Pat @Pat@qoto.org

@customdesigned

>"I just turn my head to the left to use the little box on the left."

I've tried that, but it still doesn't work. Maybe it's because in the brain it sees all of the text on the screen as expanding from the edge of that little box all the way to the far right of the display.

Your eyes are constantly in motion, wiggling around, so it's more complicated than just taking a picture like a camera.

Also, I said the images come in through the left eye mostly, but it's actually that the field of vision of each eye largely overlaps, however, the right half (roughly) of the field of vision of both eyes goes to the left hemisphere while the left field of vision goes to the right hemisphere.

Also, having a very narrow little box to type into contributes to the issue because there are more line breaks with one word at the right of the box and the next word to the left of the box.

@freemo

@Acer

I think those solutions are creative and innovative but they're silly and funny because no engineer would actually design something like that. They really look goofy.

@tmr232

I think if it only responds to commands that are prefaced by a unique word such as "Alexa" then it is less likely to inadvertently perform a function during normal conversation. If it responds to the key word with a unique tone then the driver can quickly abort execution of any inadvertent requests.

(This toot was created using a voice-to-text system -- I only had to change one word, "than" to "then".)

@internic @veronica @arstechnica

@internic @tmr232 @veronica @arstechnica

Voice control is likely the safest. EV are very quiet so that works very well.

Ultimately self-driving cars will be the safest and you won't need to worry about taking your eyes off the road.

@SteelFolk

It depends on the species. Most use them for chemical sensing, "smell". For example in the Luna moth, antennae are sexually dimorphic -- the male's are larger to detect the female's pheromones. But Manduca sexta also uses them as a kind of inertial guidance system to help stabilize its flight.

I think they are also used for sensing vibrations, "hearing", but I couldn't find a source for that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antenna_(biology)#Functions

@sciencebase

@lavenderlens

TL?

@tedherman

Unless they're talking about a bird's nest floating down a river, I don't believe this.

@lupyuen

A driverless (and cookless) roach coach.

I remember seeing vending machines that could cook a pizza on demand. I guess this is basically one of those vending machines on wheels.

@nibble4bits

I don't understand.

@garyackerman

>"Every moment students are being tested is another moment they are not learning… unless, of course, it’s well-designed retrieval practice… which it never is."

I remember learning quite a bit while taking tests in school. Very often, especially with multiple choice tests, if I wasn't exactly sure of the answer I could often discern the answer based on the choices provided. Also, being in a state of higher awareness during a test, i.e. stressed out, my learning was much more effective. (People remember more when they're experiencing stress and fear.) It’s probably not a good idea to keep students stressed and fearful all the time, but it certainly was effective for me at learning things.

@trinsec

@stux

The International Criminal Court has issued an arrest warrant against Putin. Now all they have to do is to figure out how to grab him.

@freemo

I have a user interface suggestion for Mastodon.

Currently, the little box where you enter your toot text is on the left side of the screen. This means that the information from that little box goes into your left eye (mostly) and is transferred to the right hemisphere of your brain. The problem is that for most people language processing is in the left hemisphere, which means all that information has to cross the corpus callosum to get to the left side of the brain to get processed. For someone like me with dyslexia that really screws things up and causes me to drop words and makes it very difficult to use.

So my suggestion is to put the little box on the right hand side of the screen or in the middle, or give the user an option as to placement and size of that little box.

That's my suggestion.

(Sometimes I write stuff in a separate window using a word processor and then copy it over to the little box, but that is kind of tedious, especially for short, quick toots.)

#mastodon #development #UX #UI #fedi #software

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Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts is an avid history buff. He studied history at Harvard and probably would have been a history professor if he had not chosen law as a profession.

Here he gives a brief, careful analysis of the US Civil War.

#civilwar #scotus #history #law #satire #oboe

@leovarnet

>"Musk has closed twitter's API... does anyone have a workaround for this?"

Just post to your Mastodon instance and don't bother with the bird site.

You can put a message over there telling folks where to find your toots. And maybe periodically post a tweet reminding everyone that you're now on Mastodon.

@lupyuen

I think a good analogy here is when spreadsheets first arrived.

During the late 70s and early 80s we were doing a lot of programming that was just custom software that would add things up from a database and present them in columns. Then along came VisiCalc and we didn't have to do that anymore. They called the "killer application".

That type of custom software was a huge chunk of what was being programmed at the time and I think this is a similar phenomenon. GPT-generated software is very much like a general purpose program that users control themselves instead of having to communicate their requirements to a systems analyst who would then work with programmers to develop the software.

It puts more control in the hands of the user. Some programmers don't like that, some do.

In case you're wondering, Congress choose #4. They just decided to cut food for poor people; and they kept politician's salaries, bombs, and tax loopholes for the rich.

Put nobody ever pays attention and we're more than a year from the next election so voters will forget by then and those fuckers will get re-elected again.

@LouisIngenthron

I think everyone knows that Hollywood was even more racist in the 1970s than they are now.

@jasonetheridge

>'"US man eats McDonald’s three times a day for 100 days – and the weight falls off"'

He could have cut his arm off and did it faster.

@freemo

Lawl = Ludacrous acronym with lanugotuity

@Empiricism_Reloaded

you who?