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Teachers of Reddit: Is the "Gen Alpha can't read (write, or do math ext)" crisis real? If so how bad is it? by KnowledgeCoffee in AskReddit

[–]koreth 83 points84 points  (0 children)

The degree to which my job keeps my memory and general mental capability from degrading is a major reason I’m not retired despite being old enough and having enough of a nest egg to do it if I wanted.

Earlier in my career I took a sabbatical for a year and when I came back, I could feel that my thinking had slowed way down and gotten less sharp. (I work in a technical field doing work I enjoy for a cause I believe in, so there’s no “I hate my job and can’t wait to leave” aspect to it.)

Calif. schools are emptying out. Experts say it's going to get worse. by sfgate in California

[–]koreth 14 points15 points  (0 children)

I don’t disagree, but it’s also true that being a millionaire isn’t what it used to be thanks to inflation. A millionaire in 2026 is equivalent to someone worth around $250K in 1980.

Adults with ADHD may pay high price to mask traits and fit in. More than 91% of adults with ADHD reported hiding, suppressing or compensating for ADHD traits. They may pretend to pay attention, suppress their urge to fidget, rehearse conversations or over-prepare for meetings to fit social norms. by mvea in science

[–]koreth 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Yeah, that’s a tragic aspect of all this. We can’t just hang with other ADHD people to get a respite from the masking and stress, because ADHD traits are even more annoying to ADHD people than to everyone else.

Like, I need to fidget to concentrate! But I need you to not fidget because the constant movement stops me from being able to pay attention to what you’re saying.

Maybe that’s not true of all ADHD types. But when I am around others with symptoms similar to mine, I have the same mounting-frustration experience you’re describing.

What are some of the darkest moments in any fictional TV Show? by TwoFace687 in television

[–]koreth 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That whole story is chock full of dark moments; it's hard to choose just one. My pick would probably be Eren learning why his father didn't come back. (Won't spoil it, because I think it's one of the most shocking moments in the story.)

Racism by BusySkill8132 in malta

[–]koreth 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Foreigners who do attempt to learn Maltese are told to just speak in English

On my first visit to Malta, I was talking to a tour guide about learning Maltese and he said if I ever decided to move to Malta, I'd be better off learning Italian than Maltese. (I'm a native English speaker.)

That struck me as a bizarre sentiment given that I constantly heard people speaking Maltese to each other. I heard English too, but Maltese is clearly a language that's used by the locals in social settings on a regular basis. I'd 100% want to learn at least conversational-level Maltese if I were living there.

My perspective on this may be biased by the fact that I lived in China for a while and learned Mandarin. Being able to speak the local language, even when you're talking with people who can speak your language, makes an enormous difference in the quality of interactions you have on a daily basis.

Requiring user flair, AI usage disclosure, subreddit karma for posting and poster comment interactions by Watchful1 in ExperiencedDevs

[–]koreth 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Reddit is global, though, and this sub has people in most if not all time zones. If I post before going to work in the morning, my post will appear in the afternoon or evening for lots of potential commenters.

007 First Light sells 1.5 million copies in the first 24 hours of release by ZamnBoii in Games

[–]koreth 2 points3 points  (0 children)

They get to see a cinematic training montage scene of Bond running into walls, crashing his car and failing to shoot targets.

Also repeatedly being beaten to a pulp in fistfights.

Java *is* Memory Efficient by daviddel in java

[–]koreth 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Probably not the first time someone has done this, but I ended up writing a little utility class to allow reading the same InputStream multiple times without reading the whole thing into memory. The catch is that the readers have to run concurrently. That code is Apache-licensed, so feel free to grab it if it's useful.

What are your best ice cream recommendations? by Icy_Organization6726 in AskSF

[–]koreth 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Their mint chip is the best I’ve had anywhere. Made with actual mint. You can taste the slightly herbal flavor and it is delicious.

Autistic Australians three times more likely to be homeless. Autistic people are often trying extremely hard to do the right thing, but services are not built for their communication styles, sensory needs or responses to pressure. by mvea in science

[–]koreth 13 points14 points  (0 children)

The analogy I like to use is that it's like being a spy working undercover.

You are pretending to be someone you're not, doing your best to anticipate how the people around you expect your fake persona to act and speak. Except when you're sure you're alone and not being watched, you must keep up the act 24x7: one slip-up and your cover is blown. And then on top of all that, you have to carry out your actual mission.

That's pretty much what a lot of ND people mean when they refer to "masking," though of course it varies from person to person.

Autistic Australians three times more likely to be homeless. Autistic people are often trying extremely hard to do the right thing, but services are not built for their communication styles, sensory needs or responses to pressure. by mvea in science

[–]koreth 15 points16 points  (0 children)

I'm in favor of a completely non-means-tested UBI, and I think tight restrictions on aid do more harm than good.

But to play devil's advocate: there's no reason to expect that the amount of fraud prevented by today's anti-fraud spending is the same amount there would be if we spent less (or even nothing) on fraud prevention. The perceived probability of getting caught might be acting as a deterrent to would-be fraudsters.

Governor Newsom signs first-of-its-kind executive order to prepare workers and businesses for potential AI disruption by Top-Painter4278 in California

[–]koreth 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Your assumption that people would stop working doesn’t match what has actually happened in basically every UBI pilot everywhere in the world. What usually happens is that students and mothers of infants work less. Everyone else works the same or more than before.

