I don’t expect people to be editing their comments for absolute maximum clarity on here, so it wasn’t a critique.
When I’m reading and my mind does a reparse, I feel amusement, I suppose because of the mild confusion followed by a brief puzzle solving exercise followed by understanding. The brain (or some brains, including mine, anyway) seems to treat this flavor of tension->resolution as humorous, as with other flavors of tension->resolution humor like taboo violation in a safe space, or close friends pretending to be about to hit each other.
They were just making a joke. I understand humor might be too foreign and loose for people on HN but trust me, there was no maliciousness in their comment.
pfannkuchen|10 months ago
I don’t expect people to be editing their comments for absolute maximum clarity on here, so it wasn’t a critique.
When I’m reading and my mind does a reparse, I feel amusement, I suppose because of the mild confusion followed by a brief puzzle solving exercise followed by understanding. The brain (or some brains, including mine, anyway) seems to treat this flavor of tension->resolution as humorous, as with other flavors of tension->resolution humor like taboo violation in a safe space, or close friends pretending to be about to hit each other.
Rhapso|10 months ago
9283409232|10 months ago
Rhapso|10 months ago
> I understand humor might be too foreign and loose for people on HN but trust me, there was no maliciousness in their comment.
Adding your own mockery doesn't help with my perception of the situation.
Malice isn't required to do harm and it's absence doesn't really change my opinion on the situation.
nullc|10 months ago