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by bradfa 9y ago
It's a neat way to teach people how to program distributed systems at this scale but I don't understand why they wouldn't use the Raspberry Pi Compute Moudle instead of normal Raspberry Pis. Using the Compute Modules would,
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by bradfa 9y ago
Ektachrome still photography film is a Kodak Alaris product. Kodak Alaris announced its return at CES in 2017: https://www.kodakalaris.com/en-gb/about/press-releases/2016/... Eastman Kodak is also, as p
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by bradfa 9y ago
As far as I know, yes. Kodak Alaris sells all of the Kodak brand still photography film, paper, and chemicals, as well as selling/managing/running the Kodak Moments app/website and the Kodak photo kiosks (such as can be foun
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by bradfa 9y ago
Tri-X is sold by Kodak Alaris now, not Eastman Kodak, although I'm not sure who actually manufactures it: http://imaging.kodakalaris.com/professional-photographers/ph... Kodak Alaris and Eastman Kodak are separate
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by bradfa 9y ago
With those kinds of currents, it'll be interesting to see if point of load DC-DC converters become integrated into the motors themselves so as to reduce the wiring requirements for distributing the power to the motors. The batteries w
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by bradfa 9y ago
DRAM is still extremely expensive, so you're probably on-point about part of the low price being the lack of DRAM. It would be interesting to see tear downs of current consumer and enterprise SSDs to better understand how they work.
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by bradfa 9y ago
NAND prices per GB are actually starting to come back down, now. Most of the 3D NAND tooling change-overs are completing at the various NAND fabs, so NAND prices should only continue to fall in the coming months/years in $/GB pri
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by bradfa 9y ago
LG have made some nice improvements to allowing bootloader unlocking on some of their models. It's still definitely well beyond what "normal people" would be able to do, but it's nice to see from a technical standpoint.
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by bradfa 9y ago
i.MX6 uses Cortex-A9 cores so is affected by spectre. ARM has some good info on how to deal with it: https://developer.arm.com/support/security-update i.MX8M will use Cortex-A53 cores so is not affected by spectre. ED
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by bradfa 9y ago
The biggest helper for me when trying to read other peoples' code is having a document (or documents) which describe what the heck the code is supposed to be doing in human terms. This is especially true when I'm not super famili
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by bradfa 9y ago
I use OpenLauncher and like it. F-droid link: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.benny.openlauncher/ Google play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.benny.open...
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by bradfa 9y ago
There's the Craneboard but it's a bit dated now and never had much of a community around it. http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/CraneBoard
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by bradfa 9y ago
Prior to Zen based processors there are a decent number of offerings under the Opteron and AMD's embedded SoC families (possibly others, but these are the ones I'm familiar with) which did not contain ME-like capabilities. Projec
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by bradfa 9y ago
https://contextualelectronics.com/
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by bradfa 9y ago
If they do a quarter like this past one for macs for the upcoming three quarters then Mac sales would be on the cusp of being in the Fortune 100, not just in the 500! http://fortune.com/fortune500/list/
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by bradfa 9y ago
The 900P is also not THAT much faster than the 2+ year old Intel SSD 750 series PCIe cards which cost about half as much per GB of storage. https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/memory-s
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by bradfa 9y ago
I live in upstate NY, USA. Lots of people have well water and septic tanks around here. Growing up in NH, USA lots of people there had wells and septic tanks, too.
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by bradfa 9y ago
Are you suggesting a system like London's congestion charge? https://tfl.gov.uk/modes/driving/congestion-charge
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by bradfa 9y ago
There's also "ARM9" in the "fake amazon" pic from the article: http://mntmn.com/reform/photos/fakeamazon.png
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by bradfa 9y ago
My understanding was that one of POWER's biggest selling points is the huge number of memory channels each socket can support and the way that the CPU connects to the accelerators, which other platforms don't enable, using interfa
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by bradfa 9y ago
Probably no implications on performance or energy consumption. Disabling it will prevent many remote management capabilities which are desirable in corporate environments. Some details: https://www.kernel.org/doc/Docum
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by bradfa 9y ago
Tiny quibble, but it's mentioned more than once in the article that the NXP i.MX6 is an "ARM9" processor. It is not. i.MX6 uses ARM Cortex-A9 which is very different from ARM9. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#
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by bradfa 9y ago
But then you're trusting the key generation software/hardware of your PC and some people feel this is less secure unless you're able to take drastic measures to secure the PC doing the key generation. Some people prefer the
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by bradfa 9y ago
Why wouldn't it be legal to use MythTV to build a DVR? The broadcast flag issues? I think those have been resolved in the USA by having the rules that the FCC tried to implement removed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#
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by bradfa 9y ago
Raptor Computing Systems will sell you a 4 core POWER9 CPU for $340 each [1]. A desktop mobo with the kinds of features discussed shouldn't be more than a few hundred dollars if slimmed down to one socket and a reasonable but limited
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by bradfa 9y ago
A properly done and code-compliant residential rooftop solar install is non-trivial for many DIYers. I do lots of things around my house but a rooftop solar install is something I'd definitely hire an experienced and insured contracto
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by bradfa 9y ago
You don't need to use Intel's FSP if Intel will tell you how to do what the FSP does. FSP doesn't do anything magical, it just happens to setup a whole lot of early boot things for you like SDRAM configuration, microcode loa
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by bradfa 9y ago
The local populace has a $170 million/year problem of stolen cars. Government spends $86 million (one time cost? estimated cost over X years? it's unclear) to help solve this problem. Doesn't seem like that bad of an econom
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by bradfa 9y ago
Do other *nix systems behave differently regarding overcommit of memory and malloc() really only erroring out when virtual memory is exhausted (which basically never happens)?
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by bradfa 9y ago
Some Kindles may use i.MX6, likely simply because some i.MX6 versions have an integrated e-paper drive subsystem which avoids the need to use an external e-paper controller. I believe early Kindles used the Epson e-paper drive controller.

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