• RBWells@lemmy.world
    211·
    2 days ago

    Universal language module. Not to translate all into English but to understand all of them.

    • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world
      1·
      2 days ago

      When I was driving instacart between jobs or what not I had one for just that. Pick up 4 items from Lowes. Called them and she said they just left there and weren’t going back, haha

  • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
    171·
    3 days ago

    I want the entirety of mathematics indellably etched into my mental model. I want to see the math behind everything in reality the way Neo saw the matrix code in the walls of the grubby apartment buildings.

  • Chaos0f7ife@lemmy.world
    31·
    2 days ago

    Probably the ability to not be an unbalanced idiot 24/7. I literally fell up the stairs twice this week. There are few people who are less scatter-brained than me.

  • normalexit@lemmy.world
    15·
    3 days ago

    I’d upload a few languages. Instantly being able to speak and read an array of languages and traveling the world would be fun.

    • Victor@lemmy.world
      5·
      2 days ago

      This is a good one. I interact with a lot of East and South Asians in my spare time, and I would love to speak all of their languages. Especially since their English is not the best (in my circle, that is).

    • EmoDuck@sh.itjust.works
      41·
      4 days ago

      This is a neat idea until you’re in a situation where you remember 38 different words for a thing, just not the one in the language you need

      • ccunning@lemmy.world
        27·
        4 days ago

        I only speak one language fluently and one language extremely poorly.

        The number of times I’ve been able to come up with the word I want in my second language and completely blanked on it in my native language baffles my mind.

        • DudeImMacGyver@sh.itjust.works
          8·
          3 days ago

          This is why I learned the shit out of English: If I forget a word, there’s like 6 more words that are close enough to the one I forgot.

    • Jarix@lemmy.world
      1·
      2 days ago

      This is a back up power to me. The best power is the power to control time however you like.

      You could learn every language ever created with the ability to control time. As you would also live as long as you wanted.

      You also would be able to timelock any object making it unmoving and indestructable.

      You can heal anyone from anything by rolling them back to when they werent injured

      No end to what you can do with controlling time

      • SLVRDRGN@lemmy.world
        1·
        2 days ago

        You also would be able to timelock any object making it unmoving and indestructable.

        Technically, if you stop something in time and space, it would disappear before your very eyes if it was on Earth, as the Earth would keep on going on its orbit around the sun, around the Milky Way Galaxy, etc. and your object would be floating somewhere. Against what reference point would you lock it?

        • Jarix@lemmy.world
          1·
          2 days ago

          Against what reference point would you lock it?

          Depends on what you need it to do (or not do)

    • niktemadur@lemmy.worldOP
      3·
      4 days ago

      If it was just one language and writing system as a choice, I might say Japanese.

      There are so many different characters in their writing as symbols instead of phonetic sounds, that bookstores in Japan are divided into sections, in which one has books that use… say 500 characters, then another section with books that use 1200 characters, or 5000, or 10,000, or more!
      To read Japanese or Chinese with a mastery of over 10,000 symbols might be my choice. The richness and depth of those writings must be something incredible.

      My second choice, for shits ‘n’ giggles, might be something like Sumerian or Akkadian, in the original Cuneiform!

    • adam_y@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      4 days ago

      I can’t even imagine how powerful I would be if I could be ignored in every language.

    • Lumisal@lemmy.world
      3·
      3 days ago

      I thought the issue there was the processor not being able to run a single core long enough.

      Or maybe it’s just how the operating system works?

      Have you tried Linux? I use Arch btw.

      • GaMEChld@lemmy.world
        3·
        2 days ago

        If I had to liken ADHD to computer terms, I think I would blame a faulty task scheduler. That’s what issues the threads to the CPU. When Ryzen came out and also when Intel moved to Performance and Efficiency cores there were issues with efficient task scheduling.

      • GaMEChld@lemmy.world
        4·
        3 days ago

        I might be a little obsessed with efficiency. Possibly due to my issues making me inefficient by nature, I tend to seek efficiency wherever I can, like some mirage in the desert of my mind.

        • Fuck spez@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          4·
          3 days ago

          Did I write this comment? I used to think I just did my best to deliberately waste as little time as possible to balance out all the time I waste involuntarily. Now I realize that I just can’t tolerate being idle, so the moment I initiate some automated process that will take more than a few seconds to complete, I start yet another task while waiting. This looks a hell of a lot more efficient on paper than it does in reality, though…

    • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
      1·
      3 days ago

      Our ideas are always good to us, but they’re highly informed based on our own experiences and needs.

      I had a neighbor who asked me to help them create some form of device that sits on the dashboard of their car and catalog billboards. Apparently, a hole in their life was passing by a billboard with kids in the car and forgetting what exit the food/restaurant was on.

      This was in an era where cell phones and online maps/search existed.

      I had another acquaintance (decades ago) who wanted me to work on a photography simulator in which you had to manipulate people in 3D to compose a picture. I tried to explain the high level of difficulty and the cost per unit being so high that no one would be willing to pay for it. They pushed me until I did some napkin match on arists/developer/marketing costs then they got all pissed off at me because it came in conservatively north of 300k.

  • sep@lemmy.world
    13·
    4 days ago

    Read and write all languages. Be it swahili, mandarin, latin, hieroglyfs, python, c++ or java. ;)