I don’t know the details but building upon previous research is the foundation of the scientific method. Additionally, the scales were probably not named like that by the authors.

But… but we have LLMs now! They are going to save us and the economy… right?

Note that the mentioned commands are an exaggeration of my experience with LaTeX, it’s not like I use them everywhere. I think it’s better to let LaTeX do it’s job. Nevertheless, looseness=-1 can help to cram a few words in a new line into the previous paragraph, which subjectively looks better sometimes and frees up some space. Negative vspace around figures or tables can also be used to make more space for text and avoid unwanted page breaks. Manual linebreaks can come in handy if you switch TeX engines (e.g. pdfTeX -> LuaTeX) and somehow things don’t look like they are supposed to look. You can do it right or you can add manual linebreaks here and there to get the same results.

thank mr skeltal

LaTeX and the wonderful world of \looseness=-1, manual linebreaks and negative vspace

(but it’s still leagues ahead of word)

Hell yeah

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Meanwhile Nintendo: almost wait a decade to pay 2x the original price on the used market

Probably end of the gold standard

The generations from 2002 and 2003 were my favorites