I don't understand why people do this. Please just post text.
I think it's easy to see why it happens in this case.
- Presumably, the Twitter user @chiakokhua came across some Chinese text and used DeepL[1] website to translate to English.
- The text is very long (more than 280-char limit of Twitter) and thus it's easier to just screenshot the entire DeepL translation webpage and upload the image. Easy way to bypass the 280-char limit
- he didn't export the DeepL translation and post a link to a HTML webpage of pure text because he probably doesn't have his own website to post it; he's already a Twitter user and has an audience there with ~4000+ followers
tldr: a bunch of little factors contribute to a seemingly insane decision to post screenshots of a translation
Pastebin is a thing.
Isn't the limit still 280 characters?
At some point though someone’s got to understand that the platform is not conducive to sharing longer content. Tweet chains and especially images of text are an accessibility and UX nightmare.
I’m actually getting more annoyed the more I think about it, because I understand why.. but it’s just so wasteful.
And if so, is there still some way I can read the content?
[0] https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1288402693770231809.html
> Friends, at the request of the original author, I have deleted the thread entitled "What's going on with Intel?" He was not comfortable with the attention it is getting.
The point about Intel having many units waiting for 14nm capacity to be gradually released to them from CPU/Server business is good one. All those 14nm fabs should be used for other things already.
A lot of them have finished designs only to have them delayed due to the process they targeted being either not ready, or having no spare capacity.
Many of the products have been delayed so much that they get cancelled. It doesn't make sense to release them anymore as newer designs are ready to take their spot on the queue waiting for capacity.
Part 1:
https://twitter.com/chiakokhua/status/1288911541207613440/ph...
Part 2:
https://twitter.com/chiakokhua/status/1288402697536720897/ph...
Part 2.5 (a commentary by the author):
https://twitter.com/chiakokhua/status/1289816670626709506/ph...
Part 3:
https://twitter.com/chiakokhua/status/1291687789260451847/ph...
Part 4:
https://twitter.com/chiakokhua/status/1293444174851653632/ph...
This appears to be thr original (non-english) author:
BTW if anyone wanna watch the video linked from #4, here’s the link, took me couple of attempts due to uppercase i versus lowercase L: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsLpQnIJviE
I wish there was a part 5 discussing why he left. I've seen lots of speculation but no good inside information.
I've read rumors along the lines of illness, some say him, others say a close relative of his. Even so, these rumors are not really very interesting. I think "illness" crossed the mind of everyone who read the sudden and unexpected announcement of him leaving "for personal reasons".
