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0 pointsfoolfoolz3y ago0 comments

nah it just shows how the valuable abstractions have moved up. i bet this 8 year mark will only get later over time until it disappears

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pxc3y ago

Level of abstraction is largely orthogonal to the GUI/CLI divide, though.

nmcli is more abstract than ip+iw+wpa_supplicant, but it's no more or less abstract than any GUI network configuration widget.

The output of ls is no more or less abstract than the contents of a directory as displayed by a GUI file manager. It's the same metaphor and the same information displayed in two different formats.

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0 pointsfoolfoolz3y ago0 comments

nah it just shows how the valuable abstractions have moved up. i bet this 8 year mark will only get later over time until it disappears

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pxc3y ago

Level of abstraction is largely orthogonal to the GUI/CLI divide, though.

nmcli is more abstract than ip+iw+wpa_supplicant, but it's no more or less abstract than any GUI network configuration widget.

The output of ls is no more or less abstract than the contents of a directory as displayed by a GUI file manager. It's the same metaphor and the same information displayed in two different formats.

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