[HN Gopher] 27 years ago I accidentally ran the hardest, strange...
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27 years ago I accidentally ran the hardest, strangest Easter egg
hunt
Author : tosh
Score : 215 points
Date : 2022-04-16 10:28 UTC (12 hours ago)
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| nyanpasu64 wrote:
| Were the eggs found by the girl the same eggs that the organizers
| had hid initially?
| skupig wrote:
| This is a great garden-path sentence. I had to read it like, 3
| times.
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden-path_sentence
| alar44 wrote:
| ???
| em-bee wrote:
| curious because i can't find any alternative reading besides
| the question if the eggs that the girl found were the same
| eggs that the organizers had hidden.
| drewcoo wrote:
| Agreed. Layer 8 error.
| tclancy wrote:
| Don't blame the hens!
| skupig wrote:
| Were the eggs found by the girl [that] the... oops, parse
| error, try again!
| thaumasiotes wrote:
| While I agree that the sentence is not a garden path
| sentence, a garden path sentence doesn't need to have more
| than one reading. A garden path sentence is difficult to
| parse, but that doesn't mean it has more than one parsing
| available.
| em-bee wrote:
| it doesn't need to have a correct second reading but it
| does need a partial misreading at least.
| MauranKilom wrote:
| The partial sentence "Were the eggs [actually] found by
| the girl" means something else than "Were the eggs [that
| were] found by the girl the same [ones as]...". Even if
| the semantic meaning of the words is largely unchanged,
| the sentence structure parses quite differently. I can
| confirm that this also took me for a spin when reading
| the comment.
| jefftk wrote:
| To be a garden path sentence at some point your parsing
| needs to do a substantial backtracking from the initially
| most likely reading. In this sentence, if you'd parsed
| the first seven words as "did the girl find the eggs?"
| you'd need to backtrack to the beginning on getting the
| eighth word (the).
| bbx wrote:
| Thank you SO MUCH for this. English isn't my first language,
| and many times I've come across sentences like this. I've
| even been collecting them whenever I came across them, on
| Reddit mostly. I've always wanted to find out why this type
| of sentence only occurred in English (to my knowledge). I've
| always thought it was because a lot of words could be
| interpreted as either nouns, adjectives, verbs or even
| adverbs, while retaining the same spelling.
|
| Anyway, I'm glad I finally found the term for these
| sentences. Many thanks.
| geoduck14 wrote:
| dang wrote:
| " _Please don 't complain about tangential annoyances--things
| like article or website formats, name collisions, or back-
| button breakage. They're too common to be interesting._"
|
| https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
| spzb wrote:
| Unrolled version :
| https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1514810917908717577.html
| retSava wrote:
| Or https://nitter.net/griner/status/1514810917908717577
|
| Or install the Nitter Redirect addon! I forgot I recently did
| that, and was pleasantly surprised someone had the good taste
| of pasting the nitter one directly :D
| beeboop wrote:
| cant wait for elon to fix twitter
| kingcharles wrote:
| Oh Lord, that was much easier, thank you. If Musk gets Twitter,
| this is what threading should look like. Or, like, just remove
| the 280 limit?
| bombcar wrote:
| Twitter could charge people $12/yr to be able to combine
| those tweets, and other $12/yr to be able to see the combined
| version. People would pay.
| SOLAR_FIELDS wrote:
| Tangential: Monte Sano is a really beautiful park. I visited
| friends in Huntsville last year and they took me out there - it's
| not only really good for hiking due to the elevation, it's
| spacious enough to not ever feel super crowded. It's also not far
| from Huntsville - 15-30 minute drive depending on where you're at
| in the city.
| DoreenMichele wrote:
| _Running it_ wasn 't really an accident. The accident was more
| the ridiculous and unintended _scale._
|
| This was unexpectedly terrific.
| mrcartmeneses wrote:
| Lovely. Genuinely super nice
| itslennysfault wrote:
| Hardest egg hunt? ... someone should tell this guy how babies are
| made.
| rufus_foreman wrote:
| Alcohol?
| logifail wrote:
| > One little girl had 6 eggs in her basket by the end. That kid
| terrified me.
|
| I took our six year-old to an indoor climbing venue last year.
