Indeed, Sir, I am not; a mere gadfly on the rump of society, such is yr. humble correspondent. Yet even one unskilled in letters, such as I, may become sensible of a certain terseness, an unaccustomed lack of elegance, a rude brevity, in a communication, when it is flourished in front of his nose.
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.
Thine brevity is bereft of wit. And thy poem rhymes like that of a twit.
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.)
Great idea! Though in several instances it essentially repeats the submission title (which isn't too bad, but maybe you can instruct it to extend from the title?).
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
>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 say old man, I too should jolly well appreciate a fair warning about bandwidth-hungry formats. Too often these days do the rakes and scoundrels of this establishment assault both the senses and the available kilo-cycles of bandwidth with such extravagant formats that are quite unnecessary to communicate one's point. If 5-bit telegraph coding is enough for Her Britannic Majesty it is certainly good enough for her loyal subjects on VHN!
> 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.
One of the perks of technology that move very fast is that everyone is out of touch weekly due to frequent updates and major changes. So you can look at the state of things and you will not be that far behind the main group.
This reminded me of the "Victorian Laptop" that Justine Cassell and students worked on at the MIT Media Lab, in the late 1990s.
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.)
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.)
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.
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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.)
If PHP Were British: https://aloneonahill.com/blog/if-php-were-british/
Reddit Proper: https://www.reddit.com/r/proper/
I am going to have a lot of fun with this at work! :)
would_you_mind {
} actually_i_do_mind (Exception £e) { }I've laughed my ass off with that. Thanks for sharing!
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!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoqlYGuZGVM
...
"The article is about how to enable JavaScript in order to use twitter.com."
>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.
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(Local cut, for the bemused an explanation here: https://theculturetrip.com/pacific/australia/articles/why-sy...)
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
> back-button breakage
into
> the vexing loss of information when pressing the back button
It's a remarkably good translation.
Then again "the unfortunate repetition of a name" does not have quite the same meaning as "name collisions".
I noticed that too. I wonder what a more precise wording would be.
> "They are so common"
be
"These are so common"
?
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.
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
0 - https://youtu.be/GxQXSfJu8SA?t=34