erwan

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[–] erwan@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] erwan@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago

Let's be honest here. The goal of the 2004 law was to ban the Muslim scarf. It was written in a generic way to be non discriminatory but the goal was clear from the start.

[–] erwan@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

The law banning the scarf in school is from 2004.

The 1901 secularist law is about separating Church and State. It's about freedom of religion and not having any official religion, it wasn't supposed to be about forcing people to hide their religion.

[–] erwan@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

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.

[–] erwan@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

It worked because the web was much smaller.

[–] erwan@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] erwan@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago

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

[–] erwan@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] erwan@lemmy.ml -1 points 1 year ago

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

[–] erwan@lemmy.ml 19 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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

[–] erwan@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

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

[–] erwan@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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".

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