On both counts, I think it's actually IBM who didn't get the importance. Both of the 386 to OS/2 and how important quick-to-market hardware was (even if just for brand prestige) versus Compaq.

Microsoft always got it, and I feel certain the first release of NT (3.1) sold many times as many copies for x86 as it did for other architectures; and it was targeted for it as much as for any other arch.

It was actually Microsoft that saw early that OS/2 needed to exploit the 386 but IBM dragged their feet on it. A strategy similar to Windows/286 vs. Windows/386 would've made a lot of sense IMO. And probably helped IBM sell more 32-bit Micro Channel hardware early on!

Surely 30 MB in 1987, not 300, right?

Here's the PDF of the product line[1] with the price list from 1987.... 300 Megabytes was $789. I was the entire tech staff for Management Support Systems, and had written an inspection reporting system for fossil fuel generating systems in Turbo Pascal under MS-DOS that talked to Norand corporation portable computers with Symbol Technologies barcode scanners. The portables were rated for a 3 foot drop to concrete, and you could use them outdoors in winter, with gloves on... amazing stuff.

[1] http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/microSolutions/MicroSolutions_P...

I stand corrected! Awesome, thanks for the link and the story.

I’m no expert on these things, but since Apple Containerization uses OCI images, I’d think you’d be able to sub in Docker (or Podman, etc) as the runtime pretty trivially. Like Podman, it uses a very similar command line interface to Docker’s.

Edit: Oh, I see now that Coderunner is Apple Containerization-specific.

>Obviously you'll still review every line before merging, but that takes an order of magnitude less time than wrestling with it in the first place.

Just speculating here, but I wouldn't be surprised if the truth of both parts of this sentence vary quite a bit amongst users of AI coding tools and their various applications; and, if so, if that explains a lot of the discrepancy amongst reports of success/enthusiasm levels.

If I were a scammer looking for marks, I'd look for people who take Kalanick seriously on this.

It’s interesting to note that nobody even talks on their phone anymore, they type (on terrible “keyboards”!).

Interesting, I get so many "speech messages" in WhatsApp, nobody is really writing anymore. Its annoying. WhatsApp even has a transcript feature to put it back to text.

Personally I block anyone who does that.

For chat apps, once you've got the conversation thread open, typing is pretty easy.

I think the more surprising thing is that people don't use voice to access deeply nested features, like adding items to calendars etc which would otherwise take a lot of fiddly app navigation.

I think the main reason we don't have that is because Apple's Siri is so useless that it has singlehandedly held back this entire flow, and there's no way for anyone else to get a foothold in smartphone market.

Google Assistant is/was pretty good...for Google apps. It's useless for anything else. The new Gemini powered version is actually a regression imo

I have fat fingers, I always dictate into the phone if I need to send a message longer than 2-3 words.

Those are applications, not interfaces. No one controls those applications with their voices, they use buttons, either touch or mechanical.

Just because you don't doesn't mean other people aren't. It's pretty handy to be able to tell Google to turn off the hallway light from the bedroom, instead of having to get out of bed to do that.

They talk to other humans on those apps, not the computer. I've noticed less dictation over time in public but that's just anecdotal. I never use voice when a keyboard is available.

Huge numbers of desperate, armed, unemployed people have a way of focusing the will.

That's what Anduril is for

Have they abandoned UltraFusion? Last I’d heard, they’d just said something like “not all generations will get an Ultra chip” around the time the M4 showed up (the first M chip lacking an Ultra variation), which makes me think the M5 or M6 is fairly likely to get an Ultra.

That wouldn't seem reproducible if the content at those URLs changes. (Er, unless it was all web.archive.org URLs or something.)

This is a problem with the Web. It should be easier to download content like it was updating a git Repo.

I'll third it. I've started to see more and more cargo culting of "fixes" that I'm extremely suspicious do nothing aside from making the code bulkier.