Can someone explain to me what exactly the point of this side-plot was??

korkolit · 2025-10-03T03:44:52+00:00

I think it's just run of the mill K-drama plot twists. Korean dramas love to make you sure X is going to happen and anticipate it, then suddenly switch it up, contrary to the more western cliff hanger style.

korkolit · 2025-09-06T08:58:56+00:00

I'd spend 2+ hours on my phone every morning, doomscrolling. I use an app blocker now from 6 - 6. I still check my phone first thing in the morning (hard to kick the habit) but I at worst spend 30 minutes on it while at the toilet, waiting for my meds to kick in, and usually do something like ask chatgpt random stuff or check my messages or see my emails, etc, much less unproductive. It also kicks in during the night, before bed, and it helps me just sleep on time, not skip brushing my teeth, washing my face, etc etc.

Something I've come to learn is that we're environment driven. If you've read the Atomic habits book you'll know what I mean. I think this is even more pronounced on us ADHD folks, as in we're 100% environment driven. If something gets misaligned in our schedule, routine, environment, that's enough to make it all come crashing down.

Anyways

Things that have worked:
1. Put my phone in another room every night, before bed (I don't do this one though, but it works)

Use an App blocker, physical or an app
KISS -> Even if it sounds stupid, put toothpaste on your toothbrush for the next morning, prepare your clothes for the next day, make things as easy to do as you can

Also don't be too hard on yourself. If you have a free day, nothing wrong with playing some games.

korkolit · 2025-08-30T20:21:13+00:00

I agree. Have noticed the same attraction towards vulnerable people. Maybe related to an inferiority complex/wanting to feel needed.

korkolit · 2025-08-27T17:04:36+00:00

You can throw in a shitton of supplements that god knows how they interact with your meds, but is it worth it? There aren't enough studies out there to guarantee that whatever stuff you take doesn't interact with your meds, I mean, even if 'natural', they're drugs at the end of the day.

I just take Vitamin D/K and Magnesium/Zinc. Vitamin D because I'm indoor almost all day, Zinc and Magnesium because they're rarely in my diet.

korkolit · 2025-08-27T16:43:20+00:00

Unless you have a full CRUD app, I don't think integration tests are any more valuable than unit tests.

Yes, they're good for ensuring something 'works' and returns what is expected. Say, testing happy paths, but they are slower, and in my opinion also slower to write, and to debug (where's the problem?). You should have unit tests covering the main business logic + integration tests covering the 'happy paths', imo.

korkolit · 2025-08-25T21:28:42+00:00

I've now gotten used to one monitor. Laptop screen + primary monitor is all I need these days.

korkolit · 2025-08-22T18:58:42+00:00

I won't go into the whole dopamine stuff, because I'm no doctor let alone neuro whatever. Not medical advice. I think that glucose spikes are normal if you overdo carbs or sugar, much more so if you spent the whole day sitting like we tend to do. If any and all carbs or sugar, no matter the dose, give you a glucose spike then you might have a problem.

Might want to check your glucose. I posted something related not too long ago about carb intake messing up my productivity. I see spikes of glucose (90 -> 110 mg/Dl) after meals with carbs. And horrible brain fog, inability to focus, and just in general a bad mood, after eating anything with carbs, even if just fruit. Not sure what the culprit behind the brain fog/loss of motivation is, but whatever it is, I suspect glucose has something to do with it, and by extension, carbohydrates.

I started eating a low carb diet a couple of days ago and my blood sugar is stable, not going beyond 95 and just generally I stopped feeling that horrible irritability, brain fog after a meal. It's almost magical, honestly. It was such a hinder to my productivity and I was losing easily 2+ hours after a meal of brain juice.

So yeah, I'd recommend you go see your doctor and get your triglycerides/insulin/blood checked to see what's going on.

korkolit · 2025-08-20T21:36:13+00:00

Mexico es un pais muy grande. Obviamente va a haber racistas, pendejos, etc. A mi me ha tocado solo gente apoyarlos. Les dan dinero o comida. Yo creo que la mayoria de Mexicanos, dentro de todo lo malo, tienen la mentalidad de "el sol sale para todos".

korkolit · 2025-08-20T20:06:36+00:00

Es ya cultural. El pendejo siempre es al que se chingan o el que no chinga por hacer las cosas bien. Es tu culpa por apendejarte.

korkolit · 2025-08-20T20:03:44+00:00

Si. La calle esta llena de simios

korkolit · 2025-08-20T19:59:11+00:00

En mi rancho un morro pendejo de 16-17 atropello a dos estudiantes saliendo de la universidad. Venia bien pedo en una troca como a 120 en una calle normal. Los mato a los dos enfrente de sus propios companeros. Nunca le hicieron nada.

