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by blihp 5y ago
I think to me it boils down to need and trust. Debian needs to do things this way and has earned trust over decades not to abuse its power. Google doesn't have the need and is burning trust in enough other areas where it doesn&#x27
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by blihp 5y ago
Debian builds and signs which is rather different from just signing what someone else builds. This makes sense for Debian since they often make changes to the upstream code a bit, primarily for consistency with the rest of the distro, wh
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by blihp 5y ago
You're talking about two different things: eliminating hardware by doing more in software (what the article was stating) vs consolidating discrete logic to an ASIC (both the IWM and the discrete logic it replaced performed the same tas
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by blihp 5y ago
FPGAs just allow you to remove a layer or two of abstraction and corresponding latency (vs a CPU) where you don't want/can't have it and gives you control, speed and/or efficiency improvements in exchange. The price you
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by blihp 5y ago
https://github.com/enjoy-digital/litex
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by blihp 5y ago
I think it's closer than most people might think. I suspect this is largely because there seems to be a wide gulf between most hardware and software hackers (i.e. they don't talk much and tend to throw things over the wall to eac
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by blihp 5y ago
Successfully negotiating this realistically means being prepared to walk at most companies that don't already embrace remote work. If you're not prepared to do so, you're not really negotiating as much as asking. If you&#x2
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by blihp 5y ago
If you're talking about apps via Google Play, only for some kinds of apps (ironically, the ones that make minimal use of platform specific features tend to fare the best... typically games) Also, Google is actively culling apps from t
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by blihp 5y ago
That's only feasible if the platform is relatively stable. The problem, especially with 'modern' platforms, is that it doesn't even remotely work that way anymore. On iOS and Android, for example, they make breaking ch
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by blihp 5y ago
Some/many Europeans pretty much take the month of August off to go on holiday. That's in addition to other holidays/time off throughout the year. People in many jobs here in the U.S. are lucky to get 2 weeks off total per
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by blihp 5y ago
It's not an either/or thing or even a particularly new decision point. I generally just ask myself for smaller projects if an OS is justified/worth it? If so, go with a SoC or larger running an OS. If not, go with a microc
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by blihp 5y ago
It's being pragmatic. Linux has typically placed freedom ahead of pretty much everything else.[1] All else being equal, sure you want the best technical solution. But if it doesn't fit the definition of freedom that Linux requi
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by blihp 5y ago
Lots of people are embracing MicroPython and CircuitPython on microcontrollers these days. The computational capabilities of many of these devices exceeds what a high-end PC could do in the early/mid-90's. Many applications, esp
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by blihp 5y ago
It's the seemingly infinite bandwidth that Google throws at YouTube that make competition hard. Then there's the inability to monetize. Transcoding is probably about 20th on the list of issues.
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by blihp 5y ago
Right, but notice that wasn't the emphasis of the post I was responding to. OK, there was 1/2 a sentence that touched on profits as almost an afterthought. The thing that sets me off about these threads is the (I believe sincere)
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by blihp 5y ago
Thinking like that is what drove AOL and Yahoo! to their peak valuations. It's not that the companies didn't produce something of value and have some level of earnings, it's that their stocks priced in a fantasy land future
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by blihp 5y ago
In other words, the greater fool theory.
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by blihp 5y ago
I suspect this is more about Google asserting greater long-term control over apps in the store than anything else. If Google holds the keys it makes it harder, if not impossible, for an author to say 'no' to some unspecified futu
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by blihp 5y ago
If raising the minimum wage will do them in, they're already halfway there if things are really [1] that dire and will end up there soon enough. So yes, people are better off not working for those types of businesses. If a business
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by blihp 5y ago
A 10% margin also often doesn't tell the whole story of how they make their money. Nearly since its inception, a substantial portion of McDonald's long term profit came from the appreciation of the real estate the stores were bui
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by blihp 5y ago
That warning is designed to scare away 'regular' consumers, so it's doing its job. If the prospect of a couple dead pixels scares someone, they are not the target customer for a PinePhone. It is absolutely not a device fo
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by blihp 6y ago
They actually did... to a degree. The last artifact I'm aware of was called Frank[1] and incorporated a number of designs, concepts and DSLs the group presented and wrote papers[2] about over the years the project was active. However
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by blihp 6y ago
Most likely when it's moderate/major features. Sometimes it can be as simple as a case of packaging (i.e. fewer pins so they can't bring everything out.) I've always assumed that some of the packaging options were driv
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by blihp 6y ago
Similar but not the same. There is an insane variety of nearly identical MCUs, for example. For an otherwise identical part, you can often get it in half a dozen or more packages. (i.e. the chip has different physical form factors in te
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by blihp 6y ago
The philosophy is working as it often does in the early days/years of a technology. The customers for this have problems at an entirely different scale. It's worth it for them to drop millions on hardware and potentially million
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by blihp 6y ago
Price and selection. You may love what Amazon offers today. I think they're moderately terrible, even compared to the Amazon of 10 years ago, and I have fewer alternative marketplaces to choose from and products in those marketplaces
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by blihp 6y ago
It's across the board. Makers of small scale microcontroller projects/kits (whose chips typically use 28nm and larger process nodes) are reporting problems getting parts. Apparently some of the parts the autos need are >100nm
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by blihp 6y ago
Bounties tend to not be enough money to be worth the time of the people with the skills to solve the problem.[1] The vibe of open source is largely a fiction when it comes to solving someone else's problem. Open source works because
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by blihp 6y ago
Of course it was, implicitly. Go back an read Stallman's writings from the time. It was all about giving end users control. The end users of the early GNU software were mostly programmers so providing them with source code was p
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by blihp 6y ago
Fair points re: disruptions... but you will have those issues anywhere in factories run by any company. I was responding to the implication that there's anything inherently unpredictable in the chip companies being foreign. My point

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