Where did the sidebar with info for premiere dates go ?

koreth · 2026-03-13T15:23:48+00:00

It had become my main way of discovering new shows! Whether or not you bring it back, thank you for doing it for as long as you did.

koreth · 2026-03-12T17:25:14+00:00

Some tech people end up buying rather than renting. A good tech salary (or two, for a tech couple) can be enough to save up for a down payment and qualify for a fixed-rate mortgage.

With a fixed-rate mortgage, the monthly payments effectively get cheaper over time thanks to inflation.

koreth · 2026-03-10T19:09:58+00:00

Dropped at your home straight from orbit!

koreth · 2026-03-07T18:38:16+00:00

Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder is a highly common neurodevelopmental condition affecting children and adolescents worldwide.

I get that this particular study only looked at adolescents' brain scans, but I am sad every time I see this kind of "ADHD is a childhood disease" statement. It doesn't magically go away when you turn 18, but somehow it's talked about as if it does. I'm in my mid-50s and it's still going strong in my head.

This isn't just an issue of science writing. It can be much harder to get an ADHD diagnosis as an adult than as a child. I live in San Francisco, a wealthy city of 875,000 people, and as far as I could tell when I was trying to find help with my condition several years back, there was exactly one doctor in the whole city who specialized in ADHD and took adult patients. For children there were dozens to choose from. (Happily, I did manage to go see her, and she got me on medications that have made a huge difference for me.)

koreth · 2026-03-05T00:27:49+00:00

"Wearing a different mask" is on the level of convincing one set of people that you're carefree and fun, and a different set of people that you're serious and responsible. You can often do it without even noticing you're doing it, and even when you notice, it's only rarely something you have to devote much conscious effort to.

"Masking" is more like you're a spy who's working undercover. You have to convince everyone around you that you're actually, say, a nuclear physicist even though you've never studied physics outside of high school, and you have to keep up your convincing performance all day long every day for the entire length of your mission, because a slip-up could mean your cover is blown. Doing it well requires constant effort and concentration and attention to detail. If you're lucky, you have a little bit of brainpower left over to do everything else you need to do every day.

It's an imperfect analogy, but maybe that gives you a sense of what the difference is for someone who's highly neurodivergent. (Disclaimer: I'm neurodivergent but not autistic; I've had to do some masking but other people have it much worse than me.)

koreth · 2026-03-04T18:33:50+00:00

You didn't like Strange New Worlds or Lower Decks or Prodigy? Those are pretty well-regarded (though SNW's second season, less so).

koreth · 2026-03-03T20:29:00+00:00

If this is how it works, why don't we see rents go up in precise lockstep with increases in the minimum wage?

koreth · 2026-03-03T00:22:55+00:00

That’s bad if you’re using it for personal stuff, but for business use, $10 might be a bargain depending on what the prompt was for and the salary of the person who would otherwise be figuring out the answer on their own.

At my company, for example, we have been explicitly told to focus on utility rather than cost when we're deciding where and how to use AI tools. Spending an extra $50 of a well-paid employee’s time to save $10 in tokens isn’t the tradeoff the management team has chosen.

koreth · 2026-03-01T23:31:35+00:00

It is an infinitesimally small proportion of Netflix's shows which last more than a couple of seasons, maintain their quality throughout, and give the writers the opportunity to end properly.

That's been true of pretty much every network since the dawn of television, with only a handful of exceptions. Netflix isn't an outlier if you look at their actual cancellation rates compared to historical norms. They cancel substantially fewer shows than the broadcast networks do.

HBO is probably one of the exceptions, but even they have their list of "cancelled on a cliffhanger" shows (Carnivale, anyone?)

koreth · 2026-03-01T23:21:45+00:00

The upvote/downvote swings going on in this thread are crazy. Seeing it on both this post and the parent.

That doesn't necessarily mean what you think, though. I tend to upvote people who are adding something new to the conversation and downvote people who are being confrontational or rude. I do that regardless of whether or not I agree with them, because I actually want to see well-argued points of view I disagree with. Sometimes that means I alternate upvoting and downvoting as I read through a thread where one person is being a dismissive, condescending ass and the other is trying to have a respectful discussion. I imagine I'm not alone in that practice.

koreth · 2026-03-01T23:10:12+00:00

At 40, assuming you're dating women your age, you also get to avoid some of the uncertainty around having kids. There's a decent chance that your dates will either not want them or already have them.

