This is great!! Last week I took out my old Pre 2 and Pixi to show my kids. It brought up great memories. I can’t wait to spend the weekend going through this.
I just recently tried to revive my Acer Aspire with Debian, after many years of just sitting on the shelf. It installed and runs, but it's not the same. I loved having it originally. Highly portable, I could sit it on my lap on an airplane, and not worry about not having enough space!
Indeed; it will be a bit of a different design (though still in a Mini ITX form factor), especially considering the much-expanded IO capabilities from the exposed PCIe lane, but I spoke to Turing Machines and they said they're already working on a V2 for the Compute Module 4.
However, I find it difficult for Turing Pi to exploit the PCI-e connectivity.
It's very absurd to break it out for each of them modules to get an independent PCI-e slot. This could raise the layout of the board significantly.
Yet the speed they currently offer (PCI-e x1 Gen2) isn't fast enough for RDMA to effectively "chain" the compute modules.
So I would see that they would have some sacrifice (e.g. fallback to the smaller and more cliche mini-PCIe like most recent fresh IOT boards out there), or even remove PCI-e expansion but offer something else (e.g. embedded SATA host/multi-NICs where only the master node could control, then the rest of the children will have to rely on RDMA, despite it will be slow and painful).
It's not quite economical for Turing Pi to implement NUMA-like architecture so I would rule this out.
Turing Pi is mostly useful for educational purposes. For anything performance critical, a cheap 8-core x86 box will run circles around 7 Raspberry Pis in pretty much every way, no matter how they are networked.
As ARM is regressing in the Cloud market, as you can see with Graviton, we want to invest in the future. I don't think it will be particularly bad for 7 Pi 4s to match with a E5-2670 v2 in anyway. You can also listen to [this guy](https://youtu.be/HUamq0ey8_M?t=797) for a briefing.
From my perspective its 4*7 = 28 weak ARM cores vs 8 strong x86 cores. You can see that ARM actually had more cores, giving it an advantage plus to parallelized workload compared to x86.
Hell, maybe we can mix them in a bunch so that x86 runs powerful applications like GitLab, Prometheus and Postgres while ARM runs massively parallel workload that GPUs can't handle: Function as a Service (in AWS terms, Lambda; in CNCF's term, OpenFaaS), Linkerd handler (service mesh needs some kind of scheduling though), microservice replicas.
In the end CPU are all going to have a designated purposes, despite it should have had been "general purpose".
I was thinking you could use a PCIe Non-Transparent Bridge IC to connect all the PI's together. However those sort of chips aren't cheap, and it would only be a ~5x speed increase over the Gigabit ethernet.
Cooking. You can cook for yourself or others. You can make simple or complex things. You can change recipes to fit your liking and get creative and come up with new things. And at the end, you get to eat it.
Along a similar vein - baking. I consider it different than cooking because you're not getting a meal out of it, but rather a dessert or snack. Work and friends are good ways of not having to eat all of it yourself. Free cookies in the breakroom tend to vanish quickly.
Lots of options here too, even healthy ones.
If you're more of a science-y type, once you get familiar with one recipe, you can modify just that recipe. I've modified a banana bread recipe to have less butter and sugar because I make it once or twice a month and play with it every time. You get a feel for what the consistency should be like to make a good finished product, and then bake it.
I prepare most of the meals that my wife and I eat. I find that having a routine is highly beneficial and keeps me on track. Here's what works well for me:
* Each week I make one meal from each of the following three categories: soup (or chili), meat oriented (usually chicken, sometimes beef), and pasta (or risotto). I make four servings, so we'll have the same meal for two consecutive nights. Each category has four to six different dishes, so even though we eat the same dish two nights in a row we're not making it too often. The limited number of dishes means I don't have a lot of ingredients in my kitchen that I'm using infrequently. On the seventh night we'll eat out or order in.
* A significant number of recipes come from a few different(don't laugh) Real Simple books that we own. The recipes are typically, well, simple to prepare, relatively healthy, and don't require a lot of time. They call for ingredients I can find without having to go to a specialty grocery store. I also have a few recipes from blogs and NY Times Cooking, which has a back-catalog of thousands of recipes.
* Lunches are usually sandwich based, though sometimes extra leftovers. Sandwiches can get boring quickly, so I find adding a lot of ingredients helps. A typically sandwich may be two slices of low sodium turkey, bacon, cheese, broccoli sprouts, and a slice of tomato. For a side I may add in a piece of fruit or a handful of almonds (sometimes plain, sometimes chocolate covered). Usually twice a week I'll go out for lunch. Makes it a little more special when it doesn't happen every day.
* I live in a smaller apartment with limited kitchen space, so I try to use recipes that don't require specialty equipment.
* I make a list of food I'll need for the week on Sunday mornings and make one trip to the store. No going back until next Sunday.
* I try to find recipes that will last for a few days in the refrigerator. Most Sundays I'll make two recipes, providing us with food for four nights. This means I'm usually cooking only one night during the work week. Start at around 4:30pm on Sunday, done eating and cleaning up by 7pm.
Tonight we're having broccoli soup, one of the more "challenging" dishes on my list:
I have made the below recipe before and it came out very well. With a cup (uncooked) of rice it makes five servings. Two possible shortcuts: (1) use a store bought rotisserie chicken and (2) leave out the cilantro, so that instead of having to blend the sauce you can simply stir it in a bowl.
Big sports fan here. I enjoy watching the game and participating. I've been working on a side project for managing the social sport/rec league teams I play on.
The idea you raised is an interesting one. There are lots of really cool visualizations out there these days. I've always wondered how we could make them more useful during the games.
While I don't have that Chase card, I do know very well that most BofA branded cards have far less lucrative rewards than many of their competitors. FIA has a few great cards and they're owned by BofA. But even when I became a so-called "platinum privileges" bofa customer their best card was not very attractive.
Flat 2% cashback cards are great. Rotating 5% category cards a great. Big signup bonuses are great.
I have a Chase British Air card I opened with a 100,000 mile bonus, plus a companion pass once a certain spending level was reached. Long story shorter, we opened two (one for me, one for my wife). Pooled the miles together. We have 220k miles and a companion pass. We're using this for 2 first class tickets from SFO to Europe in the spring. That is, literally, $25,000 in airfare.
Oh, and it's chip + sig :)
tl;dr Often annual fees are very worth it. And also often, an issuer will waive them in all or part.
How did you find everything and put it together?