mackid
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MacKid. Retired Apple, Microsoft, startup guy…
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Comment · 6 months ago
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? :)
Comment · 9 months ago
Might checkout what people have done on the 6502 in an Apple II.
Comment · 9 months ago
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?
Comment · 11 months ago
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’t used OSHPark.
Comment · 11 months ago
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. Waiting on JLCPCB for first prototype boards.
[1] https://m.facebook.com/groups/5251478676/permalink/101664026...
Comment · 1 year ago
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 VMW founded in 1998.
[1] https://news.microsoft.com/source/2003/02/19/microsoft-acqui...
Comment · 1 year ago
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...
Comment · 1 year ago
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.
Comment · 1 year ago
Thanks for sharing. Do you work with the folks at Watch Duty?
Comment · 2 years ago
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. I then blended these frames together. This makes a ghostly look, without the bright flashes of cloud passing or weather changing. As I moved forward in time, I selected frames from the next angle in the sky, so it looks like only a day passes. You’ll see the shadows move as if a day passes, when really a year goes by.
Comment · 2 years ago
Mark did a good video on ChatGPT infra.
[1]. https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-mechanics-b...
Comment · 2 years ago
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 a number of papers/blogs/OSS projects on their engineering site [2]
James Hamilton of AWS gives a talk most years on their infrastructure. Worth watching multiple years [3].
[1] https://youtu.be/69PrhWQorEM?si=u7vh_Um6SQNoyeFH
[2] https://engineering.fb.com/category/data-center-engineering/
Comment · 3 years ago
“People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.” - Alan Kay