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My first thought was that the site has died (gone off-line)
by mauriciolange 4y ago
My first thought was that the site has died (gone off-line)
- zarzavat 4y agoTitle is a Garden path sentence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden-path_sentence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden-path_sentence
- victorbstan 4y agoLearned something today.
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- Wildgoose 4y agoI'm fascinated by your comment because I mentally parsed it correctly from the start. I presume you hadn't heard of a CPU die before? I'm not sure how else this could be misunderstood on an initial read.
- mauriciolange 4y agoI am well aware of CPU dies. But as I wrote that first sentence I read it "bad" from your perspective! I correlate much stronger "dies" with death than with a die.
- samstave 4y ago....except when I see it literally next to the term, CPU....
- nothatscool 4y agoMost of the posts here with “dies” in the title are about public figures who have died. If you are used to those and are scanning through the posts it is easy to read “dies” in that context first and then the rest of the sentence.
- nonameiguess 4y agoThey might actually both be true. A sibling comment seems to indicate they don't do this any more and the main gallery page hasn't been updated in four years. It's possible that the project to put artwork on CPU dies has died, though the webpage hosting the gallery has clearly not died.
- colejohnson66 4y agoIf you're a visual learner, Tom Scott made a great video about these "Crash Blossoms": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldT2g2qDQNQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldT2g2qDQNQ
- ismaildonmez 4y agoYou have the best nick ever, hats off
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- fortran77 4y agoMaybe we should have the black bar up on hacker news today.
- gcheong 4y agoMine was of some kind of simulation running that “died”. Like a Tamagochi or something. (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamagotchi https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamagotchi)
- kgwxd 4y agoMine was that the practice of putting art on CPUs has died.
- jhgb 4y agoThe comment by tverbeure justifies your belief.
- DavidSJ 4y agoMine was that the art itself had died.