First new readable info: PC LOAD LETTER

There's a blast from the past.

Great writeup!

And don't worry, they probably used vi, it's optimized for low baud rates...

Because, it's not a fuel?
Yes, demand on lithium is increasing as manufacturer of battery-powered devices ramps-up.

But the lithium in a battery powered device is merely a one time inital affair. Once the battery has been built you don't need any more lithium over the life time of the battery. There's no need to constantly pump more lithium into an EV for it to function.

Contrast this with the fossil fuel pipelines.

That's why switching to EV hasn't had an as dramatic effect on Lithium prices as ICE have had on fossil fuel.
Same reason why even if they EV are more complex to build and manufacturing one has larger climate impact than manufacturing an ICE, ICE's constant guzzling of gas overtakes EV's environmental impact after a couple of years (2 to 3 depending on the local energy mix).

(And similar differences of scale also concern nuclear power generation: yes it needs to "burn" a fissile fuel. But it uses so little of that fissile fuel and it amount for such a minute fraction of the overall cost that even insane fluctuations of prices would barely have any noticeable impact on electricity bills)

But it's not like the leather is going to be thrown away and Apple is pulling cowskin out of dumps.

Wrong

The global leather industry creates four billion pounds of scrap leather waste every year. Currently, thatâ(TM)s mainly sent to landfills or incinerated

Thank you for balancing the parentheses. Cosmic order has been restored.

There's a reason that there is a saying that goes "Wears like leather." Leather is an excellent material to make durable stuff out of if it can't be made out of metal or needs some give.

Even if you can't bring yourself to use real leather from any animal (a waste Native Americans would chide you for given how much leather is produced as a bi-product from raising cattle for food), there are plenty go fake leathers that feel great and wear really well!

The "fine woven" stuff was crazy bad. I upgraded my phone this year and waited to look at the cases in person, and wanted no part of what I could tell was a terrible material just by touching it. You could tell just from sample cases in the store it would not wear well...

Generally though for me, third party cases have been simply better for a number of years now, and first party Apple cases have just not been as good. But they could at least get back to making soemthing that felt and looked premium.

Today, I found a text file on my computer. It was a response to a ZDNet article back in 2016 or some such. My computer remembered every word I wrote; I'd forgotten I made the post at all.

Today, I entered my time sheet at work for the different on-site appointments I made last week. I'd forgotten one of them already. My phone kept a GPS log that knew exactly where I was and was able to ensure completeness.

The human brain is incredible in may ways...but computers do things human brains cannot...and unless we're willing to put up with the shortcomings of the human brain in our computing equipment, we'll likely need more than 27 watts to make it happen.

It might be the future for you but I can't connect anything to a floatscreen without at least a laser 7 output.

Starship lol

Because it costs trillions of dollars to retrofit a city?

Source? Billions at worst. Like I said, this is a solved problem, and places like Amsterdam have solved this for way less than "Trillions".

Your examples are not convincing.

You talk about summaries, but you don't define what a summary *is*, and you have no way to measure how well a purported summary is produced by an LLM, relative to some standard. You're just wishful thinking about the usefulness at this point in time.

In actual fact, a summary, however reasonably defined, has certain properties such as describing the content of some text in fewer words than the original. That makes it a kind of lossy compression algorithm. The problem is what the algorithm chooses to not say when it produces a summary. Since it doesn't say it, you the reader don't know that it exists, and you don't know to ask for more details about it. So the summary is actually worthless, but it is worthless in such a way to hide its own worthlessness from you.

Example: 1) A unicorn walks with red riding hood in the forest. A blue gummi-bear wolf hybrid appears and talks to her.

2) One sentence summary: It's the red riding hood story.

3) You read the summary and move on, but never ask about the unicorn.

There's a world of difference between a reference design and an actual finished hardware product manufactured at scale. I'm not up to date on factory pricing but I expect that reserving a production slot at some factory like foxconn would cost on the order of a million, so their funding so far is off by a factor of at least 10, since they also have to pay their employees for at least a year etc.

Kickstarter is full of startups that don't understand hardware manufacturing.

Can you explain why determinism is crucial? Not all systems are the same, nor should they be. I can see an argument that timestamps and source paths should remain embedded. From a security point of view, you won't be able to simply hash the binary file directly, you'll have to know what the file format is so that you can mask out the bits. But so what? Security practices should adapt to the developer needs, not the other way around

The answer is that this is somewhat misleading; there are plenty of Z80 compatible chips still being manufactured. The TI-84 uses the eZ80, which is four times faster and will still be around. There are also many (many) clones that are closer to cycle-exact.