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Wow. Beautiful piece of art, but I am not going to read it. For someone who has, is the length of the article proportional to the gained knowledge, or could tha

Wow. Beautiful piece of art, but I am not going to read it. For someone who has, is the length of the article proportional to the gained knowledge, or could that be expressed much more succinct?

macrael 4y ago
I've loved every article he's done so far. He only publishes about once a quarter and usually his articles are ~2 hours long. I've yet to be unimpressed.
aoeusnth1 4y ago
If you don’t have time to read it, why do you have time to comment on it?
maximinus_thrax 4y ago
> is the length of the article proportional to the gained knowledge It is. But I'm going to go against the grain here and say that timewise it's not worth it (I'm biased as I already knew most of the things I saw in the article while skimming it). I would just watch the Veritasium video and move on with my life. Or go down a wikipedia rabbit hole starting at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicycle_and_motorcycle_geometry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicycle_and_motorcycle_geometr.... I appreciate the author's work, but this type of content is not for me. I suspect it's also not for the other self-proclaimed 'nerds' in the comment section, I think people just appreciate the work put into it and the fact that it's not following the style of shallow short SEO driven content you frequently find online. I'm skeptical that even 50% of the people in this comment section actually read all of it.
- stefncb 4y ago
  N=1, but I read the ones I'm interested in top to bottom. I didn't read this one specifically, but I finished the ones about lenses and mechanical watches in one sitting. If it's about something that's really interesting to me, his work is absolutely fantastic. If it's not, I'll still take a peek because I like playing with the animations.
  - maximinus_thrax 4y ago
    Is your name Ștefan?
    - stefncb 4y ago
      That was extremely creepy until I remembered my username hah. Yeah that's my name.
      - maximinus_thrax 4y ago
        Hai noroc și numai bine!
        stefncb 4y ago
        Noroc!

Wow. Beautiful piece of art, but I am not going to read it. For someone who has, is the length of the article proportional to the gained knowledge, or could that be expressed much more succinct?

macrael 4y ago

I've loved every article he's done so far. He only publishes about once a quarter and usually his articles are ~2 hours long. I've yet to be unimpressed.

aoeusnth1 4y ago

If you don’t have time to read it, why do you have time to comment on it?

maximinus_thrax 4y ago

> is the length of the article proportional to the gained knowledge It is. But I'm going to go against the grain here and say that timewise it's not worth it (I'm biased as I already knew most of the things I saw in the article while skimming it). I would just watch the Veritasium video and move on with my life. Or go down a wikipedia rabbit hole starting at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicycle_and_motorcycle_geometry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicycle_and_motorcycle_geometr.... I appreciate the author's work, but this type of content is not for me. I suspect it's also not for the other self-proclaimed 'nerds' in the comment section, I think people just appreciate the work put into it and the fact that it's not following the style of shallow short SEO driven content you frequently find online. I'm skeptical that even 50% of the people in this comment section actually read all of it.

stefncb 4y ago
N=1, but I read the ones I'm interested in top to bottom. I didn't read this one specifically, but I finished the ones about lenses and mechanical watches in one sitting. If it's about something that's really interesting to me, his work is absolutely fantastic. If it's not, I'll still take a peek because I like playing with the animations.
- maximinus_thrax 4y ago
  Is your name Ștefan?
  - stefncb 4y ago
    That was extremely creepy until I remembered my username hah. Yeah that's my name.
    - maximinus_thrax 4y ago
      Hai noroc și numai bine!
      - stefncb 4y ago
        Noroc!