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Congrats, great project and great writeup. That would have won MacHack back in the day. Now that the MacBook Neo has an A18, I wonder if you could get MacOS running on an iPhone? :…

Might checkout what people have done on the 6502 in an Apple II. https://youtu.be/wM3deQAgMpE?si=h2O1uTQqxFtCRCsh

I’ve wondered about a temporal trend. My feeling is that it has gotten more negative over the last 10 years. Could the OP run the analysis for each year and see if there are trends…

Timing seems to be about the same (but just in production now). But tariffs/taxes were 55% of merchandise cost. DHL is expensive too, $52 for 10 boards (shipping to Cali). I haven’…

I’m building A2Fusion [1], a dual RP2350 expansion board for the Apple II to provide, storage, hdmi video and other functions in one card. The PoC is currently a big mess of wires.…

Bill/MS acquired Connectix’s virtualization technology [1] in 2003. VirtualPC and Virtual Server went on to become Hyper-V and power Azure to this day. VPC was released in 1997 and…

Microsoft did a bunch of research into low-bit weights for models. I guess OAI didn’t look at this work. https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper/2020/file/747e32ab0fea7...

They integrate a number of sources. Satellite, cameras, weather, CalFire, etc. Check out their app, it’s free. They are a non-profit Startup, which is an interesting approach.

Thanks for sharing. Do you work with the folks at Watch Duty?

I took photos every few minutes for about a year. I wrote some custom code to pick out a set of frames from several consecutive days, but with the sun at the same angle in the sky.…

Mark did a good video on ChatGPT infra. [1]. https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-mechanics-b...

Mark Russinovich gives a good talk most years on the internals of Azure and the systems that run it. [1] is an example. Look for talks from other years as well. Meta also publishes…

“People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.” - Alan Kay

Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross setup a 2,512 H100 cluster [1] for their startups, with a very similar “shared” model. Might be interesting to connect with them. [1] https://andromed…

The person in the center is Peter Hoddie.

1977 Apple ][ Introductory price US$1,298 (equivalent to $6,270 in 2022) I think folks are missing the point that this is the first Pro version. Likely targeted at developers and e…

Love BBEdit, but you can also get Rich to fix your KitchenAid Stand Mixer. (No joke) Must be an interesting story on how this second career came about. https://www.mixerology.com/

Great comments and advice. My neighborhood burned in the #GlassFire [0]. While our property was severely damaged, our home survived, due to many of the hardening techniques you men…

A good summary of UEFI booting: https://depletionmode.com/uefi-boot.html

Ron still develops Graphing Calculator for MacOS, Windows and iOS. https://www.pacifict.com/

Cool that folks are still developing for the Apple ][! Kudos to Lee Fastenau for an amazing job. Apple ][ 1977, Gameboy Tetris 1989.