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0 pointsIshKebab4y ago0 comments

They're almost as tedious as

"I want to share an anecdote about me that is tangentially related to the article. I'm not going to comment on the article, but the title reminded me of something that I thought of once, or maybe something that happened to me. I'm pretty smart so I'll share it with my fellow smart people here now. It's about me.

Back in 2003 I was running an FTP server from my garage. It was running on one of the new Slackware BSD boxes that were popular at the time. We didn't have many users but one that we did have was Jamie Zawinski - actually he was my roommate at the time.

We used to spend most evenings coming up with new compression algorithms and practicing Vim exit sequences and ..."

Yeah anyway I'm not a HN comment generator AI but it's crazy how many comments here are just "let me tell you a story about me".

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jasonkester4y ago

Have you noticed that you just described “conversation”?

That is what it looks like when people get together and talk to each other. Lots of us are here for that, and it seems like a pretty natural thing to do. The articles do a nice job of suggesting topics to talk about.

IshKebabOP4y ago

It reminds me of conversations I used to have with an autistic guy who didn't really get conversational cues. He would just come out with facts that didn't at all fit the flow of the conversation.

In any case I don't think the point of the articles is just to be a conversation starter.

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