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Trying very hard to avoid computers, and failing miserably.
A 30-something British-born coconut Indian living in Zürich, Switzerland. I speak English, and enough Hochdeutsch to order a pizza.
Occasional, inadvertent arsehole. If observed, please call me out.
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In response to this post@marick Seems like a classic case of “we don’t pay all these people all this money to give us bad news!”
I am sorry to report that it’s still going strong.
@samir "Don't bring me problems, bring me solutions" is a horrible slogan, way too popular.
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The next episode of “things I will not make but I hope you will” will be about terminal emulators.
Specifically, calling out the conflation between GUI/CLI, mouse/keyboard, and novice/expert.
For all their flaws, the success of search engines and LLM UIs have demonstrated that normal humans *do* want keyboard-controlled, prompt-based interaction, and will use it even if there are obvious downsides.
Maybe we can untangle prompt-based interaction from terminal emulators and shells.
Welp, I wrote the first draft and it’s… more pie-in-the-sky, handwavy, arsehole-in-the-ivory-tower than I anticipated.
I will probably still publish it and hope people can look past that and take some useful things from it.
I’ll be home tomorrow. Editing on Sunday, publishing on Monday. I think.
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