@matigo This just sounds like “how come young people know about (cause célèbre of the day) but not (horrific event of their great grandparents).” I think the shorthand for that of today is “ok boomer”. 🤪
(The other half of it is college and vocational school becoming less distinguishable over time - already becoming an issue in wake of World War I and explosion of scientific disciplines and loss of confidence in a single truth IIRC.)
@matigo That bit about humanity not changing and that being fascinating underlies my interest in Ancient Near East society. The idea of Akkadian schoolboys doing Sumerian grammar drills under a schoolmaster and then running off to play is just mindblowingly recognizable.
@variablepulserate Yeah, I use GitHub as my identity provider for all the dev forums.
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@variablepulserate shorthand email forum would be an edit-o, sorry. All the shorthand forums I know are Web or Reddit or Walled Garden.
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@matigo Yes, it’s in light of R that I’m surprised to see SPSS. R was already starting to displace it when I was in college in the mid-2000s. A decade and a half later, the R ecosystem has grown tremendously and produced some really powerful tools for visualizing, exploring, slicing, and dicing data. (I’m off to one side being glad it’s all there should I need it one day, while I transform data from poorly-understood format A to ill-defined format B for 99% of the time.)
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@variablepulserate For me at work, chat and videoconferencing have almost completely replaced email. Work email is just notifications and other automated crud for the most part, and little enough of that.
Mailing lists do seem mostly dead to me. For good reason.
I’m part of several mailing lists. They tend to have crummier formatting and be harder to share and discuss with others in other contexts since there’s no URL, or if there is, it takes work to dig it up (in whatever the archive is). The traffic also has mostly gone to almost zero as people have moved to Facebook groups.
Web forums seem livelier than ever, though. I run into forums everywhere with tech stuff. Mostly Discourse but also nodeBB and some custom stuff (Nim forums are written in Nim). Sometimes chat is bridged across all of Matrix/IRC/Gitter/Slack/Discourse. Most of these Just Work using GitHub or Google as my identity provider.
(Outside tech, there are a couple somewhat active shorthand email web forums and even a group blog - how’s that for a throwback? - that I know of.)
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@axodys I always thought the distributed issue tracking was a great step. It’s weird that distributed version control is so popular, but then we have these horrendous centralized issue trackers everywhere.
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@matigo Looks like the keyboard didn’t load. The accessory view on top with the arrows to jump between input fields is there, but not the keyboard it’s supposed to be on top of!
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