Imagine the features you could add to this. Like a robot that walks around behind the workers and gives well-timed corrective communications with a whip.

The whip is for the programmers.

https://sierraclassicgaming.com/game/space-quest-iii/sq3_pro...

So it appears that automating managers is easier than automating "unskilled workers"

Yes. Chat is absolutely bad, because it is opaque. It perfectly reproduces what used to be called "hunt the verb" in gaming, for the same reason. The simple truth is you're interacting with a piece of software, with features and subroutines. GUIs are great at surfacing features, affordances, changing with context. A chat interface invites you to guess.

Yes. Chat is absolutely bad, because it is opaque. It perfectly reproduces what used to be called "hunt the verb" in gaming, for the same reason. The simple truth is you're interacting with a piece of software, with features and subroutines. GUIs are great at surfacing features, affordances, changing with context. A chat interface invites you to guess.

LLMs, if used at all, aren't aware enough to even know what the software can do, and many actual chat UIs are worse than that!

My "favourite" design pattern for chat UIs is to invite you type, freely, whatever you like, then immediately enter a wizard "flow" like it's 1991 and entirely discard everything you typed. Pure hostility.

I had the box set, it was the first Linux game I bought. The flurry was Loki Games, a porting house. They let me help as a beta tester! I got to test Descent III and Mindrover. Next would have been Deus Ex, but they flamed out. One of them, Sam Latinga, built SDL and I believe is still active.

I still have my boxed copy (along with everything Loki produced) in a big box in the garage.

I think Loki also originated OpenAL, which is still around as well.

Where's the museum with wine? This is missing from society. Where do I find this?

Not museums on public days but galleries, especially during openings of new expositions, with admission by invitation.

Museums, galleries, or any other art-related places with wads of cash lying around are pure fantasy though. Alas.

> wads

This is not a WAD, though

Heh, what's a Doom level if it's not a WAD?

Yeah, that's what the post means. This is not a Doom level.

he's just like me fr

The idea that someone is going to invent and remember a password for every dumb service is not real, and when you build another password based authentication system, you are doing a kind of LARP.

Passwords are used in one of two ways:

1. a password manager guarded by a single actual password

2. the same password repeated between services

Practically every service offers e-mail recovery, so, in practice, your e-mail is your authentication.

Personal e-mail accounts are rarely replaced, not shared, and aren't reused. You've probably had your personal e-mail longer than your phone number. I've had at least five phone numbers in the life time of my current e-mail address. Other people now have those numbers.

There are also derived passwords, which are kind of a hybrid. Either as a pattern the human remembers or a manager that does the calculation per domain.

I'd also add that forgot password features at least notify the address owner of every attempt. Password based logins don't always email on every login from a new location.

Apple has made the incredibly annoying “you can’t just enter your 1Password/keychain password, you have to dick around with email” process much nicer; at least when it can recognize the email/text and enter the code for you.

Apple is the worst about this. The only option is that they send a message to an Apple device. I only have an iPad and not an iPhone or Macbook, so I often simply cannot log into my Apple account because they refuse to do anything else besides send it to an Apple device.

Not true, you can use FIDO2 keys. You can even use SMS (but you shouldn't).

Yes, it is true. There are indeed cases where you are not presented with SMS options.

And I'm not going to purchase and carry around a hardware key just for the privilege of periodically logging into my Apple accounts.

Maybe Apple shouldn't force you to own an Apple device to login to your accounts? They've been sued about this before and lost. If Microsoft did this, people would lose their minds.

You claim to want it. Do you pay for what you want?

One may notice this has something to do with mutability. If there isn’t a surrogate key, the record isn’t mutable. The database may let you change it, but the new record has a new identity. Mutability as a concept requires a common identity across time. Languages permitting mutability are using a pointer or reference as an implicit surrogate identity. A typical database can’t offer this, hence the need to put explicit surrogate keys into the schema. You cannot say “this changed” unless you can refer to both samples as a common “this”.

While that is true, for correctness appends should supplant updates. On HN, many users (like myself) have posted comments for over a decade. Suppose I changed my username from "bjourne" to "SpongeBob"... Should the comments I wrote in 2010 show up as having been authored by "SpongeBob" or "bjourne"? I'd strongly argue in favor of the latter since the former would constitute falsifying history. The "change" in username should be viewed as the creation of a new personae rather than a "change".