Age progressively adds deposits in the lenses in your eyes, and at some point cataract surgery replaces the lens with a clear one.
Thing is, these deposits work like a dirty windshield in sunlight - you can't see because of the glare. The glare is just off-axis light hitting a surface and scattering - it illuminates the entire surface reducing contrast.
The more deposits and/or the brighter the light, the more it behaves like an completely fogged windshield.
(there is also another kind of glare that affects young eyes - a very bright point of light can cause pain in the retina where it focuses)
Not polarized since glasses, but I've start wearing specially made night driving glasses at night. They have a yellow tint, and so they strive to reduce glare. Doesn't solve the issue of some asshole in a Tesla who tunes his lights to be aimed as high as possible, but it helps
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.
