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Comment This has been attempted before - see Plan 9 (Score 0) 286

This has been attempted before - with various levels of success. See "Plan 9 from Bell Labs"' acme.

In plan9, some of Unix' core concepts were abandoned. Including the 'one tool for one job' philosophy that is the basic underpinning of Unix. A prime example was particularly relevant for this discussion: acme.

Acme was

    * A shell
    * The window manager
    * a file browser
    * A text editor
    * A hypertext browser (not sure if this included web browsing, it's been too long ago)
    * A mail reader

all rolled into one binary. Basicly, *exactly* what you wish for. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... kind of describes it.

Plan 9 didn't catch on for a number of reasons - some of those abandoned UNIX principles turned out to be important after all...

Comment Pot, kettle, black (Score 1, Insightful) 53

"[ChatGPT] simply makes it too easy for users to generate responses and flood the site with answers that seem correct at first glance but are often wrong on close examination."

I would suggest that "seeming correct at first glance but often being wrong" correctly describes *most* answers on StackOverflow.

Comment Re:Scaring tourists away much? (Score -1) 734

Did anybody bother to RTFA?

I can best that: I filled in that darn form just the other day, and I've filled in the paper version a couple of times in the past, being married to an American and all. And it bothers me to have to break the news to you, but apparently even your fine London-based consul general is wrong. I can understand how the average american citizen is uninformed about this, but the fact that even that consul-general is wrong is worrysome: I had to enter my home telephone number (presumably for the wiretap) and my email address (presumably to spam me or to confiscate), and I never had to fill that in on the paper form - including the paper form that I had to fill in afterall, since the fine people at Atlanta airport were behind the times and couldn't process my digital application.

The only question the digital form did *not* have is "In which city and on what date was your visa issued" which is a rather awkward question for a form that starts with "Only for visitors without a visa".

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