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by eviks9 hours ago |
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upvoteby tolerance8 hours ago|
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    Your aversion appears  
    to be psychological.  
    
    It seems to me like   
    you have trouble examining  
    things by the sum of  
    their parts and  
    semantic line breaks  
    agitate this.
        
    You’re free to  
    the render “misformatted”  
    text in the format that it’s  
    intended to be viewed.

    And I take it that
    physical literature  
    is a burden for you  
    to bear.
    
    My condolences.
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upvoteby necovek3 hours ago|
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I imagine this type of formatting caused you to sneak in a typo or two like "free to the render" — if you had it as a free-flowing sentence, it'd be easier to catch.

The point is that if these formatting snippets are useful for reading, we should extend this to all the readers too. If they are not, we should be mindful not to micro-optimize lest we confuse others and ourselves.

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upvoteby afc1 hours ago|
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I actually I'm somewhat torn on this.

In my blog, I do this in my poems, such as: https://alejo.ch/39l — I don't expect this to be controversial, makes sense for poems, right?

However, I'm also experimenting with rendering my prose with the same type of breaks, like https://alejo.ch/3gb or https://alejo.ch/3g9

My guess, reading this thread, is that most people would tell me that they find the breaks annoying and would rather read my prose without the breaks? Hmm. Would love to hear some feedback.

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upvoteby tolerance12 minutes ago|
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I’m clearly biased. But I enjoyed the format and it's risk like this that make me more likely to read the content where under different circumstance I may not even care about your professional experiences. The smaller font size mitigates any issues due to the line breaks because I can still see all the text.

Although I can get how someone else would feel that the text is too small and if the size was a conscious decision on your part to accommodate the line breaks they would hold you to blame further.

I think you’ve got a nice personal website overall. Even down to the drafts that lead to 404 errors; a nice touch even if unintentional.

Everybody wants personality to return to the Web again until they’ve got to deal with personalities.

You win some, you lose some.

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upvoteby tolerance1 hours ago|
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Welp. You caught me. And I appreciate your point.

I still might batch process all my notes to break at words up to 72 characters anyway! But I’ll be mindful to where safety goggles and proofread before grinding axes in public.

And I’m leaving the typo above in situ so as not to mislead you that I’m less prone to error under normal circumstances. I’m a WIP.

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