Lead Poisoning and Rome
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Lead Poisoning and Rome
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Re: Lead Poisoning and Rome
#2Too much text. Too large paragraphs. Writers, please think about your audience.
It’s the same as requiring 2Gb of ram for an app, just so you can deliver faster. It’s lazy, it’s impolite, it’s arrogant
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#3Too much text. Too large paragraphs. Writers, please think about your audience. It’s the same as requiring 2Gb of ram for an app, just so you can deliver faster. It’s lazy, it’s impolite, it’s arrogant
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#4Too much text. Too large paragraphs. Writers, please think about your audience. It’s the same as requiring 2Gb of ram for an app, just so you can deliver faster. It’s lazy, it’s impolite, it’s arrogant
The reason I'm here and not in twitter is precisely because I don't want to be fed _everything_ in shallow bursts of content.
Yes, engaging the audience is important, but we've come to a point where people can't keep their attention for more than 1 minute and it's becoming deeply worrying.
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#5Too much text. Too large paragraphs. Writers, please think about your audience. It’s the same as requiring 2Gb of ram for an app, just so you can deliver faster. It’s lazy, it’s impolite, it’s arrogant
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a hundred times this, especially on sites like this with window width text
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#6Great read.
One of the bits I found quite funny:
>Horace cautions that those who revere the three Graces should mix no more than one part of wine with three of water—but for the poet who celebrates the nine Muses, the ratio should be inverted.
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#7This seems like a good example of why scientists need to learn from the humanities when they apply their theories to history. There's lots about the physiology of lead poisoning and the chemistry of lead pipes, but also lots of references to Latin literature to show how people lived and what they did or didn't know.
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#8Too much text. Too large paragraphs. Writers, please think about your audience. It’s the same as requiring 2Gb of ram for an app, just so you can deliver faster. It’s lazy, it’s impolite, it’s arrogant
As someone who layouted more than one printed book: this is a pretty normal paragraph size for printed books. Even a bit short maybe (e.g. compared to novels).
What books do you read?
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#9Too much text. Too large paragraphs. Writers, please think about your audience. It’s the same as requiring 2Gb of ram for an app, just so you can deliver faster. It’s lazy, it’s impolite, it’s arrogant
As someone who layouted more than one printed book: this is a pretty normal paragraph size for printed books. Even a bit short maybe (e.g. compared to novels). What books do you read?
Literally no book I hare read had lines as long as this one tho. They also dont use red text color on orange background with additional dark orange letters on it.
My point here is that this particular text presentation is really quite bad.
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#10Too much text. Too large paragraphs. Writers, please think about your audience. It’s the same as requiring 2Gb of ram for an app, just so you can deliver faster. It’s lazy, it’s impolite, it’s arrogant
The audience is an interested one, capable of reading at or above college level. The paragraphs are coherent and well structured. Not everything is a pop science article written for middle school level readers.