Similarly to how paprika chips come in blue bags and salted chips come in red bags. Anything else is heresy. Unless you live right across the border, where it’s exactly the opposite.

I see a lot of good advice here. Something to add to this: when being upfront about having a kid, also be upfront about his age. This can work in your favour, because there are men that don’t like very young children, but are fine with teenagers.

This is incorrect. Armor takes a large amount of damage dealt to the player, but not all. If you are at 1 HP, and 100 armor, you can still die to a single bullet, even though armor won’t be at zero. Fall and drown damage is also not affected by armor. Hence armor is not life.

Source: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/halflife/blob/master/dlls/player.cpp

Finding someone to play his favourite videogames with is easy. Finding someone who loves him, thats a lot harder.

I strongly recommend talking with him about these feelings. If he loves you too, he will want to know what is going on inside of your head. And probably he can dismiss a lot of insecurities that your mind have made up by itself. And I recommend not jumping this on him, but actively planning a moment together to talk about this.

He might also indicate worries of his that you didn’t even consider. Things that you actually should work on to improve, rather than trying to like the type of videogame he plays.

As for trying to feel better, the last thing you mention is a big step: realizing that your feelings are just feelings. I myself have becomd very suspicious of any strong feelings I have, and try to avoid acting on them in the moment. I try to find out what causes the feelings, and what makes them go away. For example: if I am exhausted, I get more self contious, and self deprecating. I know that I need a good nights rest or two to get back to a more resilient and happy state. That doesn’t mean the feelings go away instantly. So accept them while they are there. Just remember they are just feelings.

There is a high demand for teachers in The Netherlands. This demand mostly exists because the job conditions have gotten a lot worse, while pay has not increased accordingly. But if he has found a good place, is not worked into a burnout, and makes enough money to live happily, then he should have a very stable job.

Are you that cheap?

Fair warning: people still talk Dutch at the coffee machine at work. You will still miss out on a lot of social communication. But when you decide to go and learn Dutch, it gets really hard to get practise in, since everyone switches to English if you start talking to them. Even if you started talking Dutch, your accent will give away that you are more fluent in English, and people will just switch.

Might be a sound and temperature insulation solution. Although, if so, I recommend adding some insulation material inbetween the layers.

Maybe there is a boardgame café somewhere inbetween the two of you. Gives you plenty to do, and usually is not very expensive.

Then for food, hit a supermarket and find a park or bench to make a sandwhich or some other food that can be eaten straight from the supermarket packaging. If you are planning PBJs, all you need to bring, is a spreading knife.

TIL. Thank you!

Huh, I thought that they only filtered your blood when donating plasma, hence the PFAS could simply be returned to you. But I have to admit that I’m far from an expert on this matter.

Either way, we kinda have returned to bloodletting being a reasonable medical approach.

When it comes to PFAS contamination, people have been having decent results by simply donating blood often. Getting it out of the system via blood does help to reduce overall levels in your body.

You are in a contract with the government. Maybe an involuntary one, but still a contract. This contract gives you rights and benefits, but also obligations and responsibilities.

When the government does not uphold their end of the contract, or changes it to essentially only obligations for you and no benefits, then it becomes extortion. Still not exactly theft, but closer to what you mean.

However, the vast majority of people get benefits that far outweight the costs of the contract. Safety, transportation, education, utilities, etc.

But how does the Rust compiler do that? What does it actually check? Could I write a compiler in C that does this check on a piece of Rust code?

C is so simplictic, that if I can write a piece of functionality in C, I must understand its inner workings fully. Not just how to use the feature, but how the feature works under the hood.

It is often pointless to actually implement the feature in C, since the feature already has a good implementation (see the Rust compiler for the memory safety). But understanding these features, and being able to mentally think about what it takes in C to implement them, is still helpfull for gaining an understanding of the feature.

I mean, at the end of the day, if you really understand your language of choice, you know that it is jusf a bunch of fancy libraries and compiler tricks of top of C. So in my mind, I’m a fully evolved programmer in a language, when I could write anything I can write in that language in C instead.

After Trump disappears, a competent dictator will take his place. Maybe not immediately, but within 20 years. Someone who will use all the precedent set by Trump to its fullest to effectively remove any democratic element left in the US political system. I’m not sure how the US will deal with this, or how the rest of the world will react, but I’m certain that somebody is watching Trump while thinking: I can do that without being a complete moron.

Stacking circles is more space efficient when placed in a hex grid, instead of a square grid. Just image a stack of oranges. They won’t be stacked in straight towers, but staggered.

I suspect the actual reason for the square layout, it that it makes roads inbetween cheaper and easier to navigate. And since land is most likely not a limiting factor, it is probably cheaper to do it this way.

Nah, nobody will believe that. You have to be subtle. Just invite a journalist to the groupchats with his homies.

I have this experience with a certain type of pedestrian traffic light “button”.

I quote button, because nothing physically moves when you press it. I’m not sure if it registers pressure or heat, but you don’t even feel anything move when you press it.

Usually when you press the button, a red text lights up on the button, telling you to wait. This text gives you feedback that the button registered your press, and the traffic light will schedule a green light for you.

However, sometimes you didn’t press hard enough, and the text doesn’t light up. Simple solution: press harder.

But there is a scenario where it doesn’t matter how hard you press, the button won’t light up. You keep staring at it, while slamming the damn thing with the fury of a Hulk wealding Mjolnir. Still, nothing lights up. The reason: the light instantly went green, so it never needed to light up the text telling you to wait. And all that time slamming your fist on the button, could have been spend crossing the intersection. Instead you have been standing there, looking like a drunk person having a fistfight with an inanimate object.

There are lots of bird species that lay their eggs in the nests of other birds, meaning they don’t have to raise their own offspring. Often the nest-invading species hatches earlier and grows faster to outcompete the chicks of the nest owners for food. This often means those chicks eventually starve to death.