NOT just you.

I feel it has gotten worse the past 10 years.

I feel it myself, I am dumbed down too. Having trouble even formulating this as I never type formally anymore.

Our state TV SVT buys in documentaries from BBC, Showtime, PBS and some of their own production. Some of their own are still good. The BBC ones are absolute garbage dumbed down now.

The world the aristocrats warned about in the 60s and 70s are here now.

The youtube channels are nowhere near the style and depth of documentaries like the ones above...

Check out Technology Connections. This is way, way, way more in depth than anything one can find on TV.

I love this back when we where not afraid to exhault our own virtues.

If that’s what you got from James Burke’s body of work, may be worth a revisit.

I have not seen it but compared to today I see a white man mentioning Verner Braun in a positive note.

Made today it would be a woman or MtF person screeching about it and a disclaimer in the beginning.

I love this style of documentary, I feel like we had it even when I was a kid in the 90s - 00s and as an adult in the 10s, but now is totally a dead style.

Sadly, it is not produced anymore. The producers chase a style and person that no longer exist, so they get their panties in a twist and make TikTok style and "true crime" style interviews is all I see from newer documentaries sadly. Women love "true crime" so 50% of new docus are just true crime drama slop.

I used to watch all or most of our state TV ones but they are no longer as good (They do some of their own buy buy in most from BBC, Showtime and PBS.)

I have been watching World at War and The World at War and such. Should watch Civilization and How should we then live?

The point is that is was included in Windows.

Already enterprise approved on the MS stack.

I know HN is all startups with macbooks on local admin, but in bigger companies even devs cannot just install whatever they want.

VB was never included in Windows (although it did include the runtime files).

Windows did include other BASIC-related stuff, like GW-BASIC, QBasic, and VBScript.

Yes, not to program it but to run. But that makes the IDE and such an easy approval for management and IT to push out/install.

Also batch. aaah, I love cmd.

Perhaps the VBRUNxxx.dll files were distributed with Windows later, but not at first. You had to include them in your install diskettes.

WiFi is always a compromise. Wife factor maybe, but for now, cable.

Modern LED lights really draw no power at all in the grand scheme of things

They’re pretty incredible, 200+ lumens per watt for LED lighting vs 16 lumens per watt for incandescent, 12.5x more efficient. Commercial LED fixtures have rated lifetimes of 50,000+ hours.

The residual problem as ever being the rebound effect, AKA Jevons paradox. Let's hope that humans find a way not to want everything 12.5x brighter.

Interiors are trending brighter with LED lighting, but it's not exactly a 10x multiplier.

The pain experienced by looking at bright source of light seems to be fairly effective?

I guess it's unlikely to be 12x, but people probably do consume more light, by way of being less worried about switching them off.

Have you seen modern car headlights?

I try not to, on account of the pain.

Yes but LED lights need to be connected to some electricity source, which is inconvenient in some scenarios.

Who are you and what is this about?

Who am I? Given that I've been reported as dead, that's a good question...

Read the post, click the link!

Is burning man still the hot cool rich tech thing or have you people moved on?

I think the next upswing will be forests, lakes and such.