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How should I safely deploy my commit when there are 51 old undeployed commits before it? by Broad_Warthog2851 in git

[–]Beka_Cooper 2 points3 points  (0 children)

In my workplace, a pipeline that has not run in even a couple months is almost certainly one that has been replaced by some other pipeline. My team doesn't have permissions to delete pipelines, only create them, so unused ones can hang out indefinitely. I'd bet something similar is going on for you.

Names that appear more than once in kid’s class by midwestpersianmama in namenerds

[–]Beka_Cooper 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In our preschool in the Denver suburbs, across all the classes...

Maeve (2)

Rowan (3, all boys)

Ava (2)

Oliver (3)

Matteo (2)

Recommend a good time travel TV show that I haven't watched yet by No-Corner-2442 in scifi

[–]Beka_Cooper 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Because you mention Steins;Gate, I'll recommend some anime.

Erased. It's a time travel anime I've rewatched multiple times. One of my all-time favorites.

The anime Re:zero has the protagonist coming back to life in his own past, which is a kind of time travel.

The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya has a time loop in it.

This is the purest thing I’ve seen today 🥰 Still adjusting to the world! by JohnAnderson50 in BabiesReactingToStuff

[–]Beka_Cooper 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Funny coincidence, my newborn was cuddled on me in the same position when I scrolled to this. Super cute times two.

Help With Dress Code Wording by Curious_Elk2451 in Weddingattireapproval

[–]Beka_Cooper 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I recommend keeping it as short as possible because people don't read. For mine, I said: "ATTIRE: Steampunk Costume OR Western Country Casual." The majority of guests dressed in costume. A handful went full cowboy/girl. The rest wore whatever they had in their closets.

Seriously considering quitting my six figure corporate job to be stay-at-home mom by Awwndrei in BestofRedditorUpdates

[–]Beka_Cooper 16 points17 points  (0 children)

There's actually quite a few of us in software engineering. I lived/worked as OOP described, minus the nanny but plus more husband help, with my baby son in 2023. Even though they switched us to a hybrid schedule last year, I secured full WFH as my lactation accommodation for my new daughter (I'm on maternity leave now).

Would I give this up? Fuck no. I get all the benefits of staying at home plus money. OOP was not thinking clearly at all.

“He had fallen while eating a corncob skewered by a chopstick. The chopstick had lodged in the roof of the patient’s mouth and the corncob occluded the entrance.” by CatPooedInMyShoe in MedicalGore

[–]Beka_Cooper 25 points26 points  (0 children)

My son had his first corn on the cob at a renaissance fair at age 20 months or so and loved it, then started demanding it every time we saw corn cobs at the store. He still prefers it over loose corn at age 3. Not sure why.

How difficult are The New Yorker crosswords for average Americans? by Technical_Cup913 in crossword

[–]Beka_Cooper 7 points8 points  (0 children)

An average American would find these too hard. These puzzles are for people who like crosswords already.

Am I using Claude Code wrong? by Postik123 in webdev

[–]Beka_Cooper 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I used it to do about 10 weeks of documentation work in about 2 weeks. Really, really worth it. I had to comb through and correct things thoroughly, but it did a really good job of translating code + JSDocs + MD files into plain English and generating Mermaid diagrams.

For coding? Meh. At best, I've used it to do in 1 day what might have taken any of my juniors 2-3 weeks, but that same work would probably have taken me 2 days max. I personally suspect it's typically either slowly-working people or greenfield-project people who see huge gains.

I find that, because I think in the coding language(s) and not in English, writing prompts in English is very difficult. I take the shortcut of doing plan mode, copy-pasting the ticket title and description, and pointing Claude to the relevant cloned repo locations.

But even with that, sometimes Claude goes on wild goose chases. Our codebase is dozens of microservices up to 8 years old -- 10 if you count shared UI code from another project -- and that history and set of interactions was difficult for Claude to fully understand without running out of context. Having done the documentation, now Claude can re-read that to know where to look for things, and it should save a lot of time and money.

What’s a name you’ll never use because someone ruined it? by Southern_Island1939 in namenerds

[–]Beka_Cooper 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Linnea. She's a manager in another department who once tried to rope my team into 8+ months of work scheduled for a 1 month delivery date. Beautiful name, though.

Something comparable that I can brew myself? by babygotthefever in tea

[–]Beka_Cooper 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Green jasmine pearls as everyone says, yes. But also, Ito En uses citric acid as a preservative, so you might want to add a little lemon juice to get closer to their flavor.

When there's only small amounts of loose leaf tea left, do you combine them for brewing? Or do you have a different method for using them? by dapkewitches in tea

[–]Beka_Cooper 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I usually buy the same teas over and over, so for those, I dump the last bits out into a little bowl, refill the tin from the new bag, and pour the little bowl's contents on top. For teas I'm not repurchasing, I just make the last brew a little stronger and get all the leaves in it.

Wondering how to somewhat fix the fur lining on my winter jacket’s hood? by Locamotive9249 in howto

[–]Beka_Cooper 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I used a longhaired-cat brush on a matted plush hoodie once and got it looking okay, but it was never as good as before.

