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So basically. Turn off the computer, delete GitHub, delete hackrank, turn off all my docker servers and swarms across the multiple library networks and then go
by bigChris 4y ago
So basically. Turn off the computer, delete GitHub, delete hackrank, turn off all my docker servers and swarms across the multiple library networks and then go out and talk to NPCs?
- mbg721 4y agoSheesh, Bethesda seems to have set staggeringly low expectations of NPCs...
- everdrive 4y agoNot calling them "NPCs" is probably useful as well.
- BossingAround 4y agoWe all know "friendships" are just successfully completed quest chains.
- skipants 4y agoThe article says they are more like daily quests :P
- johnchristopher 4y agoOr "normies" while we are at it. A recent trend I am noticing more often on HN.
- MarcelOlsz 4y agoHilarious considering hackernewsians are the normies of the online world.
- emsy 4y agoThat’s Reddit. On HN I sometimes find people with niche interests and expertise in all kinds of fields, which I like. It’s also relatively civilized. You don’t need to be a 4-chan edgelord to be not-normie.
- MarcelOlsz 4y agoReddit are the nerds/losers of the online-o-sphere.
- Mountain_Skies 4y agoHN broadly participated in the moral panic over lab leak theory being allowed to exist. This place is far more 'normie' than it likes to believe itself to be and is nowhere near as independent thinking as it pats itself on the back for being. But it does exceed Reddit in the percentage of posters who confuse their wealth for wisdom.
- throwaway0a5e 4y agoReddit is just HN with lower standards of communication, puns, one word rebuttals, all that stuff is fair game there. Being able to follow cultural norms of the local group is just about the least remarkable thing about any given group of humans. HN is not special.
- 1123581321 4y agoMost people here also belong to other communities and code switch how they write.
- A4ET8a8uTh0 4y agoIt is an interesting comment in itself. Does HN ( and other online communities ) have their own peculiar jargon and it is used to identify in-group? I definitely noticed some recurring phrases, but it does not appear to be.. say.. as obvious as 4chan or imgur.
- b3morales 4y agoIt's less jargon and more tone. Whereas a sarcastically snarky retort might fly on most forums, here it's more likely to net you downvotes. But the same content expressed without the sarcasm will be better-received.
- hoseja 4y agoWhat sort of online world are you considering here? Does it include facebook, twitter and reddit? Or do you mean the deep, niche autism-adjacent online world?
- cehrlich 4y agoAgreed, "normies" is a fine shorthand for "people who are not concerned with the niche thing we're currently talking about", but seeing people who think of it as an actual category that they judge people by is a dangerous mental model that a lot of people on here seem to fall victim to.
- fartcannon 4y agoWe are amall group primates, it's our nature. Us vs Them. In and Out groups. Everyone is a victim of it.
- javajosh 4y agoMaybe your narrow-minded group believes in in- and out-groups, but not mine!
- erklik 4y agoAhh. You mean your "in-group" of people who don't believe in "in-groups". This is tongue-in-cheek. :)
- javajosh 4y agoThere was a time I would lamented the need to be so explicit. But now, I'm just grateful the point got across. Communication seems to happen less and less reliably, with more error modes with greater negative emotional impact, and I worry that this implies the existence of some sort of inevitable drift between my brain and other people's brains. And I'm not sure if the solution is to bridge the gap, or just keep going and learn to accept inane resistance with some combination of stoicism and resigned amusement.
- antisthenes 4y agoYou will burn in sparrow-hell! https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EF3JLYwXUAAqDPP.jpg https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EF3JLYwXUAAqDPP.jpg
- swayvil 4y agoWhich is ironic, because hackernewsians are the most conventional people this side of the Pentecostals.
- zeroonetwothree 4y agoI thought this was used typically for people “off the spectrum”.
- postsantum 4y agoNah, despising an out-group is a bonding experience https://xkcd.com/610/ https://xkcd.com/610/
- beckman466 4y agoyeah it’s a just way to covertly (by the videogamer crowd) call other people stupid.
- bmacho 4y agopls don't delete GitHub I have stuff there
- phkahler 4y ago>> Turn off the computer, delete GitHub... I've met a few people on github that could become real-world friends if circumstances ever bring us to the same place or we clicked in some additional ways. But yeah, that's not really happening in a pull request ;-)