Understanding CD-R and CD-RW (2003) [pdf]

Re:Understanding CD-R and CD-RW (2003) [pdf] by sn_master on Saturday March 18, 2023 @09:38PM (#35215104)

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.

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Re:Understanding CD-R and CD-RW (2003) [pdf] by Scoundreller on Saturday March 18, 2023 @09:44PM (#35215137)

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.

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Re:Understanding CD-R and CD-RW (2003) [pdf] by Dalewyn on Saturday March 18, 2023 @10:33PM (#35215421)

That is so perfectly Reddit.

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Re:Understanding CD-R and CD-RW (2003) [pdf] by gymbeaux on Sunday March 19, 2023 @02:12AM (#35216486)

There are reasons we are here and not on Reddit

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Re:Understanding CD-R and CD-RW (2003) [pdf] by fortran77 on Sunday March 19, 2023 @02:42AM (#35216628)

For insightful comments like yours!?

I’m on both.

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Re:Understanding CD-R and CD-RW (2003) [pdf] by flangola7 on Sunday March 19, 2023 @03:56AM (#35216949)

Reddit is (mostly) just bigger. There are parts that are worse but there are also parts that are much better.

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Re:Understanding CD-R and CD-RW (2003) [pdf] by SillyUsername on Sunday March 19, 2023 @04:56AM (#35217220)

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...

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Re:Understanding CD-R and CD-RW (2003) [pdf] by dijit on Sunday March 19, 2023 @05:03AM (#35217254)

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.

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Re:Understanding CD-R and CD-RW (2003) [pdf] by SillyUsername on Sunday March 19, 2023 @04:19PM (#35223133)

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.

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Re:Understanding CD-R and CD-RW (2003) [pdf] by scarface74 on Sunday March 19, 2023 @07:09AM (#35217842)

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.

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Re:Understanding CD-R and CD-RW (2003) [pdf] by USA-RedDragon on Sunday March 19, 2023 @03:06PM (#35222336)

> effectively lowered the IQ quotient

Yeah, you really demonstrate how it's lowered. Intelligence quotient quotient

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Re:Understanding CD-R and CD-RW (2003) [pdf] by SillyUsername on Sunday March 19, 2023 @04:01PM (#35222941)

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.

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Re:Understanding CD-R and CD-RW (2003) [pdf] by USA-RedDragon on Sunday March 19, 2023 @06:16PM (#35224266)

Wow you really are an idiot. I was making fun of your for saying IQ quotient. That's literally "Intelligence quotient quotient". You make about as much sense as GPT 3.

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Re:Understanding CD-R and CD-RW (2003) [pdf] by dang on Tuesday March 21, 2023 @11:50PM (#35256598)

We've banned this account. Please don't create accounts to break HN's rules with.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: I changed my mind and unbanned you because https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29870459 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34047843 were really good HN comments. Please post like that, and not like the parent, in the future!

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Re:Understanding CD-R and CD-RW (2003) [pdf] by IYasha on Sunday March 19, 2023 @05:20AM (#35217343)

There's at least one good reason: one of the major investors in Reddit is Tencent.

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Re:Understanding CD-R and CD-RW (2003) [pdf] by IYasha on Sunday March 19, 2023 @04:48AM (#35217176)

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.

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Re:Understanding CD-R and CD-RW (2003) [pdf] by sn_master on Sunday March 19, 2023 @11:05AM (#35219708)

DVDs are still available in many stores for movies, but there's nothing mainstream I can think of that still uses CD-Rs.

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Re:Understanding CD-R and CD-RW (2003) [pdf] by bestham on Sunday March 19, 2023 @12:28PM (#35220632)

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.

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