i loved alt-F[1-4] on a vga screen i somehow managed to get higher (character based) resolution.
when i started runing xwindows, i still bounced out to the console with (afair) ctrl-alt-f2?
and just a few weeks ago, I forget why, but i instinctively was able to get a console on a messed up (xwindows or whatever it is today) console. good ol console.
Few companies experienced the explosive growth fb did, though many will claim to have done so. Hack made the existing codebase of php scale to insane levels while reaching escape velocity for the overall company to even attempt to transition away or shrink the php codebase, as i recall (i was an SRE, not a dev)
my memory is hazy, but when i started i was called an sre. Then someone made up the term "app ops". then it was production engineering. then I called myself an SRE when i was interviewing to leave fb.
Oh, and i was called a DBA before being acquired by google.
the interruptiopn part is just flow control at the edge. control-s, control-c stuff, right? not AI?
The sound of a female voice to an audience 85% composed of males between the ages of 14 and 55 is "magical", not this thing that recreates it.
so yeah, its flow control and compression of highly curated, subtle soft porn. Subtle, hyper targeted, subconscious porn honed by the most colossal digitally mediated focus group ever constructed to manipulate our (straight male) emotions.
why isn't the voice actually the voice of the pissed off high school janitor telling you to man-up and stop hyperventilating? instead its a woman stroking your ego and telling you to relax and take deep breaths. what dataset did they train that voice on anyway?
It's not that complicated, generally more woman-like voices test as more pleasant to men and women alike. This concept has been backed up by stereotypes for centuries.
Most voice assistants have male options, and an increasing number (including ChatGPT) have gender neutral voices.
> why isn't the voice actually the voice of the pissed off high school janitor telling you to man-up and stop hyperventilating
sounds like a great way to create a product people will outright hate
I may or may not entirely agree with this sentiment (but I definitely don't disagree with all of it!) but I will say this: I don't think you deserve to be downvoted for this. Have a "corrective upvote" on me.
it seems like the ability to interrupt is more like the interrupt in the computer sense ... A control-c (or control-s tty flow control for you old timers), not a cognitive evaluation followed by the "reasoned" decision to pause voice output. not that it matters i guess, its just not general intelligence. its just flow control.
but also, thats why it fails a real turing test. a real person would be irritated as fuck by the interruptions
Basically, nanotec bots that spin around on command are put into the bodies of people, so they can be made to spin around and dissolve them from the inside out.
That's not the only thing they do! They also could fire muscle fibers perpetually so people who wantef to could get huge without intentionally working out, at the cost of looking twitchy all the time.
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