I've worked with many folks over the years after learning myself...
The feeling of complexity comes from not yet understanding that commits are just sets of changes to files. They are then thrown off the scent by new terms like origin clone vs push and pull, merge vs rebase, HEAD increment notation vs other commit hashes.
Once people start with a local understanding of using git diff and git add -p they usually get the epiphany. Then git rebase -i and git reflog take them the rest of the way. Then add the distributed push and fetch/pull concepts.
This is all true. But digital audio and video media has captured essentially all economic value outside of live performance. So it seems likely that we will find a "good enough" in this domain too.
Interesting point with economic value extraction. The economy sacrificed accuracy and warmth of analog storage for convenience and security of digital storage. With economic incentive I am sure society will sacrifice accuracy and precision for the convenience of AI
They do not have the same stake in a healthy society as the rest of us. I agree with consequences for them, but the entire model is flawed. It is motivating a small number of people to claim as much for themselves as possible with little serious stake holding by the broader society other than other rich people. There has to be more democracy introduced.
I've been wondering if Java would have a resurgence due to strong typing even into the error types, and widespread runtime availability. But so far, seems no.
Three Cue-ing, the flawed idea is three-cueing (looking for context clues to figure out words you don't know). I didn't read the rest of the article out of infuriation with the number of times they alluded to and discredited the technique before naming it.
It gets better once they go into it but you’re right, I was also infuriated! The first 10 or so paragraphs read like tabloid click bait. I recommend reading the whole thing though, it actually gets compelling.
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