Read and write all languages. Be it swahili, mandarin, latin, hieroglyfs, python, c++ or java. ;)
You had me until Java.
Download more RAM. My working memory is shit (ADHD).
You will just be more (less?) Efficient and being efficient.
I might be a little obsessed with efficiency. Possibly due to my issues making me inefficient by nature, I tend to seek efficiency wherever I can, like some mirage in the desert of my mind.
Did I write this comment? I used to think I just did my best to deliberately waste as little time as possible to balance out all the time I waste involuntarily. Now I realize that I just can’t tolerate being idle, so the moment I initiate some automated process that will take more than a few seconds to complete, I start yet another task while waiting. This looks a hell of a lot more efficient on paper than it does in reality, though…
Polyglotism. Being able to speak every language would be practically a superpower.
The rpg munchkin in me hopes polyglot misleading includes computer languages.
Yea, the best option.
I can’t even imagine how powerful I would be if I could be ignored in every language.
If I could ‘cheat’ and say ‘I know every language in the world’, and that included programming languages and things like scientific notation as a language, I’d take that in a heartbeat. If not, I’d take programming, as at least then I can create things and make money.
If speaking every language included dead and forgotten languages too though, then it would be a very tough choice.
This is probably super pedantic (bloody programmers right?) but I really feel like it would depend on what is meant by “know every programming language”. Like being able to remember every syntax and construct is sort of useful but not all that practical. Understanding how to implement the language in a useful way is the valuable part, not just knowing the keywords.
I guess I would kind of compare it to the difference between being able to read Shakespeare and being able to write Shakespeare,
Correct. Learning a programming language is trivial. Far easier than a foreign language.
If we think of it in terms of learning a language, what matters is the grammar and ability to use it to struct prose to create a coherent story.
There’s also a lot of reuse which requires knowing what’s available. The closest analogy there is how music sampling is used.
If we’re being pedantic, in The Matrix, Neo says ‘I know kung fu’ to explain that he both knows what all the moves are, and how to use them. As that was the topic of the post, I used the same sentence structure to mean the same thing about all languages, including programming 😉
Since we are being pedantic, I think maybe you mean “apply” not implement?
If it was just one language and writing system as a choice, I might say Japanese.
There are so many different characters in their writing as symbols instead of phonetic sounds, that bookstores in Japan are divided into sections, in which one has books that use… say 500 characters, then another section with books that use 1200 characters, or 5000, or 10,000, or more!
To read Japanese or Chinese with a mastery of over 10,000 symbols might be my choice. The richness and depth of those writings must be something incredible.My second choice, for shits ‘n’ giggles, might be something like Sumerian or Akkadian, in the original Cuneiform!
This sounds very useful until you realize you still don’t want to talk to people in any language.
I’d make tens of dollars as the scholar to decode the Harrapan/Indus Valley script!
Or I make makes millions as a YouTuber decoding the Voynich manuscript…
Our society is broken:(
This is a neat idea until you’re in a situation where you remember 38 different words for a thing, just not the one in the language you need
I only speak one language fluently and one language extremely poorly.
The number of times I’ve been able to come up with the word I want in my second language and completely blanked on it in my native language baffles my mind.
This is why I learned the shit out of English: If I forget a word, there’s like 6 more words that are close enough to the one I forgot.
Whatever skills would result in what the deep mediators to control autonomic functions like heartrate and could mimic death. I don’t just want the control thing though I want the whole kit that comes with it which would likely have some martial arts. figure like and ideal shaolin type of thing.
Ability to fold a fitted sheet.
Ok, that would also be a great mundane wish for me!
Poke your hand until you hit the corner of a seam. Do the same with the other hand on an adjacent corner.
Bring hands together so both corners touch.
Now unfold the corner in one hand onto the other hand.
Smooth it out. Repeat with the untouched corners.
You can do it one more time or just fold from there
That’s all seems pretty complicated.
Im just gonna stick with the tried and true half fold mostly ball method.You say that but when you put the four corners together you get a trapezoid or triangle instead of a square or rectangle. I’ve even watched videos and tried to copy but failed at this.
I’d love to know how to dance, I mean really properly dance for every situation, not just a generic two foot shuffle. I’ve seen some people who can dance properly and they looked cool as fuck.
You can dance if you want to!
I do, and I love it! But I also need to face the fact that I’m not very good at it 😁
we can leave your friends behind!
'Cuz your friends don’t dance, and if they don’t dance
The ability not to forget all things when I grow older.
NZT-48 + CPH4 = 🧠
Math, specifically gambling.
Playing the piano and other instruments like a master. Music conveys feelings we can’t convey otherwise.
Mind control.
Skateboarding. Looks so fun
The ability to upload any ability into my mind that I can think of and be amazing at it.
Shashahshaaa!
Runs away and throws pocket sand
Found the guy that wishes for more wishes
I did Brazilian Jiu Jitsu for a while untill after the 3rd injury I realised this isn’t going to be good on the long run and I stopped doing it. However, it was long enough to see what a magical power that is so I’d say that being able to posses the skills of a black belt without going thru the training would be quite nice.
People don’t realise how helpless you’ll feel trying to wrestle with someone who knows what they’re doing. Being bigger and stronger will not save you unless you get really lucky.
I moderate amount of control of my mental health
