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@regehr @dan @ricci And for people like my parents (so a young kid's great-grandparents I guess) the only reason to get cable at all was because my mother thought antennas were ugly. (And satellite dishes even uglier.)

@regehr @dan @ricci And you had to watch shows on a fixed schedule! New shows only came out once a week, at a different day and time for every show, and if you weren't home at that time, too bad, you couldn't see it!

@regehr @dan @ricci "It's like YouTube but without ads and everyone had to pay for it if they wanted to watch sports or HBO"…

@regehr @dan @ricci Try explaining public access to a kid today. I'm not even sure I could explain cable properly (and I didn't even have access to cable until 1990, while it seems like a long time the heyday of the cable bundle was really only twenty years, 1990–2010).

@regehr @dan @ricci The 80s were like the last time I watched any scripted television! I don't know what happened, I just never got into anything made after I went to Finland in 1988. (Lots of memories of action and procedural dramas of the day: The A Team, Airwolf, Knight Rider, Remington Steele, Manimal, The Powers of Matthew Starr — and even a few comedies like Night Court and Family Ties.)

@regehr @dan @ricci As opposed to the architecture department where renting ten adders gets you a discount on an FPU?

You have not run a real filesystem until you've tried to move or back up a directory tree like /corpusname/v3/test1/param1=%f,param2=%d,param3=%f,filter=%s/s/l/u/slugword/%05d.{jpg,json}.

RE: https://spacey.space/@tudor/115786288344009762

(Trying to repost without Mastodon confusing it with an old abandoned reply.)

This is all too true with respect to filesystems, because graduate students only know Python, and within Python they only know how to do string substitution, open, read, and close. (Plus whatever ML library is currently au courant.) Seek? Never heard of it. Databases? That's a different research group.