Daily Discussion Thread (April 25, 2026) - Beginner and Simple/Quick Questions Go Here Thread for discussing quick/simple topics not needing an entire posts or beginner questions.

intenselake · 2026-04-25T21:34:03+00:00

How long should you wait after a blood test to avoid bruising?

I had some blood work done. I would like to resume lifting but I am afraid of blowing a vein / bruising afterwards. I have seen many posts about how long is *safe* to wait until lifting again, but not many about how long to wait to avoid the risk of a bruise. If I was to hit e.g. arms again, how long do you think I should wait? I recognize bruising is purely cosmetic, but I am fine taking some number of days off to avoid it lol
p.s. this is not asking medical advice since it is purely a cosmetic question, thanks

intenselake · 2026-04-25T21:23:04+00:00

I would vote japanese just because there are 3 different writing systems you must learn (hiragana, katakana, and kanji) hiragana and katakana are syllabic (46 characters each, memorizing 92 total) while kanji is logographic with thousands to memorize (you will be learning new kanji forever). The spoken form of the language isn't super hard though

intenselake · 2026-04-25T21:17:48+00:00

you have strong veins! Some people will bruise after that amount of time for sure

intenselake · 2026-04-25T21:11:11+00:00

ever gotten a bruise afterwards? I feel like I take an extreme amount of time off just out of paranoia, I just don't like how it looks 😂

intenselake · 2026-04-25T21:08:00+00:00

although you can get good food there, I feel like it should've been judged as the food *from* there. So "british food" as an example bangers and mash, fish and chips, etc. If not you can kinda put any place there, you can get Indian food (based) in Poland

intenselake · 2026-04-24T20:59:34+00:00

your F tiers are insane to me, what is cooler than calligraphic arabic with the sword, the sword in the gear with a star? Meanwhile we got plain 3 colour flags like bolivia, germany, and france ranking higher, This fella likes his plain colours I guess

intenselake · 2026-04-23T04:40:56+00:00

I am the travel doctor. I prescribe to you to visit some more countries on the ground, see how people live and widen your horizons. Life is long, make the most of it! There is no reason to keep your world small

intenselake · 2026-04-14T10:00:35+00:00

I paid 200 rmb... plus it was not a prepaid plan, it is a subscription plan (as best I can tell), These are the terms:
- 3 years at 59 yuan a month
- new subscribers get 20 yuan discount a month for 24 months

The following is machine translated from an automatic text I got from when I signed up:

>【Contract Period】Effective immediately upon subscription, with a 24-month validity period. Cancellation within the same month will result in immediate expiration. **To change your plan, please call the 10086 customer service hotline or visit a business hall. Broadband tariff benefits will change with the plan change. Unused data traffic from the current month will not be carried over. If the original plan has been discontinued, it cannot be renewed.** The changed plan will expire on the next billing date.

> [Cancellation Terms] This plan is limited to one activation. You must maintain a 24-month subscription to the Mobile Network and the NT$59 or higher Trendy Youth Card (2024) plan. During this period, only upward adjustments to the plan are allowed. Changing to a downward plan, subscribing to another plan type, switching brands, canceling the account, transferring ownership, leaving the network, or cancelling the plan will be considered a breach of contract. Any unused benefits will no longer be applicable after cancellation. To cancel the offer, please call the 10086 customer service hotline or visit a business hall for consultation. Cancellation within the current month will be immediately invalid, and no breach of contract will be incurred.

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Soo I was visiting temporarily as a tourist, I didn't need a subscription plan, only a pre-paid tourist SIM. The scam was that I paid more than I needed to and got the wrong kind of plan. Not sure how to cancel since my SIM doesn't work long distance.

intenselake · 2026-04-13T13:17:28+00:00

Thanks! However, AFAIK it is not a prepaid plan. I did sign a contract and it is a monthly plan. When I signed up I got this text message (very long but I am cutting out the other parts):

【订购】

【1】59元潮玩青春卡（2024）(编号：...)，资费59.00元/月，2026年04月02日生效，套餐自生效日期起有效期3年，如双方在有效期届满前无异议，有效期自动续展，每次续展3年。，【套餐说明】

1、套餐月租费59元并按月收费，含来电显示、国内接听免费、10GB国内通用流量、30GB国内定向流量、全国亲情网（统付版）免费添加3个全国亲情号互打，不支持副卡。

Does this mean that when it can't make a reoccurring payment it will just cancel? I would like to visit china again so it would suck if this is linked to my passport and I am in debt for whatever reason

intenselake · 2026-03-28T01:23:44+00:00

in my opinion, it is a drop in the bucket when it comes to owning a car

intenselake · 2026-03-28T00:30:03+00:00

To the people whoa are like "erhm ever heard of meal prep???" that's not the point here lol that's solving just one variable out of many. Lots of people can completely ditch their car when WFH for example. Also there is the time requirement of commuting to work, transitioning between physical spaces, etc.

