Was anybody else also hoping for a Victorian HN Front Page with list of parody HN links which one might've expected to see in the 1880s or something?
- New Developments Greatly Increase Steam Engine Efficiency
- Show VHN: I have developed plans for a machine that will travel through time
- Nikola Tesla on Direct Current
- Ask VHN: Is the Trans-Atlantic telegraph cable down?
Any other ideas?
Followed by...
- Getting your in-home servants to work with label profusion
- Will label profusion cheapen the work of legitimate artists?
- I have tricked my butler into producing a great deal of smut via label profusion
2. This is sort of why steam locomotives needed about 8 hours of maintenance per day. Back when VHS tapes were "in", one of my favorite tape sets was restored railroad training films (ok, nerd pron, so what). One of which showed a lot of what went on behind the scenes in a locomotive maintenance facility - and why steam locomotives were limited to 8 hours of work per day: 8 hours driving, about 4 hours cooling down, 8 hours maintenance and about 4 hours of heating the water in the boiler. When diesel electric locomotives started becoming "a thing", some people said thing like "they're junk - the wheels fall off". Looking at why the wheels had such "bad" wear problems, it turns out that those locomotives were being driven 24/7, not 1/3 of the time like steam locomotives.
-Transgenderism In The Board Of Lady Managers Shouldn't Be An Issue
Edit: -Managing Micro-Aggressions in the Modern Saloon with Lisp.
If PHP Were British: https://aloneonahill.com/blog/if-php-were-british/
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I've laughed my ass off with that. Thanks for sharing!
I am going to have a lot of fun with this at work! :)
https://phys.org/news/2013-05-victorian-era-people-intellige...
[0]: https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-self-aware-fish-raises-doub...
I would say this is weak evidence in favor of Victorians having higher intelligence, and insufficient to actually draw that conclusion. But still, evidence.
I find the text visually hard to read (not the text in itself). In Firefox for example the Reader mode is not available which would also help.
(I'm a regular web user, I know it's not great but I have no idea how to improve it)
If anyone has good tips/tools/links for the author please reply with them.
> I implore you, dear reader, to set aside your petty grievances; trifling things such as the format of an article or website, the unfortunate repetition of a name, or the vexing loss of information when pressing the back button. They are so common and so lacking in originality that they have no interest whatsoever.
But for real, the styling is just copied from the original: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> "They are so common"
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"These are so common"
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Reader mode seems to work on the HN guidelines page, but not on this page, although the markup appears to be the same. Not sure what's up with that.
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(Local cut, for the bemused an explanation here: https://theculturetrip.com/pacific/australia/articles/why-sy...)
> It was a meanly furnished apartment, with nothing but the contents of the closet to induce the belief that its occupier was anything but a working man; and with no more suspicious articles displayed to view than two or three heavy bludgeons which stood in a corner, and a “life-preserver”* that hung over the chimney-piece.
> * ‘life-preserver’: stick weighted with lead; widely used for self-protection.
That footnote rather drastically changes the mental picture for the modern reader!
Suggests that a series of
Haiku might bring joy
Loquacious scribings hath wit overflowing like the bacchanalian cup overfloweth with wine. And so brother take my Shakespearian cup of rhyme, and come let us dine.
(Sorry couldn't think of anything that rhymed with wit. Except tit which isn't better, or dimwit.)
I originally intended to run it for a month only, but when OpenAI slashed prices at the beginning of September, I figured another month won’t hurt.
I laughed at this one, you might want to take a look at it:
> The article is about how to enable JavaScript in order to use twitter.com
It's a feature!
>If you have the temerity to submit a video or pdf, I should be grateful if you would mark it as such, so as not to cause the undoing of my fragile sensibilities.
The temerity, the absolute temerity of assaulting my fragile sensibilities with a pdf or video! I will not countenance it. I say good day to you, sir.
I have read that with the voice of an angry John Oliver. Matches brilliantly.
It is an unfortunate habit of mine, the subject of well-intentioned chiding from my friends, that I return like for like: thus, my response. I cravenly pray your indulgence for my peccadillo.
IIRC, in the original idea, the Victorian Laptop hardware was an antique portable wood laptop desk, retrofitted with PC electronics and custom software, and the purpose was to relate/connect the user's thoughts in a particular location to the writings of others who've been in some similar context before. With the time-traveler writing desk adding to the reflective experience.
(Physical craft-wise, this was before the steampunk DIY computers that we see today. Cassell collected antique writing desks, had inspiration from those, and some energetic students worked on figuring out and building it.)
http://www.justinecassell.com/publications/narr_intell.vlt.9...
Seems like modern ML tools should open up more possibilities along these lines. I'd like to see the focus on leveraging information and computation for genuine experiences and accurate understand (not, say, some of the currently more obvious automated content generation applications, for SEO, addictive engagement, demagoguery, etc.)
Respectfully yours, derac
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"The article is about how to enable JavaScript in order to use twitter.com."
The code, if one wishes to peruse it, may be found upon the GitHub website. [1]
Brilliant.
S3 is a glorious bastion of uptime in the otherwise storm-tossed sea of the World Wide Web, a shining beacon of safety to which one may entrust one's most valuable data, whether files, or precious objects, or even blobs of the most unique and ephemeral content.(Asked in all honesty and w/o an ounce of snarkiness because to this day I still struggle with the difference)
- Is the use of the first person entirely correct? Shouldn't there instead be some reference to the convening institution, such as "management" or "proprietors", or the community? (Though I would think that for HN the convening institution would be something less commercial.)
- It would seem a different font is in order.
Bonus Butlerian Jihad:
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=joshua+8%3A28&v...
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— Lovelace