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Steve Jobs and Cray-1 to be featured on 2026 American Innovations $1 coin

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A book on the subject came out earlier this year that I've been wanting to read, "Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves" by Nicola Twilley

check out Bill Bryson’s “at home” if you’re looking for something a little less specific to refrigeration and more fun narration of similar novel life/home inventions. To give a sense of depth, refrigeration is probably a few pages. It’s very high level but a fun read about things you’ve forgotten to think about around the house

Yes! I enjoyed that book

Re: Steve Jobs and Cray-1 to be featured on 2026 American Innovations $1 coin

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weird design for steve jobs.. without context it looks like the depiction of some spiritual leader (which maybe is a bit funny given the early apple fanbase). I get he was a bit of a hippie, but that's not exactly his claim-to-fame > His posture and expression, as he is captured in a moment of reflection i dont associate "reflection" with him. not to disparage him in the slightest, but its just not in the top ten of…

From: Steve Jobs, sjobs@apple.com To: Steve Jobs, sjobs@apple.com Date: Thursday, September 2, 2010 at 11:08PM I grow little of the food I eat, and of the little I do grow I did not breed or perfect the seeds. I do not make any of my own clothing. I speak a language I did not invent or refine. I did not discover the mathematics I use. I am protected by freedoms and laws I did not conceive of or legislate, and do not…

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Re: Steve Jobs and Cray-1 to be featured on 2026 American Innovations $1 coin

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They said these innovations are what the state is known for, but I've been a Minnesota resident my entire life and didn't know refrigerated trucking was invented here.

Same! This coin would be a cool little Minnesota artifact to own. I guess they'll be available to purchase here some time ($~35 for a set of 25 of them, or $~14 for a single "proof coin", whatever that is): https://www.usmint.gov/coins/coin-programs/american-innovati...

"Proof coins" are extra shiny coins made for collectors. They polish the blank, polish the die, and then stamp it more than once. Blank areas of the coin have a practically mirror shine finish.

Here's a side-by-side comparison: https://www.govmint.com/learn/post/how-is-a-proof-coin-diffe...

Re: Steve Jobs and Cray-1 to be featured on 2026 American Innovations $1 coin

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Why not Wozniak (probably still alive), or Shannon (I'd vote for him), Convey, Knut, Reed, Solomon, Thompson, Ritchie, Kernighan, etc? Why it is a CEO? Why Jobs and Edison? It is just how it is...

Why not the inventors of the transistor? Anyway, at least I'm happy the Nobel prize committee isn't based in the US. Otherwise we'd soon see the Nobel prize for advertising.

There are many inventions and people from AT&T Bell Labs that deserve their own coin.

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Sure. But why does one coin have a person and the other have an invention? Why not inventions for both or people for both?

America invented the Steve Jobs, now ubiquitous around the world.

You could argue that Steve Jobs was a product of very Californian circumstances: Born to parents of very different cultural backgrounds, raised in a hotbed of electronics development (and new age spirituality), started a company in an area full of enthusiasts and venture capitalists…

Re: Steve Jobs and Cray-1 to be featured on 2026 American Innovations $1 coin

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Featuring Jobs without Woz is actually disgusting. IMO, as a child of the 80s, Apple becoming popular and innovative required both.

EDIT: And forgot to mention Jef Raskin, who together with Woz played a pivotal role engineering the first Macintosh in 1984.

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> I then made myself laugh by trying to imagine a depiction of Bill Gates in the same pose That is funny, although nothing will ever top Deborah Feingold's 1985 photoshoot where he lies on his desk and flirts with the camera

Indeed https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:800/1*l85kSwZf... It always reminds me of Manet's Olympia.

Maybe Boucher's Blonde Odalisque.

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Shall we forget that Steve Jobs conspired with other companies to pay developers less?

This is well-documented in courts (and also on many other websites, by the way):

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/apr/24/apple-goo...

See:

"[...] Steve Jobs orchestrated an elaborate scheme to prevent poaching and drive down wages."

Re: Steve Jobs and Cray-1 to be featured on 2026 American Innovations $1 coin

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And meanwhile today you can get more power than the Cray-1 (or Cray-2) from a single chip a fraction of the size of that coin. Very quickly: a dollar coin is about 550 mm^2 on a face the Cray-1 could do 160 MFLOPS an M1 chip has a die size of 120 mm^2 an M1 chip can do over 1 TFLOPS

I had just gone down this rabbit hole for unrelated reasons (looking into yields). Nvidia's 5090 die is 750 mm^2, managing 419 TFLOPS on the FP16 benchmark.
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