[–] gjvc 5y ago ↗ Why -- for a report created in 1996 -- using TeX tools why doeshttps://www.gwern.net/docs/math/1996-hoare.pdflook so awful? [–] aliasEli 5y ago ↗ Probably because the pdf was produced from scans.
[–] simonblack 5y ago ↗ Forget the software.How did hardware get so good? When you think of many, many gigabytes of RAM, all those billions and billions of bits and it checks out as flawless, I am gobsmacked at the perfection.
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look so awful?
How did hardware get so good? When you think of many, many gigabytes of RAM, all those billions and billions of bits and it checks out as flawless, I am gobsmacked at the perfection.