On its own it's not necessarily an issue, but I'd consider it a warning sign. The times in my life that I've obsessively played games like this have been times when my emotional health was suffering. I felt overwhelmed by life and the world, and games like this gave me a synthetic feeling of progress and accomplishment, gave me something extremely simple to do that I couldn't fail at. Games like this were a symptom of my problems at the time, not the cause, and when my life got more stable, I lost interest in playing them.

If they're playing in moderation, just to pass the time during otherwise-boring events, probably not an issue. If they're pretty much always playing, or if it's intruding on their life, or if they're not otherwise engaging with the world, consider worrying about their emotional health.

Thank you! I noticed too I played much more games when in low mood seasons. Especially Minecraft (inb4: yes, I'm 40yo but play Minecraft) has a lot of small quests I could achieve. Also, the old Diablo I play on my phone (DevilutionX) allows me to kill time (and beasts) but I find it repeatable, yet still satisfying.

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You've got it exactly right, many people in the US care far more about compliance with and respect for authority than they do about rule of law.

The way it sounds from reading the article is X11's design fundamentally is that bad for modern hardware, which is why almost all of the active graphics development is focused on reimplementing a designed-for-modern-hardware replacement. The claim from the article is that X11 is basically unsupported abandonware, and is calling for developers to please help with the rest of the work in finishing the migration of use-cases to Wayland in order to help the whole ecosystem be able to abandon the sinking ship and move to a more-modern better-maintained future.

Lifetime analysis matters a lot for way more than just garbage collection.

File handles, iterators, mutex guards, database transaction handles, session types, scoped threads, anything where ordering or mutual exclusivity matters.

I don't know about all of those, but Python's context managers and built in constructs handle most of those, I think?

Only in the most basic cases. If your handle has to be passed into another function or outlive the current scope of your function, the guardrails end.

What are some examples of sound programs you want to write in Rust but are unable to write?

I've struggled quite a bit with problems that feel similar to your description. This book is what helped me the most: https://www.carolynspring.com/shop/unshame-paperback/

> Daily life feels like that swim scene from Gattaca.

> I've not got enough of a problem to go get diagnosed or medicated.

Hmm...

To each their own. The DSM criteria require that the impairments be significant, ergo if you don’t think they are, you don’t have ADHD.

I didn't think my impairments were significant, to the point that it took me 20 years to go talk to a psych about it. My siblings were already diagnosed and nothing like me (in terms of symptoms) so I thought I was 'fine'.

After talking to a psych I got diagnosed ADHD. After starting medication, and increasing multiple times, it was discovered my ADHD is on the severe end.

I've finally found the dose which works for me, which was over the recommended prescribed amount (as directed by my psych) and it's absolutely changed my life. It doesn't remove the impairments, but has reduced severity enough that I can actually deal with them now. My mental health has improved so fucking much, I feel like I have agency now

I strongly recommend you discuss it with a psych, if even to get a negative diagnosis.

> ergo if you don’t think they are, you don’t have ADHD

It's quite possible to be significantly impaired by something, and not realise that you are. This sounds like saying, "if you don't think you're an alcoholic, you aren't".

Or if others don't think they are...

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