In some instances this could be a file on disk. But it does not have to be.

What does that have to do with providing value?

Standard ML is a perfect programming language from the 90s. It unfortunately does not have a great eco system of packages.

Better move as much of that as possible into your own scripts. And your scripts can be portable between forges, and even run locally!

It seems the federal executive admin is censoring government websites of all levels and branches of government.

This is how all people solve problems. Now everyone are not great at all parts, but this really is what anyone does.

Surely the title ”engineer” means something else?

In the aggregate everyone maybe learns on average about as much new stuff in a year anyway.

There _are_ still humans out there talking to each other.

They did not read the text to agree.

It was the fastest way to get the banner to go away. Sometimes they force you to confirm multiple times if you click ”none” or ”minimal”.

This happens in Europe as well.

It is not legal, but it is the only way the Scandinavian berry market works at all. You don’t even need a huge market for this to be allowed to happen. You just need _a_ market and workers that are desperate enough to be tricked.

The important part of protobuf is the spec of the wire format. That is what makes the standard an interop format.

Personally I also prefer code generation over dynamic parsers and generators. This is not an idiosyncrasy of C++, it is just the objectively good way to handle IDLs regardless of programming language.

I don't believe this.

If you find a person (well, two I guess for this experiment) with no computer experience and want to teach them how to copy files, your first step will be teaching them what is a file and how they are organized in the computer.

Explaining what a file is takes the same amount of time for both cases (we can ignore how devices and processes are files in Linux and how files in Windows contain many data streams and extra metadata).

In both cases you need to teach them the file system is hierarchical and folders can be nested and can contain files.

For Windows you have to teach them how to double click to open folders. They can double click "My Downloads" to see their downloads. They can double click "My Music" to see their music files.

For the CLI you have to teach them that `ls` can list the contents of a directory. They can `ls Downloads` to see their downloads. They can `ls Music` to see their music files.

For Windows you then teach them they can open multiple windows (assuming you want to copy from one folder to another folder). And you teach them they can click, hold and drag and drop a file to move it (but sometimes it will be copied when they do that) and they can hold in Control while dropping to copy the file to the destination instead. Or you teach them they can use Ctrl+C to mark a file for being copied and then navigate to the destination and use Ctrl+V to copy the file. Or you teach them to right click for the right click menu, and that "copy" means "mark this file for being copied", and that a right click in the middle of a window displaying the target folder lets them select "paste" which means "copy the marked file here".

For the CLI you teach them `cp Downloads/foo.mp3 Music/` copies foo.mp3 from their downloads to their music directory.

The CLI is also infinitely easier to help newbies use over the phone!