It is literally easier to explain to them how to do something on the command line than in a GUI, both in documentation and over the phone. That doesn’t mean they will ever discover how to do something in either interface on their own but I don’t really expect that from the people who make paper notes of the step-by-step process in GUI workflows anyway.

“Don’t be evil”…

To fight in WW2 you would have to be born in the early 1920 (to fight at the start of the war) or the mid 1920s at the latest, so I would say about 100-105 years old or roughly 2 1/2 generations of very late parents (having kids around 40) ago.

And yet the “blame everything on immigrants” strategy seems to work quite well here too.

Honestly, recommendation engines are literally the most primitive shit, especially the ones by large companies.

Audible keeps recommending part 3 or 4 of series where i haven’t heard part 1 or 2 or tells me there is a new title in my “favorite series”, i.e.g the one where I just stopped listing half-way through a book to instead listen to something else.

Amazon also still hasn’t fixed that simple thing where it keeps recommending you a second e.g. washing machine because you recently bought one.

Google recommendations were literally better 10 years ago than they are now though I suppose AI is partially to blame for that one but even before that it “helpfully corrected” searches frequently away from what I was actually looking for just because the term was similar to a more popular one.

I don’t doubt that they feed it all kinds of tracking data but the actual algorithm that does anything with that data is literally about as primitive as the “chosen by fair dice roll” XKCD.

If you think GUI is intuitive you have never worked in support and despaired at people trying their best to get “simple” concepts like “left-click” vs. “right-click” wrong.

Considering they are not even capable of removing video recommendations for videos you literally just finished watching on Youtube I doubt it.

I have had days like that as a programmer.

This is the kind of thinking that will prevent adoption to the masses.

Why do people always assume that is even something desirable? All that will get us is more requests for support with fewer people actually helping.

Linux doesn’t have to be stupid hard to use.

And the assumption that GUI=easy and CLI=hard should have really died in the 90s when it started.

And nobody had the intention to build a wall (in Berlin).

This seems to be a common theme in certain types of dysfunctional governments.

“Just give us all your deepest personal secrets and opinions…it is for your own good…wouldn’t want your AI clone to not accurately reflect you when it tries potential partners, would you?”

This smells like an idea hatched from the brain of one of those people who talk to other people a bit too much and have fallen for the bullshit they were told about AI.

There were probably text based online games (MUX/MUSH/MUD/…) that had it even earlier.

I guess that is how they got Gaetz on board. They meant they wanted to send kids back into the mines and he thought they meant something even more disgusting.

I wouldn’t call any random scam “culturally relevant”.

At first I thought there was a cat under the hat in the pics where it is just on the surface instead of your head.

The fact is that major tech companies are investing billions in this.

They have literally invested billions in every single hype cycle of the last few decades that turned out to be a pile of crap in hindsight. This is a bad argument.

Most importantly it takes a lot of effort and is essentially outdated the moment it is done unless you slow down and complicated every other process by funneling every change through the spec first.

Reminds me of the old hybrid animals subreddit.

And by “pizza shops” you mean that one pizza shop that tried it back before BTC got really expensive?