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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 minutes ago

Big dick energy

[–] [email protected] 1 points 36 minutes ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 minutes ago

Have you been assessed for add/adhd

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

Unlimited energy reserves would be nice. If I had half the energy I had when I was 16 I'd be fucking golden

[–] [email protected] 23 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago

You're now a protocol droid.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Just put this fish in your ear.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago

Take your pick:

1980s BBC (Jump to 2:05 if the timestamp doesn’t work).

2005 Movie

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 hours ago

I would use it as a Total Perspective Vortex and dump the scale of the universe into my mind.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 hours ago

I would immediately download more RAM. No hax. Really works.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

Ability to complete a household project with only 1 trip to the hardware store.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour 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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Impossible... that would break some fundamental law of physics or something

[–] [email protected] 2 points 12 hours ago

This skill can be learned once you defeat the final boss of Home Projects https://youtu.be/vu2j62M-ndc?si=MhMNYjzao206eOj_

[–] [email protected] 18 points 15 hours ago (5 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

What if that just drives you insane due to the problem described by Gödel's incompleteness theorem? Maybe you'd become susceptible to someone telling you "this statement is false".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 31 minutes ago

Ideally, I wouldn't have to see the proofs for everything, just recognize the observable math.

The problem with the "This statement is false" could simply be coupled by something akin to imaginary numbers. Paradoxes can be described mathematically without being solvable.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

And when you discover that free will is an illusion because of deterministic patterns, what will you do then?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 35 minutes ago

Honestly finding out the lack of free will exists would be the most liberating thing ever. I could just let autopilot take its course.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

Whatever it is physics demands they do, obviously.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 hours ago

11:15, restate my assumptions: 1. Mathematics is the language of nature. 2. Everything around us can be represented and understood through numbers. 3. If you graph these numbers, patterns emerge. Therefore: There are patterns everywhere in nature.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 13 hours ago

I'll do the same for physics. Together we shall reign.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 12 hours ago

the ability to think calmly and rationally

[–] [email protected] 8 points 16 hours ago (3 children)

Whatever is fun and makes money. Tired of being bored and broke all the time.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

I too wouldn't mind uploading poll dancing abilities. I feel like that would help lose weight and get great core strength so quickly.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

The crazy thing is that you can literally just do this by studying engineering for a few years. It's not that hard, it just takes some work.

[–] ICastFist 9 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

One way is making raytracing shaders for older games. I recall one korean dude whose patreon was raking in ~50k dollars a month, several of his releases/posts were about adding raytracing to Fallout 4

[–] [email protected] 7 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Thanks! Sounds like a significant learning curve.

Not that I'm opposed. Currently reskilling myself from bored accountant to hopefully some sort of IT wizard. Just learning everything I can get my hands on and doing projects like building / maintaining a home server, building a PC, switched to Linux last year, and coding some small projects in Python.

I just feel like I'm learning such basic things and won't be able to actually make money with any of this for years. It's frustrating lol

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 hours ago

25 years in IT here: you're on the right track. Tablet generation has really caused a brain drain.

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