I didn't say it was.
I was just wondering how you define PC. Form factor or "standard connectors" (whatever that is - which RPi connector is not "standard"?) are none of my criteria.
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I was just wondering how you define PC. Form factor or "standard connectors" (whatever that is - which RPi connector is not "standard"?) are none of my criteria.
Although I would expect better debugging interfaces, less hacky hardware setup, a reasonable boot-loader, etc. Some things improved over the generations, true.
Particularly what makes this RISC-V board a PC, what an RPi does not have? Form factor, ATX power or PCI-Express?
Development boards are typically more expensive, since they are produced in lower numbers, and have features a consumer is not interested in (debugging, etc.).
Unless the manufacturer pushes development boards hard to e.g. pull developers in to the new eco-system quickly, then they might get sold at a bargain. But those are then usually not usable in place of the "real thing" (would cut into sales).
And further, that's not the definition of social distancing. This would obviously include indoors. I won't sit at my kitchen table with the postman for a coffee while I am avoiding public gatherings.
I am sorry, my sarcasm-radar is quite broken. Are you joking?
Evidence seems to indicate there is such an effect - and contradicting the initial assumption that there isn't.
Are people that isolate more likely to get hospitalized with Covid-19 than those that do not?
Where I live, cars need certification/a license to be operated. The manufacturer does that for you, so you can obtain the required document quite easily for your car.
Aftermarket parts are regulated - you can't install what you want, it needs to be certified for your specific make and model (and motor variant, etc.) - otherwise your car is not legal anymore.
This applies to chip tuning as well. Since you're modifying a certified part, it looses the certification - obviously.
What new cars are allowed to emit, is strictly regulated.
Further, since this very month, we have a carbon-based tax on new cars (based upon the aforementioned certification from the manufacturer). Thus if the emissions of car are changed, you're basically evading taxes as well.
Where I live, chip tuning is almost only done to get a few HP on the cheap. And it is unfortunately very popular and nobody really cares.
Edit: You can seek in individual certification for some modifications, added to your documentation, but a tampered with ECU is not one of them I think.
Chip tuning always meddles with curves the manufacturer chose after long consideration and extensive tests (let's just ignore VW for a moment) - and you are trying to tell me that guy from this shop just "knows better" and "sure, this will be better in every possible aspect"?
Are you trying to say a 2019 BMW out of factory will shoot out black smoke while accelerating (quite boringly) from a traffic light?
This system is meant for cars without level 2 driver assist, so not for Teslas.
Further, the system has no control over what "disengages" in the car itself - it is sending bogus sensor inputs to elicit a reaction according to level 2 driver assistance. Thus, if it sends such bogus inputs and fails at doing this "reliably", it will result in misbehaving steering, breaking, etc. which it does not control itself.
Further, if it was in control, my argument would stay: If your controlling device has left the building (crashed), it can also not disengage anything any more reliably.
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Also (caution, tangent): MCUs in cars is one of the systems where I want more encryption/signing and less hacking - especially for owners. Foremost to get rid of all the chip-tuned soot sources I am constanly driving behind.
The manufacturer knows how to control the engine, the random idiot with a laptop in 95% of the cases does more harm then good. If the manufacturer botched the MCU (hello VW), then he is held accountable. If he allows users to cause harm to the environment (chip-tuning), he should be held accountable too.
Ever had an android app or even the whole phone locking up? Even if it is only for a second or two, I don't want this to happen to a device that feeds live data into my car's controller.
Even if this is only level 2 driver assist. If a car would get a bogus "you are crossing a divider line" signal for e.g. 2 seconds, it would start to steer quite persistently (even if with limited force) in a certain direction and you would have to counter that action.
Nope, I wouldn't use this.
"At your own risk" means you bear the risk (legally). If something happens, it is on you, and the manufacturer offloads any liability on you.
That does not imply what the risks are. Life threatening? You are risking other people's lives.
Are self-driving computers superior to humans and make less mistakes, or is it OK for a computer to be tricked by something some humans would also not detect?
Btw. I think I can tell if there is a real stop-sign or something on a billboard after some 'huh'-moment and without slamming on the brakes. And humans still go circles around AI regarding plausibility-checking very out-of-the-ordinary events.
Or am I mistaken about US law? I think it is even worse over there, you can basically write what you want, as long as nobody can prove it outright wrong. Just imagine all the New York Post articles somebody would be sued for.
