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Except in the case of Opus, by the sounds of these comments here.

Rpi 4 is 28nm, earlier models are 40nm.

https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/raspberry-pi-4-on-sale-now-...

That's what i thought also which is why I was curious it was considered top performing. I suppose there are metrics other than profitability to define performance.

Also a decent chance your fixed-network connection is going through a Nokia edge/core router along the way.

Were they working on products? Any examples?

The cutiepi-enclosure/CutiePi_ID_spec.pdf file is marked as "confidential". Isn't that a little odd?

There used to be libre.fm and it looks like there still is. The API was designed to be a drop-in replacement for last.fm. Last time I checked it was missing some stuff. They also have a lasttolibre tool for migrating your data. If last.fm goes away, this is where you go and what you use to do it. Or don't wait and move now, if you want.

I don't know if this is just a coincidence but there's a Morrisons supermarket almost opposite this new store in Ealing. They could wheel the stock over the road in a trolley if they wanted!

Cool, thanks! I had a go at a comparison. This is Spotify ("Very high" and volume normalization disabled), then Tidal ("HiFi") and then yours (CD then Spotify). https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Stns23J5aRoj9EeZBVKrX35Cxfh...

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rAITjrK39fiJYOT53ghq9DbC-e4...

If it's helpful for you, the code 'LIDLMUSIC' gives a free 6-month Tidal trial. It might be UK specific I have no idea.

The Spotify version sounds identical to the tidal "hifi" version (to me). I'm actually pretty curious now what this amazing CD version sounds like!

I'm currently on a Tidal free trial but I won't be moving from Spotify when it's up. I personally can't tell the difference. Maybe I'm half deaf but ignorence is bliss.

This https://open.spotify.com/album/1V5q6IEheMUjOTYJar4f54 ? It sounds fine to me but the exact copy I get might well be different to you if we are in different regions.

I totally agree, the same way many games are. But in the context of saying "x is by far most successful y on the planet" I think we have to stop somewhere. Otherwise an open game like GTA V becomes the most successful game (in terms of copies sold) in pretty much every category you can't reasonably stick Minecraft in. I don't think there's much value in that.

Technically you could get a Raspberry Pi at https://www.mythic-beasts.com/order/rpi for £7.25 per month but I'm not sure if this is what you had in mind. It's not exactly a server and it's not going to win any prizes for performance.

Wikipedia has it with 46 million owners on Steam, with the following footnote:

> Not official; the numbers were estimated following a Steam API data leak in July 2018, which gave player ownership estimates for games on the platform that have achievements.

I don't think it's obvious. In terms of player count (which is how I would personally rank success), it is not the most successful by a long way: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most-played_video_game...

However, games like PUBG and Fortnite are free-to-play (PUBG is only free on mobile?) so in terms of actual sales, you could say GTA is more successful. Still not sure I'd class it as an "online shooter", though.

If you do decide to give the pi another chance, move the root partition to an ssd and avoid the SD card woes. Or, boot from a USB device and have no sd card at all on the Pi 4. Both work well and a cheap option as you probably already habe all the stuff.

You've still got a load of wires to deal with though (unless you shell out for a fancy case).

As I understand it, the firmware for the majority of MicroSD cards is very limited. The physical size and low price point are likely the reason you don't see these more complex features in consumer cards. Also, if I recall, there's nothing in the spec about levelling so you'd probably get some half-arsed buggy implementation anyway.

That's interesting about the old blog post, I think we forget what a state things were back then that this was such a big deal. I was there refreshing with you but not for hope of open hardware. For me it's a cheap board with fantastic support that can do loads of tasks. Albeit not perfectly and there's quite a price jump to get something better, but that's just a testament to the awesome price point they keep hitting. I'm not convinced open hardware enthusiasts have much to grumble about, the offerings before rpi were poor and the market/community jumped forward tremendously on the back of rpi success.

> and in fact they've been drifting further away from that ideal over time.

Can you provide a source where "open hardware" was touted as an ideal for the Raspberry Pi Foundation.

