“Abdicate”

So, they left a bucket of water to stagnate next to a bus stop?

https://youtu.be/bBkqI7EQp0A

Worked in two factories since Covid. The first stockpiled components we produced in house, and relied in JIT logistics for external components. Which was basically the stupidest arrangement they could have cone up with. They had 10+ years worth of parts they could make in house, clogging up their warehouse. And couldn’t ship anything because they were waiting on suppliers.

The other built two new warehouses to stockpile external supplies, and never let up on production.

This doesn’t sound bad at all. This sounds like someone other than Google will be able to have a meaningful affect on web development.

I’ve heard this song before. Lordstown Motors, for example.

If they can get some trucks rolling out the door, I’ll get interested real quick.

Womp womp.

Unass my ram.

“Won’t someone think of the children?”

NO.

Nah, I’ll just use my “Tariff Dividend” check when Trump writes it. China will pay for it.

That would be the first iPhone I’d actually buy.

My favorite phone was the Galaxy S Relay, which featured a sliding, 5-row thumbboard. Numbers, letters, period, comma, and question mark were all available without alt or fn keys. The number row had !@$#%^&*() with the shift key, just like actual keyboards.

It even had four arrow keys for cursor navigation!

I absolutely loved that phone.

“Fair Use” doesnt even enter into the equation: copyright protects distribution, not reception. It is illegal to send the data; it is not illegal to receive it. It is not illegal to read something you didn’t pay for. It may have been illegal for someone to provide you with that content, and it may be illegal for you to share that content with others, but it is not illegal for you to receive it and to read it.

It is the copyright-trolling “you wouldn’t download a car” types that have spread the propaganda that downloading is somehow illegal. It is not. Uploading is the illegal part: distributing without permission is the violation of copyright. There is nothing illegal in asking for a copy, nor in receiving an unauthorized copy.

Don’t let the zealotry against AI lead you to fight against your own interests.

Then I’ll continue:

P.S.: the antivax movement happens because of lack of trust in medical institutions.

They learn not to trust medical institutions. This is a learned behavior. What antivaxxers are learning about medical science is not reality. Whoever is teaching them is an utter moron who does not understand the subject themselves.

Likewise, the people who denounce the CLI as “unfriendly” and try to hide it away from the user. All they are really saying is “I don’t know how to use it, so nobody else should use it either.” What actually happened was they never learned it, never learned how useful it was, and never made an informed decision as to whether to use it or not: their decision against using it was based on ignorance. Just like the antivaxxer.

people shouldn’t need to be “medicine savvy” enough to know what each drug or procedure does

One does not need to know every single command and utility available on the command line. It is sufficient to understand broad, basic concepts like pipes, and man pages.

If anything, this need for “medicine savviness” is what pushes people into “doing their own research” and becoming antivax.

Ignorance and naïveté are never a part of a solution.

Because the only thing worse than self driving is human driving.

Special characters suck in on-screen keyboards, and the bastards rarely gave us physical thumboards.

This transfers money from the advertiser to the advertising agency, without creating a sale for the advertiser. This devalues the services of the agency.

they don’t want to mess with the terminal to troubleshoot any errors.

I reject your premise that the purpose of the terminal is to troubleshoot errors. That is part of the widespread misconception I am talking about.

The terminal is simply for using the computer. With all the command line utilities available, and their widespread interoperability, the terminal should be one of the first tools a user looks for.

A GUI is a hammer. The CLI is the Snap-On tool truck.

EVERYTHING? I enjoy doing things that aren’t eating and sex on a intrinsic level that I was never trained to enjoy.

No, not “intrinsically”, you don’t. Food, fuck, sleep, that’s about it. You likely enjoy other things as well, but not intrinsically. I enjoy Sudoku, but that is something I learned. There is no “enjoy sudoko” element within me that I did not put there myself.

Why didn’t people adopt personal computers en masse before Windows came to be then?

They did. Everyone I knew back in the Windows 3.1 days already had computers. Most of those people didn’t have Windows, and used standalone applications. The increase in ownership came when hardware prices finally fell enough for them to be affordable. Windows development was a result of that uptick, not the cause.

No worries!