Re:Oh My Gosh, It’s Covered in Rule 30s
by dredmorbius on Friday June 02, 2017 @04:31AM
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The alternative is to register the pathology as known, considered, addressed, and ... not of particular interest in the current context.
dang's post attempts to do this. HN has poor tools for surfacing such actions and intentions (it has poor tools in a large number of ways, but the very tool paucity also creates, at times, some useful positive dynamics).
Sometimes you want low friction, sometimes you want high friction.
A wheel, particularly in the flanged steel-on-rail or rubber tyre-on-road varieties, is a device for offering exceptionally low friction and resistance in one dimension, and very high resistance in another. Among the results of such a dynamic is the property, literally, of keeping a vehicle on track.
I think HN's quirks of high- and low-affordance capabilties operate somewhat in this nature.
dang's post attempts to do this. HN has poor tools for surfacing such actions and intentions (it has poor tools in a large number of ways, but the very tool paucity also creates, at times, some useful positive dynamics).
Sometimes you want low friction, sometimes you want high friction.
A wheel, particularly in the flanged steel-on-rail or rubber tyre-on-road varieties, is a device for offering exceptionally low friction and resistance in one dimension, and very high resistance in another. Among the results of such a dynamic is the property, literally, of keeping a vehicle on track.
I think HN's quirks of high- and low-affordance capabilties operate somewhat in this nature.