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Comment Re:NO. (Score 1) 493

I'm appalled by the polarity and extremism on this topic, even from a /. standpoint.
Different vaccines are not created equal. Many have been so successful in eradicating disease, that there's no question about their effectiveness.
But lately, the medical industry has grown accustomed to hiding large parts of unfavourable test results, as we are now starting to find out.
There's ample evidence (or lack thereof) to be worried about and avoiding some vaccines.
As with anything, extreme measures require extreme amounts of evidence.

Comment Re:Unix is powerful (Score 1) 606

Do you understand what RTFM means?
If anyone, _ever_, tells you this, they're probably right, you didn't read the manual, and are now being a self-righteous prick expecting to be spoonfed by others for free. It's not even hostility. It's a helpful indication that you need to go back and read that manual, and it's for your own good.

I understand how it can be confusing, when coming from an environment like Windows, where you have "Help on how to use help", and support personnel will gladly spend hours helping you fix all kinds of trivial problems, including problems caused by you.
But these people are being PAID to babysit you.

In the end, as we've seen, people are always going to gravitate toward the systems utilizing the biggest marketing bag-o-tricks, there's no other magic here.

Comment Re:The command line is more efficient (Score 1) 606

I agree with what you say, but I don't think this really boils down to a GUI vs CLI argument. There are a lot of badly made CLI jumbo-apps too. Things where programmers have been too lazy to divide a program into constituent parts necessary for reuse, or create a proper UI.

I think the problem is that GUIs only evolved for a short time in the 80s and beginning of the 90s, at which time people also dreamed of graphical interfaces that would some day allow advanced computer interaction. As seen in many of the cyberpunk movies from that time.

But that never happened.
Instead, for 20 years, all GUIs have continued to be rehashes of the same kind of simplistic UI mostly designed for small children to interact with games and leisure.
The over-extension of these GUI systems well past their best-before date can be considered similar to the pictograph system. Which has become tedious and unusable for more complex tasks.

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