It's a cheap education platform built on Broadcom hardware. I don't think there was ever much chance the Broadcom h/w was going to be open. And that's maybe sad for some people but it won't stop the Foundation achieving its actual goals. Open hardware enthusiasts can vote with their wallet, for all the impact it'll have. It must be one of the best selling novelty products of all time.

It's not, really. People get confused about this:

https://mobile.twitter.com/EbenUpton/status/1088440503622909...

I've personally no problem with them protecting their investment this way.

Are there any nicer interfaces for gitweb? The basic functionality (just browsing a repo) is perfect but it's not the prettiest.

Edit: this looks like what I mean, just so happens to be github style but that's not a requirement! https://github.com/kogakure/gitweb-theme

If it's just you using it, what additions does gitolite bring (genuine question)?

My only question was why did they wait so long? They could have rolled out 321kbps super-duper mode for $14.99 years ago. People would have paid for it.

> Just an FYI: one hiccup I heard of giving up your US citizenship is that banks didn’t recognize you could be born in USA but not a US citizen.

I had this issue just last month with a UK financial institution (Raisin). I tried to explain it but they obviously were not interested. I actually still have my citizenship (I'd love to renounce but that's currently impossible) but I felt it was worth pointing out their policy was unnecessarily discriminative.

That's a good reference.

I had assumed there were 1000 instruction memory SRAMs in there but of course that'd be impossible considering the leakage numbers and there's actually just 12 x 64KB SRAMs shared by all the cores:

     Per core
        640 bytes (128x40-bit) local instruction memory
        512 bytes (256x16-bit) local data memory
    768 KB SRAM on-die
        12 shared SRAM memory modules, 64 KB each

Those local per-core memories are tiny and presumably implemented with registers. But can you really do much with just 128 instructions? The following makes it sound like they might be instruction caches:

> Instructions may come from the local instruction memory or they may be fetched from one of the independent memory module

But then goes onto say:

> the KiloCore's processors do not contain traditional caches.

Hopefully their paper has more info.

The survey that the "World’s First 1,000-Processor Chip" claim is based on (http://vcl.ece.ucdavis.edu/misc/many-core.html) doesn't seem to include any network processors, some of which are technically programmable. But even if it had, they wouldn't have found any of the information required for the table and definitely not a datasheet!

As a US citizen overseas I hate filing pointless US taxes. Sending paper forms half way around the world with no confirmation is archaic.

In theory I'd love a tool that could save me wasting my life on this every year. However, would I trust it? Not from a malicious standpoint but it seems there's been lots of changes over the last few years and I'd need to know the tool had been properly updated. To do that I'd have to go and read all the updates/instructions each year (just like I do now) and then also check the tool was correct. I'm not convinced a (free?) non-accountant DIY method helps when the monetary cost of it being outdated/bugged could be significant.

I guess you could argue that this is no different from any other open-source software and it's my choice to either personally audit it or assume someone else already has - including all the schedules I use. I'm struggling to understand why I have more of a concern with this compared to, for example, my web browser. Perhaps I am just especially (and irrationally??) fearful of the IRS and the consequence of getting taxes wrong.

Does it not depend a lot on what plugins and the size of the files? I'm sitting here in a small Python repo and I am at 260MB with no files open.

I think if it wasn't installed by default, new users would be better served going through the Raspberry Pi OS "Recommended Software" program that can be found in the main menu. Your command won't help them.

  $ apt install code
  E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend - open (13: Permission denied)
  E: Unable to acquire the dpkg frontend lock (/var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend), are you root?

This isn't true. Aging is now more of a concern at 16/7nm to the point there's extra margin specially for it. But all that margin does is delay the impact beyond the realistic lifetime of the chip (normally approx 10 years for consumer stuff). Sometimes you can't afford the extra timing margin and you have to use extra anti-aging circuitry instead.

https://semiengineering.com/chip-aging-becomes-design-proble...

16.04 is EOL on April 30, 2021. Even so, the idea of expecting to run the latest version of a package on an stability-focused operating system released almost 4 years ago seems hopeful.