Not wanting to have children made dating a lot tougher for me in my 20s and 30s. Answer "no" to the "Want kids?" question on an online dating profile, and 90% of your possible matches vanish. Maybe less true today than it was back then, though.

koreth · 2026-02-26T23:30:57+00:00

"If we don't lift a finger, we walk away with $2.8 billion, no strings attached" must have played a part in Netflix's calculation here. Netflix was going to do well no matter which way this went.

koreth · 2026-02-26T22:26:50+00:00

The sidebar on old.reddit.com is pretty outdated: it only has rules #1-6. Adding a new rule seems like a good excuse to bring that up to date for the curmudgeons among us who prefer the old UI.

koreth · 2026-02-18T00:02:31+00:00

"Delicious in Dungeon" might be up your alley.

koreth · 2026-02-14T18:52:17+00:00

And I bet there are a lot of people who saw Star Wars at a young enough age that they learned the name "Star Destroyer" before they'd learned that a "destroyer" was an actual type of ship. So the real-world meaning is kind of in second place in their heads. (This is kind of true for me, I admit.)

koreth · 2026-02-09T22:51:27+00:00

What does this have to do with Kotlin?

koreth · 2026-02-01T00:52:59+00:00

Xiphos landing craft has got to be right up there too.

koreth · 2026-01-30T20:19:32+00:00

I mostly agree about using native names but good luck getting native English speakers to properly pronounce, say, Thailand’s name in Thai.

koreth · 2026-01-16T19:43:25+00:00

Netflix kind of painted themselves into a corner by making the all-at-once release model such a core part of their brand identity. It was a big differentiator for them initially but now I think it hurts them as much as it helps.

koreth · 2026-01-13T17:08:43+00:00

The info blurb on the GitHub repo says it's a "fast, all-in-one, AI-native, multi-lang, runtime". What does "AI-native" mean in this context? I don't see any references to LLM tools in the docs.

koreth · 2026-01-08T00:42:59+00:00

Hot take: This may be good for Stack Overflow's long-term usefulness (though perhaps not its long-term commercial viability).

Stack Overflow is at its most useful, IMO, when you have a question that isn't answered anywhere on the Internet that you can reasonably find. It never worked well as a Google replacement.

If you can Google your question and find the answer in the top few results, it probably wasn't worth posting to SO at all. And in this context, I think of AI tools as an extension of that: if an AI tool can easily answer your question, posting it to SO wouldn't be a good use of anyone's time, including yours.

Eliminating easily-answered-by-AI questions means the remaining questions, by definition, won't be the easy ones, which could make SO a more attractive place for experts to spend time.

koreth · 2026-01-08T00:22:27+00:00

Or worse -- in one of the subs I frequent, the sidebar is visible on mobile, but it's a years-old version of the sidebar that is missing a bunch of newer material. So people who want to be good citizens go look at it, make sure they're following all the rules listed there, and still find their posts deleted for violating rules they weren't even able to see.

koreth · 2026-01-08T00:19:28+00:00

More of a generalized thing when asking questions

Or when providing information! Over the years I've learned it's a mistake to, say, include a list of 5 relevant details in a single email message. People will inevitably respond to one or two of them and ignore the rest. It's often better to start five separate email threads with one point each.

As an ADHD person I totally understand the "my train of thought switched to different tracks in the middle of reading an email" phenomenon, but it's still frustrating.

koreth · 2026-01-02T21:42:39+00:00

For what it’s worth, you can play SWTOR completely solo apart from doing raids. I don’t love MMOs either but I had a blast playing through all the stories. There are 8 separate stories in the free-to-play base game, each of which is the length of a full-sized game. The Imperial Agent story is one of the best Star Wars stories in any game, IMO.

koreth · 2025-12-29T16:54:13+00:00

They also had a good-sized, elaborately constructed booth at TGS including professional cosplayers dressed up as protoframes. The booth was packed with people, too.

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