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”…

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.

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.

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Most importantly it takes a lot of effort and is essentially outdated the moment it is done unless you slow down and complicated every other process by funneling every change through the spec first.

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

You are thinking too small. Even if only one of a thousand companies in one of dozens of third world nations develops an alternative that is enough.

The difference is that 100% of crypto-currency transactions are stuff like that and only a small percentage of USD transactions.

They have the ability to shut it down for all practical purposes by simply banning its use for transaction by legitimate companies in their country.

All you are describing really only suggests that American democracy has been dead for even longer, not that it isn’t dead yet.

There aren’t many industries where results that are correct in the very common case everybody knows anyway, a bit wrong in the less common case and totally hallucinated in the actually original cases is useful. Especially if you can’t distinguish between those automatically.

Can you name some of those uses that you see lasting in the long term or even the medium term? Because while it has been used for a lot of things it seems to be pretty bad at the overwhelming majority of them.

All that really tells us is that the people who defined the term were remarkably stupid.

Also a bit sadistic to be honest. Bringing a new form of life into the world only to subject it to PHP.

Most people have the concern that the Trump concept is being copied to their country’s politics now.

Not while you are showing them you are still on there.

That doesn’t mean leaving now isn’t better than staying.