| She'd never done any kind of climbing before (although always
| seemed to be "climbing on" anything/everything at playgrounds and
| in kindergarten, particularly things that aren't really designed
| to be climbed. Had had a few interactions with gravity, including
| landing on her face at a playground, one of the reasons that
| prompted me to check out options for some proper climbing
| instruction for kids)
|
| We pitched up, she met the trainer, she's the youngest in the
| group and also the last experienced, they get kitted out and head
| out to warm up then start climbing, I did what any HN parent
| does: fired up my laptop to catch up with work and stopped paying
| attention...
|
| About 15 mins later another parent came over to me and asked "is
| that your daughter right at the top?" (about 16 meters/50 feet
| up, at the top of the wall)
|
| Me: "err ... yeah"
| jerezzprime wrote:
| I am a fan of the philosophy "don't tell kids what they can't
| do, because they don't know any better, and will surprise you".
|
| Let kids discover their limits instead of purposefully (or
| accidentally) imposing your own.
| ourmandave wrote:
| The opposite of that was a city run family egg hunt at a park
| we took our 4-year-old daughter to. It was a giant field with
| most the eggs mostly scattered in the open.
|
| There were prizes if you found a certain number of eggs and 3
| special metallic eggs worth bigger prizes like stuffed animals
| or one of those giant net stockings full of toys.
|
| In the end she found two eggs.
|
| But I remember some full grown dude bro waving a plastic bag
| and bragging how he'd scored like 30+ eggs. And I didn't see
| any family with him.
| dan-robertson wrote:
| Kids can have good strength-to-weight ratios and be flexible.
| Their problems are likely to be not being able to reach as far,
| being potentially a bit uncoordinated, and not being able to
| get much stronger with training (so eg struggling with things
| that require more strength or finger strength). And maybe not
| being great at being coached though adults can have that issue
| too. Overall, climbing is pretty kid friendly though a climbing
| parent probably helps a lot.
| treeman79 wrote:
| Put 'em in gymnastics. Some of those girls id be afraid of.
| wisemang wrote:
| Or circus. Aerial silks, hoop etc
| [deleted]
| mwint wrote:
| From what I've seen, gymnastics tends to have some weird
| cultural... quirks... that aren't as common in climbing.
| Etheryte wrote:
| While gymnastics is a great all-around sport, it's sadly
| one of many which is not viable to do your whole life.
| Gymnastics is very hard on your body with tendon and
| ligament injuries being commonplace. Most gymnasts retire
| in their early twenties at the latest, often when faced
| with the medical reality of either giving up the sport or
| having joint pain for the rest of their life. While the
| sport is a marvel to see as a spectator, it comes at the
| cost of wearing out the body of the performer over a fairly
| short period of time.
| V__ wrote:
| Anyone who things we don't share common ancestors with apes
| should really visit a playground. I'm terrified at what my
| godchild and other children her age consider fun climbing
| heights, speeds... and drops.
| dan-robertson wrote:
| When I was young and would visit my grandmother, the park
| there had some climbing structure made out of steel tubing
| with a big rope lattice inside. At the time it felt quite
| massive though trying to guess now it was perhaps 4.5-6m tall
| at the top. The ropes were pretty dense inside but it was
| this reverse-hourglass shape so it was pretty easy to go to
| the edge and not have a bunch of ropes underneath you.
|
| I'm amazed as an adult that that thing was allowed but it was
| pretty fun at the time and I'd guess not actually that
| dangerous.
| V__ wrote:
| Remembering back those were awesome. Can't image what our
| parents thought.
|
| I was curious and looked it up. In Germany climbing
| structures may have a "fall height" of up to 3 meters. They
| can be much higher, though, since the fall height is only
| counted to the next rope layer. Basically, the ropes will
| slow down your fall is safe enough.
| mateo1 wrote:
| dang wrote:
| " _Please don 't complain about tangential annoyances--things
| like article or website formats, name collisions, or back-
| button breakage. They're too common to be interesting._"
|
| https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
| mateo1 wrote:
| Noted.
| MerelyMortal wrote:
| Sounds like a start-up idea...
|
| "Don't have time to sit and read a novel during your busy
| schedule? Subscribe to receive carefully-curated and abridged
| novels via SMS. We will space out the texts during your busy
| day so you have the time slowly digest and experience the same
| novels your friends are talking about at the coffee shop, but
| on your own schedule."
| Cerium wrote:
| If I remember this was a thing back in ~2007 Japan [1].
|
| [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_phone_novel
| MerelyMortal wrote:
| Interesting, but that is about novels written on a cell
| phone.
| Cerium wrote:
| As I remember, they were written on a cellphone and sent
| out to subscribers that way as well.
| [deleted]
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