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And the future of operating systems is the command line.

We deserve better than this reductionist thinking. Constraints can breed innovation; but they can also just constrain.

it is, but computer isn't smart enough for the future to happen yet

It's the Unix/text fetishizing developers who aren't the smart enough ones I think...

yet it is the unix/text fetish that forms the foundation for toasters, smartphones/watches, clouds, and supercomputers you'd think that a superior alternative would be overtaking this clearly inferior symbolic text system makes you think, don't it? not like people haven't been trying, but why is it so persistent? do you blame the fetish? why can't some other technically superior system win? WHY?

Systems are funny. People do what works. Don't think about it too hard.

The computer is, PEBKAC is still the name of the game.

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