> Is this just a huge boon to those too lazy to learn? And what does that mean for later security and tech debt issues?

In the same way that GPS is a boon to people too lazy to learn celestial navigation or read a paper map.

In the same way that word processors are a boon to people too lazy to use a typewriter and white-out.

In the same way that supermarkets are a boon to people too lazy to hunt and gather their own food.

In the same way that synthesizers are a boon to people too lazy to hire a 40-piece orchestra.

In the same way that power drills are a boon to people too lazy to use a hand crank.

Those are all false equivalents. The GP speaks of "democratization of learning", which had already happened. It's more akin to if I said "now people can finally vote" when remote voting expanded to civilians. It's not like people couldn't have voted before, and in fact it had only a modest impact on turnout.

Then people would ask "is this just a huge boon to those too lazy to vote?", and the answer would be "no actually, voting is still a thing where one must do their own thinking."

If anything, it's a boon to people too lazy to drive, similar to LLMs being a boon for those too lazy to type.

Or just use Fossil. It's already a distributed alternative to github. Every fossil install includes a built in web server with bug tracking and a wiki.

Fossil seems very interesting, especially because it uses sqlite as the storage format and is created by sqlite authors.

Do you know if it is possible to use fossil locally pushing/pulling to/from git remote repositories? Thinking of some kind of bridge like git-svn.

Most of the comments here seem to think this is designed to track a perp in your house. My assumption is that it's for people who want to check if the gas was left on or spy on their pet.

Spoiler alert: This will not prevent lawsuits.

Reminds me of how they dropped the Intel Galileo. Since then, I've never been willing to trust that they'll support their efforts.

What fresh hell is this?

Dorothy Parker, is that you?

I agree with the author that the simplicity of learning the language is not the only type of simplicity. There are other types of simplicity like the simplicity of how consistent the language is. For instance, I've felt for some time that Python has become too complex. I started out quite simple, and there are now like 3-4 different ways to write a method signature.

Every time I read stuff like this, I think it's the free software people who miss the point of open source.

As a teacher, just having some kids using a TI-84 and some using a TI-89 is a headache. If I don't have a consistent set, I constantly have to stop and give two sets of instructions to account for minor UI differences. There's no way I could deal with everyone having different ones.

In school when we got introduced to calculator, the teacher told us that he was not here to teach it to us. Only maybe guide us, we had a few lessons of us sitting down with the manual and having to learn (mostly by ourselves, but he would also help) how to use the calculator we chose. After that, it was to each its own, he wouldn't give any explanations...

This is IMHO fair, he was anyway teaching us math, not using a calculator.

I had a similar experience with FedEx until I filed a BBB complaint. That got things sorted out quick.

I am still amazed that people take BBB complaints seriously. It’s just like getting a bad Yelp rewiew.

I think the fact that they're so popular is, ironically, why they're so effective. They're not a government organization, they have no enforcement arm, yet complaints there can and have resulted in satisfaction when other avenues fail.

Yelp, on the other hand, is where "let me speak to your manager"-types go to bitch about restaurants screwing up their orders. BBB complaints seem a bit more fleshed out.

Me too, I don't even know any younger people that know what BBB is.