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> I woke up late and well rested today.

And as usually with iOS, the user experience is excellent!



There's a values conflict between the Health and Clock apps here. Clock wants you to wake up on time. Health wants you to sleep in!


It is a conflict between physical and mental health. If you sleep in you'll get anxiety about missed appointment and if you wake early you'll feel tired.


It's a conflict between capitalism/modern performance society and being human. Of course, the common answer is drugs.


on my 3rd coffee as I read this. too real


Technically, coffee is a drug :)


That's was his point of it being too real...


I'm unsure why people are downvoting this. Where's the lie?


It's an uncomfortable truth. Downvoted!


Pretty sure people woke/wake up in uncomfortable hours for communist societies, too. Those factories and farms didn't man themselves.


You're downvoted because anyone born since the 90s has been brainwashed to think that communism was some kind of utopia.


I prefer insanity as an answer.


Why not both? I heard drugs are great if you are insane


That's it, I'm starting a twitter account for upvoted jokes on HN. That's quite an achievement.


https://twitter.com/shit_hn_says the best humor is the kind that lacks self awareness


Or the kind that is presented with absolutely 0 context.

Most of those tweets are pretty funny, but I can't help but think that a lot of them wouldn't be so hard to read if we knew the context in which they were said.


That is definitely more useful. My version will have a couple of tweets a year at most...


For everyone that wants to follow it: https://twitter.com/HumorHn


i may be able to contribute one or two to that list


Link!



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Overall, HN has always been supportive of original, on-topic, relevant, insightful humor. That means though that any kind of meme-ish, repetitive, or obvious joke is going to fail.

Basically HN in a great place for techie jokes that are essentially unique to this one tiny corner of the internet. The 4 or 5 we get per year are often some of the best content.


Right, I would say there's a difference between a low-effort joke/meme/pun vs a biting critique done as a joke.

It this case, the criticism was, Apple products will narrowly optimize for something pleasant (well-restedness) at the cost of what you really want (getting to work on time). This is a very common complaint[1], and it's kind of witty to joke about them doing it by accident here, when it's what they deliberately do in other contexts.

[1] Examples: making the URL bar look nice and minimal at the cost of you knowing where you are in a site, removing the scroll bar at the cost of knowing where you are in a page or how to move it, making the mouse unusuable when charging just so you don't have a hole on the top.


Like the Apple App Store!

HN is a an uncanny reflection of the tech sector in its current state, same people


I note that the rules are "guidelines", not "rules", and I think that's deliberate. There's meant to be an element of human judgement that can't necessarily be spelled out in advance. Allowing things that you might not inspect seems like the inverse of https://eev.ee/blog/2016/07/22/on-a-technicality/


Except if you ever challenge the guidelines they magically become rules, consistently.

I don't think we are even supposed to talk about that since its "unsubstantive", when convenient - which is always the case to the people that don't want to be challenged on it.


At least some of the guidelines are hard rules:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23482110


I note that while dang writes there that it's a hard rule, the comment it was in referenced to wasn't killed. That's different from my understanding of what a hard rule is; in communities I moderate, I will always remove content that goes against something I consider a hard rule.

Most of the HN guidelines are subject to a fair amount of human interpretation.


Don't take the joke literally.




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