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A Boring Dystopia

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[–] ThatWeirdGuy1001 72 points 1 year ago (28 children)

As a former child this is nothing new to me. I remember how much I hated when the teacher had people read things out loud in English class. Hell honestly any class. The amount of people who read like every. Word. Had. A. Period. And the people who would read any word longer than 3 syllables like it was hy-phe-na-ted. It was fucking torture.

20 minutes to read one single page.

[–] LagrangePoint 31 points 1 year ago (13 children)

Yeah, this was torture in grade school. I figured it would get better in middle school.

Then it was torture in middle school and I thought it would get better in high school.

Then it was STILL torture in high school and I thought it would surely, surely get better in college.

Then I got to college and there were still mofos reading. like. this.

[–] maniacal_gaff 15 points 1 year ago (12 children)

I am an engineer who oversees a team. Most of them can't write more than a coherent sentence. Code and analyze data, sure, but put together a coherent paragraph? Not really.

[–] kicksystem 3 points 1 year ago

I have had to tell software engineers time and time again that is is totally okay to make error strings beyond one sentence or one word. It almost seems to me that they never realized that strings can hold multiple sentences and and don't have relevant memory constraints.

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