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>> In this day of 24h/24 porn accessible online it stands to reason that would be a major contributor in the ED problem.

What?

I am confused by your statement. Are you saying porn causes ED? I would casually think that would mean most men would have ED :)

A quick search of the web [1][2][3] shows several Psychology and also Medical papers showing porn does not cause ED. Wondering (if I am reading your statement correctly) where you correlate porn use to ED. I think that would be newsworthy.

[1] https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/all-about-sex/201908...

[2] https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/all-about-sex/202201...

[3] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41443-022-00596-y

Reading between the lines, I see the great institutions are doing the same things the small universities that I worked at also do... do not admit failure. It is amazing that proverbially across campus in the psych or history or sociology departments, I bet they can tell the uni a thing or two about admitting failure and moving on, making you (or the institution) better. Truly I tell you, this makes me feel sad.

Define "online"?

Sure, I have that ebay account that I created when ebay started in 1995, but if we just say "any online service", well, I have run my own e-mail server since 1994, so I guess that predates it. I do not even want to admit this, but my Yahoo account is still valid, I see emails from 1994 also.

If we go with email, I was a sysadmin at a university, and at least two professors in our department had emails from the 1980s. Their account was the same, and still worked, of course, does that count?

Exactly, with sequential, I may loose count... in the countrysides of Germany going 145 in my rally car. But for H or HH, I do not really get it other than novelty.

>> it set me back $6,000.

The issue is that most modern households in the U.S. can not hack that kind of pricetag for a sofa / couch. Hell, I could never spend that kind of jack on a couch, even if I literally saved up for it (which would take years)... it is just far too much of a percentage of my income for one furniture item.

So, how do we solve that issue (e.g. its good, but if it is 10% of your gross annual income, how could you afford it)? Either people need to get paid more, or ???

I agree, while I just can not stand MrBeast or his videos, and I can not explain it (maybe they are just nothing but attention grabbers and have nothing to offer), I feel like this article also falls into "attention grabber with nothing foundational to offer".

I stopped watching anything I am not deliberately searching for on YouTube, as they all seem to be MrBeast copy-cats. Never heard of this person they are interviewing in the article, but again, the article itself seemed to go nowhere... maybe we were duped, and that was the point?

>> Desktop and mobile shouldn't have the first couple of bars obscured.

I am on a desktop with a huge monitor in ultra high res. It is pretty bad.

>> The sideways text is meant to be a subtle nod to the fact the page scrolls sideways, but I agree it's not as nice to read as it would be were the text the right way around.

Then the subtle nod is lost on me... why not turn the text when I click, or have hover text, or make the whole page rotated 90 degrees?

Like the original response, it was fun for one second, then I was like I can not read this stuff, or its painful.

You need to do some soul searching (or, I like punk rock, "you've got soul doubt", to quote Fat Mike)...

Are you just nervous because of the news you are reading

OR

    "my interest in webdev is still dead"

Have you gone through your college career and you realized you do not like CS?

You need to answer this question first. Then you have the answer... if you love CS, the the job will come. Forget what you are reading and pretend this job hunt is another algorithms or operating systems class that you need to bust your ass at and pass.

If on the the other hand the flame is dead, you are getting separated and moving on to another field, well then, there is your other answer. Pretend that is another kind of problem that you have to solve and go solve it. You just went through years of problem solving school, go do it.

-- Full disclosure: not trying to be mean, just trying to boil it down to simplest "if A then B" parts.

There be wallet burning dragons here...

I wonder if this is:

AI use in the real world is still early on, and so it is expensive.

OR

Whoa, slashdot (I guess I'm old, perhaps reddit) effect and we can not afford the bandwidth, quick turn it off!

OR

Same as above but with CPU costs.

I am curious to know the limiting factor.

>> Hundreds of bookmarks I'll never re-visit.

It is like the books on our shelves and the proverbial pictures in our parents shoeboxes. I recall when I was very very young, my parents would break out the shoeboxes at holiday gatherings (usually Christmas and Thanksgiving) and rummage through the pictures with family members. Other than those times, they were just boxes in the back of a closet.

Perhaps we should do that with our bookmarks... break them out once a year and see if there are any ones left keeping, and ones that just need to go to the back of the closet.

I did woodworking long before programming of any kind. There are some subtle but critical differences...

Mess up bad in programming, you may loose your job.

Mess up bad on the {table,band,radial arm}saw or jointer,planer,lathe and you may loose a {finger,limb,LIFE}

Cleaning up in woodworking is pretty much required, where as in software, some one typically has to yell at you to do it. If you do not clean the table saw, or dust collector, it will stop functioning. This happens a lot sooner in woodworking than the "technical debt" of software.

Personally, I prefer woodworking to software, but I think a lot of people romanticize woodworking or trade types of hobbies after doing software for a while. The truth is that it will take you a long time to be able to bang out one of those picture perfect awesome furniture items... and that piano level, three feet deep finish you see other people do... Yeah, tell me how easy that was to get. It is just like software in that respect. Good clean code takes time. Good looking woodworking takes a lot of experience.

I thought of that, I am not rural (town is about 300,000 people)... Perhaps that is rural in some areas I guess.

The HVAC contractors here are pretty small, maybe they do not want to take the risk.

As someone else said, if I had more time, I would have purchased a few DIY split systems... I might do that for AC only, as I did not replace the AC at that time.

