On: Adaptive PDFs

[woodrowbarlow]

why do most of the paragraphs in this post stop mid-sentence? why are there 3 dozen comments and nobody has mentioned this? any humans still here?

[gpvos → woodrowbarlow]

Interesting, earlier today the page didn't truncate the paragraphs, a minute a go it did, and now it doesn't again, all in the same browser. I haven't found a pattern yet.

Edit: looks like the author just fixed it while I was looking.

[blevinstein → woodrowbarlow]

Idk what they're using for serving, but it's truncated in the raw HTML, not just the presentation layer. So probably a bug on the backend somewhere? The linked github repo doesn't seem to have the contents of the post.

[degenerate → woodrowbarlow]

The majority of people only skim content before making a post.

The truncated paragraphs are very odd - definitely a mistake.

[dr_kiszonka → woodrowbarlow]

Maybe it only occurs in certain browsers? It does in my Chrome for Android [...]

[jcul → woodrowbarlow]

Yeah it's quite strange. I was tapping trying to expand it. Tried landscape but it truncates at the same point (Firefox android).

[hiccuphippo → woodrowbarlow]

Maybe humans can't see it but if you request the page with an LLM you get the full text.

[SarthakGaud → woodrowbarlow]

hey sorry guys, I just fixed the rendering, the package went outdated, you can read it now.

[projektfu → woodrowbarlow]

I guess it matches my reading style because I didn't notice it. Scary.

[jerlendds → woodrowbarlow]

Yeah idk, this is weird as hell

[leephillips → woodrowbarlow]

Yeah, I’m interested in the subject but didn’t read this because of that.