Interesting that Japanese companies sometimes help competitors, such as Sharp helping Busicom in the article. I also think Yamaha helped Korg in their early years [1].
Canon and Nikon. Sometimes it’s due to personal relationships and owed favors that would be dishonorable to ignore.
Can you think of an example where they helped each other? It's not an easy topic to google.
Huh. It never occurred to me that the word chipset was the descendent of a set of chips. That's nifty
Just in case anyone wondered Mostek (designers of the MK6010 "calculator on a chip") is a completely different company from MOS Technology (designers of the 6502 processor). I used to find this confusing.
I always wonder where we’re going to see the next kind of world changing innovation like this.
Immunotherapy? Maybe.
Recently all I’ve gotten is a phone that listens to my conversations and serves me targeted ads.
As an aside, immunotherapy is pretty neat stuff. My fathers bladder cancer is in remission thanks to it.
Yes, there are still some issues being worked out (possibility to cause diabetes) but it is just neat to see in action. The medical field is one that still seems to be making these kinds of leaps. It is wild seeing some diseases that only a decade ago were a death sentence or had extreme solutions now becoming treatable.
Feels like a lot of people who should know have been saying biotech for a while, but I’m unclear what big breaks are even being worked on. Not that targeted cancer therapies isn’t super cool and worthwhile work, but it does feel a successful result still basically fits the existing industry shape; it’s not the kind of thing that would be spawning entire new industries the way computers and the internet did.
I think a big part of that comes down to regulation when it comes to biotech, which, frankly, I think is a good thing. After all, skimping on software (usually) won’t kill anyone, but imagine how much worse things could have been with something like Theranos absent regulation.¹
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1. For those rushing to point out that regulation didn’t stop Theranos, it might not have kept the fraud from starting, but it did keep it from continuing.
Pointing out Theranos would be like pointing out the existence of double agents despite rigorous counter-measures. Things will happen; one wants them to happen less.
LLMs no good for you?
Not OP, but what game changing uses are you finding for LLMs? I mostly find they're good for brainstorming ideas of activities to do, asking "is there a thing like this and what is it called", and writing trite correspondence to acquaintances. It's useful for me but hardly life changing.
I think that we’re definitely seeing some world-changing things happening in the vaccine world with mRNA vaccines. Covid accelerated development, but there was a lot of movement before that already.
The ancient design of the page is very topical.
I dig it. As a vintage tech enthusiast, the last thing I want is a bunch of javascript or framework-of-the-moment hoohah pummeling my browser. I want pictures and info. HTML with a bit of CSS is perfectly fine for that. There's a time and place for the girthy websites of the modern era, but sometimes my viewport just needs a break.
Simple, fast-loading and unobtrusive, definitely better than a lot of "modern" web design.
I used to browse this website on my grandparents' dialup in like 2004 and I swear it looks the same as it did back then. It still brings the good feelings.