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Do I win anything for noting, in a video about hyper-detail orientation, that, when the text on screen says "Is this the most beautiful ____", the voice-over says "This is the most beautiful ____"?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y65FRxE7uMc&t=9m07s

(I'm not sure if it's also an error, or part of the joke, or if it just parses in a way that I can't accomplish on my own, that the text before the video reads "Way three (recommended) is to sit back and bathe in the 4k, 60Hz flashing lights that are Badness 0 (Apostrophe‛s version) is the newest installment in the Main Sequence:".)

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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 website URL.

> 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.

In 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.

And the apostrophe is a single left quote.

The 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.

I read the Epsom's Version PDF before the video was released, and the typesetting was absolutely terrible.

https://imgur.com/a/wjK5br5

After the opening on how he's bothered by minor errors, I thought it had to be part of a joke, and it was a setup for a punchline to be revealed later in the paper. But eventually I realized, no, the PDF must not being displayed the way it was intended. I was reading it in Evince at first, but muPDF gave much better output.

He does mention in the text above the video:

> Be warned that due to "BUG", these seem only to display properly in Chrome. I am working on fixing "BUG" once I get some sleep; I have some leads due to helpful people on the blog.

That's how Android Firefox mangles PDF also.

It's bizarre to me that different applications display PDFs differently. Isn't one of the primary purposes of PDF to have a consistent typesetting?

PDF is a huge standard and the canonical implementation isn't open source. Still an improvement on postscript by not being as easily turing complete.

The paper has the fifth occurrence of “Wikipedia” in lower case, which greatly irritated me in the Knuth version.

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