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by trome 10y ago
Only a select few boards were based on ARMv6, the Raspi 2 and above use a modern ARMv7 core. Running Raspbian vs Debian on a Raspi 2 or 3 shows off the massive performance gap between the two, IMO they should have used a single ARMv7 core f
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by trome 10y ago
Apple does have a massive team working on optimizing their ARM chips, they started out with redesigning the uncore, hired quite a bit of talent from other companies, and have moved to optimizing the CPU itself. They even forced Global Found
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by trome 10y ago
ARM isn't used for the main CPU for the PS4 or Xbox One, both run customized APUs using x86-64, just like AMD's consumer APU offerings. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_4_technical_specif...
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by trome 10y ago
> There are plenty of ports that end up being Intel-only .. as a SPARC and Raspberry Pi user Sure, but you can compile failed builds of software yourself and get that tool on ARM or SPARC. ARM works pretty well on Debian, so long as your
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by trome 10y ago
Pretty much, why can't I run a modern kernel on the average device running Linux, whether that be an IP Camera, or a smartphone? Why are we forced to run ancient, unpatched & insecure software by Qualcomm, LG, Samsung & Google?
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by trome 10y ago
Dedicating units to low income housing means you've failed to build enough units despite demand, and zoning is likely at fault. Whether it be height caps or parking minimums jacking up the price, they need to go.
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by trome 10y ago
Partially, the upstream vendor (Stryker) made some defective knee replacement joints that wear out prematurely, causing pain and issues walking. Opening the knee back up and replacing most of the parts with better designed parts is what has
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by trome 10y ago
Poor post-op care for the initial two, combined with Stryker making some very low quality knee replacements. Thus why you'd need another knee replacement after a decade
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by trome 10y ago
An engineer will say a bridge will fail, or a foundation they designed 20 years ago will give way under 4x the load it was designed for, but the politicians and businessmen at the top will overrule them, people may die, and the only person
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by trome 10y ago
Zoning is inherently racist, designed to keep the poor and working class out of areas of the city. It stunts economic growth to boot, and should be done away with entirely. That being said, the roadways are public property, and should be re
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by trome 10y ago
That is just plain stupid, short of being a giant asshole, you don't lay on the horn cause someone respected a light/stop sign. Sounds like a city to avoid.
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by trome 10y ago
Its an hour from anywhere (about even time wise in my experience, whether heading to San Diego or Long Beach), has a beautiful coastline, but there is a gang war currently raging there and it is a rural small town, and that is how it operat
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by trome 10y ago
If it runs less often than every 15 minutes, then its not a major bus line, and your in a suburban slum. Or, possibly your local transit agency has decided lifeline service to the suburban slums/gricklegrass is more important than urba
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by trome 10y ago
I'd rather be anywhere in Seattle or Portland trying to use mass transit rather than in LA, its so spread out due to zoning (requiring abundant, unused parking, and limiting building height) and all of my past experiences there have be
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by trome 10y ago
Whenever I go to LA, it seems like an urban slum with no significant development of note (above 6 story) in most of LA. Its as though the land is worthless, even Oceanside has taller buildings than Long Beach or Riverside, and Oceanside is
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by trome 10y ago
Getting to an Airport in LA is much easier than going up north to where the proposed Hyperloop alignment ends. Endpoint wise, you really aren't going to see much migration in terms of endpoints when it comes to rail, if anything the ex
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by trome 10y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurail
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by trome 10y ago
Uhh, hate to break it to ya, but even with insurance its not all roses and sunshine in the USA, you can easily go 6 months waiting for a knee replacement here. Watched a family member go through 4 over the past decade, and its a slow proces
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by trome 10y ago
Here is a counterargument: Why not pull a Denmark, legalize and give at no cost heroin to addicts, and get these people back to work? A junkie can be productive, despite an ongoing chemical addiction, whether it be meth, heroin, alcohol or
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by trome 10y ago
Eurorail was able to straighten their rail alignments in Europe as it was built, and had a legacy of having straighter alignments than we have here in the US, as its a denser continent with more political capital to spend to eminent domain
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by trome 10y ago
It can't even move 1000 people an hour, a road moves 2k an hour, a set of metal sticks we call rail moves 20k an hour. That is why rail is so popular across Asia & Europe, if your moving large volumes of people it is very, very eff
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by trome 10y ago
Has the Hyperloop made any significant progress recently? This article was pretty thin on the ground when it comes to substantiative info. Have any of the fatal flaws been fixed (sub-1000 person per hour transport volume, rail can move 20k
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by trome 10y ago
Intel's ME/vPro can do a lot, but its nowhere near the fit and finish of Computrace. They aren't very good on sales, but once you become a reseller there are a ton of features you can access & use to manage your computers
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by trome 10y ago
Absolute with their Computrace product is selling what amounts to a hardware rootkit, which can be enabled with a simple unprivileged exe or bash script. You can wipe, encrypt, lock, view & kill processes, retrieve any file and view eve
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by trome 10y ago
Mmm, how is throughput? I know that on an OrangePi PC (same Allwinner H3) I was getting 5MB/s for a point to point transfer, didn't check relay throughput though. I assume the H5 would do better with gigabit and 2.5x better NEON p
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by trome 10y ago
Yeah, I'm not advocating for building our own SoC, as just taping out a chip is tens of millions, instead I'm advocating for using inexpensive Arm64 chips that already are a known quantity (firmware free, mainlined drivers) to bui
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by trome 10y ago
Sure, but the silicon & libre drivers already exist and don't need to be manufactured, so at this point its a marketing problem of selling a more secure computing box.
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by trome 10y ago
Probably, but they are playing with peoples lives (as reporters do in every country) and they should take some basic precautions, say mailing them an encrypted mSD with a silence.im APK onboard so they can establish a vaguely secure communi
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by trome 10y ago
At UW Seattle, they bricked over Red Sqare (and hence made it red) so that they could use water cannons on the protesters and they'd have nothing to firmly attach/affix themselves to, whether that be trees, stakes in the ground, e
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by trome 10y ago
So why not build our own network with crypto, blackjack & hookers on libre hardware? Say on an OrangePi PC2 with a bunch of high gain USB 5GHz radios attached, and throw some spinning rust on there so you can run a Nextcloud instance an

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