Post by @dat@social.g33ky.de

@dat@social.g33ky.de

2026-09-03 06:03 UTC

tbf, "Tea. Earl Grey. Hot." was already utterly stupid and redundant "Earl Grey!" should be enough of a prompt. Unless the replicator is able to reproduce the long dead person that tea was named for or there's people around who regularly order cold earl grey tea? Probably "Tea!" would be even distinct enough, since there's probably user preferences involved and he's always ordering the same tea. At least Picard has set "hot" to mean a exact temperature setting, since "hot" clearly isn't that specific of a value. Maybe it should rather be "Tea. Picard 1." if he's referencing a specific preset. But that prompt isn't built for use with a replicator. It's built for use with a TV camera and audience.

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@Epic_Null@infosec.exchange 2026-09-03 06:41

@dat@social.g33ky.de @Lana@beige.party Actually, thinking about it, it reads like a menu navigation. If I were to come up with an in-universe explenation, he probably learned to order it like that back when he was still learning the system and what his options are - while needing to read still options from an info-screen to compensate for what he did not know. Once he learned where his preffered tea was, he would then just repeat the interaction to jump to it - never expending the effort to make a shortcut or learn the shorthand. Why would he? "Tea. Earl Grey. Hot." takes little effort and always ends in the drink he wants. It also avoids a repeat of the... Coke Incident...

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@newstik@social.heise.de 2026-09-03 17:41

@dat@social.g33ky.de @Lana@beige.party There are also Earl Grey cookies. So it helps to specifiy "tea".

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