Stardust

joined 1 year ago
[–] Stardust@kbin.social 6 points 3 months ago

I believe they were using it as an example of failure to corner the market, that is, in reply to the previous person's comment and not directly to the main post.

[–] Stardust@kbin.social 9 points 3 months ago (2 children)

There is a way they could make the majority of it noise - if they reduced their expectations to only picking up a single type of signal, like thinking of pressing a red button, and tossing anything that doesn't roughly match that signal. But then they wouldn't have their super fancy futuristic human-robot mind meld dream, or dream of introducing a dystopian nightmare where the government can read your thoughts...

[–] Stardust@kbin.social 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I think maybe you meant to link to AI Winter (which that link has a link to down at the bottom) as that article doesn't really support your point (that people within AI acknowledge it has hype cycles) at all, there's nothing about AI directly in it, although it does serve a refutation that 'hype cycle' means it'll go away; if that's what you meant your sentence was a bit odd.

[–] Stardust@kbin.social 20 points 4 months ago

Dunno if you want a serious answer, but 'press start' titlescreens that start up an animation if you leave it unpressed too long are a throwback to when if a screen showed the same image for too long, it would fry the image on to the screen and leave a little ghost image, so screensavers were a screen saver. This allowed one to demo software and just leave it running without worrying about damaging the product hardware.
These days however it is totally unnecessary.

[–] Stardust@kbin.social 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

@Helvedeshunden

Obvious answer: computers.

I wish we got a bidet but my family decided against it. x_x

[–] Stardust@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

@snazzy0933
Maybe try putting up signs saying 'ARMED AND DANGEROUS', 'NO TRESPASSING' and 'BEWARE OF DOG'. If you don't have a dog, you can just play dog barking sounds.
A dog on a chain in front of your door is a pretty good deterrent if you're willing to do that though.

[–] Stardust@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Dandelions are often the only flowers available for wildlife.