6 ms·
“What’s the WiFi password?” Interesting; tomorrow I'm going to ask five people this exact question just to see what happens. EDIT: Obviously if you've read th
by nxzero 11y ago
“What’s the WiFi password?”
Interesting; tomorrow I'm going to ask five people this exact question just to see what happens.
EDIT: Obviously if you've read the article, it states this is like asking "do you know what time it is?" - that is it's an known excuse to start a conversation. Personally, I don't believe this, hence my experiment.
- WalterBright 11y agopenny-get-your-own-wifi
- nxzero 11y agoPenny: Hey, Sheldon, did you change your wifi password again? Sheldon: Yes, it's "Penny, get your own wifi." No spaces. ___ TV-Show: The Big Bang Theory Source: http://www.tvfanatic.com/quotes/hey-sheldon-did-you-change-your-wi-fi-password-again-yes-i/ http://www.tvfanatic.com/quotes/hey-sheldon-did-you-change-y...
- sergiotapia 11y agoAre you a bot?
- vemy 11y agoLooking through their other posts, I don't think so.
- fenomas 11y agoA bot that recognizes approximately-quoted pop culture references and provides their source would be a hell of a bot.
- Aelinsaar 11y agoOh boy... it's actually not that hard to imagine a future of spambot's running on neural networks. :/
- berntb 11y agoHmm... A new idea for me, which probably will make someone here on HN rich: Helpful bots that monitors your communication and suggests cultural jokes, to impress people?
- Aelinsaar 11y agoOh man, helper apps like that are going to make kids online even more difficult to detect and avoid.
- TeMPOraL 11y agoAnd the same networks could fuel spam filters, eventually leading to: https://xkcd.com/810/ https://xkcd.com/810/.
- Aelinsaar 11y agoGod damn it, I just love XKCD.
- seer 11y agoCan someone please explain (or point out a link to the rules in question) why is this post getting downvoted? I understand the parent comment is not very informative, but this one I found quite helpful as I had forgotten the quote in question and it is relevant to the "wi-fi password discussion" the grandparent has started. Additionally I would simply love a bot like that going around explaining popular media quotes. I frequent the SpaceX subreddit and they have one explaining space related acronyms whenever any are found in the discussion. Makes reading it a lot more pleasant.
- rfrey 11y agoI think there's a HN cultural preference to avoid stream-of-consciousness tangents, so even clever or informative -- but off-topic -- replies to such tangents tend to suffer. IMO this is the source of some people's impression that humour isn't welcome here. My experience is the opposite - on-topic (and funny) comments do well even if only a joke or quip, but off-topic humour sinks, even if clever and civil. I'm quite lowbrow and really enjoy the more clever comment chains on Reddit, but I also appreciate the HN alternative, where attempts at pun chains, etc. sink to the bottom and on-topic thoughts rise.
- Ao7bei3s 11y agoIf you really wanted to find out about the quote, it's just a google search away. For everyone else, it's useless pop culture trivia obscuring real content. (The right way to do this would be to add a feature to the HN/reddit forum software that allows unobtrusive footnotes to comments. Acronyms could just be auto-hyperlinked (with short definition in the alt text) in the original comment.)