Special sauce? Yes. It could do floating point on a chip.
CPU's didn't have that, not the microprocessor kind. They were 'micro' which meant, barely any room for the registers, instruction decode and execution units. The float point instructions on the 8086 were explicitly to manipulate the 8087.
An unexpected issue with the 8087 was, it caused issues when multi-processing. That is, any kernel with a process scheduler had to swap the 8087 state along with the rest of the registers.
No, the normal software noticed all the missing or misbehaving systems and began to throw warning and exception. That title sounds like he was targeted. Clickbait.
I saved every issue. Boxed them up when I moved out of my childhood home. Moved them 13 times and they ended up in a shed in field on my farm (some success in Silicon Valley) where they mouldered into rot over 20 years.
Hard to express what that monthly compendium of electronic and computer hobbyist articles meant, to a farm boy thousands of miles from anywhere.
I asked for a monitor stand at work, back in the day. No money! So I went to the loading dock, found a wooden pallet for the little AC units we installed in racks, put that on my desk. Voila - monitor stand.
We guess how AI will be used by trying to adapt it to workflows. But in a more perfect world, AI would take on the jobs we DON'T want to do, and we'd continue doing the pleasurable ones.
For instance, dont use AI to run a wrecking ball. Use it to run the book and make the deals so I can have the time and opportunity to run the wrecking ball.
Used to be this was almost entirely explained by hydro. Not a lot of new dams going in, and they take a long time.
The solar component is usually with caveats: the majority of growth. Because growth is slow otherwise. Solar is what part of renewables now? I couldn't easily see that stat in the noise.
An axe to grind. Better to talk about what's got more nutrition, than to use loaded words like 'unhealthy'. Else you resort to unsubstantiated claims and FUD.
In a free market the company that makes every cent they can has a survival advantage. Enough time and transactions and the market will be made entirely of survivors. The rest will have been out-competed.
One counter-pressure is regulation. But hey the US has a fetish about deregulation and so here we are.
Lots of cool factor. But that giant mono-foot? Gonna be trouble in a house with stairs, thresholds, cats. Legos. power cords. Potted ivy plants dangling over the side of the pot. Real places. Places with kids making messes, where you might need a household robot to help.
An unexpected issue with the 8087 was, it caused issues when multi-processing. That is, any kernel with a process scheduler had to swap the 8087 state along with the rest of the registers.
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