Re: Emigration from Usenet

On 7/29/24 10:20 AM, Mike Spencer wrote:

The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> writes:
 

Most people are not able to be experts at anything.

 I'm amazed at how many people seem to be experts at using a smart
phone.   Might that be that the touchscreen GUI is like shopping?
 The command line is like language but way more people are experts on
shopping than on language.
 I can barely manage to use my cell phone for basic functions.  There
are no manpages and no source code.  There is a PDF "manual" which
appears to have been written by shopping consultants, not by wizard
hackers.  Ho hum.

OTOH, the man pages written by wizards clearly are intended to make you work for it just like the writers had to!
I'm ashamed to say that more and more I'm asking Gemini (and others) how-to questions rather than doing an actual search, reading multiple documents, etc.  If something looks off I can look for the info myself, but I wonder if the kids whose first experience with finding information is an AI will be able to do that.
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Cheers, Bev
    I've enjoyed just about as much of this as I can stand.