Tech you miss/ new tech trends you hate - ok boomers

[stupidpieceofshit]

I've met mid-level programmers who've never heard of regular expressions.

What the fuck, I am a normie when it comes to programing (I took some classes but never really got in to it) and even I know of/heard about Regex (long before I took any programing classes).

 

[moocow]

What the fuck, I am a normie when it comes to programing (I took some classes but never really got in to it) and even I know of/heard about Regex (long before I took any programing classes).

Yeah, I was surprised when the one guy didn't know about them and truly astonished when I learned the entire team didn't.

It's shit like that though that's stopped me worrying about staying employed in the development world as I approach middle age. People who command mid-level salaries but still don't know what regexes are comprise most of my competition in this industry. I think I'll be just fine. I may have a bit of gray hair, but I know how to use "sed" and I can work in C without getting triggered. And I understand and respect the natural synergy between technology and magic.

 

[Ginger Piglet]

Yeah, I was surprised when the one guy didn't know about them and truly astonished when I learned the entire team didn't.

It's shit like that though that's stopped me worrying about staying employed in the development world as I approach middle age. People who command mid-level salaries but still don't know what regexes are comprise most of my competition in this industry. I think I'll be just fine. I may have a bit of gray hair, but I know how to use "sed" and I can work in C without getting triggered. And I understand and respect the natural synergy between technology and magic.

So are you a REAL PROGRAMMER or a Quiche Eater then.

 

[BootlegPopeye]

I try not to get too luddite/Unabomber about the internet; that early aughts internet had it's own set of problems, such as how much more shady financial transactions were. Not alot of places you could pay securely with a card - any other oldsters here remember sending money orders out to pay for things off ebay? Oh, and then the seller would claim he never got it. I don't miss that. I can't tell you how much money I lost in the late 90s on that shit.

So I was fine on seeing actual progress of the internet, but what none of us needed was social media. That's when big tech was really born and when they decided to start cataloging our lives. Social media over time has reduced the internet down to maybe 10-15 sites for the vast majority of users. Especially cancerous to internet discourse, and this is missing to alot of younger users who never knew the internet throughout the entire aughts, is how reddit has killed off most internet forums. What is it but a ready made forum for any idiotic topic. It's just bottlenecked conversation in a degree perhaps worse than fagbook or twatter.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

Yeah, I was surprised when the one guy didn't know about them and truly astonished when I learned the entire team didn't.

It's shit like that though that's stopped me worrying about staying employed in the development world as I approach middle age. People who command mid-level salaries but still don't know what regexes are comprise most of my competition in this industry. I think I'll be just fine. I may have a bit of gray hair, but I know how to use "sed" and I can work in C without getting triggered. And I understand and respect the natural synergy between technology and magic.

I briefly knew a guy that was a programmer and designed circuit boards, only ever used Linux and Vim, you can imagine this type of person. He asked me if I remember the name of that really complicated programming language that all the old guys used in the past. Really old, hm... Fortran? No. Lisp? No. Turns out it was Perl.

 

[moocow]

I briefly knew a guy that was a programmer and designed circuit boards, only ever used Linux and Vim, you can imagine this type of person. He asked me if I remember the name of that really complicated programming language that all the old guys used in the past. Really old, hm... Fortran? No. Lisp? No. Turns out it was Perl.

lol ... Perl is one of those languages that can accurately be described as "write-only."

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

lol ... Perl is one of those languages that can accurately be described as "write-only."

It was also the choice of many Linux spergs 20 years ago. "Oh I can do that in one (absurdly long) line of code in Perl" - I mean, you don't have to format C/C++ either.
What do they like now? Node.js?

 

[Uncle Ted's Cabin]

I briefly knew a guy that was a programmer and designed circuit boards, only ever used Linux and Vim, you can imagine this type of person. He asked me if I remember the name of that really complicated programming language that all the old guys used in the past. Really old, hm... Fortran? No. Lisp? No. Turns out it was Perl.

lol he must be pretty young if he hasn't encountered much Perl as a Linux enthusiast.

 

[AnOminous]

What the fuck, I am a normie when it comes to programing (I took some classes but never really got in to it) and even I know of/heard about Regex (long before I took any programing classes).

I'm not even a programmer (except in the most absolutely minimal sense of occasionally scripting some repetitive task) and I have used these things since I heard of them.

Especially cancerous to internet discourse, and this is missing to alot of younger users who never knew the internet throughout the entire aughts, is how reddit has killed off most internet forums.

