One obvious missing modifier is the ability to animate them. There are a gazillion possibilities here, from the simple (slowly rotating or pulsing) to the complex (morphing one emoji into another). Some apps already do this when showing a reaction emoji for the first time by "popping" them into view, but I predict the next generation will allow the user to apply their own simple animations. The key will be to prevent them from being too annoying, like the dreaded <blink> tag of yore.
Please no. We've already forced text systems to handle mixed directions, require combining multiple code points to make a single symbol, & display color pictures, let's not require animation to display a string correctly.
We already have perfectly good systems for animation; don't stuff that into text rendering please.
If I was looking for new modifiers I'd look at the stuff people are already abusing unicode to do:
- Bold
- Italic
- Strikethrough
- Underline
- Subscript
- Superscript
- Fixed width
- Color
Arguably those should be HTML, but users obviously want them to be available in plain text, because they have the kind of semantic meaning that unicode was meant to handle.
There is no upper limit on the definition of "clown." It all depends on how much money you have to play with and how many nines you're willing to accept.
My story of getting into a Microsoft event: in late 2000, Microsoft was rebranding MSN with the butterfly logo and they paid groups of inline skaters in NYC to dress up in custom purple velour body suits with wings to skate around Manhattan and generate buzz (heh) about the new MSN.
Well, there happened to be a computer show at the Javits Center so we skated there, convinced a security guard we were with Microsoft (hey, eight skaters in velour MSN body suits must be with Microsoft, right?), and skated onto the show floor. About fifteen minutes later security figured out we weren't part of the show and kicked us out. (We weren't supposed to keep the butterfly outfits but some people did. I didn't keep mine, but I do have photos that prove it really happened.)
For about 15 minutes until they figure out what's going on, take those folks out back and "convince" them to spill the beans on how it work, then come up with a way to detect and prevent it moving forward.
Casinos (real ones, anyway, not talking about illegal secret game rooms) don't really beat people up anymore.
That said, this also won't be a problem for casinos. They have very advanced anti-cheating systems these days.
The corporate casino security teams will know about this before it becomes widely available and will institute policies to lifetime ban anyone they detect using this tech, which they will fairly easily be able to do because of how much automated surveillance there is in any real casino.
In any case, there are way more subtle signaling mechanisms people can use (but probably also get caught using) to collaborate that don't involve someone suspiciously silent talking right in front of a dealer.
Here in NL as well. I attribute it to population ageing (babyboom generation), but AFAIK that issue is much less severe in USA than other countries which suffered in WWII. China is going to have the issue severe due to the one child policy. That population is going to get reduced a lot (not taking into account migration).
In my EU country, making an appointment got extra steps asking about one's mental state, namely depression or loneliness. One wonders if this age of social atomization, people (probably mostly those elderly) are making unnecessary appointments just to have someone to talk to.
That may be part of it but my guess is that since patients tend not to proactively mention depression and loneliness to their doctor, the doctor's office wants to know in advance whether they should be referring you to a mental health specialist.
Sure, use LLMs to build the website, but put your own words on there! To me it just screams laziness; LLM prose is much worse at getting its point across than normal human writing, and is somewhat painful to read. If you can’t be bothered to spend a little while putting your thoughts to paper (or into a text file to give to $AGENT), what’s the point of doing this at all? Do people have this idea that LLMs produce better prose?
It's true but it doesn't "vibe" well with the "power to the people" messaging. I think what I'd want to see is someone putting their heart into this before I'd even consider joining the cause. The low effort text makes me not have faith.
> But someone nudged me: can't you have a look at it?
> My reply: "Haha sorry no! My experience is that adding more people will not solve this problem any quicker".
That seems like snark, bordering on pedantry, and makes one come across as an ass. If they know the answer, or can deduce it faster than any of the others, then it will definitely solve the problem quicker. Much depends on the qualifications and experience of those currently trying to solve the problem.
The stark landscape and accented voiceover seem to be inspired by the documentary Happy People: A Year in the Taiga by Werner Herzog: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psnY17CImaQ
Navigation was easy. What I didn't like was having no idea where I was and how much farther there was to go. It was like the world's least intuitive HyperCard stack.
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