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Show HN: A device that only lets you type lol if you've truly laughed out loud
- zagrebian 4y agoLOS
- smegsicle 4y agoif you exclaim 'lol!' it lets you type 'lolol'
- mLuby 4y agoCan it differentiate laughing and crying?
- jldugger 4y agoThe crystalologist wept, for they had dropped their lollipop on the floor.
- lanewinfield 4y agoCrystahaogists love that’s funnylipops.
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- fredley 4y agoThe clbuttic problem
- eyelidlessness 4y agoAn intercoursing persistent problem.
- britneybitch 4y agothat's funny
- jquery 4y agoha
- eyelidlessness 4y agoI don’t know why but I actually lol’ed when I reached this comment. True out loud laugh attested here
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- beastcoast 4y agoVideo doesn’t play - is HN capable of breaking Twitter now?
- sundvor 4y agoTwitter managed that on their own; is down in Australia at least.
- smcleod 4y agoYeah huge Twitter outage today, no one's talking about it I'm assuming because far less people care about Twitter anymore.
- sundvor 4y agoCrazy, another hour gone by and it's still down (in Australia, at least).
- willcipriano 4y agoWorks here in the US, maybe try holding your phone the other way round?
- yieldcrv 4y agoTried that, just gave a Tasmanian devil cancer
- AdityaSanthosh 4y agoHey guys, it's me Elon. It's working for me. I don't know what you are talking about
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- sixstringtheory 4y agoRelevant Greg Giraldo bit: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NMQDVhoGHak https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NMQDVhoGHak
- philwelch 4y agoBack in my youth, I had a friend on AIM who excessively typed “lol”. We ended up talking on the phone once and I was surprised to learn that (a) she actually did laugh out loud approximately that frequently and (b) it was more of a nervous giggle, and not so much a full-throated laugh.
- tayo42 4y agooh man, i used to ask people if they were really laughing when they said "lol"... thanks for resurfacing this memory... ugh lol
- codetrotter 4y ago> ugh lol :wink:
- danparsonson 4y agoConversely I used to have a friend who actually said "lol" instead of laughing - I guess that was lololing?
- nullify88 4y agoMy group of friends started doing that after they were introduced to the Pure Pwnage web series back in 2004. Classic.
- danparsonson 4y agoThat takes me back.... World of Warcraft is a feeling :-D
- piyush_soni 4y agoI have friends who use say the word "LOL" as well, but as a sarcasm.
- karmelapple 4y agoLarry David covered this: https://youtu.be/DAwlx0aTBi4 https://youtu.be/DAwlx0aTBi4
- whycome 4y agoNow do one for the French equivalent MDR.
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- tsukurimashou 4y agobut you really have to die for the thing to let you type it (MDR stands for "mort de rire", or dying of laughter in english)
- robertlagrant 4y agoThat makes more sense than my thought of medical device regulation.
- eyelidlessness 4y agoMy beard just got some grey in it when I laughed in my head and didn’t reply “rol”, the entirely opt in lol-verifier that we all used to treat as sacred.
- heavyset_go 4y agoNow make one that shocks you when you don't literally laugh your ass off.
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- Dudelander 4y agoBut does it work for ROFLMAO?
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- eyelidlessness 4y agoRoflcopter
- jansan 4y agoYou will need a special mat for that, sold separately.
- tobyhinloopen 4y agoLol!
- Eleison23 4y ago[dead]
- smsm42 4y agoOK I wouldn't lie, I didn't LOL but I chuckled pretty loudly.
- StanislavPetrov 4y agoShout out to, "bahaha".
- eyelidlessness 4y agoHehe
- surfsvammel 4y agoI love this idea. Concepts like this is useful for making a tighter connection between the real world and the online world.
- ZyanWu 4y agoHow would this tighter connection be useful? The whole internet became/is a creative slate because the two worlds aren't connected Connecting them would mean less privacy (or even lack of)
- causi 4y agoAre we still pretending "lol" is not just a piece of grammar now?
- w-m 4y agoHow did it come to replace the period as the marker for the end of a sentence?
