Human folly for 02018-10-23

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• 55723 sog FAM 17h processors (developer.amd.com):

  #PDF document on #performance optimization for AMD processors (2017)

• Pie menu FUD and misconceptions (medium.com):

  Don Hopkins on pie menus and patents. #UX

• Protocol (keithp.com):

  The "XRENDER" #X11 extension, which is how X does text since like 2000 or so

• XRENDER (keithp.com):

  Keith Packard’s 2001 talk/paper on #XRENDER’s design and implementation

• Render (keithp.com):

  Keith Packard’s 2000 talk/paper explaining the need for #XRENDER. Kind of shocking to realize that that was only 13 years into the history of X11, and it’s been 18 years since then.

• P253 Porter (keithp.com):

  #PDF of the "Porter–Duff" #paper defining an algebra of #graphics image-compositing operators