cat and ls have canonical short names to save disk space on the systems they were created for.

I thought it was to save on keystrokes due to slow transmission speeds.

Maybe it can, but with fish, it does what I want right out of the box, and I don’t have to spend time configuring it.

This part really stuck out for me:

This is the latest example of a strange marketing strategy by AI companies. Instead of selling products based on helpful features and letting users decide, executives often deploy scare tactics that essentially warn people they will become obsolete if they don’t get on the AI bandwagon.

If hype doesn’t work, try threats!

I’ve never run into a Java evangelist. Every opinion I’ve ever heard about Java is something like “Yeah, this sucks”. I always thought that people put up with it because it’s write-once, run-anywhere, but so is, y’know, Python.

The pyramids were not built by enslaved people.

Wrong.

It also makes more sense.

The good reason was that it bothered some people. “Main” is two fewer letters, so it’s even more convenient to type. So what’s the problem?

This is the way.

What are the maverick git workflows? When I had a web developer job, it all seemed pretty straightforward and I can’t imagine doing it some other way and it being a good idea.

“Trunk” is nice because it fits with “branch” in the tree metaphor, but “main” does have fewer letters.

I guess if you think “This dude acts kinda rapey” qualifies as “personal information”.

Do you not remember the memes from their “Miracles” video, like “Fucking magnets, how do they work?” The song included an anecdote about how Shaggy 2 Dope almost got his phone stolen by a pelican and lyrics like “I don’t wanna talk to a scientist. Y’all motherfuckers lyin’, and getting me pissed.”

Well, sure, not every movie is supposed to be great, but the charm of some movies is just how bad they are. Or the director is trying to do something weird. Or whatever.

But something that’s AI-generated just isn’t interesting in the same way. There’s a big difference between “this is crap because the budget was so low” and “this is crap because a computer generated it”.

You believe that women are more likely to lie about a man than tell the truth?

“I won’t use this thing, because fans of this thing are annoying.” The willingness of people to cut off their nose to spite their face never fails to amaze me.

Oh, no, too much freedom. Can’t have that.

Instead of saying “The average user can’t do this”, why not let the average user try?

With Linux, you can see all the code. So, if you know about government backdoors in Linux, you should point them out so that people can fix them.

No.

Why would anybody want this?