BlueMagma @ BlueMagma @sh.itjust.works

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Lookup "wild haggis" on youtube

I am a software dev, I've been exposed to these since I was 5 and I've always thought they should be reversed, I know the logic is "bigger gap, bigger number" and never make a mistake, but deep down I know it would be more logical to "point the arrow toward the bigger number", it just makes sense to me.

What you describe is a mnemonic.

Dwarf fortress ?

You meant "chocolate cigarette" for your analogy, I remember they used to exists when I was a kid, don't know if they still do.

But poker is only a gambling game because when you play it you "give up" something of value in the hope of winning more through playing and randomness. What makes it gambling is not the cards or the chips it's the gambling aspect. Balatro uses card and poker hands, and so does "yatzhee", but it does not use any gambling mechanic. Lootboxes on the other hand use gambling mechanic.

Yes of course, it was just a recent example to show that other countries aren't perfect. I agree with the general message of the post, the us have a very fucked up system that is way worse than in Europe.

You can look at my other comment for more detail about why I felt the need to react.

Yes of course,

I replied to this post because it is one of many making bold claims about healthcare in other countries than the US, most of the times claims about European countries healthcare made by US users are false and/or misleading.

Sure the US has a very bad system, I see it and recognize how bad it is, but it's a tad annoying to see stuff like that, that falsely say we have "0" bankruptcy or that "everything" is covered by public healthcare, that our life expectancy is that much higher, etc... Most claims are unsourced and blatantly false or largely inflated for shock value.

In France for example we have many issues with our public healthcare, not everything is covered (dental isn't for example), we aren't covered for the full amount unless we pay for private coverage on top (called "mutuelle") which often are linked to your employer, we have to pay up front and then get reimbursed later, geographically there are areas with very few hospitals, the poorer often can't afford to be sick because we aren't always automatically paid for sick days at work, there's a shortage of medical fields' workers, and our current political leaders have been making it worse for decades..

All that to say that from the perspective of a "European" citizen, these posts about the US system compared with ours feels like propaganda that "we should be happy with what we have" even though we really shouldn't, using false information.

She was too far gone to be able to go to the nearest public one.

It's actually a huge scandal in France, we have laws preventing this, and the hospital is pretending that it was a mistake from an individual employee to refuse her.

Is this true ? It doesn't feel true with my current knowledge.

I don't know about the other countries, but In France there definitely still are problems, check this recent story https://www.lanouvellerepublique.fr/a-la-une/on-lui-refuse-l-acces-aux-urgences-elle-accouche-sur-le-parking-de-l-hopital

A pregnant women was refused entrance to a private hospital she was forced to give birth on the parking lot in front of the entrance.

Sure the USA have an awful system but it doesn't mean it's perfect everywhere else. There are people that are bankrupt because of medical treatment here too. And we also have corrupt CEOs making it worse

Every country needs a Luigi.

I think it might be important. To send a message to the gamedevs that anti-cheat will never be fullproof, therefore maybe they should stop with this nonsense.

I wouldn't call it a model, more like a "design pattern"

Why ? (I didn't understand the joke)

There is a difference between productivity and activity, you can be 100% active at work all day, yet 0% productive. Imagine you work on a project for 6 months and then the manager decide to drop the project. You have been unproductive for 6 months, doesn't mean you were slacking off, but in the end when we calculate the productivity of developers, it is lower because of this.

Curiosity, so I observe. I believe we have control over nothing and that free will is an illusion. Consciousness is a mystery, as much my own as the one I suppose others have. In the middle of the chaos, I sometimes see glimpses of beauty, in many forms: music, images, people's behaviour, fiction, maths, nature... So I observe , I try to find patterns, to understand how things work, why others do what they do. I have found beauty in the very little things, what used to be chores I now enjoy, they were chores because "I thought I had better more important things to do", I wanted to be "later" but now I know what matters is to live in the moment, and I'll be living the next moment later.

Social media, the news, they are trying to grab your attention and project you to the future, what is the next threat, when are you likely to die or suffer. The truth is: we are all going to be dead eventually, it can be for many reasons, it can be in the next hour, or in thousands of years, we cannot know when, but we all know it will happen, doesn't really help to worry too much about it.

Don't waste your life trying to prevent your inevitable death. Enjoy it while you can. The rest is mostly out of your control anyway.

I'm no fan of Microsoft but I get it.. In the current political climate nobody wants to take the risks of being the subject of a backlash involving Judaism. The cost of keeping it was way greater than to remove it.

I act the same every time I meet a lunatic claiming whatever I'm doing is "offending" them: I politely apologise and go on with my day without a fuss in order to be left alone.

Linux supports most games nowadays. It will never support "all" games. Just like windows doesn't support all games. At this point in time, saying Linux is not good enough with gaming is weird..

This really looks like shit.

I genuinely feel the same. I keep telling myself that's just growing up and seeing the world more clearly with time, but it really feels like one big stupid drug-induced dream and I'm going to finally wake up from it eventually, cause the real world can't be that dumb and insane.