I am old enough to remember when people said TV was a passing fad.
And the radio.
And the printing press.
And the telegraph.
And the written word. I mean come on you lazy shlubs, memorize Beowulf like we had to back in my day.
OK, I am not actually that old.
My point is, that with every technology that has been invented to improve, or expand the ability of humans to communicate, there have been the detractors and naysayers predicting the inevitable doom of said technology.
I am still waiting for that whole writing things down instead of memorizing them thing to finally go out of style.
I'm not sure if the examples you bring make the point you're trying to make. For most practical intents and purposes, printed press is but a small shadow of its former self. Pretty much all outlets focus on the digital and many have stopped printing altogether. Radio is the same, as a fraction of the population, the numbers are hitting record lows. Most people listen to Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube, podcasts, etc, not radio. I doubt I need to even mention classical TV. Point being, all of these technologies exist and people do consume them, yes, but compared to their former glory they're all practically dead.
And yet they persist.
And continue to evolve.
And TV, now streaming over the internet.
The way humans communicate evolves.
And so will the internet, and social media and all the rest to come.
Think of it like this...
Radio didn't die, it evolved, into streaming music.
TV didn't die, it evolved to streaming TV>
The printed medium did not die, it evolved into HTML and web pages, a fancier form of type setting.
The telegraph didn't die, it evolved into digital communications.
See, it's not that things die and go away, it is a process of improving how humans interact.
Some may find it difficult, or maybe the isolation is a problem, then there is an evolution.
It will not stop, it will evolve to the next step.
These aren't the laments of a dying internet. They're the laments of a person mourning a time and place that will never come back but without the social awareness to realize that. That's the trouble with most of these kinds of laments.
New media exploration is new, fresh, and chaotic. The kids on Discord channels and those watching streamers and VTubers have this same energy. The old guys looking for mailing lists are sneaking a peek in between looking at their kids, doing their household chores, and finishing work. The vibes are off cause of the audience.
And bad for kids. Go back and you can read about how dreadful it is that some people are letting their children read novels. What sort of person would do that?
But the article isn't really about that, to the extent it's really about anything except the author's need to feel very, very smart. It's a vague gesture at how "over" it they are, for any value of "it". Best to pat them on the head condescendingly and then move on.
The person who wrote the article used the internet for all the sub-references. Had it not been for the internet, this person most likely would not have known all the things they mentioned. I don't know if they are listening, but it would be an interesting question.
All these technologies have something in common however. They get coopted for misinformation. I think a lot of fear about "new media" whatever form it might be is simply reactionary from a media literacy perspective. The adult of the radio age might understand that one can have some media literacy with the radio, not believe everything they say, waste their time on it, etc. But their kids who are watching TV all day didn't get that lesson in school, clearly the case from watching TV all day and not playing like a normal kid over the last millenia, and since they are kids they don't understand nuance so its simpler to put the foot down, and say "shut that damn TV off."
I think better lessons in media literacy would help a lot of situations like this, however there is very strong incentive in our world to prevent a high degree of media literacy from taking root, as it would obviate a lot of methods used for controlling subsets of the population.
I have been lucid dreaming for many years and about five years ago, I started keeping my tablet on the nightstand and when I wake up, if I remember it, which I generally do, I use speech to text to record it. If I don't do that I often forget them. I have categories, the movie type are like 3rd person and it plays out like I am watching a movie. A ride along dream is like first person, I feel like I am riding along with someone else, but I know it's not me, but I know their thoughts. The me dream is when I am me in the dream. Some of them repeat multiple times over several nights In all cases I know I am dreaming. I started turning some of them into short stories. No idea where some of them come from. Often it seems like I just tuned into someone's story, but the subconscious is a funny thing.
I have a very similar experience. A worthy distinction is that in my dreams I'm either a) fully aware it's a dream but have no control or b) fully in control of myself without realising it's a dream.
Only once I was both aware and in control, but it didn't last long.
My grandfather wrote something one could only describe as a manifesto while he was in prison in the 1930's for moonshining, which he was doing to save the family farm during the depression. He sighted Spinoza multiple times which is when I first discovered Spinoza. He included it in his memoir and it really influenced me in a lot of ways. So, thanks to the poster for throwing this up.
