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Re:The Fallacy of Premature Optimization (2009) on Tuesday December 31, 2019 @08:40AM (#21920903)
The i.MX6 is certainly a poor choice today but do you know of any good contemporary alternatives? Honest curiosity because personally I can't think of any medium-power (or at least thermal dissipation), (Mainline-) Linux capable, well (and openly) documented processor available long-term in low/medium quantities from a proven vendor.
Re:AMD Ryzen 9 3950X Review on Thursday November 14, 2019 @06:51PM (#21540881)
I think you are confusing Meltdown with Spectre V2.
Daimler's rail division was acquired by Bombardier IIRC
>Boeing obviously screwed this up, but we gave them the incentive to screw it up, and that's on us too.

No WE didn't. THEY wanted to cut costs and it appears to me THEY cut corners to achieve it. This is like saying the professor made me cheat by making the exam artificially complicated and learning would have cost to much time.