And even worse, people think it's completely normal to be on a forum tightly censored by severely mentally ill cockless pedophiles.

And never mind the mindless mob who can literally just bury your opinion, or even your objective facts, if their feels are hurt by them.

 

[moocow]

It was also the choice of many Linux spergs 20 years ago. "Oh I can do that in one (absurdly long) line of code in Perl" - I mean, you don't have to format C/C++ either.

C is still waaaaaaay simpler (in terms of syntax) than Perl. C++, not so much, but plain C? Pretty comfy.

What do they like now? Node.js?

Nowadays it's usually Python. The trannies are pushing that Rust garbage really fucking hard (the dipshits at Google are even trying to muscle it into Linux kernel development -- and amusingly not their own language, Go) but thankfully the larger Linux community is holding the line so far with a polite but firm "lol no."

 

[Pee Cola]

I have a new Mazda3 hatchback. While it does have proximity keys, screen spedometer, etc. It does have some actual gauges plus the nav/entertainment screen isnt a touchscreen.

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That big button behind the shifter is a combo button/dial/joystick used to navigate the screen. Didn't take long for me to pick up. Can use while looking at the road. Tachometer and fuel are actual physycal gagues.

To be fair, Mazda is the only auto manufacturer that's still kinda based. They still offer standard transmissions across many of their cars and they're currently developing a straight six for their next generation SUVs as well as the Mazda6. As an added bonus, the next Mazda6 will be RWD.

I hecking love Mazda. They remind me of Honda before they started to suck.

I’ve said this in another thread, but people and corporations have spent the last 20+ years trying desperately to deny the fact that digital content has an infinite supply and is, therefore, inherently worthless. They literally have to induce artificial scarcity to try and convince people that these things are valuable. NFTs are just the latest version of that.

NFTs are the current year late stage capitalism meme. It's basically a money laundering scheme that's hidden in plain sight.

 

[Pinochet Was Right]

Something that makes me cringe as fuck are the LE EBIN 1337 GAEMRZ marketing for hardware. How many "edgy" words can be used as fucking RAM brands? It's like Liefeldian 90's comic book heroes: VENGEANCE. RAPTOR. PREDATOR. FURY. EVERYTHING WITH AN X. With Batman Forever/Spiderman/Xbox fonts. The cards itself covered in a sci-fi looking cartridge with aerodynamic wings even if it doesn't have RGB that makes them visible inside the PC. It's just fucking RAM!

I mean I know 12yo kids want their "battlestashun" to look like a goddamn Mother Box but I lol when I check out a PC from some workplace and it's full of gAmInG pErFoRmAnCe xTrEmE shit because it's all they sell on the midrange and up.

 

[Falcos_Commisar]

GeoCities. The whole process was designed to facilitate uploading things but at the same time not to hold your hand.

Webrings.



I never had a modem with my Atari ST so couldn't do it, but the magazines of the time, especially the more application / productivity / enthusiast focused ones, always had features on "comms" which was things like dialling into BBSes and stuff. The intellectual barrier to entry meant that you could have informative discussions with people about things without the sort of spackers you get on twatter shitting everything up. Usually this was, yes, pirating software (esp. on the ST where piracy was frighteningly organised; one group in Germany had a mole who worked in a distributor for a lot of games and was in a position where she could borrow a game disk before it was packaged and sealed, bicycle it round to her mate, wait for him to do the crack job - a lot of DRM back then was as now a joke and only deterred casual copiers as opposed to anyone who had assembly language chops so you could literally do it in an afternoon - then bicycle it back the next day). But also it had stuff like programming, hardware modding, and similar.

Speaking of which, the unmoddability of hardware. Related to how everything nowadays is throwaway and unrepairable. Back in the Atari ST days there were a huge variety of mods and tweaks you could make to your system to get it to do things that the manufacturers never intended. The most common was the Marpet board for the STFM. The later STE model had standard 30 pin PC style memory modules so you could have up to 4 megabytes RAM (which was quite a lot back then). But the STFM relied on individually soldered to the board banks of chips. The Marpet board was a circuitboard with a memory controller and 4 megs of RAM pre-installed on it, which you would wire to various pins on the MMU and motherboard to basically bypass the already installed RAM and use that instead. Also popular was the Spectre which plugged into the cartridge socket and contained a dump of the OS and roms from the original Apple Mac and various other things. Armed with the relevant software you could then emulate a Mac, in full, on your ST. This worked because both the original Mac and ST ran on the Motorola 68000 CPU. You could then run original Mac software from floppy or hard drives as you saw fit.

