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Cake day: June 17th, 2023

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  • I am not a programmer but your line of argument begged the question, “Are more options better, more efficient/effective, etc. or otherwise desirable?” Sure, if the only criterion you are trying to fulfill is “have as many options and different ways to complete the task at hand as possible,” you are correct that you can emulate a CLI within a GUI so you can accomplish a task both by clicking or typing instead of just typing.

    However the parent you are responding to stated that having these additional choices (what he terms as “noise”) is clearly not effective for him so he disagrees with your original premise. Apparently for them “less is more” which is certainly understandable.








  • this is not a binary situation. you can be a master of one, two, or even more things and still have a broad base.

    it’s also all relative and honestly just being happy with what you have, both in terms of material things as well as mental skills/knowledge is a good thing. doesn’t mean you stop learning or earning but you don’t have to be disappointed if you don’t get x amount of dollars or a y number of square feet in your house or z number of factoids in your trivia database