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It seems to wrap correctly in landscape mode.
Newspapers figured out wide text lines are awful for reading some 100 years ago. We're still waiting for web designers to catch up...
This is a totally context-dependent decision.
could probably do view LoRA at some reasonable level likely also applications for time-series prediction, ARC-like or other puzzle solving, etc. especially if got into fixed height along with fixed width, terminal readable --more-- with good pagination paragraph separation, etc.
QWEN-40-char-terminal DiffusionGemma-80-char etc.
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Ah, but I use a normal proportional font in my editor so same and diff have different widths. That was the fun comment. The serious ones: 1. I'm trading the ability to align statements on consecutive lines for a more pleasant reading experience. 2. Nobody ever complained that my source code is a = 1 ab = 2 abc = 3 instead of a = 1 ab = 2 abc = 3 3. No tables or diagrams in comments of course but I think that I could…
I'm glad to hear I'm not the only one - I loved using proportional fonts. I find my ability to scan words is much faster than with monospaced, and I navigate semantically and prefer automated refactors so that I never really felt the need for multi-cursor editing or aligned blocks. All that came to an end when I worked on a project using F#. It just doesn't work with meaningful whitespace. In the current world, with…
I never had problems with Ruby, Python, JS, Elixir, Perl and probably other languages I used a little in the last 15 years or more. HTML and CSS too.
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Newspapers figured out wide text lines are awful for reading some 100 years ago. We're still waiting for web designers to catch up...
Why are novels laid out the way they are? It's almost as though its not as simple as "bad for reading" but rather a feature of the content. imo it highly depends on the medium. If your content is packed with distracting ads, flashing banners, other unrelated text from other stories, then its helpful to make the columns narrow to help you scan. If you have a more focused experience around one passage of text, wider te…
When we published a print magazine we optimized heavily to save 1% on printing costs. 25% would have been suicide. And indie magazine buyers are traditionally a lot more price flexible than mainstream book buyers.
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Narrow columns leave more room for ads. Ads that aren't even slightly aligned with products you're interested in.
Now explain dictionaries.
Especially for the definitions that are very short, for example when they only reference a more preferred spelling or a more prominent word that has the exact meaning.