20 Jan
2023
20 Jan
'23
6:20 a.m.
Before Lions, before the Epoch even, there was Muir's Compleat Idiot
manual
(https://technologists.com/photos/1960s/fullsize/1969JohnMuir.jpg) which
suited me well until it didn't. Charlie
On 1/19/2023 5:51 PM, segaloco via TUHS wrote:
To be fair I didn't necessarily just have UNIX in
mind with that
statement, I also mean whats happening to appliances, vehicles, etc.
It's part of a bigger problem, we're just of course mostly discussing
the implications of that problem vis-a-vis UNIX. Believe me, I also wish
I could peer under the hood of a modern car and tell you how to actually
replace something in there with just a socket and a set of pliers...
- Matt G.
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On Thursday, January 19th, 2023 at 3:44 PM, Rich Salz
<rich.salz(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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In my mind there would probably be a strong correlation between
engineers making products unnecessarily complicated (whether they
want to or not) and end users deciding en masse not to sink the
time into learning how to maintain increasingly convoluted and
esoteric designs.
To me, the biggest surprise about Unix history is that the Bell patent
office secretaries were able to use ed and [nt]roff. I cannot imagine
the general populace doing that.
Folks on this list will be fine, there will always be programming
environments for us. For the rest of the world, simpler is better and
simpler isn't Unix.