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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’t used OSHPark.

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...

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...

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. 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.

https://youtu.be/RAsJE5ddt_U

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 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/

[3] https://youtu.be/AyOAjFNPAbA?si=nFRJVcQI4EiamC-O

“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://andromedacluster.com/

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 early adopters. I’m sure there will be an Air/Lite/etc version that cost reduces overtime.

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 mentioned and great work by CalFire. We had evacuated the night before and were staying in a local hotel watching the flames advance on our house via our security cameras. (Redundant net connections and a generator kept everything online). As our deck started to burn I called 911 to report it, figuring nothing would happen. About 20 minutes later a fireman walked into the frame of the camera and 2 minutes later the deck was out and the house was saved. I was cheering like I won the Super Bowl. So I really appreciate all the hardening I did, on-site water and CalFire.

When we rebuilt the exterior, I installed a set of sprinklers that ring the house and cover the roof/deck. They are not designed to fight the fire, instead I can activate them before a fire arrives to get things good and wet. This perimeter reduces the available fuels, reduces the heat load on the structure and reduces the risk of ember cast. It was a fun project with an ESP controller to sequence the valves and provide remote control.

Over the last few years, the Alert Wildfire Camera system, now over 700 cameras, has been a valuable resource. [1] Early detection of the fire, before it grows to extreme size has made a big difference. In the North Bay of California last year, this early detection and CalFire having nearby Air Attack resources on standby kept many small fires from becoming large ones in this area.

Another great resource is the Watch Duty app. [2] This is a non-profit, volunteer, but extremely professional service. They started in Northern California and are rapidly expanding. It is the go-to resource for Wildfire related information in the area.

Lastly, if anyone is looking at the X prize for satellite detection, I’d spend some time researching MODIS/VIIRS data products from NASA. [3]. A good starting point in some of the challenges of wildfire detection from space.

[0]. Fire tornado outside my window. https://youtu.be/1tZjWqh3-EU

[1]. https://www.alertwildfire.org/

[2]. https://www.watchduty.org/

[3]. https://firms.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov/

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.