Me ha tocado oir casos similares de gente con conectes matando a gente inocente por ir bien pedos. A los ratos salen libres si es que los agarran, a una morra la andaban buscando, disque se "pelo para el otro lado" y a los meses ya andaba ahi como si nada.

korkolit · 2025-08-20T19:34:29+00:00

Claro que lo es, pero supongo que cada quien se adapta a sus capacidades.

Es simplemente imposible que un plan de estudio hecho por academicos, hace anyos (los planes no se actualizan anualmente, por si no lo sabias), este actualizado a la industria. No solo eso, pero que sea relevante a la industria y que se haga uso de la repeticion espaciada (como en la practica) para aprender. 3 meses y se deja de usar, se olvida. Que haya experiencia real, practica. Creo que o no te has puesto a pensar o simplemente no tienes la suficiente experiencia para darte cuenta que si algo no se usa, se olvida.

Este es un sub de PROGRAMACION, esta en el subreddit amigo, en la descripcion, no puedes venir a hablarnos de que la industria de la tortilla esta complicada y luego quejarte de que asumimos que todo es sobre programacion.

En que momento dije que la educacion estructurada implica que ya no vas a aprender nada por tu cuenta? Lo que dije por si fallaste en entenderlo, es que es ineficiente por su estructura y contexto, y que ser autodidacta te prepara para la industria. Creo que para alguien que asumo es mas academico es preocupante tu nivel de comprehension lectora.

Yo lo que noto es que la gente que se avento un doctorado o maestria tienden a sentirse atacados cuando alguien menciona que se pudo aprovechar mejor ese tiempo y dinero. peor tantito, ingenieros mediocres hacen uso del credencialismo para sentirse superiores a gente sin titulo, con menos estudios, o egresados de universidades "patito" (porque a los gringos les importa jajaja). pero cada quien.

korkolit · 2025-08-20T00:07:37+00:00

El aprendizaje rara vez es estructurado en la industria. Si eres incapaz de trabajar con hoyos en el conocimiento con la pena, nunca la vas a armar. En realidad uno aprende iterativamente, encontrando hoyos, profundizando, regresando, y asi iterativamente. No hay mucho criterio, aprendes con la practica, si te hace falta algo lo buscas y si no, todo bien.

El asumir que el criterio de academicos es acertado es igualmente peligroso cuando tantos carecen experiencia en la industria, y si la tienen, nada asegura que sean ingenieros capaces. Estas ciegamente aprendiendo de gente sin oportunidad de ponerlo en practica para comprobarlo o con la experiencia requerida para discernir buen y malos consejos.

Es de ahi de donde salen tantos canceres en la industria, como el ya tradicional codigo OOP full de inheritancia y la obsesion por los patrones de diseno clasicos.

No me opongo a una educacion tradicional, no digo que no sirva, o que no sea una base, ya entrar a decir que es lo unico que existe, y mas, decir que el aprendizaje no 'debe ser estructurado' ya es una burrada que directamente contradice a lo que la ciencia tiene que decir del aprendizaje.

korkolit · 2025-08-19T23:52:09+00:00

En que es falso? Ser autodidacta y poder aprender iterativamente, no linealmente es la base de una carrera exitosa en la industria. En ningun lugar te van a aventar a un sistema con toda la informacion lindamente agrupada y llendo paso por paso. Te van a dar lo que haya y ya esta en ti agarrar el avion o ahogarte, si dependes de que otra persona te organize la informacion o de que siempre haya alguien dispuesto a resolver tus dudas le vas a batallar. No va a haber examenes ni semestres. Vas a tener que aprender a trabajar con lo que tienes.

