Re:His software sang the words of God. Then it went silent
by asdff on Monday April 03, 2023 @05:01PM
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We kind of have. Buy a new mac today and you can run a 40 year old sh program fine. Its just that most people aren't being trained on these standard unchanging technologies in computing unless they take an active interest in it. They are being trained on $newapp and how to navigate $newwebsite and become beholden to those patterns of software design sensibilities, because in this attention economy this obviously generates a lot more money than having the masses use some simple bash code to solve a lot of their problems.
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Re:His software sang the words of God. Then it went silent
by perardi on Monday April 03, 2023 @08:02PM
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…do you really think that a bash script is the best interface for the masses to explore the Talmud?
Re:His software sang the words of God. Then it went silent
by ChatGTP on Tuesday April 04, 2023 @03:09AM
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Why not?
Re:His software sang the words of God. Then it went silent
by carlitossway on Tuesday April 04, 2023 @06:02AM
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It might be unfashionable to say these days, but... "the masses who explore the Talmud" have a much higher bar to jump than "the Masses".
Re:His software sang the words of God. Then it went silent
by eddieroger on Tuesday April 04, 2023 @10:16AM
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Certainly not on Friday night or Saturday, unless they open it ahead of time and leave it there. Maybe we can train Shabbas goys to use bash.
Re:His software sang the words of God. Then it went silent
by asdff on Tuesday April 04, 2023 @05:51PM
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It only seems ridiculous framed from the modern perspective on computing. Ask this in 1995 and yes, this would be the best interface. The only reason why its no good anymore is because these abstraction layers we shovel into people. Maybe in 2005 the best way to view the talmud was a gui based native app, because thats the level of abstraction layer people where shoveled versus the command line. Maybe in 2015 the best way moved from a native app to a website, since thats now how most people operate by then, not installing tools themselves but just going to different websites and therefore losing that knowledge. Maybe today the best way is a mobile app, because people don't even visit desktop websites anymore and don't take well to those design philosophies.
You have to wonder where this is marching off too, this march away from complexity into easier and simpler abstractions, further from the magic and raising the ivory tower of the wizard who makes these tools higher above the masses who increasingly have no idea what is happening nor any mental model to think about this stuff as it actually works. Certainly some groups benefit from siloing the knowledge of fire of our modern world, but I can't help but imagine we are all losing in this race away from complexity.