When I first moved to Japan over twenty years ago they were already about a hundred years ahead of typical US toilet/bath technology. For me, using one of these faucets where you can just set the temperature by number was like Liko getting beamed from her hut directly onto the damn Enterprise.
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Can they add a little speaker and have it play some smooth jazz when unzipping?
I feel like even AI will be able to emulate this kind of speech, but the upside is people with dementia won’t feel so alienated anymore.
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I just got back from visiting my parents who were struggling to fix an unreliable dishwasher that keeps clogging, fails to dry, stinks, etc. This is PERFECT timing for that video!
A similar machine also plays a role in the 1997 movie Contact.
Darn… I absolutely would have fallen for that trick, thinking I was being proactive in my security practices. I guess there will always be another vector to attack from.
Hewn
Am I a psychopath for preferring to use a pen, even if it means I have to cross things out every now and then?
That headline got me really excited before I realized they meant “in an app”.
In hopes that I can generate a sentence that no LLM has ever trained on before, “Extravagant paperclips contemplating stationary pomegranates spilling yellow sensibility.”
If this was filmed in the late sixties using an older orthicon camera it might be an artifact of the way that the image is produced.
I’m just going from memory, but I believe the tubes used a brightness-amplifying screen kept charged with electrons that, when struck by light, would result in a brighter image that could be scanned by a beam. The downside of this technique is that a very bright area would suck up electrons from around it faster than they could recharge, resulting in a dark halo.
I think I remember some of the oldest classic Doctor Who episodes has this visual artifact, as well as some old Beatles TV recordings.
I’m really bad at arithmetic so it took me two years to do the calculations, but the math does check out.