It is literally easier to explain to them how to do something on the command line than in a GUI, both in documentation and over the phone. That doesn't mean they will ever discover how to do something in either interface on their own but I don't really expect that from the people who make paper notes of the step-by-step process in GUI workflows anyway.
taladar
joined 1 year ago
"Don't be evil"...
Honestly, recommendation engines are literally the most primitive shit, especially the ones by large companies.
Audible keeps recommending part 3 or 4 of series where i haven't heard part 1 or 2 or tells me there is a new title in my "favorite series", i.e.g the one where I just stopped listing half-way through a book to instead listen to something else.
Amazon also still hasn't fixed that simple thing where it keeps recommending you a second e.g. washing machine because you recently bought one.
Google recommendations were literally better 10 years ago than they are now though I suppose AI is partially to blame for that one but even before that it "helpfully corrected" searches frequently away from what I was actually looking for just because the term was similar to a more popular one.
I don't doubt that they feed it all kinds of tracking data but the actual algorithm that does anything with that data is literally about as primitive as the "chosen by fair dice roll" XKCD.
If you think GUI is intuitive you have never worked in support and despaired at people trying their best to get "simple" concepts like "left-click" vs. "right-click" wrong.
Considering they are not even capable of removing video recommendations for videos you literally just finished watching on Youtube I doubt it.
The fact is that major tech companies are investing billions in this.
They have literally invested billions in every single hype cycle of the last few decades that turned out to be a pile of crap in hindsight. This is a bad argument.
And by "pizza shops" you mean that one pizza shop that tried it back before BTC got really expensive?
You are thinking too small. Even if only one of a thousand companies in one of dozens of third world nations develops an alternative that is enough.
The difference is that 100% of crypto-currency transactions are stuff like that and only a small percentage of USD transactions.
They have the ability to shut it down for all practical purposes by simply banning its use for transaction by legitimate companies in their country.
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Wait? Is that thing in the thumbnail their actual logo? That looks like something a child made in MS Paint.