That may be the fastest performance of The Flight of the Bumblebee on organ, but that's it. It is fast, but what's the fastest piece? In the context of this article, it is about length, so any organ piece under 53 seconds would be faster (and there are plenty). You could also look at notes per second, but I'm not sure this one would win. There are some crazy dense passages in the organ literature.
When I was working on m Masters degree in Electrical Engineering way back in 1978, when dinosaurs roamed the Earth :) I had a prof who was really amazing, he was a Comp Sci prof and he gave me a copy of GEB and it changed my life. OK, I'm probably overstating a bit, but that first edition copy, it's one of my prized possessions. Even to this day, every once in a while I pull it out and re-read a chapter.
A few years back, I had a condo on Lake Washington (east of Seattle) and a buddy of mine is a microwave engineer and we were hanging out one day out on my deck with our laptops and he mentioned how amazing it was that there were so many WiFi signals and he said he had a 4 foot dish from a 2ghz MW link in the junk pile at work that they had replaced with a newer 11Ghz link. He went and got it and we put a USB WiFi dongle on the feed horn on a tripod and it was amazing, we could point it across the lake and get all these WiFi hot spots some were open. It just shows, a big antenna on one end really helps with the link budget, of course, the beam width is super narrow so it's pretty finiky on the positioning. I am not sure the distance exactly there but it had to be a mile or two.
In Australia, people are ripping out those old 11ghz tv dishes (when they remember they have them on thier roof still) now that the DVB-T free to air is somewhat decent in cities, and online streaming has taken off.
It’s not entirely unrealistic to get several and replace the LNB’s with Wifi adaptors, and set up multi diferectional internet spongeing setup.
Meanwhile I just installed three Ubiquiti APs in a ~64sqm (~700 sqft) apartment because fuck if reinforced concrete walls and thick doors are going to stand in the way of us having good WiFi coverage at home.
I always thought they totally missed an opportunity with their moronic Xfinity brand, why not just flip the cards and call it InfiniG, Yeah, forget 5G, 6G, or the 8G band (Seth Meyers sub-reference) and simply say we having infinity G, hell yeah, if you are going just make shit up, go for it, am I right? We out G everyone else. I know, you have not idea what the G thing even is, but don't worry, we got you, our G is infinite. There, all you problems and worries are solved for $275/mo.
I know ahead of time that what I am about to say, will result in me getting yelled at by the HN crowd that what I am saying is anecdotal and all that. But, after refraining for a while, I guess I have to say something so, I know you will down vote me because this is not based on a scientific A-B test blah blah. Cool.
People's lives are at risk. And No, I DO NOT work for Boeing and never have. I work for a company that makes a product that does not involve any risk to people's lives, we make a dumb thing.
I live in Seattle, and yeah, I know a lot of people who currently do, or have worked for Boeing. So, yes, this is not a scientific study, again, down vote button is in the lower left over there. Have fun with that.
But from what I have heard, there is something "wrong" at Boeing. And yeah, this is not scientific, got it.
But, from my, unscientific study, that plant in Renton seems to be especially problematic and it sounds like from what I have heard, the Renton operation where the Max 9 and all the other Max N's are were made, there is something especially "wrong:' there. I just cannot NOT say something.
It seems like there is a pattern here, I know this is all anecdotal and all that. But it seems like that particular operation has a management problem that is putting peoples lives at risk.
I suspect you were downvoted because 80% of your post was about how you expect to be downvoted (when HN guidelines ask that we not talk/complain about downvoting), and then other 20% was "there is something wrong at the plant", but you didn't elaborate on that at all. I didn't learn anything useful or interesting from your post, and I'm not getting that time back.
CHEESE/CHEDDAR Origin: US. Meaning: Slang term for money. Derived from the fact Americans on welfare used to receive cheese as part of their benefits. Explanation: This well-known American phrase was born at the end of WWII.
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=cheddarhttps://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cheddar
I think it's interesting that there is this alternate meaning.
