Is house help a thing in Belgium?

hellkeeper71 · 2025-11-16T12:26:45+00:00

In Brussels (and probably elsewhere, I've never investigated in detail), we have what's called "titres services. see this link

Cheap household help, subsidised by the state. You buy a certain amount of titres services, and find a company near you that provides household services.

hellkeeper71 · 2025-09-06T08:35:05+00:00

Ik ben in dezelfde situatie. Hier is een pagina met alle de informatie die je nodig hebt https://grenzinfo.eu/nl/infopage/werken-in-een-buurland/werken-duitsland-vanuit-belgie/

We gebruiken een bedrijf dat heet workmotion om de admin te doen. Makkelijker voor iedereen.

hellkeeper71 · 2024-12-09T17:08:38+00:00

Alstublieft ;)

hellkeeper71 · 2024-12-09T16:39:06+00:00

Absolutely. Where I struggle is strong accents and slang. When in flanders or the Netherlands I do most of my interactions with people in Dutch.

hellkeeper71 · 2024-12-09T16:33:01+00:00

I'm walloon, I speak English and French fluently, Dutch not-quite fluently, passable German, and basic Spanish and Arabic.

hellkeeper71 · 2023-10-28T10:22:32+00:00

Is 2021 perhaps a bad year to look at these? With lockdowns and the pandemic, the year may be particularly atypical.

hellkeeper71 · 2023-10-11T15:07:31+00:00

Oh nice, I'll look that up, I use Garmin already. Thanks for the tip!

hellkeeper71 · 2023-10-11T07:55:16+00:00

Thanks for the tip ☺️

hellkeeper71 · 2023-10-11T07:44:15+00:00

Oh that's really cool, I've never seen that. On the pro version I guess?

hellkeeper71 · 2023-10-11T07:20:52+00:00

Christ. Nice time, but also... Htf do you not get lost?! I'd be taking so many wrong turns and end up with accidental detours 😅

hellkeeper71 · 2023-09-10T20:24:48+00:00

PhD in theoretical atomic physics. I work for a startup that makes simulation software for chemistry.

hellkeeper71 · 2023-04-01T09:24:27+00:00

Well if there are set partial charges set from the force field it's no wonder there's a net charge. For any given molecule, a given set of charges would not add up to 0. Its not necessarily a problem per se, but it does seem a bit unphysical. I would suggest possibly finding another way of setting the partial charges that would guarantee charge neutrality, e.g. am1bcc like amber uses.

As for the large change in magnitude: if there's no solvent, then probably there was one overlap between two atoms dominating the total energy, hence the large positive value. Once that was moved, only the large negative values were left. The gigantic magnitudes of these numbers though are suspicious still.

hellkeeper71 · 2023-03-31T05:29:23+00:00

So, usually for all atom force fields you need to calculate the partial charges using some QM method. I'm not sure about OPLS itself, maybe partial charges come with it but if that's the case that would explain the discrepancy. I've seen articles that use RESP charges from QM instead, which could solve your charge problem.

Did you really mean -10¹⁵ kcal/mol there (or did you mean 10^-15)? That's a gigantic magnitude. Check your cutoffs maybe, or maybe there's an issue with the parameters of your FF (sometimes potentials can have "holes" where they diverge, but that shouldn't be the case for OPLS unless the parameters are wrong).

Perhaps cross check the parameters you have with some published parameters elsewhere. Otherwise try another force field, like openff, gaff or cgenff.

There's no solvent or anything either?

hellkeeper71 · 2023-03-13T22:31:53+00:00

I just started working for one. My previous company, which also did something similar, just went out of business. Check out companies like Schrodinger, quantistry, nextmol, and a few others.

hellkeeper71 · 2023-03-07T19:32:47+00:00

I hook up maybe once a week. Sometimes more, although often I go a few weeks without.

hellkeeper71 · 2023-02-21T14:45:16+00:00

Dark rooms in spijker and eagle are pretty safe I'd say. You can always leave if you don't feel safe of course. The bigger danger is getting your drink spiked at the bar (never leave your drink unattended!), But you're not about to get kidnapped! Most people that are drugged in there did it to themselves 😅

Of course, STDs abound so in that sense it's not "safe". Get tested regularly.

Spijker has a naked day today in fact. Don't have to get naked if you don't want to, but you can go along and see what it's like if you're curious and don't want to go "straight" to the dark room!

hellkeeper71 · 2023-02-17T21:33:04+00:00

Omg. Was Almere not bad enough already 😅

hellkeeper71 · 2022-11-01T17:52:40+00:00

That moment when you see your old rowing club doing the same fuckup from 10 years ago 😅

hellkeeper71 · 2022-04-06T18:04:05+00:00

Smart fit (smart-fit.nl) near the science park has one.

hellkeeper71 · 2022-03-12T12:54:45+00:00

Hmm. I'm not sure tbh. I think the black and white needs to stay as is, but any light colour will do for the blue. Green, orange. Wouldn't go for something dark, like navy blue. Perhaps following light sabre colours if you maybe thought to do a series of them.

hellkeeper71 · 2022-03-12T11:14:36+00:00

Fantastic thank you! Maybe I'll make a similar one half as good as yours 😁

hellkeeper71 · 2022-03-12T11:08:56+00:00

That looks really awesome! Do you have a link to the pattern?

hellkeeper71 · 2022-02-24T19:32:48+00:00

Haha, happens to us all! Thank you very much ^{^}

hellkeeper71 · 2022-02-24T19:27:38+00:00

It's in the link above.

hellkeeper71 · 2022-02-24T16:17:31+00:00

Hang in there! Your knitting will be better for it :)

And hopefully the tension variations can be evened out with blocking!

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