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Is this news to nerds? No. The effectiveness of virus software has been measured over and over and holes are always found, cause that’s software.

It’s a useful talking point nonetheless. Naive managers can feel pressured to make purchase decisions around these things.

Pointing to data and these stories has been helpful to me in getting time to truly vet our choices.

Nothing hurts credibility like saddling the company with a service contract that provides fuck all nothing.

I agree with the idea its an upper middle class problem, but I’m not convinced it’s a problem per se.

Part of what I’m wondering is if people are agreeing they spend more time alone than in the past, social norms say that means we’re lonely, so they agree with the idea.

I grew up in the country with a lot of alone time. I loved it. I don’t consider myself a depressed person. I can imagine anything I want, write the story down, plan projects, do the deep work of being me.

Being more social just feels like a series of shallow experiences relative. Drinks, coffees, some emotionally exciting event... all fleeting to me.

My own head is forever.

I think we want to believe loneliness is bad because of social pressure to connect, get a job with people we don’t know but we need a job, etc

Personally, I find that all incredibly stifling and stressful for little personal gain (the aristocracy of course loves a population that’s normalized to a small set of behaviors but that’s a diff topic).

Upper middle class types seem to have engagement in social structures forced on them. It’s bizarre to me

Edit: this article and digging into the idea is what underlie my take here https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2018/05/17/peopl...

Racism and such aside, I feel there’s a lot for urban grind types to learn from rural life

Anecdote; I’ve had family and friends cancel Netflix when their old favorites got pulled.

People that are center of the road politically, and very nostalgia/tradition driven. It seems reasonable to me that type of person makes up a pretty large portion of the population (I grew up in the Midwest and feel that basically describes the region pretty well, accepting it’s just my gut sense.)

Our brains like routine. That routine can be chasing novel experience or sitting still clinging to nostalgia. Seems pretty clear from the news the majority fall into the latter group.

It’s possible I am misunderstanding you, but think I agree with this.

There’s kind of two ideas going on here (in this thread in general), I think.

One seems to be of a mindset I’d describe as thinking in math means glomming onto knowing linear algebra.

The other seems to be thinking in interconnections, minimalist definitions, and those abstract concepts that exist in math (and all kinds of things) for connecting discrete ideas into composite ideas.

One thing that bugs me is code with overly specific semantics, where it reads like that’s the only problem the code could solve.

When if it’s broken into concepts and abstraction in the PLANNING stage the code ends up being less verbose and descriptive of the human problem and more useful for a variety of problems.

So instead of code to balance a checkbook, I’d write code to add/subtract numbers and input numbers from my checking account.

I see a whole lot of code with too much specific semantic meaning. And it ends in practice that we think code in one system is highly specific to that system and minimizes effort to reuse.

At least that’s been my experience at work. Ymmv

Netflix has yet to find a property that can go the distance and really hook people long term.

This whole “cancel a show after 3 seasons” is not what users who grew up with 6,7...10 year runs of shows connect to.

They need some content with long legs to keep the sort used to Frasier like life spans.

That’s who was tuning in during their growth period, for those old shows they can’t hang onto now.

As someone who can play 3 instruments (sax, guitar, percussion), TV & music are very different

Music is very actively engaging for me. Even listening to it, I tap and strum along. I even find myself “air fingering” to sax music. I primarily stick to unknowns, local acts, live shows on YouTube.

TV on the other hand just makes me feel numb and tired. With little exception I nothing from it. I read up on popular shows here and there, mostly on Wikipedia, just in case someone brings it up I can kind of follow along (same with movies).

Also when and where I grew up we had a clear public TV picture, and the CBS affiliate that barely came in. Perhaps my brain never developed enough of an interest.

Instruments are much cheaper and less environmentally destructive to make.

For me the benefits of sticking to music far out weigh TV

I dunno this sounds rather dismissive of the average person.

That they couldn’t cope with such a non-shock is a bit helicopter parenty, and being overly concerned with gramas sensibilities regarding trivial things.

Riots in the streets over it? I mean when we don’t riot over real drama, why not over changing labels on olive cans?