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  • There are some communities that are made which aren’t made for beginners. They are made for in depth fans who want to have conversations deeper than helping new people getting into whatever. Moreso, if they haven’t hit an Eternal September event, then new people have to adapt to the old culture rather than the other way around.

    I imagine that Linux is esoteric enough and picks various platforms which keeps an Eternal September from happening. Because of that, they aren’t going to bend to new users like other online communities are forced to.





  • This sort of requirement comes up in civil engineering all the time.

    Your job may include running finite element models (FEM) and the office uses STAAD. When getting new candidates, the preference will be like this: those who have used STAAD, those who have used several other FEM programs, those who have used one FEM program, and those who don’t. Usually, it gets presented as requiring FEM experience with a preference to STAAD.

    There may even be cases where a program may be different enough that the requirement is knowledge in that program. For instance, Bentley’s Open Roads is considered to be very different from AutoDesk Civil 3D to the point where Civil 3D experience only gets considered if there is no better applicant even though the two software packages do mostly the same thing.



  • In the USA, it was 21 until the 1970’s. It got changed as people pointed out that you could be drafted and forced to die for your country at that age, but you couldn’t help choose the people to make that decision. Given than 18 is the age when you legally become a legal adult, it was decided that 18 made a good age to gain the right to vote.

    A major argument I’ve heard around it becoming younger is compulsory education. There is a fear, likely unjustified, that high school teachers would get a lot of control over part of the voting block since they would be able to tell students how to vote.