The obsession with conversational interfaces likely stems from two places: sci-fi and CEOs (and other executive, businessy types) who are used to ordering people around.

Lol neither are worth that much.

And despite all of its other problems, it’s still not even profitable.

CLIs are almost always magnitudes more expressive than their feeble, derivative GUIs.

Yeah, maybe it’s a case of software Stockholm syndrome or something.

Microsoft sucks and so does Outlook. My dad uses Outlook personally and I just can’t imagine that. It’s like taking your torture rack home with you for personal usage.

They’re right

Leon said other sensors were unnecessary because human driving is all done through the sense of sight…proving that he has no idea how humans work either (despite purportedly being a human).

I remember having a cd player with a skip buffer in it. Still didn’t really work for running like you’re saying but at least I could bounce around on the bus to and from school without it constantly skipping.

I hope he’s right

I’m old enough to remember people lying that compact discs were practically indestructible.

I think the early rounds of those trying to get people to switch to the format were motivated by the fact that tapes were easily recordable by everyone.

Also like solar wind and water power also involve science? As do coal plants? So like, really WTF are we even talking about with science “functioning”?

Edit: Seems like this is just the potato version of the “science is what’s true whether or not you believe it” quote applied to policy…which actually doesn’t work.

It doesn’t matter whether or not nuclear plants are possible if humans don’t build them. The science backing them existing is meaningless.

It’s almost like…one is the leader of the richest country in the world and the other is running a government office that’s dismantling the government.

Seriously, if you guys were alive in the 1930s or 1940s you’d be there like “I just can’t pick up the paper anymore without talk of this Hitler guy!”.

If you limit yourself exclusively to communities where the “no politics” rule is actually enforced, you’ll exhaust new content within about two minutes each day.

It’s almost like US politics are a historic fucking shit show and that affects many other things.

It didn’t have to be this way; in a different kind of society it could have been a boon to everyone.

Please continue to espouse this viewpoint even under serious argument from those opposing it. Technology isn’t inevitably shit. There are other types of software we can write, and other types of technology we can develop that isn’t the result of some sweaty CTO hovering over our shoulders demanding that we make the world shittier for the sake of the shareholders.

We have to imagine the worlds we could’ve created through better choices. We have to imagine that we can change the course of things.

The overwhelming majority of software ever written is fucking terrible and causes more problems than it solves.

Since software is easily copiable and mutable, that small sliver of good software gets replicated all over the place and serves as a foundation for other software, both good – and at the risk of repeating myself – and mostly bad.

People would be better off considering new tech as the tool it is rather than seeing every piece of software as inherently better than the thing it replaces.

Maybe optimize your fucking code you bunch of stupid losers.

That wouldn’t allow him to also simultaneously pay low wages.

Extreme programming is basically pair programming. It sucks and doesn’t work. Cucumber is also known as “behavioral driven (design/development)” or BDD. It manifests as test documents written in “plain English” that are executed via code. It inevitably becomes unit tests but worse because it’s based mainly around regex matches to bits of text within the steps.

Eventually the only way rich people can get richer is by stealing from other rich people because the economy is so heavily weighted toward the rich that there’s just no money to extract from the poor. I think that’s related to what we’re seeing here … And probably everywhere else as well.