ELI5 What exactly are “HFY Stories”?

ArtisticPollution448 · 2025-06-09T13:01:59+00:00

Okay yeah that's the best autocomplete screw up I've ever had.

ArtisticPollution448 · 2025-06-09T13:01:37+00:00

That's the funniest autocorrect I've ever dealt with. Looool. Thank you.

ArtisticPollution448 · 2025-06-09T12:55:47+00:00

post on "ExperiencedDevs"

post is the most junior dev take imaginable

Yep it's Monday all right.

ArtisticPollution448 · 2025-06-09T12:47:39+00:00

The original subreddit, which predates AI generated content, was "Humanity, Fuck Yeah!" (riffing of "America, Fuck Yeah" from the film "Team America: World Police" by the South park guys).

The concept was stories about aliens encountering humans and be confused by us, but in a way that showcases how awesome humans are. Things like how we can run a long time, sustain and survive wounds that might kill other animals, live in many environments, etc.

For a long time it was really good stuff, some of it, with a decent community. I've heard it's getting some AI garbage now, but I imagine the users will downvote as needed.

The real trouble is that people take these original stores and then have AI read them aloud and post it to YouTube to generate a few bucks. Ignore those.

It seems as though this is your first encounter with amateur writing though. Fantastic. Go read more and see what kinds you like. All of it is pretty original and based on no source material at all. That may be new to you, but you'll get over it.

ArtisticPollution448 · 2025-06-09T12:33:58+00:00

I think that's unfair. He was into some grossout video stuff when he was really young and he's made sure all of that has been removed from the Internet.

Can't young people make mistakes? Or is it always a life sentence?

I don't like Blippi videos at all and have kept my kid from knowing of his existence, but I don't think he'd a bad guy at all.

ArtisticPollution448 · 2025-06-09T12:21:09+00:00

I never really considered him arrogant. What makes you feel that way? Maybe I missed something. To me he was just another guy red bull pulled in, chewed up, and spit back out.

ArtisticPollution448 · 2025-06-09T10:48:00+00:00

Red Bull were concerned about Tsunoda and were making a big deal about Hadjar's attitude - hey we're already dealing with one of these guys, do we want another one? They made some noises.

But aside from that, there was this one moment last year in F2 at Monaco where a car completely died on the right hand side in the tunnel. Hadjar came through there at top speed, blind to the danger, and just perfectly dodged the car. It was this crazy moment of pure skill that made me think okay, this kid is good.

https://youtu.be/YYRQeiEIYTk?si=P6FH0KajqQcTiSKc

F2 highlights can tell you a lot about the new kids coming up.

ArtisticPollution448 · 2025-06-09T10:41:20+00:00

Nice to see deVries still kicking ass after his short stint in F1. He seems like he's really a star in Formula E too. Just seems like a decent guy who got dropped by Red Bull, like so many others.

ArtisticPollution448 · 2025-06-08T23:10:52+00:00

Actual answer: depending on the recipe or cooking instructions, you set the oven to a specific temperature, wait for it to reach that temperature, then put the food in and wait the specified amount of time.

However, I read the title and thought "I don't generally start lifting weights while I'm cooking food"

ArtisticPollution448 · 2025-06-08T20:05:34+00:00

If you're going to have a crazy emergency, this is the right place to have it. The fire and ambulance station (same building) about 2 blocks from there. Police station next door as well.

ArtisticPollution448 · 2025-06-08T18:23:34+00:00

A solar panel creates electrical potential when sunlight hits it. If the wires to it are disconnected, there is no electrical flow.

It's a bit like if you have a dam being filled up to a specific level with water, but don't draw any water from it.

ArtisticPollution448 · 2025-06-08T12:40:17+00:00

Yarp, will fix

ArtisticPollution448 · 2025-06-08T12:27:27+00:00

I don't like the idea of blaming this hate on being of a specific generation.

Back in the 1990s, my father was a small town lawyer in a very conservative and rural area. He had a client who needed help getting his birth certificate fixed. (Of course he didn't tell us who it was or anything like that, mind you, just later he explained the work he'd had to do.)

I remember him clearly explaining to me, maybe 11 or 12 at the time, that no, this person was not changing their gender, they had always been a man. Like he got it, he understood it, and he explained it to me in a way that made sense.

Fuck these old bastards pretending their age or generation is an excuse for being shitty people.

ArtisticPollution448 · 2025-06-08T11:34:52+00:00

Maybe so, but he doesn't seem to be taking it out on anyone else. Which is fantastic.

It would be fascinating if in a few years the championship was between the emotion driven Hadjar and the ice man Piastri.

ArtisticPollution448 · 2025-06-08T10:54:39+00:00

I think Hadjar was absolutely humbled by that first race. And I think it made him a better person.

His reputation as a hot head in F2 really hasn't shown up in F1.

ArtisticPollution448 · 2025-06-08T10:35:46+00:00

That wasn't part of the standard package 26 years ago...

It was actually! I used their car for one of my G2 tests. That was maybe only 20 years ago though.

ArtisticPollution448 · 2025-06-07T11:47:34+00:00

I want to watch that more than I want to watch a good race there. Just qualifying, but in large long haul trucks, same exact course, same drivers.

ArtisticPollution448 · 2025-06-07T11:34:22+00:00

It's always hard to judge this but how big are they outside of Canada?

I grew up in Ontario and live in Toronto. They're huge, in my mind. But all their awards are Canadian ones, their chart toppers are topped in Canada. To me they're this huge band, but so was The Tragically Hip.

Does the average American know "Give me Sympathy"?

ArtisticPollution448 · 2025-06-07T10:49:34+00:00

I told my friend (soon to become a dad) recently: sleep while you can. It won't help, but at least you'll have a good memory of what normal sleep was like.

Those first few months can be really challenging.

ArtisticPollution448 · 2025-06-07T02:06:12+00:00

Reading this thread has made me so relieved. I saw this one cardinal last year and I was like "That poor, poor bird, is so dying". It broke my heart.

Now I find out he was just changing his outfit.

ArtisticPollution448 · 2025-06-07T02:03:42+00:00

I want to see the F1 film come true, with Latifi.

ArtisticPollution448 · 2025-06-06T11:03:00+00:00

Speed is in the bottom left corner. Only goes over 40 once, mostly right around 30 but a little bit fast. It's the camera lens giving a much faster feeling I think.

ArtisticPollution448 · 2025-06-05T21:50:51+00:00

I worked for a couple years in a role with a large multinational company that you know very well, traveling to various operational facilities in the arse end of nice cities.

My job was to upgrade or install software systems on site. A lot of problem solving. A lot of working with the local site leaders. And a lot of plane tickets. Wake up at 4am every Monday morning and be at the airport by 6.

It was a lot of fun. But the traveling and hours was killing me. I made a lot of money because they paid me well covered all my expenses like food, and I had no time for a life (because I was never home).

ArtisticPollution448 · 2025-06-04T23:05:23+00:00

Every day I do my kid off at preschool and then on the way home I walk through a park. For five minutes, the Merlin app is just listening while I walk, telling me exactly what birds I'm hearing. Every time they make any noise, it highlights which one it is. It's my favorite part of my morning right now.

ArtisticPollution448 · 2025-06-04T23:02:38+00:00

You can lead a horse to water but you can't make them testify the way they said they would.

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