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mjoin··on Breaking Paragraphs into Lines [pdf] (1981)
also more recently https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3704268.3742696

"Paragraph justification is based primarily on shrinking or stretching the interword blanks. While the blanks on a line are all scaled by the same amout, the amount in question varies from line to line. The quality of a paragraph's typographic color largely depends on the aforementioned variation being as small as possible. Yet, TEX'S paragraph justification algorithm addresses this problem in a rather coarse fashion. In this paper, we propose a refinement to the algorithm allowing to improve the situation without disturbing the general behavior of the algorithm too much, and without the need for manual intervention. We analyze the impact of our refinement on a large number of experiments through several statistical estimators. We also exhibit a number of typographical traits relatedto whitespace distribution that we believe may contribute to our perception of homogeneousness."

mjoin··on Observable Notebooks Data Loaders
what? this runs on all platforms
mjoin··on ADHD drug treatment and risk of negative events and outcomes
Thanks
mjoin··on OBBB signed: Reinstates immediate expensing for U.S.-based R&D
That's nuts
mjoin··on Show HN: Libredesk – Open-source customer support desk. Single binary app
Not in the domain but it looks great :) Congratulations
mjoin··on Scientific Visualization: Python + Matplotlib (2021)
Exactly. This is the exact stack I envision to be the future in that space. The work of Scott Logic is awesome (and the company looks really nice as well! People and values)
mjoin··on Leaving Neovim for Zed
Same. Neovim and plugins I use have been remarkably stable from the start
mjoin··on Elixir Anti-Patterns
Thanks a lot for sharing your perspective. This convinces me to give it a proper try!
mjoin··on Elixir Anti-Patterns
Unpopular opinion given all the craze around Elixir these days. I find the syntax extremely verbose and hard to read compared to e.g. Python. I was told great things about it by engineers I really respect. But each time I start reading Elixir code bases to get a good look at what an actual Elixir project looks like, I find the code hard to read and understand. Is it just me?
mjoin··on Nvidia CEO: Every Country Needs Sovereign AI
you nailed it
mjoin··on Nature retracts controversial superconductivity paper by embattled physicist
they really know when reading the paper. small world, everyone PI knows who is working on what
mjoin··on Ask HN: How is your startup doing?
what kind of device? also building a medtech start-up in France, would love to discuss
mjoin··on Valve says Counter-Strike 2 for macOS not happening, there aren't enough players
totally agree, a missed opportunity
mjoin··on Differences from Psycopg2
what do you mean by 'native'? or, in other words, what makes psycopg non-native?
mjoin··on Forty years of programming
i'm the same. i don't understand why some fellow programmers need multiple monitors: one is already plenty enough for me. (i'm using a tiling window manager, switching back and forth between different workspaces, having another monitor would require moving my head while i can instantly switch to another workspace from my fingertips)
mjoin··on Paris is seeing a new kind of road rage: Bike-lane traffic jams
i live in Paris (born there) and travel almost exclusively by bike, sometimes 15km to cross the entire town. i can testify that this headline is utterly exaggerated: the situation is really fine here. yeah there are many cyclists but we're doing good.
mjoin··on Just LGTM on Pull Request comments? You're failing as a dev
in my experience, technical details have been figured out on a whiteboard before, and then it can happen that a PR is just going to be LGTM and merge. not all conversations happen on a PR system. people talk IRL too
mjoin··on Steve Jobs had a “beer test” he used for job interviews
interested to hear what other hners think about this. anybody did this for interviewing before? i myself had a beer with my phd supervisor as our first meeting, not sure this really help knowing whether we'd get along because turns out we didn't
mjoin··on France experiencing worst drought on record
Refs to actual peer reviewed many articles please
mjoin··on Shrugs.app – A native Slack client for macOS
Yeah, same boat here!
mjoin··on OpenLGTV: Legal reverse engineering and research of LG TVs firmware
That way of communicating with your child is some black mirror shit
mjoin··on When listeners pay attention to stories, their heart rates rise and fall in sync
That's black mirror shit up there
mjoin··on GitHub Should Start an App Store
GitHub has been expending its services, diverging from its original intent (e.g. remote visual studio code).

I disagree. I think providing that a way to distribute applications through GitHub, with builds certified as coming from the original authors, would be beneficial.

mjoin··on Ask HN: Which general programming language is good for learning/exploring math?
https://coq.inria.fr/ would be a good choice for proof assistance, I believe
mjoin··on Show HN: A proactive way of securing your Linux server
> anyone trying to log in with a password is full of it Dang! But so true
mjoin··on Ask HN: What are some good resources to learn how electricity works?
actually found the PDFs
mjoin··on Ask HN: What are some good resources to learn how electricity works?
this looks very good. do you know if there is a PDF version that contains the whole textbook? could not find it on the website
mjoin··on Show HN: Real-Time COVID+ ICU Bed Availability Monitoring
really cool! congrats
mjoin··on Open letter from Italy to the international scientific community
you're missing that China initially suppressed info abt this virus, which caused it to spread. had they reacted immediately, we might be in a much better situation rn
mjoin··on Open letter from Italy to the international scientific community
what if you wait and your employees get sick? if you're in tech, just implement a work from home policy right now. don't wait for the gov to do so. it's a matter of time. - a French
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