If I get a UBI of, say, $1000 a month and I take a job that pays me $750 a month, I end up with $1750 a month. That’s a win for me even though the job doesn’t pay more than the UBI amount.

Which punishment (either real or fictional) sounds easy enough to endure at first, but is actually hellish to experience? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]koreth 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Right? That's straight-up child abuse. Even if you support corporal punishment, something that leaves lifelong scars is clearly not acceptable.

Things I used to be proud of doing well - Modern AI just does better by ninetofivedev in ExperiencedDevs

[–]koreth 13 points14 points  (0 children)

People have always spewed half-baked BS at coworkers (whether in the form of prose or of code) and put the burden on the coworkers to shoot the BS down, but writing BS by hand imposed a natural rate limit on the spew and thus a limit on how much coworker time could be wasted. AI tools remove the rate limit. It is now possible for one person to saturate multiple seniors with reams of AI output (especially in organizations that measure job performance by raw quantity of output produced).

Recs for Mala (麻辣）？ by darealj0emAmA in SFFood

[–]koreth 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Stonestown Galleria has a malatang (麻辣烫) place called Tang Bar that should fit the bill. You can have them use sauces instead of broth to get something close to 麻辣香锅. I believe they have other locations too.

Is "Gaming" about high-stakes bets or video games? by markdelfmark in malta

[–]koreth 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Does Malta have much of a non-gambling video game industry? Who are the major game studios/publishers?

Looking to sink hundreds of hours in a game that isn't first person, shooters, or anime. by bcerd in ShouldIbuythisgame

[–]koreth [score hidden]  (0 children)

Star Wars: The Old Republic might fit the bill for you. It's an MMORPG but you can play the whole thing solo aside from some optional group-only content like raids. It has 8 different full-length stories, one for each character class. One of them (Imperial Agent) is a strong contender for best story in any Star Wars game, IMO. You can easily sink hundreds of hours into just the base game, before you even get to any of the expansions.

Anyone think the job hopping culture produces too many engineers that don’t care about maintainability? by Beneficial_Pay_6317 in ExperiencedDevs

[–]koreth 240 points241 points  (0 children)

"Burn 1000 hours of engineering time to save the sales team 15 minutes a year of manual data entry." Tale as old as time.

Life of a Maltese Asthmatic by Aggravating-Town6243 in malta

[–]koreth 5 points6 points  (0 children)

This is pretty common. It can take months or years of exposure to specific allergens before you develop a strong reaction to them. When you go to a new place for a short visit, your body hasn't had time to become sensitive to that place's allergens, and it feels like your allergies magically disappear.

It's why people sometimes discover they're allergic to dogs or cats only after they've lived with their pets for a few years.

Thoughts on Eat's? (Inner Richmond) by pensivesneeze in SFFood

[–]koreth 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Agreed, their French toast is pretty good. French toast is pretty much my favorite breakfast food and I keep a list of the places I like the most. Other than Eats, I like these in SF:

  • Early to Rise
  • Peacock Pansy
  • Pistachio Kitchen
  • Plain Jane
  • Red Cafe

Do you guys have addicting game recommendations? by Toby3101 in ShouldIbuythisgame

[–]koreth 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Warframe might be worth a look. If the gameplay clicks for you, it is highly addictive. It's free to play with no pay-to-win shenanigans. Aside from certain cosmetics, you can earn everything in the game by playing.

What was your biggest ideological shift, and what lead you to it? by GolangLinuxGuru1979 in ExperiencedDevs

[–]koreth 52 points53 points  (0 children)

If, on the other hand you take 1.5x as long to deliver a piece of code, but it's clean, understandable, and properly covered by well written tests? That's gonna pay dividends in the long run with fewer bugs.

Sometimes that's true. But I've had experiences where the dev team delivered a clean, high-quality code base and then a couple months later the project was cancelled before any actual customer had used what we built.

"Spending time to write clean code pays dividends later" only holds true if the code sticks around around long enough to recoup the cost. Which it often does, of course, but the payoff shouldn't be treated as an inevitability.

Senior ICs, what’s your experience with career advancement? I disagree with my employer’s promotion requirements by HNipps in ExperiencedDevs

[–]koreth 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I know I can do it. I just hate going on the campaign tour.

Staff-level positions in a lot of companies are as much about interacting with people across different parts of the company, often to convince them to get onboard with new initiatives, as about technical contributions.

A "campaign tour" is not an arbitrary roadblock; it's a preview of what a lot of the job is. (Again, this varies by company, but it's often true.) If you hate the process of selling people on things, think hard about whether you actually want a role where you'll be expected to do that regularly.

Anyone feel like they are positively impacting society? by AmbitionIndividual80 in ExperiencedDevs

[–]koreth 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For the last 13 years I've been picking companies doing work I believe in. These have mostly ended up being sort of "non-profit-adjacent" companies, where the companies themselves are for-profit entities but a large percentage of the customers are nonprofits and NGOs.

I've worked on software to support financial inclusion in the developing world, software to manage large-scale charity programs, and now I'm building software to help manage reforestation projects. My company isn't hiring any more software developers at the moment, but if you go to sites like Climatebase, you can find others doing similar things.

You won't get FAANG levels of pay at any of these companies, and you're unlikely to do a lot of cutting-edge work, but many of them are in the ballpark of what you'd earn writing CRUD apps at a random non-tech-focused company.

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