siracusa

@siracusa@mastodon.social

Programmer, tech writer, and co-host of Accidental Tech Podcast, Reconcilable Differences, and Robot or Not.

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Drwave, 5 hours ago to random

Hey @viticci - listening to @upgrade - you were asking why throwing up was the default response to a mismatch in human i/o sensors.

Not sure if this is the reason, but back in the 80s, when I was in grad school at MIT Media Lab doing VR stuff, we referenced the "bad berry" syndrome.

The idea was that humans evolved to, when perceptual systems mismatched, assume a “bad berry" had been consumed - so throw it up to reset the system.

Made sense to me then - still does now.

// cc: @ismh86

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siracusa, 30 minutes ago

@Drwave @viticci @upgrade @ismh86 I’ve read this as well: if you just consumed something that, say, makes you feel like you’re spinning when you’re not actually spinning, it might be very bad for your health (perhaps even deadly). Puking may give your genes a slightly higher chance of appearing in future generations than people that don’t puke under the same circumstances. Repeat for many thousands of years and you get modern humans and motion sickness.

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moridin, 6 days ago to random

@atpfm When you’re a subscriber to the bootleg feed and it expires, you still get episodes in the feed but the free ones instead. How can I tell which episodes are not the bootleg feeds? @caseyliss @siracusa @marcoarment

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siracusa, 45 minutes ago

@moridin @marcoarment https://atp.fm/membership/faq#expired-feed

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