Re:After my dad died, we found the love letters
by stavros on Sunday November 23, 2025 @06:06AM
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Right, but if this piece was clearly optimising for something other than efficiency of transmitted information, and that's why it was good.
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Re:After my dad died, we found the love letters
by inglor_cz on Sunday November 23, 2025 @06:08AM
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I feel that this piece was trying to convey some quite profound emotions, and quite successfully so, but the insistence on non-capitalization was just getting in the way of this main effort.
Re:After my dad died, we found the love letters
by stavros on Sunday November 23, 2025 @06:15AM
(#46022595)
I don't know, personally I enjoyed the general aesthetic the choice created.
Re:After my dad died, we found the love letters
by TRiG_Ireland on Sunday November 23, 2025 @07:35AM
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I'm now feeling slightly odd that I read all three posts without even noticing the capitalisation.
Re:After my dad died, we found the love letters
by inglor_cz on Sunday November 23, 2025 @07:54AM
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I envy you. For me, it felt like dragging something a bit heavy across an uneven floor. Doable, but unpleasant.
Re:After my dad died, we found the love letters
by inglor_cz on Sunday November 23, 2025 @06:18AM
(#46022619)
Your head might be more efficient than mine in processing text. For me, it felt like a somewhat complicated chore.
Re:After my dad died, we found the love letters
by gritten on Sunday November 23, 2025 @08:19AM
(#46023336)
No you didn't.
Re:After my dad died, we found the love letters
by stavros on Sunday November 23, 2025 @08:29AM
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Aw man, really? I thought I did, that sucks.
Re:After my dad died, we found the love letters
by machomaster on Sunday November 23, 2025 @09:29AM
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We don't know what the author tried to optimize. Maybe it was for the number of times the Shift key was pressed. Maybe it was for the author's convenience.
What we know is that the author did NOT optimize for: - efficiency of transmitted information - readers' convenience - ease of reading
And this is the exact reason why it was so bad.