Interesting collection but mostly focused on western world and mixing different eras so feels incoherent, like a low-effort ‘content creation’

Can someone come up with a conversion factor for context window sizes to glacier depletion?

> So it seems like Apple was looking to build their own processors even before the iPhone became huge (the original iPhone only sold around 7M units while iPods were selling around 50M/year at the same time).

This is almost certainly true once they decided that iOS was going to be based on MacOS. Those software design choices had to have been based on a very aggressive hardware roadmap

The acquisition of PA Semi was announced in April 2008, so it is possible discussions were already in progress by the time of the first iPhone launch

Sure, but Apple had gone public with the iPhone announcement over a year before the PA Semi acquisition.

I think it's safe to say that they had already selected an off the shelf Samsung CPU before they did the public demo of the device.

> The third AR thing I saw was the loading screen of Super Fruit Ninja, which allows you to throw a strawberry at a pig that’s running around on your floor. This seems slightly less historic.

That seemed to me the most historic if true!

embedded systems/firmware where the same code may need to be built for multiple HW platforms/cpu architectures.

Gruber had a fun take on this

https://daringfireball.net/2023/07/translation_yaccarino_x

Does this have anything to do with decline in public education?

> you could assume that people of color simply didn't exist back then

Places where people of color have been making art for a few thousand years would beg to differ.

There are also multiple issuings of the same recording, sometimes from multiple remasters, or from different new labels for historic recordings (like Furtwanger’s pre-1945 recordings). Often those have significant differences due to different types or generations of noise-reduction techniques used.