Most outright defamatory articles just end in a "Welp, sorry?"-situation and nothing ever happens, because "It could have been true, right?"
It begins with a legal dilemma: E.g. asylum is a human right, but how to determine who is eligible? In a timely manner that is. Especially if you have thousands of applicants and (almost) no documents. How do you house people in the meantime? What rights do they have?
Still nothing beats printing a document, scribble on it and giving it to someone or putting it a stash on your desk - not even having a device being capable of doing those things digitally without hick-ups.
The two most important issues are:
- This device (possibly) stacks all of these papers you would have printed out - so they are lost in a sheer endless space of all these various documents and even worse versions thereof. And then if you start sending these versions to others, e.g. expecting feedback, all hell breaks loose.
- There is still something about sitting with a stack of papers in your hand/on your desk - no digital device involved. Most people can't focus on a digital version the same way they do on a physical paper. I'm a huge fan of the ReMarkable (2), but simply put every (even awesome) attempt so far has failed.
Then add to that all the hick-ups that are simply never to leave. Software incompatibilities, sharing tools not working with all devices, walled-gardens, ... the problems are still endless and just get worse with every tool you add.
How are you going to print exams for students? Forms for residents to fill out? We are not going to demand of every citizen to fill out everything online at all times, are we? That would leave the most vulnerable even more stranded than they are now.
Would it be too far fetched if one of them starts maintaining/sheltering a fork - at least to fix bugs? Maybe even with the help of the other interested parties (in an ideal world)?
I cannot imagine IBM wants to sit on a Fedora Workstation release with a buggy printing service.
But let me tell you, it is terrible not being able to print from your system dialogue.
Then there is IPP and LPD/LPR. But those are either limited and sometimes the results not ideal (LPD), or again rely on a driver on your system to access the features of your printer (IPP) e.g. double sided printing, toner levels, print quality, etc.
He once wanted to sell some surplus seeds from a harvest to other farmers on a facebook page or similar. He was quickly reminded that he was strictly not allowed to this, since he did not own the rights. The cooperative he operates under (basically the only way farming is done here) sold/gave him the seeds and the right to plant them and resell/bring the crops to them afterwards. Everything else was "unlicensed" and would be fined harshly.
That's just the way it is - particularly with newly developed variants. Breeding takes decades and needs to pay off somehow.
For a different view on this I suggest the SciFri podcast on the new "Cosmic Crisp" Apple. Or some research on the "Honey Crisp", "Pink Lady", etc.
You also cannot unplug all of your neighbours routers, TVs and other devices.
It is very easy to get paranoid about specific wireless technologies, it is almost impossible nowadays to avoid "electrosmog" or particularly wireless emitters entirely though.
Further, you can schedule it or even trigger by certain calendar events. Very convenient if you have small children and don't want the random calls from grandparents or old friends checking in at inconvenient times (apparently if they don't have children but working a lot they don't consider 9pm to be "a bad time" - how should they?).
We used Airplane mode at nights before (even before we had kids), but were stressed about missed emergencies from relatives and stopped doing that.
Disclaimer: I get approx. 2 calls per week, and this is mostly businesses calling back, etc. I still don't want to miss emergencies though.
I have an issue though where switching off the monitor for a few days might make the AMD card disabling the outputs and not recognizing the monitor afterwards (I think it is related to the order in which I try to "wake" the monitor) - which I cannot recover from without rebooting the machine.
But this is with a machine never going into suspend or any sleep state - and I can't say if this would be the same with the NVIDIA card. I do not use the NVIDIA card for video output because the proprietary driver would regularly stop showing my desktop - or suddenly any output at all after reboot.
The integrated Intel GPU on my laptop is mostly without issues whatsoever.
On laptops I would still recommend Intel GPUs anyway for power consumption reasons - although AMD APUs are quite interesting and I don't have recent knowledge about how well they compare. The CPU and its ability to lower power consumption under sleep is also relevant there, and this was way better under Intel so far. Unless you need the increase in performance an AMD GPU/APU would offer...
Regarding GPUs and how good they work under Linux, computing on GPUs is only a part of the discussion I would argue...
Intel simply has no closed source driver for Linux. New hardware is often supported/merged before it is even sold. AMD is trying the same, but not there yet.