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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @blinddev OP 2 Feb 2023 \ parent \ on: The first post of a blind programmer on stacker bitcoin
"1. How do you program? Do you use text-to-speech for your code?"
Да. Я использую программу экранного доступа NVDA, озвучивающую все мои действия и события в ОС. Естественно читаю и пишу код тоже с её помощью.
"2. Can you imagine what "seeing" is like? Or is that like asking someone to imagine a color he has never seen before?"
I have very weak partial vision, so I see large objects, distinguish some colors. But I can't read the text on paper or monitor anymore, just as I don't understand the images on the monitor.
"3. Would you say your other senses are heightened compared to "seeing people"?
Yes. I noticed this.
"4. Do you still "see" something like blackness or how can I imagine how it is to be blind? I also guess there is a difference if you were blind from birth vs. becoming blind afterwards."
As I have already said, fortunately there is partial vision, but it is impossible to use it in technology, so I dream of restoration. I have poor eyesight since birth: the optic nerve is damaged.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @cryptofolyo 25 Feb 2023
I think neuralink by elon musk is coming up with something like a camera that can be attached in front of the eye sending signals to a chip implanted in the brain and connected to the visual cortex which can bring back vision partly. may take few more years to be used commonly by people. attaching a link to a youtube video on this from elon musk himself.
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