Its a do-everything solution with a do-not-break-compatibility history to its design and a lot of attention driving its price upwards. These are good things as well, so...
Examples:
- SD cards are very convenient for hobbyists "experimenting" with OS variants. They are not great for performance or reliability; a soldered on storage device is common in many other products.
- The price is more than it seems - you need a case and a power supply and an SD card.
- The case situation is bad. If you want to 'set and forget' you really want a robust case, potted. Many N100's are designed for more abusive environments.
- Most use cases don't need the HDMI, Camera, Audio, Ethernet, or all the USB ports. That is board space, purchase cost, and idle power draw that can be reduced or dropped.
- It doesn't have some modern connectors, e.g. M2, because there is no space on the board, and the PCIe lanes have gone to the connectors you probably don't use.
Many stick based computers, particularly second hand and older generations, are better for most use cases. These are typically Intel N series; but are increasingly ARM, particularly at the lowest prices.
Absolutely this. For pretty much all use cases I have, for performance, power consumption, robustness, etc. is much better the ESP option or the “big” N100. Rpi is there in the middle. For some playing or prototyping I have some from the ol good times…
> UK websites are collected and preserved under legal deposit legislation, which does not allow the Legal Deposit Libraries to make most archived websites freely available online.
Having the thing at all is valuable. The legislation provides a very limited exemption to IP law to allow archiving. Future legislators can work out how to loosen restrictions if its valuable to do so.
This is presuming that the type system is nomitive rather than structural and there is not serialisation/deserialisation or type refinement occurring. A structural difference is much more preferable.
They did get away with it in London. They broke laws, argued unfaithfully in court, got denied a license, got an extended probationary period from a magistrate, and finally are operating in the clear.
Very very few other businesses get to act so brazenly and dangerously, then get an extended period of time and support to do the bare minimum to qualify as compliant.
Its probably better to embed clearer strings in the binary that conform to some spec. Then searching over binaries would find them.
Trying to respond to a signal is a nightmare of routing and lifecycle bugs. Never mind the fact that most dependencies won't be registered. Currently file/process signature matching is ok for major runtimes, and tends to fail on specific version detection. This would effectively formalise that.
I could see it being a successful standardisation for major runtimes and many libraries that wouldn't currently be detected - but take up would never be universal. A kind of CVE search stamp.
if it's in the elf then the kernel could handle the interrupting. that way every app wouldn't need to implement the handler. just a named BOM symbol and when the kernel sees the `kill -s BOM ` it reads that BOM symbol without calling any app code.
You can free tier but still sensible rate limits and QoS policy. You can have separate region or cluster for your paying customers. Finally you can spend time re-architecting GitHub Actions or just aquehire one of many competitors that do better co/cd.
Examples:
- SD cards are very convenient for hobbyists "experimenting" with OS variants. They are not great for performance or reliability; a soldered on storage device is common in many other products. - The price is more than it seems - you need a case and a power supply and an SD card. - The case situation is bad. If you want to 'set and forget' you really want a robust case, potted. Many N100's are designed for more abusive environments. - Most use cases don't need the HDMI, Camera, Audio, Ethernet, or all the USB ports. That is board space, purchase cost, and idle power draw that can be reduced or dropped. - It doesn't have some modern connectors, e.g. M2, because there is no space on the board, and the PCIe lanes have gone to the connectors you probably don't use.
Many stick based computers, particularly second hand and older generations, are better for most use cases. These are typically Intel N series; but are increasingly ARM, particularly at the lowest prices.
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