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A year or so ago I made a post on reddit/TIL that referenced CD-R and it got deleted by a mod because "CD-R is not a known thing" or something like that. The mo

A year or so ago I made a post on reddit/TIL that referenced CD-R and it got deleted by a mod because "CD-R is not a known thing" or something like that. The mod must've been too young to ever used a CD-R. That was kind of shocking to me, but then I haven't used CD-R myself in almost a decade.

Scoundreller 4y ago
A few years ago I mentioned a certain configuration needing a cross-over cable. Never heard of Auto MDI-X... I guess one can get through life using cross-over cables and straight cables where they used to be required, but you're going to cause confusion if you ask for a x-over cable at a shop.
Dalewyn 4y ago
That is so perfectly Reddit.
gymbeaux 4y ago
There are reasons we are here and not on Reddit
- fortran77 4y ago
  For insightful comments like yours!? I’m on both.
- flangola7 4y ago
  Reddit is (mostly) just bigger. There are parts that are worse but there are also parts that are much better.
  - SillyUsername 4y ago
    Reddit used to be like Hacker News, but as it became popular the memes started rolling in, and effectively lowered the IQ quotient and technology bias of the home page content and diluted the sub reddits. I looked back through archive.org a few years ago to anecdotally prove this theory to myself and yes, on the front page the factual content (in my personal opinion) as opposed to meme content seems to drop between 20-40% compared to more recently. The same seemed to happened to digg.com which made people move to reddit (remember that before it killed its user base?). I really hope this never happens to Hacker News...
    - dijit 4y ago
      This comment reeks of exceptionalism and “iamverysmart”. I hope you dont take strong offence to that because I am not saying you think this way, only that what you wrote sounds that way. That said: Mass appeal always lowers the quality of discourse, due (in part) to there being more of a bias towards being first (the first comment to make a certain type of joke will be rewarded most) and also due to the fact that people tend to aggregate around things that are fun, not necessarily correct. btw: IQ is a measure of pattern matching and is used in children to determine mental development relative to their biological age, it shouldn’t have any affect on internet discourse.
      - SillyUsername 4y ago
        This was not my intention or what I hoped to convey. I don't hold a bias (I couldn't if I wanted to - I have a son with Down Syndrome) I just wanted to point out a reason for the change - which you more eloquently wrote - since I miss the more technical discourse.
    - scarface74 4y ago
      Reddit is just like Facebook. If you are seeing low quality content, it’s mostly the fault of self selection. On Reddit, the serious subreddits don’t have a lot of memes and many prevent them. On Facebook if your feed is full of toxicity and politics, it’s because your friends are FB warriors and toxic.
    - USA-RedDragon 4y ago
      > effectively lowered the IQ quotient Yeah, you really demonstrate how it's lowered. Intelligence quotient quotient
      - SillyUsername 4y ago
        I'm not going to do you a personalised study. Why don't you check it for yourself instead of down voting, or perhaps actually prove me wrong - my comments clearly stated this is anecdotal and "effectively"? If you take a small pool individuals who discuss technical topics, and dilute it with more people it will trend down owing to the population IQ approaching the average of ~100. Technical articles will also be less prevalent owing to the relative greater number of non technical topics and less interest in those that are. It's not that technical people don't enjoy memes, it's that the wider populous won't enjoy esoteric technical or scientific articles.
- IYasha 4y ago
  There's at least one good reason: one of the major investors in Reddit is Tencent.
IYasha 4y ago
I've written a DVD a week ago :) Also, CD-Rs are used a lot in legal world, DVDs in medical equipment. BDs in studios and for data backup.
- sn_master 4y ago
  DVDs are still available in many stores for movies, but there's nothing mainstream I can think of that still uses CD-Rs.
  - bestham 4y ago
    CD-Rs are used a lot to transfer data between air gapped or TRMPEST computers. It is quite easy to destruct a CD-R, and they can’t be reused. Hard to destruct a USB memory, and the possibility to reuse them always increases the risk that some one does that and leak confidential information.

Scoundreller 4y ago

A few years ago I mentioned a certain configuration needing a cross-over cable. Never heard of Auto MDI-X... I guess one can get through life using cross-over cables and straight cables where they used to be required, but you're going to cause confusion if you ask for a x-over cable at a shop.

Dalewyn 4y ago

That is so perfectly Reddit.

gymbeaux 4y ago

There are reasons we are here and not on Reddit

fortran77 4y ago
For insightful comments like yours!? I’m on both.
flangola7 4y ago
Reddit is (mostly) just bigger. There are parts that are worse but there are also parts that are much better.
- SillyUsername 4y ago
  Reddit used to be like Hacker News, but as it became popular the memes started rolling in, and effectively lowered the IQ quotient and technology bias of the home page content and diluted the sub reddits. I looked back through archive.org a few years ago to anecdotally prove this theory to myself and yes, on the front page the factual content (in my personal opinion) as opposed to meme content seems to drop between 20-40% compared to more recently. The same seemed to happened to digg.com which made people move to reddit (remember that before it killed its user base?). I really hope this never happens to Hacker News...
  - dijit 4y ago
    This comment reeks of exceptionalism and “iamverysmart”. I hope you dont take strong offence to that because I am not saying you think this way, only that what you wrote sounds that way. That said: Mass appeal always lowers the quality of discourse, due (in part) to there being more of a bias towards being first (the first comment to make a certain type of joke will be rewarded most) and also due to the fact that people tend to aggregate around things that are fun, not necessarily correct. btw: IQ is a measure of pattern matching and is used in children to determine mental development relative to their biological age, it shouldn’t have any affect on internet discourse.
    - SillyUsername 4y ago
      This was not my intention or what I hoped to convey. I don't hold a bias (I couldn't if I wanted to - I have a son with Down Syndrome) I just wanted to point out a reason for the change - which you more eloquently wrote - since I miss the more technical discourse.
  - scarface74 4y ago
    Reddit is just like Facebook. If you are seeing low quality content, it’s mostly the fault of self selection. On Reddit, the serious subreddits don’t have a lot of memes and many prevent them. On Facebook if your feed is full of toxicity and politics, it’s because your friends are FB warriors and toxic.
  - USA-RedDragon 4y ago
    > effectively lowered the IQ quotient Yeah, you really demonstrate how it's lowered. Intelligence quotient quotient
    - SillyUsername 4y ago
      I'm not going to do you a personalised study. Why don't you check it for yourself instead of down voting, or perhaps actually prove me wrong - my comments clearly stated this is anecdotal and "effectively"? If you take a small pool individuals who discuss technical topics, and dilute it with more people it will trend down owing to the population IQ approaching the average of ~100. Technical articles will also be less prevalent owing to the relative greater number of non technical topics and less interest in those that are. It's not that technical people don't enjoy memes, it's that the wider populous won't enjoy esoteric technical or scientific articles.
IYasha 4y ago
There's at least one good reason: one of the major investors in Reddit is Tencent.

IYasha 4y ago

I've written a DVD a week ago :) Also, CD-Rs are used a lot in legal world, DVDs in medical equipment. BDs in studios and for data backup.

sn_master 4y ago
DVDs are still available in many stores for movies, but there's nothing mainstream I can think of that still uses CD-Rs.
- bestham 4y ago
  CD-Rs are used a lot to transfer data between air gapped or TRMPEST computers. It is quite easy to destruct a CD-R, and they can’t be reused. Hard to destruct a USB memory, and the possibility to reuse them always increases the risk that some one does that and leak confidential information.