6 ms·
Interesting breakdown. But this format is horrible for conveying information. An improvement would be removing the slides, crafting some coherent paragraphs and
by ryangs 3y ago
Interesting breakdown. But this format is horrible for conveying information. An improvement would be removing the slides, crafting some coherent paragraphs and then reinserting some of the more crucial images for support.
- FL410 3y agoI thought it was a very fun, stream-of-consciousness kind of read.
- phantom784 3y agoWatching the actual talk is much better: https://ripe86.ripe.net/archives/video/1126/ https://ripe86.ripe.net/archives/video/1126/
- nayuki 3y agoThe linked PDF has clear page delineations, unlike the HTML page: https://ripe86.ripe.net/presentations/134-2023-04-whence-time.pdf https://ripe86.ripe.net/presentations/134-2023-04-whence-tim...
- m348e912 3y agoI have never seen this format before but it does mirror what going down a rabbit hole of a particular topic looks like for the average curious person. I liked it.
- johnnyanmac 3y agoI simply assume any "slides" format comes from porting over a live talk. Lazy, yes. Efficient, yes.
- hbn 3y agoI was mostly confused about the images being above the line of text you're supposed to read before looking at the image. "Here's a picture of an NTP packet" picture of a man sitting at a desk
- zoky 3y agoI mean, put a little gnome hat on him and I’d believe it…
- fanf2 3y agoWhen I gave the talk, I showed the slide before I talked about it. It’s normal to show the speaker notes below the slides in software like Keynote or Powerpoint.
- dclowd9901 3y agoI can tell the talk would have been really enjoyable but I agree this format is just lazy for conveying that information.
- OJFord 3y agoThat might be clearer if the header was just 'slides and notes from my talk', instead you actually claimed the opposite, that it's a 'blogified version', but it's not really - I tripped up on the same thing, and then got through several 'duplicate images', 'oh no very slightly different images', before it finally dawned on me that they were slides.
- fanf2 3y agoI’ve clarified the introductory paragraph and added lines between each slide. Should be a bit easier to read now.
- SilasX 3y agoAnd when I shift a work to a new medium, I also shift over the conventions used to match that new medium -- and audience. It's an empathy thing.
- pests 3y agoYou should be lucky someone produced free content for you to consume. The sense of entitlement to accuse someone of lacking empathy because they didn't present it in your preferred format is literally crazy to me.
- chankstein38 3y agoEspecially because half of the text just repeats what's on the slides and ultimately I didn't see an easy way to make the slides bigger. Like the NTP packet format slide was mostly unreadable.
- deleted 3y ago[deleted]
- svat 3y agoAfter someone gives a talk in person, some of the things they can do online: 1. Mention that they gave a talk 2. Post a video recording online 3. Post the slides online, as-is (PDF or whatever) with no explanation 4. Lay out the slides on a HTML page, with accompanying text (what would have been said by the speaker), so that it's easier to read — while still being clear you're “reading” a talk. 5. Redo/rewrite the whole thing into text form, paragraphs and all. The author here has done 1 to 4, and you're complaining they've not also done 5, but that's a lot of work and I don't begrudge someone not doing that. I'll be grateful someone presented their talk in a readable form in the first place. [I do agree this page was hard to read, at least on mobile and at least in its initial version—it's much better now—but I've seen many others post these "annotated talks" online and the format itself is not necessarily bad: for instance see https://idlewords.com/talks/ https://idlewords.com/talks/ (example: https://idlewords.com/talks/superintelligence.htm https://idlewords.com/talks/superintelligence.htm) or https://noidea.dog/talks https://noidea.dog/talks (example: https://noidea.dog/impostor https://noidea.dog/impostor) or https://simonwillison.net/tags/annotatedtalks/ https://simonwillison.net/tags/annotatedtalks/ (example: https://simonwillison.net/2022/Nov/26/productivity/ https://simonwillison.net/2022/Nov/26/productivity/) — maybe just some minor tweaks to CSS like putting the text to the right of the images would make it easier to read.]