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Drives me nuts that the capital "I" looks the same as lower case "L". What happened to the top and bottom line on the "I"?
Wait till you find out about keming.
Nothing happened to it. It's there in some fonts, and not in others.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serif
This is why I force OpenDyslexic on every website. I can't stand I's looking like l's, 0's looking like O's, etc. Also because I'm dyslexic.
Oh wow. That font has a lot of personality. Looks too much like everything is a 1960s concert poster to me. Braille institute Atkinson font is a less extreme alternative. I like Source Sans 3.
I can also recommend Lexend.
Yeah at first it looks hideous, but also every letter is extremely distinct from each other, so reading actually becomes easy for me. Of all things, comic sans is also a very good font for dyslexics. I'd rather have something ugly that is legible.
So I've been wondering about this, does this kind of font make reading easier immediately for you, or does it take a bit until you've gotten used to and, idk, learned the shapes of the individual letters, after which it's then faster?
It was pretty immediate. I was like man this is ugly, but when I actually tried it, straight away I noticed it was extremely easier and faster to read and I made much less mistakes. Like normally I misread words and letters and numbers a lot and reread the same line over and over and words just look like identical blocky shapes. A lot of the time I actually just guess what word something is based on length and context, which kind of works but not really. But with that font I can read normally.
I only even realised I might have it and got it investigated when I accidentally changed the font to OpenDyslexic in Kindle because it was just there, and then I'm like, ok wow I didn't even notice how hard it was before 😂
of my collection of neurodivergencies, dyslexia is not one of them, but I will use opendyslexic when reading ebooks.
Funny, I’ve never mistook “look” for “l00k” or “book” for “b00k”
0h, you must be the exception then
But to get to the point, some dudes created Helvetica, which was adapted later, like Judaism to Christianity, to create Arial.
Explanation
The reason being, Helvetica was made in the 1950s as exclusive for IBM and Microsoft didn't want to pay for it, so they had their own exclusive made in the 1980s, a legally distinct but practically identical version.This is the category called Sans-Serif
Explanation
The name means 'without serifs', which are 'extra' identifiable pieces on the characters on the bottom like flicks on a and l or the feet on the i, I and 1Popular serif styles from multiple sources exist ::: spoiler such as: From Apple:
From Google:
From Microsoft:
Open source:
Alright please forgive me for this one transgression of using Gemini, but this is one statistical likelihood that feels creepy
Your transgression is completely unforgiven
AI has evolved to the point where the first task is to manage the emotions of the human. And then hallucinate a proper sounding response.
I hate the way A.I. condescendingly talks down to me like I'm on the verge of hysterics, and then butters me up to try and make me feel good. It's so manipulative and gross and practically negging + love bombing. I try to avoid interacting with them if possible.
you can literally change how it talks to you in the settings...
In my experience that just changes the "flavour of badness" rather than making it actually good. For example, if I made it "direct", it would incessantly nitpick everything I say and tell me I'm wrong and stupid constantly, even when I'm absolutely correct. It would just make up fake facts to prove me wrong. So basically Reddit argument confidently incorrect mode. I'm not surprised people get psychosis from those things, it's probably about as good for your mental health as interacting with narcissists.
im not downvoting you
but this is just stupid, there’s literally a billion people who use it daily
claude has none of this nonsense you speak of
I remove my own upvote from my comments because I like things starting at 0.
Also, billions eat fast food every day, doesn't make it good for you. I've tried all the A.I., because I believe in order to hate something, you must understand it first. Claude kept trying to do everything for me, even when I didn't want it to. As a hypothetical example, if I asked it to explain a math problem without giving me the answer, it would give me the answer anyway. I don't want something to help me that much, I like doing things mostly myself, with some assistance if needed. It causes damage to your skills, independence, and sense of value and worth in your work, if something is just like, "hey let me just quickly trivialise your entire idea and do it for you".
From my experience every single A.I. is toxic or weird or subtly damaging to interact with, without exception. There's just something unnatural about the way it communicates.
I won't blame anyone for using it, that's their own choice. But I really try not to for my own health.
That's funny I do the same thing but have different results to you
That issue with ai giving the answer away was still a feature in the local models but in the last 6 months with Qwen and Gemma being released is way better
I would ask things like 'Give me a french word to practice and don't tell me the translation' and it would say:
Try translating Bonjour! (Hello)
And I would have to clarify and then it would forget it was the pits but this has stopped happening with later local models like Qwen and Gemma
Maybe give Claude another go, Sonnet 5 just came out and be strict with your question: say tell me how to answer this problem but you MUST NOT tell me the answer, you can use other examples but not this one, etc
and see how you go
have you used claude?
What did this query accomplish, exactly?
I got to learn why the font style has those flaws, a few fonts that do and don't have the same flaws and, ultimately, I got to use the information I learned to submit an informational comment beside the one we're under