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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:
- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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I’m still waiting for IPoV but I guess no one ever invented it.
Flight of the Conchords already did it. Zero zero zero zero zero zero one. Zero zero zero zero zero zero one.
Just gotta shout dialup noises.
In a sense, that's what phreaking was, if a toy whistle from a breakfast cereal box counts.
Isn't that basically just a modem?
Modem sounds are not a voice. I wonder how efficient digital communication over sounds that can be made with the human vocal system could get, and what it would sound like.
https://jontic.com/two-ais-realize-theyre-talking-to-each-other-and-switch-to-a-secret-language/
Technically, it's not internet protocol over voice, but the two AIs are initially using voice to convey (meta) data.
Well my first modem was. It was very slow and you used it by dialing the phone yourself and placing the receiver on the modem. This is called an acoustic coupler.
Later modems changed this by connecting directly to the outlet. This allowed for digital signals to be sent directly over the copper wires. This allows for much more bandwidth compared to just bleeping and blooping using audio. There were also in between variants which still used pure audio signals, but still connected directly to the outlet to improve signal quality.
My computer back then also had a tape deck and I would record data using the tape deck. This was also a pure audio based signal. So in theory you could use a regular old tape deck with regular old tapes. However I had a specialized tape deck, specifically made for the computer and special "data" tapes. Not sure if they actually worked better, but I had them so I used them.
Yes both my back and knees hurt.
Technically not a voice. It was using a speaker to create sounds a human voice system cannot. Maybe a well-trained human could do DTMF but I think it would take two (DT stands for dual-tone).
https://jontic.com/two-ais-realize-theyre-talking-to-each-other-and-switch-to-a-secret-language/
Prior to the two AIs switching languages, this was two machines using "voice" to convey data.
Technically, they weren't using "Internet Protocol" over that voice link.
I used to know a girl who was DTF.
If you can hum and whistle at the same time you might have a chance.
Now I really want to see someone try to make a multi-channel track using only their voice that a modem can recognize as data.