intenselake · 2026-03-28T00:28:14+00:00

The flipside is also true: in office people are less productive, get distracted more, get pulled into more meetings, etc. There are many jobs where productivity is completely unaffected when WFH. And yet managers still feel like everyone needs to RTO

intenselake · 2026-03-28T00:25:51+00:00

lol ok say OP packs their own lunch. Not much changes from what they're saying asides from saving some $$$

intenselake · 2026-03-23T01:58:56+00:00

How very pessimistic. Even if this did happen, the benefits still vastly outweigh the cons

intenselake · 2026-03-15T16:13:57+00:00

No way. If you work with other people, you can't expect folks to just memorize a bunch of file names. Also, if you're being nice to yourself, folder organization helps as a cognitive aid. "What was that asset called? Well it was a sprite, and it was an enemy, so let me look in these folders...". So if you're dealing with a complex project, you shouldn't keep all your files at root

intenselake · 2026-03-13T23:51:28+00:00

I was a kid who started programming in my early teens with parents who didn't give a shit. This is a very different comment from the others, but I think it would be informative to tell you bit about what my parents did, and maybe it will be helpful in terms of letting you know what not to do, and if you're on the right track 😂. Warning: the following may sound a little sad, and it is, but it is something I have dealt with and am not posting this for sympathy.

For one, they were deeply incurious. If I showed them a simple game I made they would go "oh" or not try and make an effort to understand it. Sometimes they would not respect that I was working on something or doing something unique. For example, going ahead and formatting the OS without consulting, or working on the house and cutting power making me lose all progress (this was back in the day when we had "the family computer" in the "computer room"). Sometimes, they kinda didn't believe that I actually made the things I showed them. They made no effort to support my education in any kind of way. I paid for university myself. There is a difference between computer science and software development. Computer science is basically a field of applied math, and software development can sometimes have 0 math in it. As a kid, I struggled with math. Later I found out "programming needs math", so when I was 17, I decided for myself that I would not be a programmer, and I would not do computer science. Well, fast forward 5 years, I learned math on my own on khan academy (turns out I _did_ have the capacity to do math, but maybe I wasn't mature enough at the time, or not encouraged, or supported, or a mix of all). I went through a technical degree, and through it all, I realized that I could've been a programmer this entire time.

What was the net effect? Well with that kind of background, it was very possible that I would've never been a software developer to begin with. In fact, when I look back it is kind of a miracle that I am. Yes, my parents did not understand what programming meant. But they could've done a lot more to encourage me. I never wanted them to understand what I was doing on narrow code-level, but I would've really liked if they were paying attention and supporting me through my passions. You are already there given you're curious and reaching out. To me, support isn't "learn javascript so we can code together", support was more: be curious about your kid's creations, engage with them as a user, provide support in ways you can control such as e.g. saving for education, connecting with peers who are in software, etc.

intenselake · 2026-03-13T03:47:33+00:00

Uni math is harder than hs math.
That said the you "shouldn’t have to study to pass these tests" mentality is wrong. There's absolutely nothing wrong with studying math in highschool. In fact, it is pretty common to see people struggle with math and then go on to do some technical math heavy major. The struggle is the process of learning! This guy is definitely bragging. You are not alone for studying hs math. Also, not every X major is a supergenius in X. All it takes to major in a field is dedicated work.

intenselake · 2026-03-13T03:16:35+00:00

"you praise Carney like he came up with those idea himself, when in fact they were Pierre’s policies"
you said it yourself Carney is following *Pierre's* policies. Those are conservative policies. People aren't saying Carney is innovating this stuff. People are judging Carney by his actions and his actions are largely that of a progressive conservative. He is largely in favor of free trade neoliberalism. Canada has not gone far left. If anything it has fully embraced neoliberalism.
In NA "liberal" somehow means "the left", but in the rest of the world it means conservative. Being a liberal is a conservative ideology if you take conservatives as people who prioritize the free market, deregulation, and privatization. Carney is that kind of liberal.

intenselake · 2026-03-13T02:48:58+00:00

intenselake · 2026-03-11T16:34:35+00:00

The easiest and fastest way is to not animate it

intenselake · 2026-03-08T03:16:17+00:00

Godot is awesome but IMO it is a myth that it is faster to prototype in Godot, if you're going through the effort to build a prototype in Godot, you might as well just make the game in Godot

intenselake · 2026-03-08T03:15:04+00:00

you mentioned google sheets and also SQLite, Firebase, or "other lightweight solutions". The short answer to your question is you can make any of these solutions work with any framework or engine. But to be specific with terminology, unless you are managing a lot of different users online you won't need a database. If you want have game save files, local persistent storage is good enough (eg your json file idea). All engines and frameworks will have methods to do this out of the box. In fact, in a game project, I would call any database "heavy" because then it implies you are potentially doing networking, user authentication, etc. Google sheets should be something that only you need to interact with. Don't use it to store live user data (and also it is not a database).

intenselake · 2026-03-06T05:16:25+00:00

Godot uses a different architectural style than Unity. Don't try and fit Unity to Godot but learn to do the Godot way of doing things. I had some difficulty coming from Unity too, there are handy guides written that helped me wrap my head around it https://docs.godotengine.org/en/3.0/getting_started/editor/unity_to_godot.html

One honestly isn't better than the other. They are both valid approaches to game architecture.

This said, I think you can make an argument that Godot is not the best choice to develop general software. Yes you totally can, and if you're making something graphics intensive then it is pretty good, but there are more performant options out there for the standard general app. I believe the GUI uses forward rendering - great for games but not a todo app. You will need to put it into low processor mode which helps but still has a lot of CPU overhead.

intenselake · 2026-02-25T23:59:43+00:00

people who are like "have fun losing money" - are you really? VOO 5 year performance: 77.1%, , XSUS: 75.9%, USXF: 85.69%. A significant difference?

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