That was easy, I just used my other computer for 2 minutes.
Impossible for the HN crowd: Do nothing for 2 minutes
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#1421. The birds aren't moving. This is driving me insane. 2. I stopped because I became paranoid that with 0:15 seconds, the website was going to rick-roll me.
I was getting paranoid that it was going to be one of those sites that flashes a scary face and screams at you.
Once bitten, twice shy.
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#143I like this one better:
He has been swimming
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#144Whenever I see these kind of things I always expect it to be some prank. Watch this nice sunset, listen to the calming sounds, and then just as it gets to calm down, have something jump out to scare the crap out of you.
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#145Earlier quoted context omitted.
Great! One more thought I had: also track whether the failure was due to the mouse or keyboard. When you have gathered a decent number of results I will be very interested to see a blog post with some nice graphs.
Now tracking fails (with the event type), and successes. If the data looks interesting I'll definitely write it up!
I'd discard results under say a second or 2, took me a couple of goes to see that you can't move the mouse at all once the page loads.
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#146Earlier quoted context omitted.
I haven't logged in to comment for 37 days and this little essay is such utter garbage. The fact that it takes him just 7 paragraphs to completely dismiss all potential religious truth as "clearly false" should set off anyone's dogma-alert flag. Being focused in the present is awesome, but the fact that we have the ability to pay attention on things other than reality is not a problem, but in fact essential to the he…
I don't want to get into a flamewar, but potential 'religious truth' generally lacks falsifiability. Certainly there could definitely be true things that the religious say but it doesn't really promote a method of thinking that leads us to knowing things that aren't false about the world. In the method of 'religious truths' everyone is right and everyone is wrong, there is no way to sort out the true from the false.
That's why claiming potential religious truths are "clearly false" is a clear marker of weak thinking.
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#1471. The birds aren't moving. This is driving me insane. 2. I stopped because I became paranoid that with 0:15 seconds, the website was going to rick-roll me.
I was getting paranoid that it was going to be one of those sites that flashes a scary face and screams at you.
Me too. After about 5 seconds all I could think about was whether it was gonna be a shark jumping out of the water at me, a big fat seagull coming for me, or just some random screaming crazy jumping in from the side of the screen.
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#148Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't want to get into a flamewar, but potential 'religious truth' generally lacks falsifiability. Certainly there could definitely be true things that the religious say but it doesn't really promote a method of thinking that leads us to knowing things that aren't false about the world. In the method of 'religious truths' everyone is right and everyone is wrong, there is no way to sort out the true from the false.
That's why claiming potential religious truths are "clearly false" is a clear marker of weak thinking.
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#149I passed. Because I clicked open a lot of stories from the main HN page in background tabs, and by the time I got to that one, it had told me I had passed.
I didn't get to that tab yet, have been wondering where that nice background sound was coming from for an hour or so :)
Just opened a second tab and passed, though.