Let me guess: were you referring to Cellular Neural Networks (now THAT would be funny, and right down my alley, but how did you know I spend so many hours watching Cellular Neural Networks, was it that obvious?), or Convolutional Neural Networks (I'm into those too, and use them at work)? Or is it a sexual reference like Condoms, Needles, and Negotiation, an approach to reducing sexually transmitted diseases (which sounds like a good idea to me), or a biological reference like Centrosomin, a protein in Drosophila Melanogaster (which I have no fucking clue what that's about)?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cellular_neural_network
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convolutional_neural_network
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condoms,_needles,_and_negotiat...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CDK5RAP2
It just sounded to me like I hurt your feelings by implying that it was bad to name a project only 1 Levenshtein distance measurement away from such a tired horribly disreputable deeply disgraced hateful racist conspiracy theory associated four letter curse word as MAGA.
At the risk of spoiling your CNN joke, please tell me what CNN stands for, and walk me through what's funny about your counter-joke about CNN step by step, and how trying to criticize somebody by doing the exact same thing you're criticizing but with a much less funny joke, then continuing to whine about it without posting any other interesting jokes or comments or links, isn't simply humorless hypocrisy, especially since you post about politics a lot yourself?
I'm sorry you're so touchy about the word MAGA! I did't expect anyone here to take such knee-jerk offense, and I'll be glad to offer you a full non-apology apology about how I'm sorry you decided to be so offended, if you can only explain to me why you're so triggered by the mention of the fact MAGA is such a negative word to associate with a project, and what's so funny about your counter-joke about CNN.
Speaking of Cellular Neural Networks, here's a funny but highly technical screencast that I just recorded about cellular automata, which looks a lot like magma, and it's chock full of cheesy math and computer science jokes (the code starts at 0:00, the colorful swirly blinkey magma start at 4:00, and at 10:14 "it’s going to get a little weird..."):
> Wait, you reply was a joke? I don't get it.
The joke was a reference to how much "maga" is in people's head thanks to left-wing outlets like CNN, so much you saw it in the project name.
> Was there an obscure computer science or information theory or networking protocol reference that I missed?
It was a purely political joke, as you shifted the conversation to politics...
> It just sounded like I hurt your feelings by implying that it was bad to name a project only 1 Levenshtein distance measurement away
I'm fine, thanks for your concern! From your replies, it seems like I hurt your feelings. Maybe don't reference politics if you can't handle responses from the other side!
> from such a horribly disreputable deeply disgraced hateful racist conspiracy theory associated four letter curse word as MAGA.
Ah see there it is, that's the sentiment you wanted to suggest with your thinly veiled levenshtein "joke". Maga is not racist, you simply don't agree with it. Not everyone who disagrees with you is a racist. This is also not the place to bring it up. Keep politics out of the purely technical articles please!
> At the risk of spoiling it, please walk me through what's funny about your counter-joke about CNN step by step, and how trying to criticize somebody by doing the exact same thing you're attempting to do with a much less funny joke, then continuing to complain about it without posting any other interesting jokes or comments or links, isn't simply humorless hypocrisy?
The joke is the thing you hate the most is constantly in your head!
> I'm sorry you're so touchy about the word MAGA!
Not at all, I simply made a reply to your political commentary / levenshtein joke, you went off, so now I'm replying.
I do however think it wasn't appropriate for this thread and it distracts from the actual content.
> I did't expect anyone here to take such knee-jerk offense
Again, no offense taken, but you seem to have taken offense from the CNN comment. Sorry for that if so.
> and I'll be glad to offer you a full non-apology apology about how I'm sorry you decided to be so offended
Again, no apology needed. Thank you though!
> if you can only explain to me why you're so triggered by the mention of the fact MAGA is such a negative word to associate with a project
Not "triggered" as I'm not the one who blew up with a wall of text and it's not a negative word.
I support "maga" and if you're a liberal/socialist/marxist for whatever reason that's fine. I made a joke you made a joke. What's the issue? If you don't want to hear politics don't reference politics first.
> and what's so funny about your counter-joke about CNN.
The fact that you hate "maga" so much yet it occupies your mind! Living rent free I believe is the phrase.
To quote your own profile:
When the debate is lost slander becomes the tool of the loser
For somebody who whines so much about political posts, you sure post a lot of batshit crazy argumentative political conspiracy theory stuff, a lot of which gets downvoted and flagged and deadened, and in fact even your own user name is obviously political "HunterB123":
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32967914 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32967906 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32979228 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32967893 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32957238 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32956441 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32959870 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32956409 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32957085 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32882767 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32856118 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32856307 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32803355 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32753543 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32569938 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32387353 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32391032 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32404105 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32363499 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32363559 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32363259 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32357802 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32357787 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32281880 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32241638 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32196612 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32197231 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32198239 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32198912
There are SO MANY more examples, these are just a few of the recent ones.
And this isn't the first time you've hypocritically demanded that other people not to talk about politics, while you do that all the time:
Either way, a joke is not slander, I didn't take your original comment as slander because it was a joke, as was my reply.
But I do think your later replies calling your political opponents racist is slander.
> For somebody who whines so much about political posts, you sure post a lot of batshit crazy political conspiracy theory stuff, a lot of which that gets downvoted and flagged and deadened, in fact even your user name is obviously political:
The difference is I only reference politics in political threads. I don't shift the topic to politics like you did. This is not even a political article!
This is a left leaning site so ofc some of my comments get downvoted, similar to why you blew up. This site can be a bubble and your bubble was burst.
If you want to discuss the politics we can, but simply calling me a conspiracy theorist / racist / bat shit insane etc is slander and not a debate, thus the motto in my profile.
This thread about Couchbase's new storage engine is not really the place though, don't you think?
EDIT: (to reply to your edit)
> And this isn't the first time you've hypocritically demanded that other people not to talk about politics, while you do that all the time:
The post you linked is taken out of context, it was in reference to talking politics / money / religion at work.
> in fact even your own user name is obviously political "HunterB123":
Yeah it's a combination of hunter2 and the hunter laptop scandal. Both terrible opsec! Do you not like technical and political jokes now?
Projection much? You couldn't handle a joke I made after you made a political joke not relevant to the article. Then you keep posting walls of text with name calling.
> then why don't you go through and explain each of your other posts I linked to
You're barely listening to me now. How am I supposed to "explain" my posts exactly? You can read the context and my posts and if you have questions ask them.
> especially your many posts that were downvoted and flagged for violating Hacker News guidelines?
Anyone can downvote or flag a post, it doesn't mean it violated guidelines. Generally it means it was an unpopular opinion (here).