I went into it not expecting anything great but I laughed several times. More importantly the kids loved it.
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Android gets a leg up from being built on a FLOSS base but I don't think it was the community that pushed Android to where it is today. That's taken a lot of money and resources from Google and it's phone partners investing in the slightly more open platform than Apple.
That's not really true. Yes avoiding complex instructions makes the front end easier to pipeline but there are lots of smarts in the backend to do prediction and scheduling to keep the execution units fed. The ISA might be free to use but no one is sharing their highly optimised server silicon architecture designs.
RISC-V's challenge is can they standardise the software ecosystem enough that things just work across a multitude of chip providers or does everything devolve into specialist distributions taking advantage of each manufacturers "special sauce" custom instructions.
Gaining design wins over Arm's microcontrollers for bespoke hardware was the easy bit. Replacing stuff in the server space is much harder and something that took Arm decades to make inroads into.
Ah is that what had broken my horseshoe graph? The custom graphs come up a unrecognised types whatever form I try.
Very handy site. Nice 🙂
I was in the Air Cadets although it wasn't part of the school. It was an after school activity and was great. I got to shoot guns and fly planes and develop leadership skills and character. While some did use it as a springboard into RAF (direct or via sponsored university place) there was no push to do so.
I pay for it so the TV and web experience is ad free. I use PipePipe on my phone because the native client won't stop pushing shorts at you.
J - Beastie Boys - No sleep till Brooklyn
But it cuts the initial vocal, sly!
A - Missy Elliott - Get Ur Freak On B - House of Pain - Jump Around C - Daft Punk? D - B-52s - Rock Lobster L - Fatboy Slim - Praise You
I certainly recognise some of the others but haven't figured them out yet.
Do you think there is information YouTube wouldn't collect about you even if they could be better at selling ads to people based on it?
Do you live somewhere with data protection laws? If so you could request a dump of all personally identifying data they hold on you.
I don't think it's purely a private thing though. As a country we haven't kept up with investment into our very antiqued infrastructure and it's going to take a lot to fix it.
Here in Wales our water is publicly owned but we are still seeing prices rises because guess what - capital investment has been put off because it's hard and expensive.
FLOSS projects can only be sustainable if their are enough shared interests able to support it through contributions of all kinds. Fortunately the code is free so that constellation of support can change over time. It's a shame this particular line of government funding is coming to an end but others can help.