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People have lied to the authorities without AI.

UI means "user interface". For a CLI tool the UI is the commands and modifiers it offers on the terminal.

i lump those into user experience (UX) stuff as it’s more leaning towards “flow of user action” etc.

ok, you do, doesn’t mean that the difference others make of it are necessarily wrong, as the tone of your first comment suggested.

i believe that those people are wrong :shrug:

doesn’t change the bigger, more important fact that the struggles people have with git stem from the system design. i.e. the thing that ultimately determines what commands people need to run in what order (see points 2 and 3).


Yeah, UI impacts UX.

Also git has a UI.


Arguably yes. git has a terrible developer experience and we've only gotten to this point where everyone embraces it through Stockholm syndrome. If someone had been looking at analytics from git, they'd have seen millions of confused people trying to find the right incantation in a forest of confusing poorly named flags.

Sincerely, a Mercurial user from way back.



Pumped hydro is a great storage solution, as long as geography allows it.

Anyone working for Meta could have chosen to work elsewhere. You have other options (that might not pay $350 grand, but hey, that's the price of your soul)

I've never worked a software development job where I didn't have a company-provided machine that I installed Linux on. I installed the OS, I have root on the machine, I wiped it and returned it empty when I was leaving the job.

Lucky you, I guess. In all the companies I worked for I have had a company-provided Windows laptop where the OS was managed by IT. The degree of freedom (e.g. what software could I install, what websites were blocksd) varied.

Sometimes deleting it all is the only principled action https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/aug/08/lavabit-e...

IMO its a lovely paradox that no one can argue against such a deletion. Either the party choosing deletion is reasonable so there are grounds for deletion or unreasonable and they are the grounds for deletion.



Similar but arguably even more insane is the Minuteman ICBM's inertial guidance computer https://www.righto.com/2024/08/minuteman-guidance-computer.h...

> The diagram below shows the guidance system of the Minuteman III missile (1970). This guidance system contains over 17,000 electronic and mechanical parts, costing $510,000 (about $4.5 million in current dollars). The heart of the guidance system is the gyro stabilized platform, which uses gyroscopes and accelerometers to measure the missile's orientation and acceleration.


Even nuttier is the one from the Peacekeeper. Float a perfect beryllium sphere in fluorocarbon. Use thrusters to keep it oriented. No gimbal lock, because no gimbals. Six million dollars per unit, in 1987. So good that a system with literally perfect accuracy wouldn't improve accuracy, because error from the system was already well below other sources of inaccuracy in the missile. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Inertial_Reference_Sp...

I don't know specifically about Minuteman though a different ICBM uses inertial guidance but also does a star sight to calibrate at some point in its trajectory--says the Internet ahem. And, also yes, the modern inertial navigation that goes into all this is pretty amazing. The not so modern iteration of all this did get us to the moon in 1969.

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