“Pack it in, mathematicians, someone owes LLVM a million bucks”

Re:“Pack it in, mathematicians, someone owes LLVM a million ... by lostcolony on Thursday August 19, 2021 @11:10AM (#28234833)

Okay. I'm not sure dissecting the technical inaccuracies of a joke ("but an imam would never walk into a bar!") is itself a joke (and I'm pretty sure you edited the comment just above to agree it was a joke, but maybe I just didn't read it closely enough), especially when you'd give the exact same response if you didn't know it was a joke, but did know it was technically incorrect, but fair enough.

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Re:“Pack it in, mathematicians, someone owes LLVM a million ... by ColinWright on Thursday August 19, 2021 @11:19AM (#28234970)

I didn't edit any comments, though I can appreciate that a quick skim might leave you with a different impression, and returning might lead you to believe I must have edited it. But I didn't.

I really do think we've just been talking past each other. When something is as obviously "tongue-in-cheek" as the original post, I find it funny when people (a) get the joke, then (b) play it with a completely straight bat. It appears that doesn't cross cultural boundaries in the way I thought it would.

You're not alone ... some of my comments are getting significant numbers of downvotes.

<shrug> ... "Humour".

I'll go back to appearing humourless and commenting purely technically on purely technical things. Meanwhile ... nice to connect with you ... thanks for the responses.

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Re:“Pack it in, mathematicians, someone owes LLVM a million ... by lostcolony on Thursday August 19, 2021 @11:29AM (#28235108)

Fair enough. I'll say, it helps to indicate you're not being serious in that situation; that's hard in text, but something like a "well akshually" (as a deprecating reference to https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/ackchyually-actually-guy) preceding it would help.

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Re:“Pack it in, mathematicians, someone owes LLVM a million ... by ColinWright on Thursday August 19, 2021 @12:07PM (#28235602)

That's all true, but putting "humour warnings" kinds defeats the purpose, and converts what would be dry humour into something more akin to slapstick, a bit like that person we all know who always insists on going "Bah-doom, Tsh!" on every mildly funny aside. When someone else highlights things that that I no longer find them funny at all, so I'd be reluctant to do it.

I appreciate the feedback ... I think the best thing for me is just not to try again, and to be explicit when I know something is a joke, and clear that I'm adding factual information.

Watching people continue to downvote the comments I've made, HN is clearly the wrong place for me to do otherwise.

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Re:“Pack it in, mathematicians, someone owes LLVM a million ... by alisonkisk on Thursday August 19, 2021 @12:12PM (#28235655)

When people intentionally miscommunicate (even in jest), misunderstanding is a foreseeable side effect.

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