Not at all. In France it’s very common to have roughly the same proportions for the upstroke and downstroke. Both the first and second 1s are perfectly valid and legible and variations come with handwriting. However the downstroke should roughly end at least at the same level as the upstroke’s start.

See this quickly made example, 147 written in French style (above) and English style (below) in my shitty phone handwriting.

As you can see, 1 takes a single stroke and 7 two so we can’t mix them.

I’m in the same boat, looking for waterproof, lightweight, non-sporty/city sneakers with a flat sole. I’ve searched for years and haven’t found anything yet. For now I have tried:

• Regular sneakers. Absolutely not waterproof.
• Leather mid-top sneakers/chukka hybrids. The leather parts and stitching can be made reasonably waterproof using dubbin, unfortunately the tongue is fabric and will soak up water very quickly which will then leak inside the shoes, making the waterproofing useless. Wish I knew this before finding myself on my bike in a thunderstorm.
• “Waterproof sneakers” from Tropicfeel. Maybe waterproof, I can’t wear them because they are way too narrow and extremely painful for my wide feet. Low cut means water can sneak in from the ankles down even with rain overpants.

Not sneakers:

• Good old Timbs. The most waterproof shoes I ever had. Still look like new after 4 rainy winters and regular care. Can’t be worn for extended periods of time due to weight and drop.

Probable next steps:

• Forget style and go with hiking shoes. Lots of reputable brands, from the cheapest Decathlon to the high-end Meindl or Hanwag.
• ON seems reputable enough, but I hate the hyper-sporty looks. Maybe worth a shot if you’re rich enough.
• Find that unicorn that makes sneakers with hiking shoes tech.

Am in tech. Surrounded by tech people. Front devs, back devs, data engineers, data scientists and analysts, IT techs…

They know windows. They know macOS as an “easier alternative for normies”. Some of them even prefer it because it’s “easy”. A few of them even know there’s a terminal somewhere, but wouldn’t git commit from the command line even if their life depended on it.

A lot of them have heard of Linux, in a distant and nebulous way. Most of them still believe that Linux is confined to the server space or a weird dev environment inside WSL because you’re developing for servers, that you can’t daily drive Linux as a desktop, or that you can’t game on Linux. None of them would consider switching even if they spend their day complaining about how shitty windows is.

This is true for about 95% of the tech people I interact with btw. Big tech psyop is real.

Well, webOS is alive and well… It just became the shittiest spy-TV ad-ridden cancer in existence at the hands of LG…