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Re: Victorian Hacker News

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Post by Tangurena2 » Thu, Sep 15, 2022, 4:56 PM UTC

JasonFruit wrote: post #78

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?

"written in Rust" => "powered by steam"

1. I think that arrow is backwards.

2. This is sort of why steam locomotives needed about 8 hours of maintenance per day. Back when VHS tapes were "in", one of my favorite tape sets was restored railroad training films (ok, nerd pron, so what). One of which showed a lot of what went on behind the scenes in a locomotive maintenance facility - and why steam locomotives were limited to 8 hours of work per day: 8 hours driving, about 4 hours cooling down, 8 hours maintenance and about 4 hours of heating the water in the boiler. When diesel electric locomotives started becoming "a thing", some people said thing like "they're junk - the wheels fall off". Looking at why the wheels had such "bad" wear problems, it turns out that those locomotives were being driven 24/7, not 1/3 of the time like steam locomotives.

Re: Victorian Hacker News

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Post by Tangurena2 » Thu, Sep 15, 2022, 5:02 PM UTC

radarsat1 wrote: post #41

Ha, 20 years later, AI has finally improved on the old late-90's language filters. Remember the "jive filter", anyone?

Was that real? Or was it just a skit on Airplane?

0 - https://youtu.be/GxQXSfJu8SA?t=34

Re: Victorian Hacker News

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Post by andsoitis » Thu, Sep 15, 2022, 5:05 PM UTC

Show VHN: Ada Computer Programming Language

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— Lovelace

Re: Victorian Hacker News

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Post by eth0up » Thu, Sep 15, 2022, 5:05 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: Should Automobiles Be Banned in the World's Columbian Exposition?

-Transgenderism In The Board Of Lady Managers Shouldn't Be An Issue

Edit: -Managing Micro-Aggressions in the Modern Saloon with Lisp.

Re: Victorian Hacker News

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Post by chernevik » Thu, Sep 15, 2022, 5:06 PM UTC

Wonderful. Two thoughts:

- Is the use of the first person entirely correct? Shouldn't there instead be some reference to the convening institution, such as "management" or "proprietors", or the community? (Though I would think that for HN the convening institution would be something less commercial.)

- It would seem a different font is in order.

Re: Victorian Hacker News

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Post by jonathanyc » Thu, Sep 15, 2022, 5:12 PM UTC

bibanez wrote: post #82

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?

Reminds me of a species of small fish passing the mirror test[0] while dogs fail it.

[0]: https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-self-aware-fish-raises-doub...

Re: Victorian Hacker News

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Post by chernevik » Thu, Sep 15, 2022, 5:16 PM UTC

warpech wrote: post #35

tumetab1 wrote: post #21

Great site but can the author of the site improve its readability for desktop users? I find the text visually hard to read (not the text in itself). In Firefox for example the Reader mode is not available which would also help. (I'm a regular web user, I know it's not great but I have no idea how to improve it) If anyone has good tips/tools/links for the author please reply with them.

A relevant quote from the linked article: > I implore you, dear reader, to set aside your petty grievances; trifling things such as the format of an article or website, the unfortunate repetition of a name, or the vexing loss of information when pressing the back button. They are so common and so lacking in originality that they have no interest whatsoever. But for real, the styling is just copied from the original:…

Should

> "They are so common"

be

"These are so common"

?

Re: Victorian Hacker News

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Post by bee_rider » Thu, Sep 15, 2022, 5:21 PM UTC

bibanez wrote: post #82

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?

Never seen a monkey get stuck late at work, though.

Re: Victorian Hacker News

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Post by bee_rider » Thu, Sep 15, 2022, 5:37 PM UTC

melonrusk wrote: post #90

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 ?

I merely wished to engage in a lively debate as to the inherent cognitive faculties of the various races -- and had even armed myself with all manner of statistics to reinforce up my arguments! It seems my erstwhile comrades have mistaken my quest to advance the science of phrenology for a hatred of the Irish...

Re: Victorian Hacker News

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Post by rthomas6 » Thu, Sep 15, 2022, 5:50 PM UTC

bibanez wrote: post #82

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?

I'm not saying the conclusion is accurate, but there is a correlation between mean reaction time and intelligence in humans. That doesn't mean that you can extrapolate intelligence from reaction time of Victorian era people. Their reaction time could be better for other un-accounted-for reasons. But it's not like the researchers just made up a link between reaction time and intelligence out of thin air because it sounded true. There really is a correlation between the two.

I would say this is weak evidence in favor of Victorians having higher intelligence, and insufficient to actually draw that conclusion. But still, evidence.