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by easp 10y ago
"Most home users" are never going to install OpenWRT on anything, RPi, or otherwise. Of those that do, it seems likely that they will max out the throughput of a RPi, especially now that >100Mbps internet is common place is som
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by easp 10y ago
The RPi is tied to the 12-24 month product cycles of consumer electronics devices. That's great in that it means relatively frequent upgrades. Though at this point, the RPi3 is a very unbalanced system. Particlarly, as others have note
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by easp 10y ago
Your point about the diversity of the router hardware ecosystem is an important one, and from what I can tell, makes up a significant portion of the OpenWRT project. I think though that the "industry" work on QoS and rate control
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by easp 10y ago
Loading even more functionality into the kernel is at odds with security, stability and maintainability. Its also not going to save much/any in the way of resources.
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by easp 10y ago
A big part of the OpenWRT project is hardware support for wireless chipsets and SoCs. Sure, they could move all that to BSD, but then if they wanted to do that, why didn't they do that in the first place, rather than working on Linux?
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by easp 10y ago
Your analysis seems predicated on your own ignorance of the OpenWRT project, and human nature. How many system-level developers do you know who'd throw themselves into creating a new project, hashing out the governance, etc unless the
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by easp 11y ago
As others have said, it sounds like you are burned out and depressed. There are various ways to recover, but there is a good chance it will happen again unless you make some changes. A good start would be revisiting your dream. How old were
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by easp 12y ago
For a given generation of lithium battery cell and management technology, there is the option of trading off between capacity and durability. Field-replaceable laptop batteries are engineered as a consumable, and runtime, weight and chargin
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by easp 12y ago
The idea that some people fetishize disruption and heads-you-loose, tails-I-win situations baffles me. The utility has expenses beyond the cost of power generation. They don't exist to provide a subsidy to cool upstarts. They provide c
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by easp 13y ago
Dismal. Btw, is there a way o view this that doesn't require a google login? I'd like to share it more widely.
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by easp 13y ago
Do you actually know what you pretend to know, or are you holding a grudge against Apple for an old transgression with KHTML that they've since done did a great deal of work to put right?
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by easp 14y ago
Sometimes I have the feeling that most of the namespace is already clogged with spammy parking pages, and even spammier sites. I think I'd rather stumble into monuments.
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by easp 14y ago
And I would expect thee preparedness of the average concealed carry permit holder to decline if we do more to reshape the US around the notion that an armed society is a polite society.
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by easp 14y ago
You are relying on anecdotes. However, given that shooters of this sort are quite rare, is there even enough data to reach statistically significant conclusions about the risks from people returning fire? In any case, if we were to follow t
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by easp 14y ago
I'm much more concerned about the impact higher carry rates would have in relatively more common situations, like disagreements between motorists, etc. Many people with guns feel empowered to double down in situations they would otherwise w
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by easp 14y ago
Yeah, but Guru VPs can help attract and retain those other people.
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by easp 14y ago
Well then, you really aren't getting the best of both worlds, are you. Might as well by an iPad.
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by easp 14y ago
Hmmm. This seems to leave out part of the picture. Apple is also using its substantial cash pile to lock up supplies of key components. Some supplies get paid well past delivery, others may get money well before.
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by easp 14y ago
Par for the course for the opinion/editorial pages of the WSJ. If they are this sloppy and dishonest on subjects one knows about, how can they be trusted on any subject.
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by easp 14y ago
Please provide citations for your assertion that solar panels require vast amounts of energy to produce. When I looked into the question a few years ago, the best sourced estimates I could find put the EROI at less than two years.
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by easp 14y ago
Yeah, I expect so, but I think the real payoff for Valve will be facilitating monetization of the finished films.
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by easp 14y ago
You are wrong about Apple, they have one huge datacenter in the US where people suspect the Siri backend runs. They also have a smaller data center in California. We don't actually know what runs where, and we don't know what they are runni
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by easp 14y ago
My friend Beth is starting a US company that focuses on thes e kinds of low-cost solutions for the developing world with an eye to doing a disruption from the base of the pyramid. I'd include a link, but I don't think they have a public fac
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by easp 14y ago
I increacingly question the notion that there are any just wars, but I don't really see how such a clause is practical or enforceable. Even if it were practical and enforceable at keeping "evil" from co-opting code contributed by "good," it
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by easp 14y ago
Sure, the GPL allows it, but the GPL doesnt allow Bob to dictate what Alice does with the source once she has it (GPL v2, term #4). If she decides to distribute it, his recourse is to not do further business with Alice. That could be enough
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by easp 14y ago
You should read the GPL more closely and expose yourself to some of the legal commentary on interpretations of the word "distribution," as used in the GPL. Your right to keep your changes to yourself end when you distribute your derivative
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by easp 14y ago
Yes, because heterosexuals in such positions never had affairs, or if they did, it was never with the wrong sort of woman. Whether or not the ruling class was "used to homosexuals," their attitudes towards them were far from universally acc
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by easp 14y ago
Well, he was a man who had taken female hormones as an alternative to going to prison, and who had indicated that the hormones had given him breasts. Do you think a dead man with breasts would have gone unnoticed by the coroner? Do you thin
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by easp 14y ago
I don't think that this is actually anything new. I recall similar language when I looked at their maps licensing terms ~four years ago. When I dug deeper, it appeared, at the time, that this only applied to features of the app that require
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by easp 14y ago
But there are also plenty of applications where Google's higher quality doesn't offer a significant advantage. At my last job I started to negotiate with Google about their (old) new maps pricing. They kept pointing to features that made no

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