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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 Foundries and Samsung to sync processes at 14nm to build their chips:

http://semiaccurate.com/2014/04/17/semiaccurate-right-apples...

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...

> 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 not on Raspbian & using their ancient repos with broken software. Part of why I've avoided Raspberry Pis entirely.

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?

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.

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 to be done after a decade, then you get to sit there for months and heal.

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

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 blamed will be the engineer, despite the paper they wrote and published years before saying to tear the 60 year old bridge with spalding concrete and rusted girders down.

You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make them drink it. The same goes for accepting reality, hence why many choose to live in an alternative reality.

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 redesigned to be on a road diet, but building structures in the middle is perhaps not the best idea. Parkifying some sections, expanding others into plazas (while infilling parking to densify) and selling the edges of the roadway to new development so it may be denser would be better approaches.

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.

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 operates (alongside the county gov't in North County).

Hell, there was a murder last week not a block from where I walked daily when I was there a few weeks ago. Had a window get smashed there too a few months back. IMO, Seattle is safer (just gotta keep the crack heads from breaking my windows in Chinatown :P).

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 urban transit, in which case its time to get the management canned.

Serving suburban slums with mass transit will never provide effective transit, nor is it financially feasible for most of these areas to maintain their infrastructure long term, usually they are underwater 5x to 6x in terms of maintenance funds needed to keep the current level of infrastructure afloat.

Richer areas may be able to make it work past the 50 year mark for a few decades more, but poorer areas (Detroit, Flint, and good chunks of Texas) are literally letting their infrastructure fall to bits as the tax base can't support it.

https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2017/1/9/the-real-reason...

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 been piss poor with mass transit in LA. San Diego is slightly better, but it has the same issue as LA with zoning.

I do not think I could reliably take the bus to work in LA or San Diego, whereas in Seattle or Portland I grew up riding it and I know I'll get there reliably.

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 literally the middle of nowhere California!

With that low density style of development, your not going to be able to justify a rail line that can move 20k people an hour, as there aren't enough people who can get to a station to feed it.

I blame LA's zoning that keeps it as an urban slum. Dezone the city and you'd see areas around existing mass transit densify over the next decade.

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 existing areas surrounding rail stations will clump and develop rapidly, as they have along the Coaster alignment in California, or along the MAX alignment in Portland.

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 process no matter the insurance provider.

Plus, hospitals here on the West Coast have amped up doing a bunch of skeezy stuff recently, you could easily end up with a non-functional leg at a place like Swedish or Providence (two major hospital systems):

https://projects.seattletimes.com/2017/quantity-of-care/hosp...

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 whatever else, many middle class and upper class folks live productive lives despite these addictions.

Why can't we bring these people back into being productive, economically net positive members of society, and deal with their addictions with compassion, as any reasonable human being & the Catholic Church preaches?

I've employed many addicts before, if they have a choice of smashing windows all night to maybe get $100 worth of shit they'll fence for $60, or a gig that'll pay them $110 to pull cabling & set up hardware for 8 hours, they will pick the latter every time. Outside of work hours, don't expect them to be contactable, and watch your shit well, but beyond that this group of humans can be a net positive for our society despite the chemical dependency issues they have.

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 buildings over a longer period of time to get that trackage dead straight.

Rail management in Europe is also not the greatest, they tried to separate rolling stock (the cars you ride on) from the company that owns the rails, while forcing them to sublease track rights, which has created a mess as of late.

Due to topographical issues, short of another FDR style project we will not see something similar in the US in our lifetime.

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 efficient.

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 an hour, 1 lane road moves 2k per hour), or has Elon revised his inaccurate estimate, where he estimated SF to LA rail without actually crossing the bay into SF (or acquiring the right of way), or going into LA?

I recently drove through both cities, and where Elon proposed to end the alignment would make it absolutely useless for most potential users at peak hours, as its a 2+hr drive across LA and out of it to get there. Combined with where it terminates near SF, you could spend a few hours just commuting to & from it.

Ultimately, there isn't any way to get around the topography of either city whereby you can avoid the issues California's High Speed Rail has run into. Your gonna end up with lots of landowners, large and small, pissed off that your taking their parking space (which is on railroad property, and they've been using for a few years illicitly), changing the neighborhood, or doing anything at all. This is a costly process, but you either build it now and get the right of way, or you leave it to happen 40 years from now at a much higher cost.

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.

The reason Absolute is Vancouver based by the way is the Canadian Govt gives massive tax breaks to software companies, hence why a ton of point of sale and other software companies are based just to the north.

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 every file on machine, and view hardware & software status and licensing. It also incorporates a bunch of other features, but those are what scare me most.

This is only made worse by the fact that it is readily exploitable: https://threatpost.com/millions-of-pcs-affected-by-mysteriou...

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 performance, but I've yet to test (just got kernel 4.10 built for it & booting Debian reliably).

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 build a fast & secure network, and scale from there.

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.

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 communications channel.

Most attackers (low level, local politicians) will be unable to break this most of the time, which would make for a safer situation for all involved. I think that this should be standard procedure in every country, subbing in Signal Private Messenger where it isn't blocked.

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, etc. This was also done to many urban spaces and college campus squares at the same time, as it is very effective.

Note: love the downvotes, keep 'em coming. I'm just referencing history here :P

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 and/or join your local Ceph cluster/IPFS.

We have CJDNS (which salsa20's all your data & can VPN legacy networks to ya), fully FLOSS SBCs for under $20ea, and 802.11n and AC outdoor radios can be had for cheap, this is merely a community involvement problem.

Your being a bit presumptuous there, in most Western countries they'd be able to block VK and other non-local sites without protests in the streets, and if they occured you'd see a significant portion of the country (esp. in the US) hoping for the police to come in and crush said protest.

Depending on the subject, the protest can be crushed, hence why most public spaces in the US have been bricked over for easy protest breakup.