huf [he/him]

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Cake day: November 11th, 2021

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  • mm yes, i’d love to have a UI for the computer where the same input will produce different results each time (and makes half of it up on the spot) and you can never ever trust anything it outputs but have to check literally every single pixel carefully.

    as opposed to entering a cli command you’re familiar with and checking just the little bit of the output that is relevant to you, because you are familiar with the output format and it’s stable.

    i like having extra cognitive load, it helps.


  • it also means that there’s a smooth transition between doing a thing once and doing it a 1000 times (or otherwise automating it), because you’ve got a programming language right there already. no need to look for a “mass-x gui tool” for each x.

    oh, and i think (though i have no actual experience with this) that it’s a lot easier to make terminals friendly for disabled people (blind, etc)