Programming (2 blogmarks)

Entertaining and informative read on why even today with ultrawide screens it is important and useful to have a line length of something like 88 characters.

There has been a surprising amount of scientific research around this issue, but in brief, there’s a reason here rooted in human physiology: when you read a block of text, you are not consciously moving your eyes from word to word like you’re dragging a mouse cursor, repositioning continuously. Human eyes reading text move in quick bursts of rotation called “saccades”. In order to quickly and accurately move from one line of text to another, the start of the next line needs to be clearly visible in the reader’s peripheral vision in order for them to accurately target it.

Plus I learned about the term “saccade”.

I thought this was going to be a sudoku thing at first, but it appears to be a problem with a bigger problem space that you have solve exhaustively because you need to find every solution in order to guarantee that you've found the largest GCD.

The code/solutions presented by the author are in Rust.