Perhaps this is a cultural difference, but the entire thing just seems strange from my own (European) perspective. Only in the US do people seem to take pride in their measurement system as some sort of patriotic symbol, which is why I originally thought it was a parody shrug
I'm not even going to get started with all the problems I see with "God bless America", which would be long, tedious, probably inflammatory, and fairly off-topic.
I can't tell if this is intended to be serious or a parody? "All units set in inches" makes it sound like a parody, but the "God bless America" footer makes it sound serious? Hmmm
Yeah, maybe. I don't really know much of the Windows internals, so I try not to assume too much (hence my question in the top comment[1], which was very much a "curiosity"-question, and not a "omg, wtf"-question).
The device was released in Oct 2018 though, so at the time it was the newest Android version (9 was just released, probably too late in the Palm dev cycle).
The $280 price tag is a biggest show-stopper IMO (and according to the Palm website that's a "sale" from the $400 price tag, although I never quite trust that). I paid $70 for my basic Android device (Samsung Core A2) and that works just fine as well (with some minor caveats/limitations of Android Go, such as the screen not lighting up when there's a notification).
I don't think there's anything wrong with that, but if you're going to do forced updates then you might as well spend some time making the entire user experience nicer. I don't know what the technical challenges are exactly, but not forcing a reboot unless there's really a critical patch might be a good start.
So what is the latency on seL4 then for a similar program? And how well is the performance under real-world desktop conditions compared to Linux, macOS, Windows, etc? I read through that PDF and it doesn't really contain concrete answers to that.
But there are also a lot of drawbacks of RTOS systems, no? Just searching "Real-time operating system downsides" shows a lot of drawbacks that makes it seem like a poor fit for a general-purpose OS: multi-tasking is limited, it's less efficient, and much more complex. There are certain use-cases where this is a good trade-off, but for my desktop OS? Probably not.
I'm sorry, but this is such a non-answer. What am I supposed to do with this? Clearly things aren't that simple to achieve negligible latency, otherwise we would have it. I bet there are a lot of trade-offs involved here (there usually are), and simply stating "take latency serious" isn't helpful in having any meaningful conversation about this.
What would a "non-pathetic" latency look like? What improvements in "the stack" would be needed?
The 130ms is "the time from light hitting the camera to when it appears on-screen on the other side". The article doesn't really specify where the latency happens, but with just the encoding/decoding of video alone I think you'll very quickly get latencies in roughly the ~100ms ballpark no matter what.
Discounting an entire tool just because you don't like their recommended installation method (which you're hardly forced to use) sounds rather strange to me.
IMO it's pretty much useless (and possibly even harmful) and a failed experiment. GoatCounter intentionally ignores it. Context: https://www.arp242.net/dnt.html
> I was surprised matomo wasn't listed here. Does anyone know if that was intentional? Seems like it fits the criteria of the post and the goals of open source.
Yes, this was intentional as this article was focused on "light-weight" analytics. I think they'll do an article about Matomo at some point in the future as well.
GA alternatives are a fairly new thing. When I looked at this in May last year there was essentially only one alternative: Matomo. It seems some sort of "critical mass" has been reached, and in the last year quite a few people have independently started working on alternatives.
I agree for many features are still lacking, but as a counter-argument 1) not everyone needs those features (not every product needs to solve 100% of the use cases), and 2) a lot of these products are still quite new, and are actively working on adding a number of those features.
I'm not even going to get started with all the problems I see with "God bless America", which would be long, tedious, probably inflammatory, and fairly off-topic.