MC6809 was actually launched in 1979, like MC68000, about one year after the launch of 8086 in 1978 by Intel.
What Motorola did in 1978 was to publish some articles in the specialized magazines, announcing MC6809 as the future better replacement for their existing MC6800 derivatives. This is the same like Intel describing during last year how great will be their Panther Lake CPU, but Panther Lake has really been launched only a couple of days ago.
Something I’ve been sort of wondering about—LLM training seems like it ought to be the most dispatchable possible workload (easy to pause the thing when you don’t have enough wind power, say). But, when I’ve brought this up before people have pointed out that, basically, top-tier GPU time is just so valuable that they always want to be training full speed ahead.
But, hypothetically if they had a ton of previous gen GPUs (so, less efficient) and a ton of intermittent energy (from solar or wind) maybe it could be a good tradeoff to run them intermittently?
Ultimately a workload that can profitably consumer “free” watts (and therefore flops) from renewable overprovisioning would be good for society I guess.
Impossible to foresee. The transition from putting together advanced things from imported goods, into a textile and coal economy, was supposed to go much faster!
The only solution is to swap out leadership of Atlanta FED. That way, we can have more positive reports.
Plain Win32 needs a renaissance. I worked with it and felt like a wizard. Message boxes, dialogue boxes, wizards, hammered out in pure C++. Combined with the Windows Implementation Library[1] I was writing fast, modern code.
Only AI stuff, there is hardly anything else that depends on WinUI/WinAppSDK.
There are Win32 APIs for HiDPI configuration, the issue is that it isn't automatic, it needs to be on the app manifest or called explicitly, and handle the events for resolution changes.
Even if you do that, and carefully work in "points" internally rather than pixels, the results seem to be bad. Win32 dialogs are generally not resizable or "responsive". This is even visible in settings dialogs from Windows itself.
If I had to pick a single thing differently (I have many) Isreal should have not only ”allowed in” (which they didn’t ) food and water but actively driven in huge amounts of it.
...reached a playing strength on par with GNU Go
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