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Over 10 years later, I can say that the original BeagleBone was far more reliable than the original Raspberry Pi. The Texa Instruments specifications & documents for the processor were far better as well. I've had several Raspberry Pis just randomly die, but every one of the Beagle Bones are still going. I've heard similar feedback from people with IOT startups. RPis work great until some just randomly die.

Today I find the quality of the Raspberry Pi is dramatically improved, the tooling to help a beginner get started is amazing, and of course there's just simply a much larger user base that have likely resolved the problems you'll encounter.

However the real magic of a Beagle bone is listed in this features: Arm Cortex-R5 subsystem for low-latency I/O and control

There are many use cases such as robotics, where there is a need real time control and Beagle bones have this capability built in, whereas with Raspberry Pi you'll see people connecting an Arduino and a Raspberry Pi together to meet this requirement. Its kludgy, burns tons of time, and it also adds up cost wise.

In any case if you're just starting out, and you ever get interested in these things, know that you'll likely end up with many of them over the years. RPi is great for beginners, but if I was deploying something into the field as an IOT startup etc, I still prefer a Beagle.

My 2c

“Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.” ― Seneca

...in spite of Boeing's efforts.

This could bring a whole new dimension to 'Save water, drink beer!'

This is very good advice, and makes sense considering the best investors are dead ones.

In every market crash I am surrounded by people losing their minds about all the money they've lost, but that is just what Mr. Market is offering that day. So they sell, the market recovers, they see it going up, they buy. Buy high, sell low, buy high again. People won't admit what they have done, but do this all the time. https://www.businessinsider.com/forgetful-investors-performe...

Actually it was the Internet. I still believe my Commodore is harmless.

I’m sure GM has a formula for this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiB8GVMNJkE

I'm not. I see the Javascript guy, the GO guy, but I am surprised not to see the Rust guy, probably just running late though.

Scum rises to the top.

considering they are owned my Microsoft, their windows app app is a technical marvel. It’s a crippled buggy version of their already too buggy web app. I understand why it was made, but I don’t understand why it was released. It doesn’t look good for either brand.

Where do you use a MIDI synthesizer that it needs to be waterproof? In the rain, the ocean, the bathtub? Inquiring minds want to know!

Android on the desktop works very well on Wayland with Waydroid and it even supports Google Play store. https://waydro.id/

Great running apps not available on Linux with a touchscreen PC. It only seems to run Android apps compiled for x86, but it is very fast.

There are practical use cases, and it is very usable. I haven’t tried it on WSL2, but it seems like a practical approach without reliance on Microsoft.

I use Newsblur, it’s open source and you can self host, but for the price of the service, I am happy to pay. There are apps for most every platform.

https://github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur

Cartman's dream came true. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ar4aHfA2UwQ

This seems less like an announcement of anything new, and more of a reminder of what is already possible.

That said, training, reimaging and refurbishing devices to be redeployed is no small amount of work. Also, it is likely organization would use the device as a thin client to Windows 365, or Azure Virtual Desktop assuming they don't already have a VDI, so I am not sure what is in this for Google, unless they think organization are going to migrate to Google docs as well.

Oh Google, they are good at keeping me guessing.

It’s in the A-Hole

BMO uses virtual agents that impersonate humans in Canada to follow up on credit card promotions. I’ll give them credit for being realistic, I’d have fallen for it, except what I do for a living. I test them by saying: “The maze isn’t meant for you.” (Westworld) Cover is blown immediately. It awkwardly says it didn’t get that, then it agrees with me and tries to move on with prodding me to accept the credit card blathering on about the benefits.

Banks doing this is an exceptionally bad idea. It’s one thing to Robo call and be clear your virtual agent (though bad - and I like the idea of it being illegal), it is extraordinarily creepy and offensive to impersonate a human.

Except we are also complaining about a housing crisis. Homeless shelters that were already full of the homeless, are now joined with refugees, and apparently international students that also can't find a home to share with 24 other people.

https://www.blogto.com/city/2024/01/25-international-student...

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/mayor-refugees-shelte...

HSBC Canada is in the process of being sold to RBC. As employees will no longer work for HSBC in March and possibly unemployed through the new found efficiencies by RBC, this creates an interesting situation for virtually no risk whistle-blowing.

I hadn't thought of this possibility when the exit was announced.

Rage is all the rage these days, and following the PEP link he provided, the explanation is outrageous:

"The algorithms are mostly old, of poor quality and insecure. Users are discouraged from using them."

Why is this post being upvoted?

I replaced my MS Arc mouse with Lenovo X1 presenter mouse. I prefer it overall (esp the price), but the haptic scroll was better on the MS mouse.

https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/p/accessories-and-software/keyb...

Also light years ahead when the cloud access isn’t available or spotty in an elevator, the middle of the lake, a parkade, travelling with cellular turned off and wifi is on.

I had an office, with a locking door and a north facing window wall, so I never fried in the sun. It was dead silent, walls were soundproofed. It was glorious, I could focus and rarely needed to move to a meeting room, my office had plenty of space and a whiteboard. They were on an extremely long-term lease and it was a marvellous anachronism. The commute was a damned nightmare. A soul destroying 30 minutes to one hour stop and go. The lease expired, offices demolished and we moved to what became my first open office layout. I made it a few months before resigning. Absolutely hated it and I struggled to get anything done. However, I could walk to work, which is always a great thing for a health and mind clearing after work.

I’m back to working from home again we have a nearby office that I visit occasionally for meetings. It’s a separate room north facing window (West and south aren’t great at all). For me, there are tax benefits to help cover the cost, and the savings on a commute, restaurants for lunch, and dry cleaning easily cover the rest. Time savings are great, but I recommend keeping the commute at the end of the day, take different walks around the neighbourhood. Find new businesses, meet neighbours. It’s much better than the same walk each day to work.

My 2c.

Trudeau is subsidizing most of Canadian media. Who knows what Pierre will do, but I’ll take a bet that it could be a cost saving measure to stop handouts to ‘fake news’ MSM.

Justin seems to be aiming for a supernova exit… https://338canada.com/

For a user, this has been my biggest frustration. ‘300x150 is the default specified in the SVG spec if it isn't specified in the document svg element.’

In practice, this means that some SVGs appear fine in apps that calculates the size in some other manner, but in others that follow the ‘spec’ only 300x150 appears. Safari & Jupyter notebooks for example. Seriously annoying, but at least I was able to figure out why.

https://svgwg.org/specs/integration/#svg-css-sizing

On my tongue, 9V hurts. There is pain, but no harm.

“Unzip, expand, explode... What pervert came up with this?” - unknown

I did learn something interesting about red meat travelling to South America. so the story is red meat and cancer, people that consume a lot more red meat tend to have more cancer. Brazil and Argentina are favourite examples. Except no one seems to take an account how they prepare red meat.

A churrasco or asado is a full day event. It starts with wood, and they get a fire going, and this last for hours and is a big social event. In other words hanging around wood smoke, now I can picture something that’s not red meat that could cause cancer in this scenario, but that never seems to bother researchers. They got the result they wanted and publish.

OKI printers are excellent, I never see them on the consumer market in Canada. There were 2 brands in the 90’s that caught my attention as extraordinarily reliable when I worked at a computer store in the 90’s, Brother and OKI. OKI performs very well in terrible environments such as woodworking shops (over a decade with sawdust everywhere). HP and Lexmark were awesome for service contract work.

I’m fine with paying for this type of service,but the last thing I want to do is give money to YouTube so it can become an even bigger defacto monopoly.