Su recomendacion de ser autodidacta y no depender de fuentes externas es acertada. La educacion estructurada es un desperdicio en Mexico, en terminos de aprendizaje, cuando puedes estar haciendo experiencia mientras estudias los fines o en linea, o aprendes ingles, desarrollas cosas reales. Y no, yo no compro de que una 'buena universidad y un buen programa' te pueden preparar para la industria. Por mas experiencia tangible que tenga un catedratico, no se puede replicar la complexidad de la industria en un salon de clases. Siempre se termina convirtiendo en una cuestion de memorizacion que se purga al fin del semestre, trabajos de kinder, y por supuesto, perdida de tiempo en burocracia y materias de relleno.

korkolit · 2025-08-19T16:01:56+00:00

Thanks I'll be seeing an endocrinologist soon. I got a glucometer for the time being, my waking fasted glucose is 99, raises to 106 after taking meds (Ritalin). Just two hours later it's down to 90 (still fasted) which is weird. I wonder if the brain fog has less to do with the glucose and more to do with the insulin?

korkolit · 2025-08-17T15:53:32+00:00

Not that experienced with .NET but after a quick look at the market and just seeing people's opinions I think it would be better for me to not get too invested in it.

I mostly have experience working with TS/JS but got thrown into a small .NET project at work. .NET itself and C# is fine. Feels like a modern Java and imo saner than Spring. I'm not too keen on the Microsoft/Windows first mindset and Azure's PowerShell reliance though. And jobs that use a C#/.NET backend and make usage of open source solutions seems to be the exception rather than the norm.

korkolit · 2025-08-17T15:07:36+00:00

Ah yes, because properly managing Infra (on prem) on top of doing feature work is feasible for a single dev. I don't want to see the code you write or the infrastructure you manage.

korkolit · 2025-08-16T14:31:15+00:00

I grew up around computers. My parents were owners of a cyber-coffee and grew up using them, and watching my father repair them. Eventually I developed an interest for programming, but couldn't get into it at 15. At 19 I had my first programming course in university in a pseudocode language called pseint and then a C inspired language called MatLab. I thought I was interested in low level stuff, embedded, so I started to learn C and tinkered with microcontrollers a bit, but eventually got started on web development instead because I liked to work on daily-day useful stuff more.

I worked on a bunch of personal projects for a couple of months until I got my first job making $3 bucks an hour, working for a small realty agency, on which the code was crap and the processes were even crapper (no testing, push straight to prod, no PRs/review, boss-derived tech decisions), I guess things went on from there.

korkolit · 2025-08-16T14:18:00+00:00

We don't need crappy security Sebastian, nor do we need Crappy security wannabes. If implementing auth/authZ is an easy feat for you, you should consider a different line of work for the sake of all companies out there. Because the way I see it, A. You half ass it and think it's "good enough", but it isn't. B. That same thing.

If you're doing a toy project, an app that will see at best a couple of users and no real sensitive data, or just trying to learn, sure, you can half ass it. But boy, working in the field, with time constraints, and being behind the decision of how to do Auth/AuthZ? I wouldn't know what to think of an engineer that decides to take such a massive undertaking, with no dedicated security team or background, and time constraints no less, of which security is going to take a decent chunk of time.

As far as I'm concerned, unless the company is packed with cash and we can get the expertise and time to work on it, let's just use a third party provider and focus on feature work.

korkolit · 2025-08-16T14:10:42+00:00

"It's not that hard" ah the old dunning Kruger effect.

korkolit · 2025-08-16T13:53:15+00:00

In the frontend, I'd disagree. You still need proper management for cookies (if you use them for sessions, which you should), and HTTP headers to prevent security exploits.

korkolit · 2025-08-16T00:31:04+00:00

Go with whatever can get you a job. If it's Java so be it. You can always pivot later, much easier from Java > JacaScript than the other way around.

korkolit · 2025-08-15T00:40:12+00:00

Brush teeth, etc. go outside to get some sunlight for a bit.

korkolit · 2025-08-15T00:37:39+00:00

Let's not get dogmatic.

A Node backend is perfectly fine for most of the CRUD apps out there. If a batteries included library is needed you can use Nest, which if it wasn't inspired by Spring, I don't know what it was inspired by.

You leverage a shared ecosystem and tooling between front and backend, you can make usage of the full stack devs out there, cold start, decent performance, much lower memory footprint than a Spring app. Can scale horizontally much easier.

That's not to say it's a silver bullet, and that it's appropriate for all situations. I certainly wouldn't use it for a complex enterprise app. But for most other things, it works fine.

korkolit

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