You can't really mod current year hardware like that.

TOS switchers were another one. Basically, the ST had its OS in a series of roms, and there were different versions. But some software complained if asked to run on some versions. So what this was was a board containing the roms for other versions of TOS which was soldered into place atop and parallel to the already installed roms. Also provided was a switch that you drilled a hole in the side of the case and installed there. This allowed you to swap the OS that would be run on powering on.

Amazing. Now the greedy fucks at Apple LITERALLY weld everything to the motherboard so you cannot upgrade an Apple laptop..... Ever.

Other PC makers are slowly starting to do that, but thank God we have a few dozen choices....

As for old school hardware mods, the Raspberry Pi is trying to show young people today a "diet" version of what you've described.

To be fair, Mazda is the only auto manufacturer that's still kinda based. They still offer standard transmissions across many of their cars and they're currently developing a straight six for their next generation SUVs as well as the Mazda6. As an added bonus, the next Mazda6 will be RWD.

I hecking love Mazda. They remind me of Honda before they started to suck.


NFTs are the current year late stage capitalism meme. It's basically a money laundering scheme that's hidden in plain sight.

Honda still makes great cars and Mazda is probably going to be bought by Toyota in less than a decade. Toyota owns at least 9% of Mazda currently. Ford and GM can still make great vehicles if they actually give a shit (See Corvette, Mustang, Camaro, their trucks and big SUVs, and oddly enough the Chevy Bolt EV)

Fwiw Mazda is DESPERATE to become a luxury brand so expect that new Mazda 6 to start at $35k and rapidly rise from there. I can't forgive them replacing the IRS in the current 3 with a goddamn twist beam rear suspension.

 

[seri0us]

Remember these cases?

Last night "Get Jiggy Wit It" came on and I realised my Micro-ATX case is NOT Big Willie Style. So I'll be moving all of my stuff into a silver version of that case.

 

[moocow]

Something that makes me cringe as fuck are the LE EBIN 1337 GAEMRZ marketing for hardware. How many "edgy" words can be used as fucking RAM brands?

What's even worse are those garbage "heat spreaders" and other useless decorative trash they insist on bolting to the fucking things that raises their profile and makes it harder to fit CPU coolers of any decent size to the system because the god damn RAM gets in the way.

 

[Pinochet Was Right]

To add onto the whining about Google sucking shit:

>songs that chang_
Autocomplete: "Songs that changed the world"
>songs that changed their lyrics_ [ENTER]
Results: Top 50 Songs that changed the world!!!!! I mean that's what everyone would search for and what all the listicle clickbait journoblogs churn out all the time, right?

Putting the query under quotes would be too specific in the wording as the chances as someone using that exact phrase in a webpage in the desired context are low. I miss when Google would keep the meaning of what you typed and considered variations on the wording and synonyms, giving you better results.

 

[AnOminous]

To add onto the whining about Google sucking shit:

>songs that chang_
Autocomplete: "Songs that changed the world"
>songs that changed their lyrics_ [ENTER]
Results: Top 50 Songs that changed the world!!!!! I mean that's what everyone would search for and what all the listicle clickbait journoblogs churn out all the time, right?

Putting the query under quotes would be too specific in the wording as the chances as someone using that exact phrase in a webpage in the desired context are low. I miss when Google would keep the meaning of what you typed and considered variations on the wording and synonyms, giving you better results.

Songs that changed their underwear.

 

[Pinochet Was Right]

Knowing how Google behaves with me, I'd search for "underwear" and both autocomplete and all the results would be about some song called that even if it's just a fucking soundcloud.

 

[Never Scored]

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Bro, it's 2021. A hot girl like that in America doesn't even own a desktop and she's using iOS and that's it.

I hate NFTs because they’re trying to mainstream the notion that .png files are somehow worth monetary value.

The point of NFTs isn't that the .png files have value. The point of NFTs is they can theoretically replace things like government run registries of deeds, by creating a transferrable, non-fungible token showing ownership. I don't think governments will go for putting deed registries on the blockchain, but theoretically it can work. I agree that current applications are stupid, but the theoretical useful application is there. Imagine not having to pay a law firm $1,200 to search the registry of deeds when you buy a piece of land because the blockchain will do it for you.

 

[seri0us]

Bro, it's 2021. A hot girl like that in America doesn't even own a desktop and she's using iOS and that's it.

that's sad