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zwapsyesterday at 7:17 AM8 repliesview on HN

Coining the term: Slopfold

When you Robot folds your clothes but it's kinda wrinkly and sloppy but you accept it anyway because it's easier than precisely folded and pressed clothes.


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broodbucketyesterday at 7:19 AM

I have been slopfolding since before it was cool

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rkuodysyesterday at 7:40 AM

Isn't that the story of <any> technology? When the coffee machines first came to be, Barista was definitely a better option. However, through the evolution, in many cases today machine does better job than barista.

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____mr____yesterday at 7:49 AM

saw the way it folded the clothes and thought "better than me" :/

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jhanschooyesterday at 8:25 AM

Folding clothes is already a compromise between leaving them unfolded and hanging them

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squidbeakyesterday at 8:04 AM

I suspect you might be jumbling up your smalls with your origami.

threethirtytwoyesterday at 7:55 AM

When AI is a the forefront of scientific breakthroughs and all human endeavor is painfully minuscule compared to AI, we'll still be calling it slop as we all hypocritically generate more and more slop.

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aaron695yesterday at 7:49 AM

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spiderfarmeryesterday at 7:46 AM

How privileged was your upbringing?

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