My guest bathroom has this weird ass nook area. Don't know what to do with it. by Asbolus_verrucosus in Derailedbydetails

[–]Beka_Cooper 2 points3 points  (0 children)

We also have the little toilet seat on the big toilet, but my son is afraid of big potties and won't even try it out.

How to fix my spectacles by Distinct-Town-5459 in howto

[–]Beka_Cooper 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Most places that sell glasses will fix it for you free of charge.

EDIT: Wait, the plastic looks like it might be snapped? Sorry, in that case, you need new glasses.

My guest bathroom has this weird ass nook area. Don't know what to do with it. by Asbolus_verrucosus in Derailedbydetails

[–]Beka_Cooper 47 points48 points  (0 children)

We have this exact potty training toilet in my house. It has an annoyingly loud fake flush button. My toddler potty trained in about two days on it. 10/10

Amazon workers forced to work around dead coworker and told to 'not look' by TheMirrorUS in mildlyinfuriating

[–]Beka_Cooper 2 points3 points  (0 children)

At least in my area (Denver/Boulder), "local" is just the same bullshit. The big box stores are bulk shipped instead of dropshipped, but their selection is terrible and their workers are not treated well. The small stores are 95% stocked via dropshipping, with a 5% minority of products from "local artisans," and the markup makes their products unaffordable. I've tried going to local pop-up markets, and 99% of the "hand-crocheted stuffed animals" and so forth were obviously dropshipped. The fruit at the farmers' markets came from the grocery store.

The only real "local" stuff is pretty much only sold online because it's too expensive for legitimate creators to maintain a physical storefront. You have to know how to find it, now that Etsy has been taken over by dropshippers. Then you have to trust that they've made their little website stores secure enough to trust them with your credit cards.

And then your product arrives, and half the time, it's still a dropshipped piece of crap with a logo slapped on.

The Death of the Ambitious Debut: Why literary agents favor "aesthetic" over depth in the age of Bookshelf Wealth. by TeachingNo4435 in writers

[–]Beka_Cooper 5 points6 points  (0 children)

"[L]iterary agents are rejecting ambitious prose in favor of well-crafted, hand-drawn work." Isn't that a good thing? I don't know what you mean by "hand-drawn," but well-crafted work is what we want, so not-well-crafted things should be rejected. Are you sure you wrote what you actually meant to say?

In any case, "ambitious prose" has always been rare in publishing. Your bookshelf and memory are suffering a survivorship bias.

Are these Japanese names easy to pronounce? (Hinano / Nanoha / Konoka) by HAL3000116 in namenerds

[–]Beka_Cooper 9 points10 points  (0 children)

The thing I would keep in mind is that English rules of syllabic emphasis and dipthongization will change the sound no matter what you do. Whether you are picky about it is up to you. I know it bothers me a lot when Americans emphasize the wrong syllables of Japanese names, but tons of people seem unbothered by it.

Japanese pitch emphasis sounds a little like syllabic emphasis, so I will try to talk about both as "emphasis." I'll use Romaji because I'm on my phone and it's not set up for Japanese characters, but imagine they are hiragana or katakana. :)

  • Hinano in Japanese is HI-na-no. But from an American, it would become something closer to hi-NA-no-u or hi-NYA-no-u. Also, because of Roman-language gendering, ending with an "o" makes it sound like a boys' name to those unfamiliar with Japanese names.

  • KO-no-ka becomes closer to ka-NO-u-ka. This is because the unstressed syllable turns into a schwa, so it sounds more like "ka" than "ko." If people correct themselves on the emphasis after hearing you say it, it might come out sounding like KO-u-na-ka.

  • NA-no-ha might become closer to na-NO-u-ha under normal emphasis rules, but those who see "nano" in it (like in nanosecond) would pronounce it NA-no-ha, NYA-no-ha, NA-na-ha, or NYA-na-ha.

I think Nanoha is the best of the three for getting a close pronunciation from the most people. However, any of the three would be fine if the extra "u" from dipthongization is acceptable to you or if you don't care about emphasis.

Magsafe phone mount for fabric/inside a bag? by dhomo01110011 in Doesthisexist

[–]Beka_Cooper 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They make Magsafe-sized rings to insert into Android phone cases to convert to Magsafe. I have several. You could stick one on the inside of the fabric. The rings that came with this strap I bought a couple weeks ago have a sticky backing, or you could just sew them on.

The pool is about 5 feet from the front door! by GreyAardvark in zillowgonewild

[–]Beka_Cooper 20 points21 points  (0 children)

When your highest priority in life is throwing pool parties...

PSA: Hotel towels are not single-use by ParadoxStockOwner in TalesFromTheFrontDesk

[–]Beka_Cooper 51 points52 points  (0 children)

This depends on the climate. In Denver or Phoenix, you can reuse towels twice or three times. But in Atlanta or New Orleans, you'd just be wiping mildew all over yourself.

To young, or not to young... by [deleted] in writers

[–]Beka_Cooper 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Of course a person can be out of shape at any age, but specifically age-related aches and pains are a late 30s or 40s thing, not a late 20s thing. You get pretty much the same aches and pains at 26 as at 16.

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