erwan @ erwan @lemmy.ml

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Crypto means cryptography, stop using it to talk about cryptocurrency.

That's because in the 80's you had to know computers to use them, and most people never touched them. Only geeks like you and me.

Now everyone uses a computer (at least the screen-only computer in their pocket) without knowing anything about it.

It doesn't mean there are less people who really know how computers work. Just that now even clueless people use them.

You don't need man, just type the command with no arguments and you'll get the help message.

They want us to believe it was by accident but I'm pretty sure it wasn't.

IANAL but probably not

I agree that GUI are better at discoverability.

However once you're up to speed with CLI, it becomes much simpler and faster. While a GUI will still be more steps even after you become expert at using that GUI.

It's just because it's the most used in this case

Simple example: installing stuff. Much faster and simpler to type "install foo" in cli than open a gui, searching for it, finding the right one, clicking install.

Same for updating: it takes me 2s to type the command to update all packages, that's less than the time I need to move my mouse to the icon of the package manager.

It worked because the web was much smaller.

Just because it's not a completely new concept doesn't mean it's stupid.

It can bring value even if it's a small iterative innovation over existing buses.

That's typical clickbait: give a vague title to make people click.

The population in rural areas is so low that no matter how you induce demand, it won't work.

Let's call people who grow up with X the "X gen".

Yes, I mean how many companies get their brand turned into a verb?

We kinda started already, Mars is inhabited by robots already.

OK, generative AI isn't machine learning.

But to get back to what AI is, the definition has been moving forever as AI becomes "just software" when it becomes ubiquitous. People were shocked that machines could calculate, then that they can play chess better than humans, then that they can read handwriting...

The first mistake have been to invent the term to start with, as it implies thinking machine but they're not.

Or as Dijkstra puts it: "asking whether a machine can think is as dumb as asking if a submarine can swim".

Obviously if the pods take 2h to arrive it's not worth it

It's neither. The French "U" sound doesn't exist in English so I can't really give an example from an English word.

That said, being a global company they're probably fine with the default English pronunciation that would be "you be soft".

I'd say it's just the latest innovation in procedural generation. But it's still just that.

OK, it's 2pm. With this system, you call a pod and ride it. With a rural train, you check the schedule and see that the next train is at 5pm. And you have to plan your trip back as well. Great, time to take your car.

And you might say "let's have trains run at least once per hour then". That means running empty trains all day, not sure it's the best way to spend public money.