Yes, but also I would hope that if you have the autonomy to install linux you also have the autonomy to look up an unknown command before running it with superuser privileges.

If you want a pretty cool example, Le morte d’Arthur was written in prison.

They’re definitely among the worst of the worst. It’s always surprised me how comparatively sterile their wiki page is. Feels like they’ve got someone cleaning it up.

If you want to disabuse yourself of the notion that AI is close to replacing programmers for anything but the most mundane and trivial tasks, try to have GPT 4 generate a novel implementation of moderate complexity and watch it import mystery libraries that do exactly what you want the code to do, but that don’t actually exist.

Yeah, you can do a lot without writing a single line of code. You can certainly interact with the models because others who can have already done the leg work. But someone still has to do it.

I read it a long time ago. The format is interesting, novel certainly. I suppose it’s the selling point, over the prose.

To me it seemed like there were many competing “ways” to read it as well. Like a maze, you can go different paths. Do you read it front to back? Niggle through the citations? Thread back through the holes? It’s not often you get a book that has this much re-read value.