I might agree if the text wasn't so wide (edit: on my screen, at least). Longer lines are less readable because you can't easily find the next line when your eye flicks back to the left after finishing a line.
Indeed, that's a disadvantage. However, this is easily fixed by resizing the browser window (reducing the width). I often do that with "normal" sites, too, if their text lines are too wide.
Because often it's a crippled or broken experience, where half the images are missing, or you can't zoom, or the text is cut off, or the columns too narrow.
Edit: Ironically, most of the issues above impact me the most when I really am on a mobile device.
Can someone summarize? All I got out of it is "you should be excited because, even though it's nearly insignificant, it's one more data point in some statistical distribution we're trying to sample more of".
I'm not sure how "it's not very exciting, but we're doing it for a greater, also-not-very-exciting purpose" should excite me.
I think you're pretty close to it. The last line seems a reasonable summary though:
>"Just finding one large prime number is a fun puzzle to have solved, but it doesn't say anything basic about how the world works. The patterns behind the primes, however, both proven patterns and ones only suspected, are the lens through which humanity can apprehend deep and unfamiliar truths about how reality is structured." //
There are line breaks at a fixed interval so that it wraps at 80 chars. I imagine that makes up the other ~300KB.
Edit: Line-breaks do indeed make up the bulk of the overhead, but it's also an HTML page so there's some boilerplate markup at the beginning and end of the file.
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Edit: Ironically, most of the issues above impact me the most when I really am on a mobile device.
I'm not sure how "it's not very exciting, but we're doing it for a greater, also-not-very-exciting purpose" should excite me.
>"Just finding one large prime number is a fun puzzle to have solved, but it doesn't say anything basic about how the world works. The patterns behind the primes, however, both proven patterns and ones only suspected, are the lens through which humanity can apprehend deep and unfamiliar truths about how reality is structured." //
Within the first paragraph, the author displays ignorance of math that every Korean high school student knows.
Um, what?
Even if you include commas... um, what?
Edit: Line-breaks do indeed make up the bulk of the overhead, but it's also an HTML page so there's some boilerplate markup at the beginning and end of the file.