I already hate people who send voice messages in a world where dictation software exists. I hate whoever even thought of joking about this even more.
But dictation software would omit crucial parts like ummms, coughing etc
Dude you’re not thinking about it the right way. We can define a new multi byte character set to help define mood (both speaker and listener), intention, irony, sarcasm, sincerity, bodily functions, and so on. This is a solvable problem.
Yeah, you🚽 might💨 be💩 onto😌 something💦
!Tried to emulate it as I wrote the above content while taking a dump!<
You missed a /s marker
I assumed it was obvious because honestly who would do that
Some people hace difficulty picking on sarcasm, specially on the internet. That’s why you should use “/s” even if it may sound obvious to you
I have literally given up friendships from people that wouldn’t stop sending me voice messages.
I accept it from family, kids, the elderly and such. I just can’t believe people want me to turn off my music and slowly listen to your shitty voice when I can easily multitask.
I just never set up my voicemail. Then people who actually have a chance of successfully contacting me know not to even try the phone.
The dictation software we have is pretty shitty though. It almost always needs proof-read, or re-dictated several times to get it right. At that point you may as well just send an audio clip.
Until the day that dictation software gets it 100% correct, it’s not going to be worth my time.
For now, the human on the other end will always have an easier time understand an audio clip than a machine, because human minds are more capable of using context and getting past regional accents.
Most of the times I get a voice message it could be written in two sentences, but they still decide to make it a two minute voice message. Just a lot of useless stuff added for free
I always try to think about what I’m writing before sending it, you can’t proofread an audio message
Sorry, hon. It’s hardwired into humans to add in code for “I am alive and not cackling mad or suicidal yet today” during “conversations.” It would probably be more effective at screening for bots than captcha, but not as good at training bots.
I hate it
But all the extroverted programmers will love it
Imagine spending HOURS listening your colleagues comments… I quit.
but what about programmers with problems hearing? An alternative of webcam video with sign language, pantomime and subtitles is needed!
edit: OOH! Use AI to generate the sign language videos. Could be wild, considering how good AI is at drawing hands.
Mandatory alt-text.
All my comments would just be Rick Astley
Never gonna
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Right all we are missing now is videos in comments.
Let’s turn github into Instagram. Every snippet of code has to be attached to a picture or video…
I am deaf. i already struggle with keeping up with subtitles on tutorial videos of some obscure stuff that has little to no docs. Kindly return this idea to a void function instead and try not to catch the erroneous thread with these satanic proposals.
Ah yes, source code files that aren’t plain text and can only be opened by certain editors, exactly what the software industry needs
The audio is stored separately and the source code might only contain a comment with specific text and a path which can then be interpreted as the voice note by the IDE.
I hope this is a joke and not intended to be real.
Then I hope it won’t get any traction.
I hope it does, it’s brilliant.
Are you the type of person who prefers 5-minute video tutorials for computer tasks that could be explained with a single paragraph?
Because in my mind that’s a similar level of time/data wasting inefficiency
No, I’m merely an enjoyer of shitposting and this stupid thing got my imagination going.
Fantastic idea but I don’t think it goes far enough. Why stop at comments? I want to be able to write whole functions and classes like that!
ffmpeg is now a dependency of gcc
The rant comment will be forever changed.
And dare I say improved.
