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Once you’re embedded in govt, the ‘OS’ for government, then you can raise charges in order to keep the hoards at bay. Hoards that are angry at cuts to public services made in order to finance Palantir profits…
What 4/5yr term govt can turn off or replace their OS?
Would you make the case that reading comprehension is genetics as well?
Second ‘genetics’ comment — wow, we’re really far down the supremacy hole
The key era of tech was when the Jobs and Wozniak built things in their garage, and considered them a bicycle for the mind
You don’t need genetics to ride a bike and improve — but you do need that argument to justify the unjustifiable.
Dark days
that’s the ambiguity that I think is tripping the discussion up a little. Also the idea of a CLI/Shell/Terminal is also quite coupled to a system, rather than services. Hence the whole ‘web service’ hope to normalise remote APIs that if you squint hard enough become ‘curl’ on the command line
But the point is none of that is intrinsic or interesting to the underlying idea, it’s just of annoying practical relevance to interfacing with APIs today
I think this is a naming problem. CLI is usually the name for the interface to an application. A Shell is the interface to the OS. Nonetheless agree with your post but this might be part of the difficulty in the discussion