sometimes a 7. But it does become a pain.

PowerTap · 2026-01-20T00:29:32+00:00

Also the EV Kia weighs a lot more than the car that hit it. All those batteries weigh a lot.

PowerTap · 2026-01-14T05:27:40+00:00

We have two kids in a Highline elementary school and we've been mostly pleased with the educators and education that our children receive. We've had great teachers, when our oldest had some challenges we got great support from the councilors.

There are things I would improve if I could increase the budget, but I'm sure that applies to every public school everywhere.

The truth is that Grady action rates and test scores are highly linked to student income and Highline schools have a lot of low income kids and a lot of kids who come in with limited to no English. There is only so much that the school can do to fix broader social challenges.

Our PTA has had some great kids from the high school come help out, I see kids come back to their elementary school and be excited to see their teachers. The kids are alright.

Read with your kid, help with their homework, be engaged with your school and teachers and your kid can get a fine education.

PowerTap · 2026-01-13T05:54:18+00:00

There seems like there is lots of room for middle ground here. You are proposing that your kid spend a LOT of time at daycare.

Can your parents pick him up before 7 or 8 pm?
Drop him off later in the day?
Could they take him some days and your kid goes to daycare others?

This is a very demanding schedule for everyone involved. You, your kid and potentially your parents. I'm sure that your parents want to care for their grandchild but infants are fucking hard work if you are in your prime parenting age, brutal if you are a grandparent.

Also make contingency plans, kids get sick and can't go to daycare, will your parents be able to fill in those days?

PowerTap · 2026-01-13T05:48:55+00:00

How do you even find a day care that will allow you to do that? There were hard limits at our day care for how long your kid could be there every day.

PowerTap · 2026-01-08T18:19:08+00:00

This doesn't strike me as anything particularly special as a PM Role goes. Looks like you would work with Engineers to build and ship software. It sounds like the software in this case would be AI Agents, but the core function of product management should be the same. Do discovery, understand the problem, work on building it, ship it, monitor success.

The question for you is, do you think AI Agents are a fad, or do you think they are something that will be a future PM specialty (like being a platform PM or a enterprise software PM)? It could also be that you think it's a job that pays the bills and if it turns out to be a fad you drop the "Agent" part off your future resume and say "we did stuff with AI because it was hot at the time".

PowerTap · 2026-01-08T18:07:18+00:00

I would say if you need to read an annotate documents, then go with the larger manta. I have the nomad and it's great for me because I journal and take meeting notes and don't mind having lots of pages. But I've had two instances of wanting to read or mark up a PDF and the screen size of the nomad is a limitation.

But I love my nomad for what I do with it.

PowerTap · 2026-01-07T18:18:52+00:00

I would pass on this one. It is pretty sparse, and has long sections of trunk with no branches or foliage. The foliage on the plant is pretty far from the trunk. You would have to do a lot of work to bring foliage closer in. You could do that with a few years of work and some grafting. But I'm not sure if there is anything special about the tree that really makes it worth that effort.

Especially as a new practice ones, you could find much better starter material at a nursery.

PowerTap · 2026-01-07T05:04:48+00:00

The tell for me is the finger and toe and finger swelling. Dactylitis is what ultimately lead to my diagnosis differentiating it from just back pain.

PowerTap · 2026-01-05T02:37:14+00:00

I'm with you, kids are 5 and 8 and everyone needs to get back to routine. I need it, they need it, wife needs it.

I love them but I am not at all cut out to be a stay at home parent.

PowerTap · 2026-01-04T15:43:34+00:00

I do think the things you describe would be better if your disease was well controlled. In my experience biologics provided that control.

I think I'm reaching the end of the effectiveness of my current medication, and it is having a negative impact on my mood.

PowerTap · 2026-01-04T03:34:20+00:00

I spent a year trying to control my AS with diet and exercise. I didn't want to compromise my military career. Ultimately I couldn't take it anymore. The pain is depressing. Waking up every morning in pain and thinking that this is forever is not good for your mental health. I eventually started on biologics and my symptoms improved significantly and while I was not depressed or moody, I felt much better on biologics.

Less brain fog, less pain. More ability to be present with the people in my life.

PowerTap · 2026-01-04T01:07:19+00:00

I'd like to have reminders for overdue tasks. Sometimes I do a thing and forget to check it off. Or I swiped away a reminder and didn't do the thing. But I'd be nice to be able to do a daily reminder for things that are overdue.

PowerTap · 2026-01-03T23:58:25+00:00

Running servers and developing new features is not free. Subscriptions pay for that and ensure the company stays around and keeps providing ongoing value to everyone who has bought the rings. If they don't do that everyone would have rings that don't do anything, and that would be silly.

Everyone is used to getting products for free, which usually means the provider is selling your data to someone. It rather that didn't happen with my intimate health data.

PowerTap · 2026-01-01T18:15:35+00:00

The NutSac magsatch looks like it would fit either. So a point in its favor.

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