I got bullied pretty bad at school and I also never did my homework, so the teachers would shame/embarrass me for not doing the work. So I was always just worried about how miserable the next day would be. Then as an adult, my ex-wife tried to kill her self twice. Both times were while I asleep and had to wake up and suddenly find her in unconscious and unresponsive in a puddle of blood. Sleeping is surprisingly very stressful for me.

Viruses don't "want" to do anything, as they lack the capacity for any type of cognitive awareness. Not all viral infections are fatal. When someone dies as a result from viral or bacterial infection, it's not necessarily the germ that's killing them, but the symptoms caused by said infection. If an infection causes inflammation in your lungs and you cannot breathe as a result, you die from asphyxiation. There's no "will" or "desire" from the virus, it's just how your body responds to a given infection.

NOTE: I am not a doctor, virologist, epidemiologist, or any other type of expert in this field. This is simply my understanding based on reading literature published by experts in the field. I'm sure I got some nuances and/or terminology incorrect. You'll probably get better information reading peer reviewed research rather than asking random people on the internet.

And what proof do you have they can actually taste the things you said?!?

And there is a reason we do scientific studies, to know if things like this are bullshit or not… “accept as true” and are “actually true” are not the same things.

See, that’s where your problem is!

You can accept “facts” without knowing if they actually true or not.

Man I am not gonna throw down with an assembly programmer. They scare me a little, flying so close to the sun.

Viruses don't have brains, they don't "want" to do anything. Because they don't have brains, they don't "know" what is happening to the host - they can't react to what their host is doing.

Lots of times, say the flu, viruses kill because the hosts immunity system goes into overdrive. It can be the immunity system that is the actual cause of death.

They don't. Diseases that kill people come from other animals. Cholera, for example, I believe is made for cows. It gives them the shits but nothing else. Unfortunately, a little case of the shits for a cow is fatal for humans

I was speaking mostly to a mindset difference in how you approach the new language.

You'll be better at Python in the long run if you start from the description of what a program is supposed to do and treating the original code itself as a black box rather than trying to translate Matlab syntax to Python syntax because knowing the language is more than just knowing the syntax, you need all those idiomatic expressions. Python has some interesting collection structures and ways of manipulating those that I don't know if Matlab has direct equivalents for, so learning how to use them is just as much of learning Python as learning the syntax.

Honestly being curious about how programming works at all is a trait I wish more developers had so that puts you above half the people I've interviewed for jobs.

I do love that Tab story… next level petty.

A better analogy would be, why is it so easy and quick to buy a 55gal drum of oil, but it takes an hour to change your own oil?

With an update, it isn’t just raw data being downloaded. If that were the case 150MB would beat 1GB every time. Instead you are downloading data and then doing something with that data (replacing files with new ones, possibly shutting down and restarting programs, making settings changes, etc). And that “doing something” is what takes time.

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Most of the answers talk about compression. While it is true, it is also incomplete. 11gb is initial download size, then uncompressed. After installation, it creates thousands of files for user profiles, drivers, service profiles, temporary files, precompiles inf files, stores setup files for recovery, stores registry databases, log files, configuration files, runtimes for many languages, regional and localization data, hibernation file, swap file, files updated by windows updates, MSI installation databases for uninstalling, store apps, and store apps that are not installed but forces on user, files that are for backward compatibility, …

And all that is before you install any software.

One more thing to consider is sector size: every file is stored in sectors and a sector cannot be shared with another file, so for a sector size of 4k every file uses a multiple of 4k even if it is 100 bytes.

Most fun thing is jot the file size but the information that is stored with files, like file streams; information stored next to files. Stream can store gigabytes of information but they are not listed in file listings

That's right. Which is why it's called Explain LIKE I'm five.

Since you're having trouble with this, I'll try to explain. It means to explain as if you were explaining it to a five year old. You know, keeping it very simple.

As an artist I can add that painting from life or copying a photo are two different skills.

And I don’t think the materials matter that much in this instance, many people nowadays paint with terrible tools lol, mostly it’s just that it’s not noticeable when represented via digital media such as a screen :D

Millions of people experimented with food, many thousands got something interesting and passed down the technique of how precisely they did it. Exact measurements aren’t usually necessary if you manage to do the same things the same way as the original author.

Yeah ik. And I don’t have insurance otherwise I would. I’m hoping next year I can get insurance and then go to detox

If you're at the point that you get shakes from not drinking 1 day, you have to get to a doctor or someone who can walk you through treatment plans. Withdrawal from alcohol is particularly dangerous and can cause seizures. It's not really advisable to try to quit on your own at a certain point.

Plus if you go to sleep drunk and wake up with a drink… you won’t be fully hungover, just perpetually drunk. You will as you say, feel like utter crap, but being drunk and feeling like crap is a little foggy.

>That's an ambiguous statement. Kidneys are sold in third world countries. "It" does happen but "it" isn't legal anywhere except Iran.

Original comment that kicked us off:

>> In third world countries, It's totally common that a person who has no money publish in the news that he/she has a kidney for sale. It's totally legal.They get the money and then go to the hospital and say they are volunteer to give the kidney to the person they got money from.

The "it" is the legal public soliciting of your organs. OP was corrected by saying "it" does not happen in other 3rd world countries because "it" is not legal anywhere but Iran.

I can see where this can get lost in the weeds though.

If I could stop for 45 days I would. And I’d never do it again. But I have a physical dependence tbh

Fun facts about Crystal Pepsi:

1. It actually didn't taste like Pepsi
2. Coke made "Tab Clear" after Crystal Pepsi was rolled out and intentionally made it bad so it would fail and people would think clear soda was shit.

Starting? No sir I’ve had a problem for a long time now lol. Fr though, I’d like to stop but it genuinely frightens me.

Haha, gravy is actually clear(ish) when made from scratch, Google "gravy browning liquid"

I can put away a 5th of gin and feel average the next morning, no headache. Just shakey hands

I'm not judging dude, but it sounds like you are starting to have a problem. Putting away a 5th of hard liquor and being fine the next day is bad. Having shaky hands is worse. Just as an experiment, you should try not drinking for 45 days. If you still don't get hangovers, congrats your body chemistry may have changed. If you do get hangovers, you know you have been drinking too much and were most likely damaging your liver and your brain. If you can't stop for 45 days without cheating or it feels impossible ..... then hangovers are not the real issue.

You skip every century (cause all century years like 1700, 1800 are also leap years), except for the multiples of 400. So in 2000 (which is a multiple of 400) we didn’t skip the leap year, we had it as expected. In 2100, there will be no Feb 29th, because it’ll skip.

Photographs. In the past if you wanted a portrait you needed to sit with an artist and wait for them to paint it. That limited the amount of time an artist had to get everything exactly right because the subject can’t sit still forever waiting to be painted.

Now you can take a high quality photograph and the artist can work from that taking as much time as is necessary.

Also we have much better equipment for drawing painting portraits.