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I wish pipes would transfer more than just text to avoid re-parsing.
Could I introduce you to https://www.nushell.sh/ , kind sir? Started using it last year and being able to type ‘ls | sort-by modified -r | take 5’ feels liberating.
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> But I am having a hard time imagining it's the best way to learn to pipe together commands. To be honest, it is very strange how hard it is to teach programming concepts, for some reason almost all humans use computers but only 0.1% or so can program them. I am not sure we have the 'best way' to teach anything computer related. People develop world model for physics quite early, they know they can pull with a rope…
> almost all humans use computers but only 0.1% or so can program them. This is nitpicking but I was curious: there are 4.4 million software developers in the US ( https://www.griddynamics.com/blog/number-software-developers... ). The population is 340 million, 0.1% would be 340,000. You’re off by over one order of magnitude.
we could say 0.5%?
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I’m wondering whether it could be played with a Unix box connected to the big TV in the living room so that with each command added to the pipe you can see the result. That’s my instinct for what to do with this, although it does feel like it is a play once kind of game.
Would this be something along those lines? https://github.com/williamcotton/guish It's a GUI for constructing and executing Unix pipelines and it shows the output of each step in the pipeline.
We need one for SELinux for adults, it'll lowkey force people who haven't taken the time to learn SELinux to learn it and be fully capable of using it without fear.
As a science teacher and former software dev, I find this totally cute, and I understand exactly why the creator chose to make it a physical card game. That said, I do think the translation into a physical card game means that kids aren't getting the experimentation and near-instant feedback that they'd be getting if they were doing this digitally. In order for a kid to "win," they either have to already know, or exp…
hey, I just copy and pasted your comment into an agent I hope you don't mind. one shot result: https://wonderful.exe.xyz you could do the same, or I could give you access to this one if you want.
As a science teacher and former software dev, I find this totally cute, and I understand exactly why the creator chose to make it a physical card game. That said, I do think the translation into a physical card game means that kids aren't getting the experimentation and near-instant feedback that they'd be getting if they were doing this digitally. In order for a kid to "win," they either have to already know, or exp…
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hey, I just copy and pasted your comment into an agent I hope you don't mind. one shot result: https://wonderful.exe.xyz you could do the same, or I could give you access to this one if you want.
unreal that an agent knocked this out in one shot.
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As a young Linux user I always hated the experimentation aspect because usually it meant just straight up getting the command wrong 5 times before trying to read the man page, thinking I understood what the man page meant, trying again another 5 times and then giving up. This idea of experimenting and getting instant feedback is just survivorship bias for a certain type of person, not “the way we ought to teach Unix…
> usually it meant just straight up getting the command wrong 5 times before trying to read the man page, thinking I understood what the man page meant, trying again another 5 times I think that is a developer's superpower. The poncy term for it is grit. I tell others that the secret to leaning computers is frustration and persistence. > and then giving up. Knowing when to stop or change direction is hard. I've defin…
As a science teacher and former software dev, I find this totally cute, and I understand exactly why the creator chose to make it a physical card game. That said, I do think the translation into a physical card game means that kids aren't getting the experimentation and near-instant feedback that they'd be getting if they were doing this digitally. In order for a kid to "win," they either have to already know, or exp…
> But I am having a hard time imagining it's the best way to learn to pipe together commands. To be honest, it is very strange how hard it is to teach programming concepts, for some reason almost all humans use computers but only 0.1% or so can program them. I am not sure we have the 'best way' to teach anything computer related. People develop world model for physics quite early, they know they can pull with a rope…
Not saying this is the best way, but have you followed any of Bret Victor's work with dynamicland[1]?
As a science teacher and former software dev, I find this totally cute, and I understand exactly why the creator chose to make it a physical card game. That said, I do think the translation into a physical card game means that kids aren't getting the experimentation and near-instant feedback that they'd be getting if they were doing this digitally. In order for a kid to "win," they either have to already know, or exp…
As a young Linux user I always hated the experimentation aspect because usually it meant just straight up getting the command wrong 5 times before trying to read the man page, thinking I understood what the man page meant, trying again another 5 times and then giving up. This idea of experimenting and getting instant feedback is just survivorship bias for a certain type of person, not “the way we ought to teach Unix…