I just replaced a furnace... everyone I called for a quote would not touch a heat pump with a 20foot pole, or they wanted prices that were 2X what a separate furnace and AC would cost to install. It was very strange. This is the second home where I had this experience.. basically, they really did not want to install it. I ended up going with gas as no local person would install/warranty a heat pump, or, it was priced so high it was a non-starter (e.g. a gas furnace is $4k, the AC is $4k, making it $8k, _but_ if you want a heat pump, well, that is going to be $15,999.85.)

This was recently, btw, as in last month. I am still kind of shaking my head.

I have only ever read Snow Crash. I enjoyed it. However, I read it in 1992. When I think about it now, I bet reading it today would seem odd... like watching old 1950s shows that make predictions about the world of tomorrow.

While I mostly agree, I think one thing to keep in mind is that we still need people somewhere who know how to do that. e.g. FAANG might have data center people and sysadmins that know the hardware... we (they? not sure) just need to ensure that in the future, we still have _some_ people that posses that knowledge.

I do not think it is requisite that _all_ developers have that knowledge.

I was (not figuratively) thinking "they are still here??" too.

I am partially shocked. Thought they were no longer a company.

Anyone wanting to build that circuit should do a quick search, it has been much improved over the years, and there are even off the shelf PCBs that fit right in the case for cheap.

Personally, it is still cool. I think I have three or four of them in the house, and I have built countless CMoy-BB versions for my friends when they were selling the PCBs. It is pretty impressive, I still have one powering my very large Sony headphones right now.

I must be an immature adult. Saw the picture of the while bike (is it really a penny-farthing?), and all I could think was: it has an electric motor in the back...then...

Pop a wheelie!!

This is the "problem" today that I see in the classroom (I used to teach CS until recently)... learners today do not want to dedicate the time it takes to truly understand. Not all of them, but a LOT of them have the opinion that they just need to get through this damn algorithms class, get the damn piece of paper (diploma) so they can go out and start a job doing "real" programming.

Those students, they do not get FAANG jobs, or make big money. The few that want to understand are much more like the articles description, and they end up five years on far ahead of their peers at work.

Just my $0.02.

Right. When I saw "Debian kernels ranging from 2.6.32-21 to 2.6.32-24..." I was like, uhhhh.

Someone should change the title of the HN post to say 2011.

Time marches on, but I wonder how many new linux users will never see so many cool old programs as they just do not know about them.

Does that thing everyone keeps trying to get us all to move to (I am a hardcore ICEwm / *boxwm user) support all of the old X stuff like xsnow, xscreensaver, etc?

I was sad to realize that xroach is no longer in Debian (or Gentoo, there is a bug report from 2009), however, others still exist: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/204241/x-windows-sp...

As SE says, do not forget the "santa" option to xsnow. I forgot about it.

This always reminds me, anyone remember Koules? https://www.ucw.cz/~hubicka/koules/English/koules.html

Totally agree with this... If you say it will live forever, but _you_ are doing the hosting, it can not, by default, live forever. I need to own the HTML, then it will live as long as I will.

I sometimes wonder how new users of some of this tech get going with it... Example: I have been a vim user for geez, decades. I just read this article and thought "wow, I know I have heard of neo-vim, never used it, maybe I should change". So I searched the fine web for neo-vim sysadmin plugins. I came across this [0].

OK, wow, now I have the same thoughts as the author. How long would it take just to look at say the ColorScheme section or Utility section of that document?? It really makes me pause and think "too many choices lead to larger levels of inertia against change". I know I can just go and grab a neo-vim and look up a specific plugin, but it does make me wonder if we are overwhelming the tech/programming community with choices.

[0] https://github.com/rockerBOO/awesome-neovim

I have a CIO who stated, our churn is no worse than anyone elses, on average. The problem with that statement was that our churn was department specific, so if you looked at the average, it looked great. But if you zoomed in, the highly skilled IT workers were fleeing, and we were left with huge holes that caused real problems.

In the graph you link to, I would love to see that with the top 10%, perhaps even 20% removed. I really wonder how a few hundred people like Elon or Bezos skew the median, plus the thousands of CIOs making 400X what I make.

That makes sense. I threw in my favorite (used to be underground) artist and saw every side-project they had pop up (and they have around a dozen). OTOH, I just threw in Nujabes and saw a number of people I do not recognize, which I find interesting.

From my tests, the suggestions make sense. It seems to be better than the spotify "I will play things that send you into an echo chamber" algorithm.

I actually like how the document dates itself, for example in the /opt description:

"For example, StarOffice, Kylix, Netscape Communicator and WordPerfect packages are normally found here"

I like your explanation and examples.

It is just a pet peeve of mine (disclosure, I am a terminally degreed engineer), but it is something a lot of non-EE people forget: circuits do not "push" current, your wall outlet does not "push amps" and this applies to micro-electronics (as well as pico, nano, fempto, etc)... the circuit is always a combination of the source and load.

So, if the load is not equal to the source (or vice versa, does not matter), by conservation of energy, we have some "leftover"... in signals, this leftover is going to travel back from whence it came, causing (possibly) attenuation or amplification depending on timing, which some might call distortion.

It can be tricky to keep this in mind when you are working with complex circuits, and it gets more difficult as speeds increase and signal sizes go down.

Yes. I started very late in life. Never ran before about five years ago. I feel much better.