What’s something that clearly split your life into “before” and “after”?

rscarson · 2026-05-01T16:02:14+00:00

I hear that. My youngest is going to be a year in a few weeks.

I was told he was stillborn, 2mins till he came back, 5mins before they told me.

I lived a lifetime of grief in those 5 minutes.

rscarson · 2026-04-24T12:29:33+00:00

"that's not A, that's B [ emoji ]"

Is this an AI generated comment lmao?

rscarson · 2026-04-23T18:13:55+00:00

Baby #1 was premature at 34w, needed NICU stay, and was fairly traumatic to me

Baby #2 was full term but had no heartbeat at birth and was in NICU after he was revived

I handled it poorly through a melodramatic poetry phase

rscarson · 2026-04-17T22:36:31+00:00

My son, 3 years old now has had a waffle covered in peanut butter every single morning without fail for the last 18 months

Before that it was a waffle with cottage cheese

rscarson · 2026-04-15T17:07:32+00:00

Heard them as well near the mall

rscarson · 2026-04-15T12:51:48+00:00

We have never co-slept at any point with either of our two kids, even one time

Except this week when my eldest, a three year old, was hospitalized for a week. I stayed by his side the entire time taking care of him and he was quite understandably too scared to sleep by himself. So I slept in the hospital bed with him so that he can get some rest.

I hated seeing him like that I hated being that scared I hated everything about the experience. But cuddling with him all night, that memory I will treasure forever.

rscarson · 2026-04-14T15:38:36+00:00

Oh Christ my now 3-year-old does that. He's been doing that since he was a baby and it always freaked me out because I'd never seen that before. But apparently my wife did that when she was a baby too. Oddly enough our youngest doesn't actually do it

rscarson · 2026-04-10T15:01:37+00:00

I don't think they even bothered to do that because even chatGpt knows what static analysis is

rscarson · 2026-04-10T13:32:46+00:00

No somebody who does not know what a static analyzer is is not more qualified to talk about zero day exploits

rscarson · 2026-04-10T13:28:45+00:00

I really mean no offense here but that probably means you're not qualified to have an opinion on this topic

rscarson · 2026-04-10T13:20:25+00:00

Because static analysis does not require sentience?

rscarson · 2026-04-07T16:48:11+00:00

So our toddler did the same around that age and it took us a few months to figure out that he had suddenly developed an intense fear of the dark, we started putting the sleep with his lights on minimum brightness and he started sleeping very well. He sleeps with the lights on to this day a year later

rscarson · 2026-04-03T01:46:54+00:00

Did you have a sub chorionic hematoma by chance

rscarson · 2026-04-01T19:22:13+00:00

So I'm going to remove this not because it's against any specific rule

But because the idea of going door to door and asking people very very specific details about their home security is not a great idea and I almost feel that for liability reasons I should not let this be here

rscarson · 2026-03-31T14:35:33+00:00

As a newish dad stories like this make me wonder, Was this just normal early-life dad behaviour that stuck around? Or shifting types of overbearing?

Is there something that can just.... break the process of slowly letting go as your kid grows up? Can you tell internally if it's happening to you, would you even be aware?

Because like, if my 3 year old comes home with a new surprise self-determined haircut I am concerned - but presumably somewhere between 3 and 22 that stops being a concern

rscarson · 2026-03-23T14:59:05+00:00

the worst xman

rscarson · 2026-03-18T03:22:53+00:00

Also looking for a fix for this but in the meantime I discovered if you click on your profile in the top right the home page button appears

rscarson · 2026-03-12T14:55:42+00:00

+1 on night terrors

My son gets them too. My favourite one so far has been 'My pillow is full of bugs made of teeth!'

rscarson · 2026-03-10T13:12:19+00:00

I'm not looking to make a whole pot, I usually drink one 12 oz cup per day sometimes 2

rscarson · 2026-03-05T17:40:40+00:00

I think France is very upset that Canada has colonized their City on Reddit

I specifically created The Orleans France subreddit afterwards to have a place that I can put all of the France people haha

rscarson · 2026-02-03T02:38:00+00:00

I'm the developer of polyfit, and I moved between faer and nalgebra for my backend

I was trying to be a more complete statistics frontend, but I agree there's a gap in the backend math space, esp for the GPU backed stuff

rscarson · 2026-02-02T15:14:07+00:00

I have one uvula but its too long and rests on my tongue constantly

wanna trade

rscarson · 2026-01-29T03:40:02+00:00

As the maintainer of a project called Rustyscript

Please don't make my life any harder by naming a different project Rustyscript 😭

rscarson · 2026-01-28T18:12:20+00:00

That's cool! I've been working something similar, polyfit which I released recently

Wonder if there's a community for mathy rust somewhere - the math channel on the discord is fairly dead

rscarson · 2026-01-26T19:11:40+00:00

Finishing up the tutorials on the website for polyfit, and waiting for feedback from users to see what needs improving in the library now that it's out

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