tomiant

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[–] tomiant@programming.dev 2 points 5 hours ago

Here's one of my favorite TED talks of all time, “What Hallucination Reveals About Our Minds", where he explains Charles Bonnet syndrome, a condition where people with impaired vision experience elaborate, lucid hallucinations:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgOTaXhbqPQ

[–] tomiant@programming.dev 1 points 6 hours ago

It's a bottle of vaseline. What's the weird-out?

[–] tomiant@programming.dev 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Who keeps crackers in a barrel anyway? It'll be like a bunch of cracker parts on top of crumb mush

[–] tomiant@programming.dev 5 points 17 hours ago

Please have some decency and don't use standard.co.uk as a source, it's the lowest form of conservative populist rag.

[–] tomiant@programming.dev 1 points 1 day ago

How this isn't obvious and something we should collectively want is beyond me. We really don't fucking need more than 8 billion people. I don't think we need more than 1, and even that is pushing it.

[–] tomiant@programming.dev 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I like being able to give instructions without having to poke a damn screen.

[–] tomiant@programming.dev 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

So they just trim the instructions so it doesn't take joke orders, so it can make more reasonable decisions, like:

"May I take your order?"

"Two double whoppers with extra mayo and a chocolate cherry banana sundae"

"Oh you've GOTTA be joking!"

[–] tomiant@programming.dev 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Steps at a time. It takes time and effort to wake the giant and get it on its feet.

[–] tomiant@programming.dev 5 points 1 day ago

Royale with cheese, fries with mayonnaise, and a beer. And no plastic cup either, but a glass of beer.

[–] tomiant@programming.dev -3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah, I can't get over people scoffing at AI as if it isn't improving by the day, and fast.

[–] tomiant@programming.dev 1 points 1 day ago

Aye, it be true. It done been like the man say'th!

[–] tomiant@programming.dev 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You were also able to type out a message and send it using a single hand, you only needed to recharge the phone once a week, and it didn't shatter like an icicle if you so much as sneezed at it, it was cheap and it didn't spy on you. Smart phones is the dumbest thing that happened to humanity.

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