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Comment · 3 months ago
I have also always loved---and used---LaTeX ;)
Comment · 3 months ago
If you are at all interested in punctuation---and especially the em-dash---I highly recommend Nicholson Baker's essay "Survival of the Fittest" in the NYRB:
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1993/11/04/survival-of-the-...
I have always loved---and used---the em-dash, and after reading this essay in The Best American Essays 1994, sometime around 1995, I finally felt justified in my affection.
Comment · 2 years ago
Here is a copy of what looks to be the original report: <https://wellcomecollection.org/works/seuuc6a5>
Here is a link to the version published with the ACM: <https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/362375.362379>
Comment · 3 years ago
If you'd like to see what Donn's BASIC was like, you can! The Internet Archive has a version that runs in-browser [1].
Although the Folklore article says there were two books describing Donn's BASIC, I believe there were at least three: Introduction to Macintosh BASIC, Using Macintosh BASIC, and The Macintosh BASIC Handbook. All three are available at vintageapple.org [2].
Comment · 3 years ago
Comment · 4 years ago
An interesting, older paper that explores how to bridge the "ninja gap" between naive code and hand-optimized code is Can Traditional Programming Bridge the Ninja Performance Gap for Parallel Computing Applications? <https://web.eecs.umich.edu/~msmelyan/papers/isca-2012-paper....>.
They reduce the ninja gap for a range of benchmarks from 24x to 1.3x by relying on "smart" compilers and using only basic program transformations---no intrinsics!
Comment · 5 years ago
Great post! What do you use to draw your state diagrams?
Comment · 6 years ago
If you're doing new development and not opposed to using C++, I recommend xsimd, which provides a higher-level interface to architecture-specific SIMD instructions: https://github.com/xtensor-stack/xsimd
Comment · 11 years ago
The OverbiteFF extension (http://gopher.floodgap.com/overbite/) will let you use the gopher protocol as well. I actually installed it just so I could browse the floodgap gopher server.
Comment · 11 years ago
A bit of Googling got me this:
gopher://gopher.floodgap.com/1/archive/userserve-ucsd-edu/Fonts/%20bitmapped%20fonts/screen-ImageWriter%20Fonts/Boston%20II
Hopefully that's what you're looking for :)
Comment · 11 years ago
The first "correct" solution will leak memory if the call to TSuperFoo::operator= throws an exception.
Comment · 12 years ago
Using pkfix before ps2pdf will improve the final output---it replaces bitmap fonts with Type 1 fonts.