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Re:Python Is Eating the World by YokoZar on Monday August 12, 2019 @03:19AM (#20673194)
Why not take this reasoning one step further and have Hacker news impose an 80 character line wrap limit?

If you've ever had to deal with this in an email client, you can quickly see that 80 is undershooting it in the modern era.

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Re:Python Is Eating the World by nesadi on Monday August 12, 2019 @04:32AM (#20673584)
Funny. I preferentially read HN on my phone which has probably what looks like around a 80 char limit. It makes it really comfortable to read.
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Re:Python Is Eating the World by YokoZar on Tuesday August 13, 2019 @06:51AM (#20684433)
Do you do code reviews on your phone too?
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Re:Python Is Eating the World by nesadi on Wednesday August 14, 2019 @05:37AM (#20693947)
Maybe I do. What's it to you?
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Re:Python Is Eating the World by yawaramin on Monday August 12, 2019 @10:07PM (#20682166)
I don't understand–I quite enjoy reading a well-formatted plaintext email that sticks inside an 80-character line width. Any mail client worth its salt should be able to display that.
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