I imagine they could sue to cover those costs though

Definitely. And plenty who regret not doing it. Such is life.

100% they do mean it.

I never really wanted kids. But me and a friend had too much to drink one night and I was a dad at 22. It’s the best thing that ever happened to me. Now I’m 30 and have 3.

People tend to focus on what you give up and not what you gain. Parenting presents a huge amount of moments and activities and feelings that you would never get otherwise.

Both paths are good. Just different.

I wouldn’t trade the first time my daughter said I love you for anything in the world. Or even the first time she smiled. You could offer me any amount of money or holidays and I wouldn’t go back and miss that.

I have a good support network so I can still go out when I want to. I could go on holidays without them if I wanted to. I could buy them less stuff and myself more. Nothing is stopping me.

But I wouldn’t trade a moment of it.

But when you are talking about professional games development that is a very specific thing they almost no one is doing.

That’s a really ridiculous example though. No one is doing that.

The difference is now you wouldn’t be able to buy it at 20 either.

You’d have to work pretty hard to get on cigarettes and hopefully most people just won’t bother.

Nicotine is still bullshit as are vapes. But as far as we know vapes are the lesser evil.

Except they aren’t like food. Vaping isn’t required to live. It’s purely recreational and aimed at children.

But I’m happy with either regulation or a ban.

Well yeah that’s the idea.

Yes and yes.

It works really well for kids. They aren’t even trying to ban it for adults.

Raising the age from 16 to 18 had a massive effect when I was young.

This will most likely dramatically decrease smoking in young people and that’s great.

It’s not 100% or nothing.

Yeah vaping will have its time. I bet they’re already sitting on evidence that it fucks you up.

Prohibition does work very well for kids though. Most people start young as when you’re older you know the issues.

So they are keeping it for people already exposed and trying to stop younger people starting in the first place.

They raised the age to 18 when I turned 16 and it dramatically cut the amount we had access to.

It’s not like the old alcohol probation. Plus smoking isn’t even fun like drinking. It’s just gross and bad for your health. And most people don’t drink because of addiction. It’s a different kettle of fish.

But they should be doing the same for vaping.

It’ll work for the majority of people. You won’t be able to do it out in public.

If you want to get cancer in your own house go ahead.

The truth is they put a huge burden on public services. Mainly the health service but also they create insane amounts of litter.

If vaping is still an option then most people will just do that.

Vaping is currently almost completely unregulated and some studies have found terrifying chemicals in them

People who don’t like cancer and want to take the insane pressure these death sticks put on the health service.

Who in their right mind supports mega corps selling addictive cancer causing products to young people?

I mean murdering people is extremist.

Taking their money would achieve the same.

Most of the time yeah. But it depends as you can write c# with very little GC use if you avoid allocations.

Ahead of time compiling also gets things much closer. But then you lose runtime optimization.

Actually jit languages can outperform compiled languages by using runtime analysis to perform tiered compilation and profile guided optimisations.

C# has made some great strides in this regard.

All the normal optimisations are applied when it is compiled to byte code. Like loop unrolling etc.

Then once it detects the hot paths during execution it can apply even more based on how it is called. It can also do optimisations that aren’t possible at initial compile time.

Dynamic PGO it’s called. It’s a really interesting topic.

That is literally the worst use case for AIs. There’s no way they should be letting it provide contact info like that.

Also they’re stupid for dialing a random number.

Use your bed only for sleep. No screens for a few hours before bed. Milk before bed. Reading or audio books are a great way to settle your mind.

If you aren’t asleep after 30 or so minutes get up and do something chilled for a little bit. Laying there getting pissed you aren’t asleep doesn’t help.

Stick to a sleep / wake schedule. I’ve found getting up early and consistently much more effective for sorting out my sleep.

I’m fairly sure use after free isn’t possible unless you explicitly use unsafe code right?

It’s compiler enforced is the point.