Elizabeth Barrette (ysabetwordsmith) wrote,
Elizabeth Barrette
ysabetwordsmith
  • Mood: busy

IFF Insects

As the central air is still not fixed, I've been relying on the window unit, so my office is full of bugs.  Buzzing, clicking, flying bugs.  I've been killing the ones that come into reach.  I have very alert motion-sense and fast reflexes.  They've been on high alert for weeks now.

Tonight I reached out to kill something -- and stopped.  I actually had to take a second look at it to realize why  I'd stopped.  It's a lacewing, which is a beneficial insect.

Apparently, the "Identify Friend-Foe" feature in my head is sufficiently permed to block a kill command even when I wasn't consciously paying attention.  I had two automatic routines running in the background while working on a poem, one activated, and the other canceled it.

And people wonder why my wetware is such an energy hog.
Tags: nature, personal, wildlife
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technoshaman

technoshaman

July 12 2016, 12:06:36 UTC 4 years ago

That's kinda, dare I say it, cool...

Does it take extra calories? Or just limit your uptime?
ysabetwordsmith

Well...

ysabetwordsmith

July 12 2016, 18:27:46 UTC 4 years ago

My add-ons take extra sleep, and mean that much of my energy is tied up in a lot of non-liquid ways. The base functionality of the body is not great. Enhanced, it's livable. The balance and color vision are boosted too, so is a lot of other stuff. If I don't have the energy available, stuff stops working -- randomly if I have to get up early with an emergency jumpstart, or across most of the board if I'm sick.

Also, there's only so much hardware in a human body. That limits how much software it can hold. And I am, to put it bluntly, freaking huge.

So one of the effects is that I have a very different set of software than the usual, because some of this stuff is running in space that would ordinarily hold human-factory-standard routines like face recognition or automatic social routines. The lion's share, of course, is taken up by the massively overbuilt linguistic coprocessor. Coprocessors give enormous speed and power to whatever they do, but that space and bandwidth cannot then be used for other things. So I can hack Proto-Indo-European but my social software is either cheap shareware versions or things I've hand-coded, meaning that social things don't work well and are energy hogs.

Ironically, I got clocked as a soup yesterday, for one of the things that's damn near a superdisempower -- my personal energy field is so strong that it makes electronic things malfunction.
technoshaman

Re: Well...

technoshaman

July 12 2016, 18:43:09 UTC 4 years ago

You would not be the first at making the tronics malf. I knew a guy once that you dared not give him a screwdriver if you expected to get it back unmagnetised.

What about mechanical watches?

The weird thing with me is I have good facial recognition (as in, "I know that face") but somehow the crossreference index to names is .... unreliable.