ZX80 basic didn't
IIRC the ARM2 chip in my Archimedes didn't have HW FPU
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>Is RISC-V really good enough to be considered "cutting edge" though?
The API = yes. The example chip designs put out by researchers = no
The point is that anybody that wants their own custom chip can now get it fabbed on the latest high performance nodes, without having to be a Samsung. If you are Facebook or amazon doing custom silicon then ARM is no longer the only alternate to Intel.
ARM's business model is to charge big players 1% less for licenses than it would cost them to just make their own API design, with RISC-V the cost to switch to vs designing from scratch is lower = tighter squeeze on ARM.
That used to be ARM's inertia win - the only people capable of fabbing serious ARM-competing CPUs were big enough that they paid ARM bugger-all % royalties.
Now a bunch of places will design and fab you a cutting edge CPU it doesn't make as much difference to say Amazon or Facebook if their custom processor is ARM or RISC-V RISC
In the shuttle case it would seem to be bad project management at the top.
If you spend all your budget making insanely safe software at 1000x the cost of normal software you haven't really benefitted anyone.
The shuttle was still dangerous because of solid fuel boosters and nobody in industry benefits because none of the lessons of wiring one line of code/person/year with nines-nines safety were usable in the world.
In this case it looks very similar to the A400 transport plane crash.
Config file for the brakes bad/missing so the failsafe disables the system = in this case the system being brakes.
In the transport plane the config file for the engine was missing so the failsafe system disabled the system safely = in that case all 4 engines
>Penal labor is economically important
Penal labor is economic suicide, you have a worker paid 60c/hour but you have to have a guard paid $50/hour watching them and since you know that they are going to do all they can to sabotage the work you need to have 2 QA inspectors paid $80/hour checking the product.
Ask that Von Braun chap how well it worked out on the V2.
Amazingly the US had military helmets made by prison labor, in combat they found that there were "fatal manufacturing flaws", even the Nazis had the sense not to have camp inmates pack parachutes.
>The lithography equipment used by Intel/Samsung/TSMC tends to run in the order of $250-300m/unit,
It is also developed alongside the customer and so requires a decades long relationship.
You can't just order a 7nm plant from ASML's website for immediate delivery
Except in Britain, Black is good and calling a black person "African American" would get you punched/
In the USA colored is bad, except the NAACP (National Association Advancement of Colored People) is good
Black is almost as bad as coloured except for HBC (Historically Black Colleges)
>Hard to tell when a left-pondian is being sarcastic, but somehow I think you are not.
In europe the power cables are normally buried.
In the off-shore colonies they prefer to give nature a sporting chance and so the power lines are strung from little wooden poles right upto your house. This is especially true in places that get frequent snow, ice and winter gales. The same places normally have lots of trees alongside the roads that have branches that also get covered in snow and fall down across the lines.
Ironically the cable-TV cables are often buried so if you have a UPS the internet stays up even if you can't make a cup of tea
The answer as ever, is steam trains
Steam trains, at least in their early "Rocket" form could be built and repaired by a blacksmith with a hammer.
In the glorious future the only form of transport allowed will be "The Rocket", each family will build their own from weekly plans printed in The Radio Times and be assembled in their shed.
If you want a self-driving version, there is always the option of owning a horse instead.
Except there is no margin in selling notebooks to work from home minions. Even macbooks aren't very profitable.
It has probably just brought forward the next 3 years of laptop buying.
There is no brand loyalty in laptops, Every peripheral is USB-c and i can switch from Dell to Lenovo next year with no real overhead compared to swapping out server/SAN brands
The real money is going to be in all the cloud services to support all these mobile users
>Top sales people are often screwed by their employers as they climb higher up the sales ladder.
And then they quit and go and work for a competitor, with the existing client list, knowledge of the flaws and margins on the previous firms products and a deep motivation to fsck over their ex-employer
And thus capitalism triumphs...
>I suspect that the reason these companies are putting their money into Bitcoin is for tax avoidance purposes.
Microstratgy is basically a way to buy bitcoin in a share account (pension/IRA/ISA etc) by buying shares in a company whose only asset is bitcoin.
Telsa is Musk taking the piss. He buys bitcoin, tweets about it, everyone else buys it, price goes up, he sells
Bitcoin = an imaginary made-up currency with strict mathematical controls on how much can be produced and a value set by the market
Dollar (or Pound) = an imaginary made-up currency with politicians controlling how much can be produced depending on what their poll numbers look like and a value set by the unemployment figures going into the next election
>So why doesn't this tech ever get transplanted into real cameras?
It does, it's called Photoshop/Gimp
The phone does a lot of processing for you because people want to click and have instagram ready shots - even if they look like every other instagram shot.
"Real" cameras assume you want the flexibility to capture the best raw data you can and then fix it later for your requirements.
Most interchangeable lens cameras already do non-artistic corrections - for things like lens distortion
That's dumb, it would be like having an emergency release handle for a nuclear bomb be just where you needed to grab to climb into the bomb bay