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I lived an hour away (as a foreigner). Absolutely loved it, and would still be there if I didn't have to return home for sick family.

I'm from New Zealand and lived there for 4 years. Same experience. Never saw anything crazy, didn't even know anyone who had. I used to fly up to LA and SF often, and saw crazy shit up there often.

Mexico is safer than the US - some will find that unpaletable. Get over it.

Sorry replying to my own comment here, but this needs to be said. THANK YOU KiCAD developers. Yes it has issues but I am very grateful, comments above aside.

As much as I do like KiCAD, and use it professionally, the UX at times is literally a comical design-by-committee dumpster fire.

I gave this a spin, and it's so refreshingly the opposite of that.

My main barrier to using it for my next project is this - am I going to get 100 hours into a project then hit a brick wall and have to port back over to KiCAD. If I had some confidence around this I think it'd give it a shot.

A gallery on the website of projects completed with it would probably do the trick.

Seriously pleased this project is a thing. In 2020 there isn't really an excuse to be using software with such a poor UI/UX as KiCAD

This is so frustrating to hear.

I have a bin full of ARM single board computers, and while the hardware on all of them is pretty much up to the task, the software support from all the vendors has been terrible. I'm in the process of switching to Nvidia hoping it would be the exception.

If anyone from Nvidia is reading this, please do everything you can to convince the bosses to allocate the resources required to support a linux machine properly. It takes much more than it seems.

These devices are designed to be in production for a long time, so heavy investments now on the software support are going to give value for a long time. Rather than dragging the feet and slowly getting it right over time and devaluing the product in the process.

Fingers crossed!!

The supply chain goes like this... plants -> animal -> human consumption. Yes you can rewrite overnight to plants -> humans.

But on this topic I'm better off talking to the wall of bricks next to me than the HN audience

It's basically impossible to post anything of this sort on HN without being downvoted to oblivion.

The skeptical, critical thinking skills of the audience here don't come close to matching the general technical ability.

Brilliant, love it. If only there were more vegan recipes

I'ts going that way though. ARM NAS server board with ECC RAM: https://shop.kobol.io/products/helios4-full-kit-2gb-ecc-3rd-...

Not terribly positive comments here, but I think people are missing the point. This is an unsolved problem, or at least a problem not solved well. Any efforts in this space should be encouraged. I'm not sure we can trust the main vendors to innovate, and starting off with Kicad makes 100% sense to me at this stage.

If this is the first rung of the ladder and it's all up from here, good luck - I'm sure we all hope you nail it.

A good comment here about placement - I hope that this approach can grow to adjust placement to some degree, even if not complete placement control.

Does the quantum tunneling have a lower limit on node size?

This is being developed it seems to keep a 1um fab competitive, but does it also apply to smaller nodes?

Shackletons boat jouney by Frank A Worsley [1] is the single best book I've ever read. If you like reading about Antarctica, adventure, survival etc, I believe it's as good as it gets.

Edit - the author was on the trip next to Shackleton the whole time.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Shackletons-Journey-Frank-Arthur-Wors...

Good on him. It's worth promoting. And going to extremes is almost never the right answer, so enjoying meat on a special occasion with friends seems sensible.

My children and 5 and 3 and have (almost) never eaten meat, eggs or dairy. Tested regularily in a world class health system and they are stellar in every way.

B12 supplimentation is pretty trivial.

I've spent a bunch of time travelling through these places for work. I'm vegan and surprise surprise there is almost nothing I can eat. All the veges have either meat or dairy or both.

Good thing is often they will have a tin of beans on the shelf for sale and some hot sauce, so I never went hungry.

Also really nice folk literally 100% of the time. You won't find that in the cities.

Bonus note - i'm a foreigner and it never made any difference, I was always treated the same as everyone else.

It wasn't lost on me when I was working on a contract for a very large secretive tech company that if I leaked info that I had it would affect the share price.

I didn't, but it made me realise how improbable it is that these companies actually manage to keep stuff so secret.

I bet there are hundreds of people reading HN right now who are keeping quiet about stuff that would be explosive if made public. Quite impressive really.

Throwaway account. Proceed with caution. This board was the only one which fitted our requirements for a commercial product. We actually found it more stable than for instance the people on the Armbian forums. But in the end we've moved on.

Lesson learned (probably sounds obvious, but hey): SBCs are nothing without software. The quality and commitment of the developer to kernel support is everything. All boards have issues, and they can be worked around in software.

The espressobin got a lot of community support, but even with that it still isn't quite enough.

We need more boards like this that aren't just a copy of the raspberry pi. For personal use I would buy one of these tomorrow.

With hard core documentation and support this thing could have been the start of something great. Lets hope that can still happen.

Not to take anything away from the hard working folk who are currently supporting this. And from Marvell. Your efforts are greatly appreciated. I just hope there is a way to get you more resources