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There are quite a few errors in the presentation that seem intended to annoy detail-oriented people. One that stood out to me was the use of backslashes in his
by idle_zealot 2y ago
There are quite a few errors in the presentation that seem intended to annoy detail-oriented people. One that stood out to me was the use of backslashes in his website URL.
- JadeNB 2y ago> There are quite a few errors in the presentation that seem intended to annoy detail-oriented people. One that stood out to me was the use of backslashes in his website URL. Yeah, some of those (like the backslashes) were clearly intentional. It didn't look to me like the "Is this" / "This is" was, but I guess anything can be put down to being part of the joke.
- lupire 2y agoIn the paper, at citation [2] where he talks about mal-formatted URLs and fixing punctuation on Wikipedia, the footnote citation is a broken (and line-broken) link to the Wikipedia page. Also, there is a [1] in the footnotes but not in the main body.
- teo_zero 2y agoAnd the apostrophe is a single left quote.
- kybernetikos 2y agoThe pdf had absolutely horrible keming (long words were visibly broken into their component parts) on my mobile reader which I thought was a deliberate part of the joke until I opened it on desktop and it looked fine. I assume it was perhaps substituting a different font or something.