PINE64 - A Raspberry Pi Killer?

A POWERFUL 64-BIT EXPANDABLE SINGLE BOARD COMPUTER – STARTING AT JUST $15. OVER 36,000 BACKERS AND $1.7M+ RAISED ON KICKSTARTER!

Just received my Pine64+ 2GB a few days after confirmation. Unlike some of the redditors on www.reddit.com/r/pine64/ I am happy with it and no problems so far...

This is how I got started:

You have not concluded your merge (MERGE_HEAD exists) - ARRRGH! FFS Git! (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻)

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You have not concluded your merge (MERGE_HEAD exists)

TL;DR Git - Basic Merge Conflicts

Rant:

FFS Linus! Why did you have to make Git so complicated? 

As others have pointed out. You need a bunch of arcane, inconsistent, constantly changing commands to do the most routine of tasks and the behaviour is counter-intuitive - why make vim the default editor?! Why make me learn all this stuff just to get things done?! *sigh* 

No fucks given Linus:

The readme file of the source code elaborates further:

4 Interesting Comments

Getting my daily dose of tech-trash-talk from the Vulture came across this interesting article:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/06/07/from_iwarp_to_knights_landing_james_reinders_leaves_intel/

About Intel's guru of parallelism taking early retirement, but it was the 4 comments that I liked as short insightful thoughts on the current state of concurrency despite long term work over decades:

http://forums.theregister.co.uk/forum/1/2016/06/07/from_iwarp_to_knights_landing_james_reinders_leaves_intel/

As someone who dabbles in the field and with an MSc based on CSP by Sir Tony it is a shame that we are not much further on.

R-Fiddle is jolly good!

R Fiddle is a web site where you try commands in R online

Similar to jsfiddle in that you can try things without hassle.

Spotlight Schmotlight - Stopping runaway CPU usage by mds & mdworker nonesense!

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Have you tried switching it off and on again?

Disable Spotlight

The primary method is using launchctl, this will require the administrative password:

Qt Creator Android Kit Setup Made Easy With Homebrew Formulas

Getting toolchain components to hold hands.

Under OS X getting Qt Creator to cross compile  to Android requires a number of steps to install the necessary tools.

Using Homebrew Formulas with Homebrew makes the process easier under OS X:

The Most Intelligent Robot in the World: A Theory of Robotic Motivation.

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It was my first time at the Grimsby TechSpace Meetup tonight and what a lovely warm welcome from a very eclectic mix of folk. In amongst the hybrid vigour of ideas that ensued consequently I was witness to a small epiphany on the subject of artificial intelligence...