It’s significantly easier to make a third party GUI for a command line tool than to make a third party CLI for a GUI only tool because you’ll be working with an opaque binary that doesn’t have any public APIs.

And eventually one of those “prankster” influencers will vandalize it and ruin it forever just for one stupid video to ride the wave of interest in the location and make outrage click money.

CLI: Welcome back my friend, forgot a command or argument? Just type --help and read the super terse and bullshit free txt file in less time it takes for the GUI startup animations to finish. Too long? Type | grep to directly search for it in less time than it takes for the search button to expand and let you start typing! Realize you keep doing the same few steps? Just write a script instead of memorizing what specific sequence of buttons to click or hope that the GUI remembers where you left off! Need to tell a team member how to do something? Just send them the commands or a full script in chat instead of jumping on a video call and walking them through which of these abstract, indescribable icons they need to click which they’ll definitely get wrong and open some weird submenu you then have to tell them how to leave!

GUI: Ooh a GPU and gigabytes of VRAM just for my animations? You shouldn’t have! Ooh you mouseovered something for one millisecond while moving it to the actual thing you want? Let me lag the entire window and cover up the thing you wanted with this popup that takes longer to disappear the more irrelevant it is! Also none of the text in mouseover popups is selectable so you can’t copy from it even if you did need it (Visual Studio static analysis messages I’m looking at you). Still need help? Well you first have to find where the help button is if there even is one! We’re increasingly not including help files because it “should” “just” be intuitive. Or just watch a 10 minute video walking through how to do something that could have been two lines in the terminal, stupid! Want to automate something that takes like ten clicks because we hid everything in nested submenus to “avoid clutter”? Go ahead and install a third party macro suite and record your mouse clicks and movements that will break as soon as the next update drops and slightly shift the margins around!

I would ask Cuba if they want to join the Union, with all rights and benefits that goes with being a State.

And if they say no you’ll definitely leave them alone after that right?

Also, who do you think Cuba broke free from.

IMO, Cuba and other island States have a special potential - as places to try out UBI, universal healthcare, free education at all levels, and other reforms, that can’t be easily implemented in isolation* on the mainland.

*Specifically, I want to try different variations of implementation, to find the best ‘recipe’ for an improved democratic socialism. Islands are good for A/B/C testing, I wager.

“Latino island dwellers are the perfect guina pigs for me to test my half baked ideas to avoid inconveniencing white people when they fail spectacularly”

Cuba is already democratic socialist. And it’s working very well in spite of how much effort the richest country in the world puts into killing it.

Great introduction to Western freedom of speech for all those escaping commie authoritarianism 👍🏻

Pff, you’re using one of those newfangled CRTs? I use a mechanical teletype that makes my computing sound like hammering nails.

I mean, if there was an article just talking about it being a thing people go see, it would have been labelled as “tabloid”, “shill”, “slop”, “sponsored by Italian tourism board”, or “guess they’re running out of ideas if they need to write about something that’s existed for millions of years.”

Not saying those comments are right or wrong, just an observation. IMO it’s a symptom of our over-dependence on private news/media outlets even in the internet age, and how the news has eroded our trust so much that we’ll immediately have those thoughts.

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CLI designers: “Here are the commands and arguments in a txt file, they’ll only change when absolutely necessary and we’ll be sure to inform you both in the docs and as a warning in the CLI itself.”

GUI designers: “go fuck yourself and re-learn where we hid all the buttons this time, after waiting for our two second fly-in animation for every submenu of course. Don’t worry though, here’s a condescending popup tour that only shows you the most basic features you could already see with your eyes. If you’re still confused, here’s an AI chatbot that will just repeat the contents of the popup tour and then act like you’re an idiot. Hey, HEY! STOP WHAT YOU’RE DOING THIS INSTANT AND READ ABOUT OUR NEW BUZZWORD FEATURE YOU NEVER ASKED FOR! TRY IT RIGHT NOW OR ELSE! Also we’re keylogging you and recording your mouse movements as “analytics” for “”“improving””" our UI (even though it’s only getting worse with each new version), you understand. "

I’m saying the US basically says this.

“People in socialist countries starve because we starve them”

Horrified? Most voters, dem or rep, have the exact same mentality around immigration. One is just slightly less ashamed of expressing that mentality than the other.

I don’t care if you know my raw specs if I’m telling you how a game runs in a public forum

It may not be harmful by itself, but combined with other information it can definitely help identify you to your account. It could easily be the final piece of information that enabled you to be doxxed.

Loss of privacy is cumulative, like radiation.

there were thin (~2mm) sticker-type Bluetooth tags […] No battery, just a passive coil that could be found with Bluetooth signal and an app that shows how close it is.

Sounds kind of like UHF RFID, which are common in places like warehouses and can be done at a distance, but even higher frequency?

I imagine range was a huge issue. Unless you have an extremely powerful bluetooth tranceiver and a very high gain antenna (i.e. not a phone, a professional radio system), the inverse square law will mean you won’t have enough energy to activate the electronics in the tag after a fairly short distance. Would probably work for finding something in your house though.

Unlike C++ though, explosives usually degrade over time and become less dangerous.

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Wym? You mean you don’t like typing out unsigned long long a hundred times?

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They’re talking about your commute on the highway to some office park in the middle of nowhere.