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"Most home users" are never going to install OpenWRT on anything, RPi, or otherwise. Of those that do, it seems likely that they will max out the throughput of a RPi, especially no…

The RPi is tied to the 12-24 month product cycles of consumer electronics devices. That's great in that it means relatively frequent upgrades. Though at this point, the RPi3 is a v…

Your point about the diversity of the router hardware ecosystem is an important one, and from what I can tell, makes up a significant portion of the OpenWRT project. I think though…

Loading even more functionality into the kernel is at odds with security, stability and maintainability. Its also not going to save much/any in the way of resources.

A big part of the OpenWRT project is hardware support for wireless chipsets and SoCs. Sure, they could move all that to BSD, but then if they wanted to do that, why didn't they do …

Your analysis seems predicated on your own ignorance of the OpenWRT project, and human nature. How many system-level developers do you know who'd throw themselves into creating a n…

As others have said, it sounds like you are burned out and depressed. There are various ways to recover, but there is a good chance it will happen again unless you make some change…

For a given generation of lithium battery cell and management technology, there is the option of trading off between capacity and durability. Field-replaceable laptop batteries are…

The idea that some people fetishize disruption and heads-you-loose, tails-I-win situations baffles me. The utility has expenses beyond the cost of power generation. They don't exis…

Dismal. Btw, is there a way o view this that doesn't require a google login? I'd like to share it more widely.

Do you actually know what you pretend to know, or are you holding a grudge against Apple for an old transgression with KHTML that they've since done did a great deal of work to put…

Sometimes I have the feeling that most of the namespace is already clogged with spammy parking pages, and even spammier sites. I think I'd rather stumble into monuments.

And I would expect thee preparedness of the average concealed carry permit holder to decline if we do more to reshape the US around the notion that an armed society is a polite soc…

You are relying on anecdotes. However, given that shooters of this sort are quite rare, is there even enough data to reach statistically significant conclusions about the risks fro…

I'm much more concerned about the impact higher carry rates would have in relatively more common situations, like disagreements between motorists, etc. Many people with guns feel e…

Yeah, but Guru VPs can help attract and retain those other people.

Well then, you really aren't getting the best of both worlds, are you. Might as well by an iPad.

Hmmm. This seems to leave out part of the picture. Apple is also using its substantial cash pile to lock up supplies of key components. Some supplies get paid well past delivery, o…

Par for the course for the opinion/editorial pages of the WSJ. If they are this sloppy and dishonest on subjects one knows about, how can they be trusted on any subject.

Please provide citations for your assertion that solar panels require vast amounts of energy to produce. When I looked into the question a few years ago, the best sourced estimates…

Yeah, I expect so, but I think the real payoff for Valve will be facilitating monetization of the finished films.

You are wrong about Apple, they have one huge datacenter in the US where people suspect the Siri backend runs. They also have a smaller data center in California. We don't actually…

My friend Beth is starting a US company that focuses on thes e kinds of low-cost solutions for the developing world with an eye to doing a disruption from the base of the pyramid. …

I increacingly question the notion that there are any just wars, but I don't really see how such a clause is practical or enforceable. Even if it were practical and enforceable at …