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Re: Outhorse Your Email

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Post by jmmcd »

acoomans wrote: post #35
Hamuko wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> it seems that down the road this may require a lot of horses. And you apparently need to train every horse to actually write emails, so it also requires humans to train the horses. How many horses can an Icelandic horse trainer train in a month? And do we know if all horses can even learn to write emails? What if it requires very smart horses? How many horses are there in Iceland and how many of them are email-grad…

Unless you can train a horse to become a horse trainer.

The singularity

Re: Outhorse Your Email

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Post by technothrasher »

drKarl wrote: post #47
lifeisstillgood wrote: post #23

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The scalability depends on the typing speed of the horse, which of course is limited by how much they are carrying. An unladen horse can clearly type faster than one weighed down with for example coconuts, and we must not forget the span between the shift key and the number row. This is a very large keyboard for native Icelandic horses, and while the European breed might make the span, the African variety can easily…

And this is a reference to Monty Python and the Holy Grail:)

I believe the appropriate response would have been "a hØrse once bit my sister..."

Re: Outhorse Your Email

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Post by avar »

Aachen wrote: post #25
wfme wrote: post #6

Love this sort of thing. Makes me think about visiting Iceland haha

Go in summer if you want to ride, though. Ask me how I know that October will freeze your fingers off I'd 100% recommend visiting Iceland in October in general. It's a lot less busy around attractions and the sea climate makes it not that cold (the main challenge usually is breaking the wind). Walking/driving around is absolutely no problem, and outdoors swimming is also fine because the pools are heated geothermally…

> There has been only one activity where the icey wind got the better of me despite adequate clothing

Don't leave us hanging, what was the activity?

Re: Outhorse Your Email

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Post by avar »

blackshaw wrote: post #39
wfme wrote: post #6

Love this sort of thing. Makes me think about visiting Iceland haha

Iceland is amazing, I highly recommend a visit. If you can forgive the self-promotion, I wrote a "things I wish I'd known" post about visiting Iceland which might be of interest to anyone planning a trip there: https://blackshaw.substack.com/p/iceland

A correction to "Unless you have a 4x4 it’s illegal to drive on certain mountain roads":

Legally you can drive on whatever road you'd like in whatever vehicle you'd like, but coverage in case something goes wrong is probably not included in your rental company's coverage. The "4x4 only" signs you referred to are meant to discourage tourists who don't know any better.

Depending on the road, weather, your driving skills etc. you'll easily be able to traverse certain "4x4 only" roads even in a VW Golf. The trick is knowing which roads those are, and accounting for the tiny stream you passed on the way in potentially having turned into a river due to rains or snowmelt since you drove in.

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Post by [deleted] »

shmageggy wrote: post #9

I have a few qualms with this app: 1. For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by streaming from /dev/urandom, mapping to cardinal directions and simulating a random walk on the keyboard. 2. It doesn't actually replace an email autoresponder. Most people I know will put things like their return date in the auto-response. 3. It does not seem very "scalable" or income-generating. I…

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Re: Outhorse Your Email

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Post by nxmnxm99 »

serf wrote: post #38
Hamuko wrote: post #31

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It might be the most famous Hacker News comment in existence.

either that or the Putnam comment of cperciva's. [0] [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35083

Jeez, that guy was full of himself though. Looks like 14 years later he isn't the roaring startup success story he predicted.

Re: Outhorse Your Email

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Post by [deleted] »

lifeisstillgood wrote: post #23
shmageggy wrote: post #9

I have a few qualms with this app: 1. For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by streaming from /dev/urandom, mapping to cardinal directions and simulating a random walk on the keyboard. 2. It doesn't actually replace an email autoresponder. Most people I know will put things like their return date in the auto-response. 3. It does not seem very "scalable" or income-generating. I…

The scalability depends on the typing speed of the horse, which of course is limited by how much they are carrying. An unladen horse can clearly type faster than one weighed down with for example coconuts, and we must not forget the span between the shift key and the number row. This is a very large keyboard for native Icelandic horses, and while the European breed might make the span, the African variety can easily…

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Re: Outhorse Your Email

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Post by geoduck14 »

serf wrote: post #38
Hamuko wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It might be the most famous Hacker News comment in existence.

either that or the Putnam comment of cperciva's. [0] [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35083

I've looked through some of those comments, and I don't understand what is going on. Can you help, please?
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