mackid

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by mackid 5mo 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? :)
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by mackid 8mo ago
Might checkout what people have done on the 6502 in an Apple II. https://youtu.be/wM3deQAgMpE?si=h2O1uTQqxFtCRCsh
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by mackid 8mo 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?
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by mackid 10mo 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.
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by mackid 10mo 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:
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by mackid 1y 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.micr
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by mackid 2y 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...
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by mackid 2y 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.
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by mackid 2y ago
Thanks for sharing. Do you work with the folks at Watch Duty?
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by mackid 2y 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 ghos
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Microsoft Azure AI silicon Maia details(azure.microsoft.com)
1 points by mackid 2y ago|0 comments
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by mackid 3y ago
Mark did a good video on ChatGPT infra. [1]. https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-mechanics-b...
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by mackid 3y 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
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ProDOS 2.4.3 for all Apple II computers(callapple.org)
16 points by mackid 3y ago|1 comments
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by mackid 3y ago
“People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.” - Alan Kay
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by mackid 3y ago
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://andromedacluster.com/
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by mackid 3y ago
The person in the center is Peter Hoddie.
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by mackid 3y ago
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 early adopters. I’m sure there will be an Air/Lite&#x2
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by mackid 3y ago
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/
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by mackid 3y ago
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 mentioned and great work by CalFire. We had evacuated the nig
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by mackid 3y ago
A good summary of UEFI booting: https://depletionmode.com/uefi-boot.html
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by mackid 4y ago
Ron still develops Graphing Calculator for MacOS, Windows and iOS. https://www.pacifict.com/
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by mackid 4y ago
Cool that folks are still developing for the Apple ][! Kudos to Lee Fastenau for an amazing job. Apple ][ 1977, Gameboy Tetris 1989.