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Why is the text in a picture typewriter style? Is he trying to project formality?. Odd person
by mola 2y ago
Why is the text in a picture typewriter style? Is he trying to project formality?.
Odd person
- phatfish 2y agoI thought the coveted "blue check" allowed long Tweets? Even less reason to post an image of text.
- deleted 2y ago[deleted]
- z7 2y agoIs he perhaps implying something nefarious about a typewriter? Maybe his typewriter disappeared and he's suspecting Sam Altman? Very suspicious.
- mattigames 2y agoYou have said the actual truth
- dlivingston 2y agoIt's a monospaced font and he's a computer programmer. Probably a screenshot from emacs or whatever text editor he uses. Not that weird.
- Arainach 2y agoI expect my aging parents who were working full time before personal computers existed to know how to copy and paste text instead of taking a picture of a screen, and my bar for managing a technology incubator/fund is higher than that.
- reportgunner 2y agoPerhaps it was intentional to make it not copy pastable as text.
- fnordpiglet 2y agoThat’s what I came to ask. Why is it a picture at all? A screen shot of text rather than the actual text? If it’s posted from his own account why post a screen shot of something he wrote? That frankly makes it less authentic and more weird. The font itself is weird. It’s not a programming monospaced font it’s a typewriter font which has weird kerning and other aspects that make it both noticeable and less useful than a console font. What an end to end bizarre post.
- ksherlock 2y agoThat's just courier, which was originally developed by IBM in the 1950s for their typewriters, but is perfectly fine as a programming font. Heck, you can find it in use as a programming font (in books, reports, papers, etc) probably going back to the 1950, so it's been a "programming font" for nearly 70 years.
- fnordpiglet 2y agoI’m not saying people didn’t use this font for a terminal but it’s not a font designed for terminals it’s designed to optimize the strike of a typewriter. Using it on a modern terminal is anachronistic at best, but using it to provide the content of a tweet in an image is bizarre.