I didn’t realise

Vulnerable, Insecure, Broken Entry

It’s just prompt engineering for coding. Let an AI dump a bunch of code for you, debug until it no longer errors, pull request and repeat next sprint.

5% of the time, it works every time

I take an injection every four weeks, they cost 600 each. Add up a few visits to the dentist, GP and a check up at an academic hospital and I’d pay about a third of the actual cost.

Then again my dad never has any ailments, lives a healthy lifestyle with a lot of exercise and he pays the same.

Yep the issue with our system is that people who never see a doctor or a hospital pay for the ones that have been dealt a rough hand or live unhealthy. The idea is that being ill is not the standard. You should be able to do a Pareto analysis of costs and it might check out.

It varies per country. If you would go to the Netherlands, you’d still need health insurance. You can only get it if you are a Dutch citizen in some way. The costs of this are about 180/month. Plus you have what we call your own risk. If you need healthcare you pay 385 maximum yourself. If you can’t pay that, there are installment plans. And if the 180 a month is too steep for you, there is support from the Belastingdienst (IRS) that is dependent on your income.

So example: if you need an operation that is covered in basic Dutch health insurance and you would live here for a year on work visum, you might pay 2400 a year in insurance costs and 385 own risk, totaling to 2785. If the operation would cost more than that in the US, you’re in luck.

This is all provided you can get health insurance in the Netherlands.

In the Netherlands, as a Dutch citizen, health insurance is mandatory.

Is it auf Hochdeutsch or some Saxon dialect close to the Dutch border? I can imagine there’s some overlap in language.

There’s loads of things in tv shows that just skip the boring, logistical parts. Nobody wants to see a bookkeeper painstakingly taking leaflets and bets in orderly fashion.

Besides, if there’s no record whatsoever, what’s to stop a bookie from taking money from the losers, and telling the winners ‘prove it’? Besides a knuckle sandwich, that is.

Another one is basically any desk job, but particularly IT jobs in TV and movies. Even the most elite hackers don’t just insert a thumb drive in a laptop, hammer the keyboard and yell ‘I’m in’. Mr. Robot is the only show so far where hacking is portrayed somewhat believable, and it’s still mostly social engineering.

As for programming, the only show I’ve ever seen who do a realistic way of describing VC funding and agile project development is Silicon Valley, but even there you’ll find the most boring things are just omitted.

Point is, it’s just difficult to make administrative tasks interesting enough to keep the attention of viewers.

I only go Tuya if there is absolutely no Zigbee alternative. I’ve got curtain bots on Tuya which were fine when it was one curtain but now they barely respond to automations anymore.

I don’t have an answer to your question, sorry. But as I was reading your story I just recognized so many different things. When I was about your age I was about to finish college but I was also just hitting the weed every day as soon as my schedule cleared up for it. Blissful moments would be spent with my closest friends, having beers until early morning and smoking a lot, playing video games, doing my music production…

Now I do my corpo job from home every day and my free time is spent trying to get rid of the unrest of doing nothing. So I try to surpress that by watching screens or doing housework so that I at least feel like I accomplished something.

I’ve been sidelined from work for a while to see if I could work on myself and that’s what I do now. Medication is very much a last ditch effort for me and I’m not there yet.

But I find my most enjoyable moments in life are ‘gezelligheid’, a Dutch word that exists in no other main language which just means having a nice time with your favorite people and just enjoying moments together. In my case, a big part of it is drinking fancy beers and nice wine and eating good food. I can feel my body is telling me to make healthier choices but it is completely contrary to me living a happy life.

As far as idle time goes, my therapist today advised to acknowledge the unrest and just notice it being there without adding any judgment, so in a way de-fusing yourself from your emotions in such a moment. I’m half excited to try it if I need it but I’m also a little skeptical because mindfulness has never really done much for me.

I think it’s important to find out why you feel awful in these moments.

But I feel your pain. All my earlier hobbies just feel empty and shallow. Somehow I crave new contacts, new people in my life. But I don’t really dare to go out into the world to find them. I’ve joined a tennis club and a political party, just to see what I can get from it. But I’m in no rush, I will take it as it comes.

And for your reference, I am also happy with my girl and our three cats. I think we have a lot in common!

Just cover the battlefield in liquid cheese

There are those who move at their own speed. It feels like the right way to be.

The worst thing is when it actually happens. You’d think you’d be prepared. And yet…

No need to bring that up, I still pretend that never happened and Maya is good and well

Fuck Take Two. Gearbox develops the game, they have little say in the price the publisher slaps on it.

I’m sorry but that’s just not at all what he said. He said “If you really want it, you’ll find a way to make it work.”

If you don’t complain when it’s €60, you don’t have to buy it on day one. Take a month or two, or a year, to save up 20 extra and buy it when you’re comfortable.

You’ll have known about this game for over a year now, if it’s that important to you you’ve had a year to save up.

And if you’re struggling to make ends meet to the point that you can’t really afford video games, maybe wait for when it gets hugely discounted.

These are all ways of making it work. The end result is the same, you’ll have played the game.

Content Filters. There’s are lot of communities dedicated to lemmy how to’s and it’s kinda dependent on the app you use where to click specifically.

Good luck getting someone with autism to volunteer for that and got someone with ADHD to sit still in such a room until you get a patient

I meant he was more enjoying building coal and nuclear power.

Besides, if you can get your hands on mycelie early you’ll have to coll a lot less

He loves it though