- causi 4y agoIt doesn't mark the end of a sentence. It marks that the sentence is not to be taken with the utmost seriousness.
- w-m 4y agoIf you put it like that, the marker would only make sense in an otherwise serious conversation. But when it's used as a stop marker for every other message in a texting app, that's already a very casual and light-hearted environment, why do some people feel the need to reinforce it again and again? Maybe I'm overthinking it lol
- mxkopy 4y agolmao
- Phlogistique 4y agoBecause human communication involves redundancy of information.
- unshavedyak 4y agoIt's also interesting, i frequently use `lol.` as a sort of combination emotion, where i'm signalling laughing but also abruptly stopping. Meaningfully different than a `heh`. Likewise `heh` and `heh.` have a very distinct feel. Language is weird, it just comes naturally and organically and i go with the flow. Though i find this style of writing mostly done in texting. Long/medium form doesn't benefit as greatly from it.
- anticensor 4y agoWhat if I said LOL for "lots of love" instead?
- cafeinux 4y agoLike in "your uncle died, LOL" ? Guess you'd have to train the ML model on cries instead of laugh, simply.
- user-extended 4y agoML based on "Live, Laugh, Love". Oh, the horrors!
- drtyuhbvc 4y agook, boomer. lol today means "yeah, rigth"
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- INTPenis 4y agoLet's be honest, in most contexts lol is just a smile and a good feeling. When I was at school around 2003 I actually heard someone yell out across the cafeteria "you're so f*king lol!", in swedish. It was used as a verb.
- lnxg33k1 4y ago...some men just want to watch the world burn
- nashashmi 4y agoThere was a time when we used to reserve these kinds of jokes for April fool's day. I hate April fool's day but if it was these kinds of jokes, I'd be very amused.
- sergiopreira 4y agoHaha! Brilliant. Next is to configure based on "highness"....
- amelius 4y ago> Haha! Brilliant. Real "Haha" or faked?
- hardware2win 4y agoOfftop lol doesnt mean just laughed... It also means being shocked or surprised "lol?" For some reason people who try to define lol often miss that 2nd, popular meaning
- almostarockstar 4y agoMaybe I'm an exception, but I have never ever seen lol used with that 2nd meaning.
- hardware2win 4y agolol?
- d1sxeyes 4y agoFor me, when I see 'lol' used like this I read it as quite aggressive and offensive. I don't see it really an expression of surprise or shock, but with its original meaning used in a sarcastic way: 'I am laughing with incredulity at the fact that you actually think that'.
- HPsquared 4y agoFor me at least, it's more like "slight exhale through nose"
- euroderf 4y ago... but " snort " might be misinterpreted.
- ClassyJacket 4y agoI absolutely love this. I'm glad that local machine learning is within reach for everyday hobbyists and not entirely limited to big organizations with deep pockets or experts. This may be a dumb joke, but the tech is there to make loads of useful things. It reminds me of a more tech-oriented version of the hilarious 'Unnecessary Inventions' guy who makes great unnecessary (not: not useless) inventions - you may enjoy his channel if you like this: https://unnecessaryinventions.com/ https://unnecessaryinventions.com/
- maw 4y agoI once proposed to some people I know getting started in app development an idea: the app would listen to what you say and if you said the word "güey" more than five times in a 24 hour window it would give you an electric shock. I was only about four fifths joking.
- sAbakumoff 4y agohow about LMAO thogh?
- blamestross 4y agoBut can you type "vexillology" without laughing?
- thejoebigelow 4y agolol
- cafard 4y agoCool. How about a device that gives you a mild jolt if you write that you are "shocked, shocked" to discover something.
- euroderf 4y agoRelated: when doing proofreading, whenever I got a press release that quoted Person X as saying Y, I tried to track down Person X in the hallway and ask him/her to utter the quote Y, so that writing the press release would not make me a liar.
- isthisthingon99 4y agoLol
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- Retief 4y agoThis is pointless because the code should be verifying the expression IALOL'd., as LOL is not intended to express actual laughter. Just saying.