I wonder if that makes unix-likes so resilient is that at its core it is not a tool, but a toolbox.
I wonder if that makes unix-likes so resilient is that at its core it is not a tool, but a toolbox. If one look into a physical toolbox, many of the tools have not changed for generations. Heck, the basic hammer is likely as old as civilization itself. Thing is that these tools can be combined as the user see fit at time of usage, even it if would freak out the original designer. Upon writing this i find myself reminded of a Star Trek TNG episode where they have one of the designers of the Enterprise on board, and La Forge is giving her a tour. She keeps pointing out way they are "doing it wrong" until they have a situation that falls completely outside of design anticipations, and they have to create a solution on the fly. After that La Forge gives her a explanation about how in the field things rarely work as they do on the drawing board, in particular when millions of light years from the nearest space dock. As such i think unix-likes are resilient because at its core it was made for admins by admins. It was made to work in the day when you didn't have the net to reach out to for solutions, nor another computer to work on to create the tools to fix what is broken. One of the horrors of modernity is that we keep forgetting or ignoring how our present lives got bootstrapped in the first place. The kind of A boots B that Boots C that replace A type catch-22.
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This is my biggest problem with agents, they constantly defensively code for cases that have no chance of happening and in most cases a p...
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I probably could have beared with it if it was only limited to programming, but it showing up in creative fields has made me feel all sor...
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I wonder if that makes unix-likes so resilient is that at its core it is not a tool, but a toolbox.
I wonder if that makes unix-likes so resilient is that at its core it is not a tool, but a toolbox. If one look into a physical toolbox, many of the tools have not changed for generations. Heck, the basic hammer is likely as old as civilization itself. Thing is that these tools can be combined as the user see fit at time of usage, even it if would freak out the original designer. Upon writing this i find myself reminded of a Star Trek TNG episode where they have one of the designers of the Enterprise on board, and La Forge is giving her a tour. She keeps pointing out way they are "doing it wrong" until they have a situation that falls completely outside of design anticipations, and they have to create a solution on the fly. After that La Forge gives her a explanation about how in the field things rarely work as they do on the drawing board, in particular when millions of light years from the nearest space dock. As such i think unix-likes are resilient because at its core it was made for admins by admins. It was made to work in the day when you didn't have the net to reach out to for solutions, nor another computer to work on to create the tools to fix what is broken. One of the horrors of modernity is that we keep forgetting or ignoring how our present lives got bootstrapped in the first place. The kind of A boots B that Boots C that replace A type catch-22.
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