I definitely saw MU* games with graphics schemes in the 90s, although most of the moment to moment activity happened in standard trulytext base "rooms". For instance there were a series of Battletech MU* games that would replicate cockpit HUDs, the hex maps, and related via ASCII art for you while piloting a mech.
There's a difference between always being hypercholesterolemia as a fit person and being obese and losing a bunch of weight when it comes to these conversations.
It's one f those things where some people's "I can't help it!" claims are true, but many are not. That doesn't invalidate the first category even though most people in the category are in the latter.
Dietary cholesterol has little impact on blood cholesterol. However the post that started this debate mentioned mass loss. And that does have a decent correlation. Go from obese to not obese and the median person's cholesterol will drop quite a bit.
I'm not sure. And to be honest, typing speed was never that big a deal. By the time I got out of college a few decades ago I was in the 110-120wpm range.
However as I progressed in my career as a developer what I found is that both my "working" WPM and then my "normal" WPM dropped over time. Once I moved out of truly junior, pure code grinding roles, I spent more and more time thinking, talking to people, etc than I did typing. At that point, what does it matter if I'm at 20wpm or 200?
Likewise, in day to day life, it's not like I'm sitting there typing a novel. I'm mostly clicking buttons, writing short messages, tweet,s and the like. My day to day typing speed has also decreased. I'm sure it's still up around 80-100wpm, but it's rare that I'm sitting there typing long enough to matter.
Same with LLM. Who cares if it takes me 10 seconds or 20 seconds to type in a prompt, when it's going to sit there and spin for a minute anyways?
Sort of. As a developer I had my stack of reference books, man pages, etc. I’d try hard to memorize syntax as it was a pain to look things up. And I also devoted some memory to remembering where in a book to look, which set of man pages to use, etc
With google that mostly went to the wayside. I just needed to know something existed and I could pull together far more information faster than I was spending before to just do quick lookups
I didn’t say the job was about memorization back then. Rather I found that each of these new abstraction layers made it easier to go broad with one’s on hand knowledge instead of deep
I realized later you likely meant the latter anyways and yeah that's much different. It's important to know what these things are, how they work, and why one would need to tweak them. It was never important to have the syntax on instant recall.
That's fair. This all feels similar to the shift that happened when Google came on to the search scene. To use your example, people realized they no longer needed to memorize syntax. Instead they only needed to ensure they understood the big picture concepts, and they could fill in the blanks on demand with Google. This is all just moving that layer of abstraction one level higher.
They were also easy to look up on the fly as one needed them too. So really really knowing them was never a true advantage. For me it wasn't that I never took the time to learn them. I realized long ago that it wasn't worth my time to keep that information in my brain, and I offloaded it to google 100% of the time it came up in my day to day life. Now I offload it to Claude, same thing.
I'm in the middle of the GenX zone, and have regularly been seeing bands play at small music clubs my entire adult life. When I was younger they'd sell cassette tapes at their merch booth, and that gave way to CDs. Then at some point in the late 00's that shifted to vinyl because CDs became passe, and while most people had shifted to online music vinyl was cool again.
That shifted again in the mid-teens when I started noticing more bands selling cassette tapes, especially in the more underground scenes. Then it was back to vinyl when things got back in action post-COVID.
But what I've noticed over the last couple of years is everyone's selling CDs again. What's more, they're *actually focusing on CDs*. Over the last 20-30 years it's been more an assumption that one is going to download the music and sure, maybe buy some physical media at the merch table. Now it seems like the assumption is you're going to just buy the physical media.
Also, the first thought I had was "what %age of adults are 18-30". Not that a 30yo should be dependent on their parents but I'd assume that people answering yes skew younger. And to your point about YC, that's also a young skewed demographic.
Yes, and there are tiers of risk. What people are complaining about is that with the recent behavior, NASDAQ has arguably increased the level of risk involved. If it's as simple as "buy NASDAQ if you can take risk" then that would imply it should pull in meme stocks when the WSB crowd are doing their diamond hand thing.
People said similar things leading up to the dot com crash. The commercialization of the internet was indeed a watershed moment. That didn't mean it wasn't a bubble. Both can be true at the same time.
I'm pretty sure that's not the source for me but most of my vocal quirks have origin stories like this so it's entirely possible. They're almost always things that I heard which either amused me or I thought sounded cool at the time and just stuck with me.