I’ve given a talk more than once titled “the mistakes I’ve made so you don’t have to”.

I never reveal the title in advance and it always gets a giggle but invariably grabs attention.

I agree with that 100%.

The context I was given it in was more about how you view the world. So if you think that people are good you’ll invariably find the good and vice versa.

Oh that’s a good one. I really like that as a parent.

Calories in / calories out works perfectly and predictably for fat loss as long as you’re measuring correctly and most people don’t. I used to follow it religiously in the run up to fights in order to make weight.

I would look at my weight, look at the weight I need to be 8 weeks later, figure the calorie hole I needed and follow it incredibly closely.

It worked every single time without fail. I always stepped into the ring lean as fuck and having lost zero muscle because I was training twice a day six days a week and keeping protein intake high. I allowed one maintenance calorie day per week on my recovery day.

There are other things that account for weight loss (e.g. loss of sugar from muscles and the associated water loss that comes with that) if you’re using keto but most people are after fat loss more than weight loss.

PGP has been around since the 90’s can you PLEASE shut the fuck up.

Like please.

Ah that’s the dry heat. It’s a different beast.

You should write a book. That’s top tier descriptiveness.

Kids here get a week off in October near Halloween then two weeks around Christmas.

They get two weeks around Easter which would be your equivalent I suppose from a seasonal perspective.

I upvoted this but holy Jesus. I’m stripping off at 18C and the scientifically proven melting point for shiny white people like me is 25C. Edit: it’s very humid here in fairness.

If you don’t mind me asking, where is it that temperature so regularly? Must be near the equator I’m guessing.

Many years ago, when the first quad core CPU’s hit the market, I had a friend working in Intel. I got myself a Q6600 quad core for pennies on the euro and promptly installed Gentoo. Oh how I made that CPU work for the pennies I paid for it.

Honestly it was the only thing at the time to tax a quad core. Most games were not well optimised for 4 cores and more or less nothing else was anything but single threaded.

96 apartments sharing a single 100Mb service…

RIP. That’s cruelty.

That’s really clear, thanks. I learned a lot, including learning that I should not try to pronounce Eichhörnchen. :)

I can pronounce it but I don’t think you have too much to worry about pal…I’ve come across that specific word about three times in my whole life.

So… eye-ch-churn-chen?

First bit like Ike (edit: or Reich)

Eye-ch-urn-ken?

Irish and we have that gutteral Ch sound in Irish so I feel like it’s a cheat code for us.

I think many, many native speakers would struggle with those too so if you’re at that level you’re doing really well. Congrats!

Native. I say suttle. It’s a dirty word from the spelling in fairness.

Roo-ter is usually British and former colonies. Row-ter is north America.

That’s a tough one. The ol’ competing priorities. Congratulations on the new baby though! I love babies.

I played a little Black Mesa definitive edition. Was fun. I’m not getting much/ any gaming time these days unfortunately.