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I think this is a good example of how Apple is doing well in the application of AI and also uncharacteristically doing poorly in the application of AI. Doing well as it quietly is coming up with helpful product updates like this which are buried in support docs and limited splash. I kind of prefer this more quiet usage of application of AI.
What about this is "AI"?
These are the type of problems that are completely invisible to someone who doesn't experience it. I wouldn't have even known it was a problem to solve. A few years back we played an escape room game online with the whole team. One of the clues was in one of my colleagues "room". All he had to do was read it. "Come one read it man, we can win this." He froze. We all insisted he reads it. He could not read it. We thou…
One interesting stat from the miltary: cadets who were competative swimmers generally dont get motion sickness. The combination of 0g floating and constant head rotations along diferent axis (flip turns) normalizes the sensations.
Not enough experience yet to say for sure whether they work, but the dots look so cool that I will keep it on regardless.
These are the type of problems that are completely invisible to someone who doesn't experience it. I wouldn't have even known it was a problem to solve. A few years back we played an escape room game online with the whole team. One of the clues was in one of my colleagues "room". All he had to do was read it. "Come one read it man, we can win this." He froze. We all insisted he reads it. He could not read it. We thou…
Being colorblind and having motion sickness are totally different things. One cannot get over being colorblind. It can never go away. Motion sickness (99% of cases) can be managed. Exposure therapy works. Look at every navy ship. They start the voyage with half the crew seasick. But after a few months it practically disappears. One interesting stat from the miltary: cadets who were competative swimmers generally dont…
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It works great on Macbook. I don't know why they don't suggest it to folks when car or train movement is detected! I have a feeling a lot of people don't know it exists. I wish my Pixel 9 had it but I guess it hasn't trickled down yet. I think it's in the latest Android on latest Pixel devices though.
> I don't know why they don't suggest it to folks when car or train movement is detected Apple whole idea to UX seems to be "Mostly hidden by default, let people trigger it accidentally to learn about it, or reading about it somewhere else" as even after having my iPhone 12 Mini for so long, I still "discover" new things every now and then that nothing or no one told me about. Like how are people supposed to "discove…
Things that are "hidden" are just discoveries waiting to happen for those that look. For those that need their hands held and guided through the world, those things might stay "hidden". Just as you feel irked that things are hidden, I feel irked by people that don't go looking. Push all the buttons. Turn all the knobs. Click all the things.
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Being colorblind and having motion sickness are totally different things. One cannot get over being colorblind. It can never go away. Motion sickness (99% of cases) can be managed. Exposure therapy works. Look at every navy ship. They start the voyage with half the crew seasick. But after a few months it practically disappears. One interesting stat from the miltary: cadets who were competative swimmers generally dont…
Being from a place with many fishermen and navy personel I can assure you that it does not necessarily go away with exposure. Some sailors are just sick when they are at sea.
This should've been possible with the Thinkpad HDAPS accelerometer back in the day. (If it detected the laptop was falling, it would park the HDD heads in anticipation of impact.) Shame nobody thought of it then!
Were a lot of people rawdogging their Thinkpads while driving back in the day? Plugged into an inverter into the cigarette lighter to trickle charge? :-)
Also, Lind is the brand you're likely to find sold alongside an ex-public-safety Toughbook. Since these were my first serious car computers, that's just how the majority of my mobile computing looked for a decade or more.
However, Toughbooks encased their HDD's in gel, and had been doing so since long before the advent of MEMS accelerometers, so they didn't jump on the HDAPS innovation along with IBM.
These are the type of problems that are completely invisible to someone who doesn't experience it. I wouldn't have even known it was a problem to solve. A few years back we played an escape room game online with the whole team. One of the clues was in one of my colleagues "room". All he had to do was read it. "Come one read it man, we can win this." He froze. We all insisted he reads it. He could not read it. We thou…
Being colorblind and having motion sickness are totally different things. One cannot get over being colorblind. It can never go away. Motion sickness (99% of cases) can be managed. Exposure therapy works. Look at every navy ship. They start the voyage with half the crew seasick. But after a few months it practically disappears. One interesting stat from the miltary: cadets who were competative swimmers generally dont…
Bizzare and fascinating thing, but that's perhaps not as rock-solid as it might appear.
Some (or at least 1) people have reported improved color perception post magic mushrooms.
> Though the subject reported intensification of colors while under the acute effects of psilocybin, his score on plates 1–21 improved only slightly to 15 at 12 h post-administration. However, by 24 h post-mushroom administration, his score reached 18, above the cut-off of 17 required by the Ishihara Test for classification of normal color vision,” the report states. “His score peaked at 19 on day eight post-administration. At approximately four months post-mushroom administration, his score remained elevated at 18,” the researchers write.
From https://www.mdlinx.com/article/can-magic-mushrooms-solve-col...
Now, you might say, "Well, that's hogwash, maybe that guy was lying."
To which I say... I experienced it myself! During the experience, colors were significantly more vivid and saturated. (I actually think I "saw" how women for eg see more subtlety between different shades.) Sure, the breeze felt amazing, and nature and trees were peaceful... but I spent a disproportionate amount of time staring at the street and marveling at the colors.
Want a twist? I'll give you two.
1. I'm not color blind, afaik. I've done a number of (admittedly basic) tests and passed them all.
2. The substance I (alledgly) took was not mushrooms. It wasn't even a plant based - or illicit thing! It was a prescription drug/medicine!
I'll leave you to guess it if you want, semi-spoilers below.
It was a drug used (and famously known) primarily as a wakefulness agent for narcolepsy, and I might have taken the R-enantiomer of it.
The you can use Command+Option+Plus and Command+Option+Minus to zoom the entire screen.
It’s a great way to zoom in on anything regardless of whether an app supports it or not. Sometimes I help family members remotely and look through a bad camera at a document on their side, and applying this zoom makes the difference between being able to decipher the content and not.