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posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 05:50am on 2021-12-28

"I've droned on endlessly about how you can't expect normal people to use the command line. That's what Alexa is. If you don't say the precise invocation correctly, you get an error.

"And because there's no display, you have to remember dozens of different commands. It's too hard"

-- Terence Eden ([twitter.com profile] edent), 2021-12-24

"you want the computer from Star Trek, but you get Zork instead" -- mincemeat pizza commissions: open! ([twitter.com profile] frostyplum), replying to Terence Eden

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metahacker: Close-up of a computer screen showing a linux terminal. (drwxrwxrwx)

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posted by [personal profile] metahacker at 02:16pm on 2021-12-28
Amen.
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leiacat: A grey cat against background of starry sky, with lit candle in the foreground (Default)

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posted by [personal profile] leiacat at 03:08pm on 2021-12-28
Lol yeah. Except command-lines are less error-prone: with voice commands not only do you have to get it right but it has to _realize_ that you got it right. An insurmountable obstacle for some of us.
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metahacker: A picture of white-socked feet, as of a person with their legs crossed. (Default)

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posted by [personal profile] metahacker at 09:35pm on 2021-12-28
And I can alias, tab-complete or up-arrow to 90% of my commands...
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leiacat: A grey cat against background of starry sky, with lit candle in the foreground (Default)

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posted by [personal profile] leiacat at 09:45pm on 2021-12-28
I am now picturing me shouting TAAAAB at the voice control. (Normally what I picture me shouting at the voice control is "Eleven!")
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metahacker: A picture of white-socked feet, as of a person with their legs crossed. (Default)

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posted by [personal profile] metahacker at 04:10pm on 2021-12-29
Uh-leewh-vn!

I use that skit a lot to explain accessibility...
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extraarcha: US flag inverted - distress & alarm (Default)

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posted by [personal profile] extraarcha at 04:27pm on 2021-12-28
OK...
is there some site that ranks these things?

Descending order --
1. Star Trek
2. Zork

There's the computer in "Fail Safe"... and "Colossus" and "Terminator"

Where do we place HAL (2001) in the list?
I think at #2... but HAL might try to kill you.... oh... same as the other three i've mentioned

[Sorry, Dave... I can't let you do that.]
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dianec42: Gilda Radner character Roseann Rosannadanna saying "It's always SOMETHING" (Gilda)

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posted by [personal profile] dianec42 at 05:59pm on 2021-12-29
I dunno, I feel like the computer in Star Trek (at least TNG) f***ed up enough times that this is pretty much what we're getting.
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posted by [personal profile] blueeowyn at 03:22pm on 2022-01-06
At least a computer command line doesn't depend on voice recognition. Java's phone can't recognize me when I try to talk to it, it knows his voice and speaking style and no other is recognized. Which is useful because I can say certain key words without worrying. Now, if he needs to voice command his phone when he has had dental work, I doubt it will work.
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