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by edrxty 6y ago
I have several in fact, including the PinePhone which I quite like but isn't really ready for daily use. The issue is Apple is developing a monopoly on high end hardware and there are fewer reasonable options by the day.
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by edrxty 6y ago
We can both have our cake and eat it too, we just need either an unlocked bootloader, or the ability to sideload apps over an ADB-like usb interface. People who don't want that functionality will never know it's there and there w
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by edrxty 6y ago
This is the really cool part, the ability to add custom instructions are part of the spec which makes them work through standard compilers. Any compiler that can build a RISC-V program can handle the custom instructions as inline assembly
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by edrxty 6y ago
That's nice and all, but the rest of us would like to be able to use our hardware, that we paid for up front, for whatever we need. Unfortunately iOS boots with an encrypted bootloader, so you can't replace it, and once booted, o
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by edrxty 6y ago
Some people need more functionality than iOS and its associated apps provide to do their jobs (ie embedded development/testing) among other things. Sure, "just go to Android/whatever" but Apple is quickly gaining a mono
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by edrxty 6y ago
By implying a mandate for auditing and liability, there's no reason to use any terms other than the terms they already attach to the existing app stores. It would just be more of the same policies, just enforced even more arbitrarily
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by edrxty 6y ago
By the same logic we should just eliminate free will because it's dangerous sometimes. I hate these arguments as it is allowing incompetence to drive innovation. There are plenty of other options whereby 3rd party apps/app store
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by edrxty 6y ago
Yeah, that's pretty much it. There's no real upside and you risk a lawsuit. There are plenty of other ISAs that will work and are licensable for FPGA development
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by edrxty 6y ago
For everyone else, it's not just objectionable political stuff (right wing bullshit) being demonetized, it's stuff advertisers don't like. Tons of good content is getting cut just because someone decided they didn't lik
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by edrxty 6y ago
Good luck getting that info from Amazon, though at least a third of their offered instance types are ARM based.
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by edrxty 6y ago
Partly the design of the core, partly the open source nature. Speaking from experience, it's really hard to push the envelope with ARM chips as they refuse to license them for FPGA deployments so there's not a lot of work being d
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by edrxty 6y ago
This is something that's been considered, particularly for doing things like terraforming Venus. There are these areas called Lagrange points[1] that provide a location where one can park a satellite where it'll remain stationary
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by edrxty 6y ago
Honestly the real answer is far worse. It's a ridiculous meme.
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by edrxty 6y ago
Here's the rap remix version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LjN3UclYzU
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by edrxty 6y ago
ARM is destroying x86 across the board, not just at Apple. They've long won the mobile space and are now making significant inroads into the server market, long thought to be the last bastion of Intel/x86.
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by edrxty 6y ago
I work with RISC-V, it has a lot of features that are not yet well explored. In particular the instruction set extension mechanism is extremely robust and capable, allowing much more FPGA fabric integration that you currently see on ARM de
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by edrxty 6y ago
I'm really hoping one of the other chipmakers jumps on the RISC-V bandwagon. There's substantial potential to do to ARM what ARM did to x86 here. If Intel/AMD/Qualcomm/Broadcom/whoever started talking about a
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by edrxty 6y ago
I run lineage but I don't typically use my terminal on my phone unless I'm using it for SSH. I hadn't though of the chroot angle though. That's rather interesting...
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by edrxty 6y ago
Does LineageOS provide a workaround for this?
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by edrxty 6y ago
This is where I take issue with the paper. The sub blobs are really important because different displays/focal plane arrays have different pixel arrangements that can be dramatically different. You can't assume it'll be a c
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by edrxty 6y ago
Haven't you watched Zoolander?
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by edrxty 6y ago
I figured, no worries :)
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by edrxty 6y ago
The bigger the asset, the more it approaches the parents suggestion. If a rich person buys an expensive asset and it is defective, they're often owed for loss of use/revenue because they have the power to negotiate purchasing cont
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by edrxty 6y ago
That name is beautiful
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by edrxty 6y ago
If you want a deeper dive, the chemistry here is actually really simple and (IMO) very cool. I'm drawing on some really dusty knowledge here but TL;DR the cells can be modeled as two reactions, oxidation and reduction. One is gaining
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by edrxty 6y ago
The energy is coming from metals rather than the potato. The potato simply links them allowing their ions to react and create an electric potential.
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by edrxty 6y ago
Something will always be the number one killer. Doesn't mean it isn't safe.
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by edrxty 6y ago
Where's the fun in that
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by edrxty 6y ago
You could probably get away with never releasing it and just leave it null.
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by edrxty 6y ago
Create it and before opening it publicly, squat you.tube and make it randomly redirect to any other registered domain.

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