What a horrible over engineered UI. Texts were illegible when behind a white background and constantly shifting image perspective. No proper way to zoom in on the image and anchoring everything on the scrollbar was the cherry on cake.
800 Years of English Handwriting
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#22What a horrible over engineered UI. Texts were illegible when behind a white background and constantly shifting image perspective. No proper way to zoom in on the image and anchoring everything on the scrollbar was the cherry on cake.
yeah, its an absolute monstrosity of a site. Many of the images didnt even load for me.
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#23What a horrible over engineered UI. Texts were illegible when behind a white background and constantly shifting image perspective. No proper way to zoom in on the image and anchoring everything on the scrollbar was the cherry on cake.
yeah, its an absolute monstrosity of a site. Many of the images didnt even load for me.
Brave in iOS and yeah. Pinch to zoom better on images sucked, the auto zoom effect cut off the part it was trying to highlight on my smaller phone, and various other jumpy problems
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#24Here is an old book written in Latin letters from 1526: https://runeberg.org/nt1526/0009.html
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#25What a horrible over engineered UI. Texts were illegible when behind a white background and constantly shifting image perspective. No proper way to zoom in on the image and anchoring everything on the scrollbar was the cherry on cake.
> Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting.
bike shedding web design comment is always on my HN bingo card
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#26Seeing the mention of Round Hand reminded me of Gilbert & Sullivan’s description in H.M.S. Pinafore of the importance of handwriting if, like Sir Joseph Porter K.C.B., you want to rise to the top of the tree: As office boy I made such a mark That they gave me the post of a junior clerk. I served the writs with a smile so bland, And I copied all the letters in a big round hand— I copied all the letters in a hand so fr…
The satire here is clear, that naval skill isn't necessary to run the navy but rather skill in some trivial and unrelated clerical task (along with political connections) The problem comes then when people see this, don't recognize it as corruption, and waste their time learning useless skills. In a large org productivity losses from this are non trivial.
I read a very serious article about how the path to promotion in today's US Armed Forces is skill in Powerpoint, ubiquitously used for daily reports up the chain.
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#27> The handwriting in the early 1100s is known as Carolingian Miniscule. It was easy to write, very legible and ideal for writing Latin. It was not very legible. Its legibility is weak due to aspects such as: * Non decomposability into rectangles bounding letters * Variation in letter forms depending on preceding and succeeding letters * "extended serifs" or edges of letters which may vary at the author's pleasure. *…
I interpret that sentence to mean "when compared to predecessors".
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#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
The satire here is clear, that naval skill isn't necessary to run the navy but rather skill in some trivial and unrelated clerical task (along with political connections) The problem comes then when people see this, don't recognize it as corruption, and waste their time learning useless skills. In a large org productivity losses from this are non trivial.
I read a very serious article about how the path to promotion in today's US Armed Forces is skill in Powerpoint, ubiquitously used for daily reports up the chain.
The us has been enough 'i can't believe it isn't a wars' lately that competence has some bearing, though powerpoint likely is valued too much.
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#29What a horrible over engineered UI. Texts were illegible when behind a white background and constantly shifting image perspective. No proper way to zoom in on the image and anchoring everything on the scrollbar was the cherry on cake.
> Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting. bike shedding web design comment is always on my HN bingo card
In this case it very directly relates to the content's focus and is hardly tangential.
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
The satire here is clear, that naval skill isn't necessary to run the navy but rather skill in some trivial and unrelated clerical task (along with political connections) The problem comes then when people see this, don't recognize it as corruption, and waste their time learning useless skills. In a large org productivity losses from this are non trivial.
I read a very serious article about how the path to promotion in today's US Armed Forces is skill in Powerpoint, ubiquitously used for daily reports up the chain.
As a retired officer, this is at best tangentially true for warfighting roles. The more senior you get, the more you end up in staff and headquarters roles where plans and reporting become more of your role than direct operations.
But to get there you have to compete and succeed in a stack-ranked promotion system where your tactical and operational skills are what set you apart.