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Re: Victorian Hacker News

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Post by Arrath » Thu, Sep 15, 2022, 3:16 PM UTC

bee_rider wrote: post #59

basicallydan wrote: post #52

This is excellent. Was anybody else also hoping for a Victorian HN Front Page with list of parody HN links which one might've expected to see in the 1880s or something? - New Developments Greatly Increase Steam Engine Efficiency - Show VHN: I have developed plans for a machine that will travel through time - Nikola Tesla on Direct Current - Ask VHN: Is the Trans-Atlantic telegraph cable down? Any other ideas?

- Label Profusion: a framework to employ a great number of unskilled laborers in the creation of art via the use of simple terms Followed by... - Getting your in-home servants to work with label profusion - Will label profusion cheapen the work of legitimate artists? - I have tricked my butler into producing a great deal of smut via label profusion

- New study highlights noxious fumes danger from interior gas lamps. (Study funded by Right Honorable Brotherhood of Household Chandlers)

Re: Victorian Hacker News

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Post by bibanez » Thu, Sep 15, 2022, 3:24 PM UTC

rthomas6 wrote: post #74

Some researchers say Victorian era people were more intelligent than people in our present time, and after reading the Victorian guidelines, maybe they're right. https://phys.org/news/2013-05-victorian-era-people-intellige...

This is sincerely, really stupid. General intelligence being measured by reaction time greatly misses the question. Monkeys have significantly higher reaction times than humans. Never surpassed the stone age, did they?

Re: Victorian Hacker News

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Post by basicallydan » Thu, Sep 15, 2022, 3:27 PM UTC

greenonions wrote: post #71

basicallydan wrote: post #52

This is excellent. Was anybody else also hoping for a Victorian HN Front Page with list of parody HN links which one might've expected to see in the 1880s or something? - New Developments Greatly Increase Steam Engine Efficiency - Show VHN: I have developed plans for a machine that will travel through time - Nikola Tesla on Direct Current - Ask VHN: Is the Trans-Atlantic telegraph cable down? Any other ideas?

A treatise on the most prevalent falsehoods, commonly held as truths by mechanical instructioners, on the topic of historical reenactment.

Hahaha. I see what you did there

Re: Victorian Hacker News

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Post by lwneal » Thu, Sep 15, 2022, 3:42 PM UTC

My fellow countrymen, I am grateful for the time you have given to my humble endeavor, and I remain ever hopeful that you will find some small gem of beauty or truth that will illuminate your day.

The code, if one wishes to peruse it, may be found upon the GitHub website. [1]

[1] https://github.com/lwneal/victorianhackernews

Re: Victorian Hacker News

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Post by dang » Thu, Sep 15, 2022, 3:54 PM UTC

alexvoda wrote: post #69

dang wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's so good I'm tempted to replace the existing rule with it.

I find it incredible that this was written by an AI and it translated: > 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".

> 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.

Re: Victorian Hacker News

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Post by wolfgang42 » Thu, Sep 15, 2022, 4:28 PM UTC

jhbadger wrote: post #46

I wonder if there's an Victorian -> contemporary English filter. While I actually like Victorian prose, I know some people (especially non-native English speakers) are put off from reading Charles Dickens and the like because of the Victorian style which can come across as stilted to to modern ear. Maybe a filter could be made to make Victorian prose seem more modern.

It’s not just the phrasing, though; there’s also a lot of cultural context that the modern reader will miss without footnotes to guide them. For example, from Oliver Twist:

> It was a meanly furnished apartment, with nothing but the contents of the closet to induce the belief that its occupier was anything but a working man; and with no more suspicious articles displayed to view than two or three heavy bludgeons which stood in a corner, and a “life-preserver”* that hung over the chimney-piece.

> * ‘life-preserver’: stick weighted with lead; widely used for self-protection.

That footnote rather drastically changes the mental picture for the modern reader!

Re: Victorian Hacker News

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Sep 15, 2022, 4:29 PM UTC

Nextgrid wrote: post #61

basicallydan wrote: post #52

This is excellent. Was anybody else also hoping for a Victorian HN Front Page with list of parody HN links which one might've expected to see in the 1880s or something? - New Developments Greatly Increase Steam Engine Efficiency - Show VHN: I have developed plans for a machine that will travel through time - Nikola Tesla on Direct Current - Ask VHN: Is the Trans-Atlantic telegraph cable down? Any other ideas?

- Alternating Current considered harmful

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Re: Victorian Hacker News

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Post by melonrusk » Thu, Sep 15, 2022, 4:32 PM UTC

basicallydan wrote: post #52

This is excellent. Was anybody else also hoping for a Victorian HN Front Page with list of parody HN links which one might've expected to see in the 1880s or something? - New Developments Greatly Increase Steam Engine Efficiency - Show VHN: I have developed plans for a machine that will travel through time - Nikola Tesla on Direct Current - Ask VHN: Is the Trans-Atlantic telegraph cable down? Any other ideas?

Will 1863 be the year of Linux on the desktop ?

Re: Victorian Hacker News

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Post by baq » Thu, Sep 15, 2022, 4:34 PM UTC

basicallydan wrote: post #52

This is excellent. Was anybody else also hoping for a Victorian HN Front Page with list of parody HN links which one might've expected to see in the 1880s or something? - New Developments Greatly Increase Steam Engine Efficiency - Show VHN: I have developed plans for a machine that will travel through time - Nikola Tesla on Direct Current - Ask VHN: Is the Trans-Atlantic telegraph cable down? Any other ideas?

East India Company to acquire Horse Manure Processing (YC 1842)

Re: Victorian Hacker News

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Post by melonrusk » Thu, Sep 15, 2022, 4:50 PM UTC

basicallydan wrote: post #52

This is excellent. Was anybody else also hoping for a Victorian HN Front Page with list of parody HN links which one might've expected to see in the 1880s or something? - New Developments Greatly Increase Steam Engine Efficiency - Show VHN: I have developed plans for a machine that will travel through time - Nikola Tesla on Direct Current - Ask VHN: Is the Trans-Atlantic telegraph cable down? Any other ideas?

Ask VHN: I have recently been ejected from my Gentleman's club without explanation. I am neither a scofflaw nor a charlatan. Do I have any recourse ?