Bee-link and GMKtec make some tiny computers purposely designed to be home servers. I thankfully got a ME mini NAS before the LLM apocalypse and it is a beast that can expand up to 24TB. It comes with an Intel N150 that runs all my personal services and consumes almost no power at all. But they also make other smaller models (the ME mini is already minuscule for what it does) that can fit 2 M.2 disks and they all have their own power supply and ethernet connection. The only problem is that the prices have skyrocketed because RAM and solid state storage starvation.

They are still, somehow, cheaper than Raspberry’s post-price hikes while being more powerful.

If you want the cooling system to survive, yes.

Ocean water is atrociously corrosive, prone to clogging tubes and short circuits much more easily than distilled water.

Nah, it’s a grift. The Melon’s pitch straight up includes factually wrong physics claims. It is not easier, nor cheaper, to have data centers in space.

Actual scientists have done the math. Even disregarding maintenance for data corruption from radiation, and assuming the best near future tech. It would take 10 times an ISS equivalent structure to power and cool down a single server rack.

Musk promised he wants to get 1 Tera Watt of LLM processing power in orbit. That’s 10,000 times an ISS of solar panels and IR radiators for cooling. The enterprise is completely unrealistic.

The whole thing is just a con to get governments to funnel more money into his companies without having to deliver any actual results.

And ethically trained. People should be financially compensated if their data was used to train AI without their consent.

Good to know. Had no idea.

Private internet access.

Their image is weird because they have the less SEO friendly name ever and all their promotion is made with AI nowadays. It wasn’t a few years back and they’ve been around for a while. But they do both per app routing and port forwarding.

Also, encryption, volatile storage, privacy conscious, a good server spread, etc.

"What we’ll do is this, it’s like an iPad, but it folds. Just be careful folding it, or else the screen will break. Don’t worry, it is not an error it’s a feature. It’s there to warn the user they’re opening it wrong.

We also welded a speaker to an iPad. You know, the thing famous for being mobile. We don’t think it should be mobile anymore. You’ll like it…or else…"

I never said that.

Reading comprehension left the chat, so I’m out too. I’m talking to a brick wall.

Good, so next time when your manager tells you that they will halve your pay; Rescind healthcare and force you to use your personal equipment for work. Then you can tell them “alright boss”. Because you can do without all those stuff you don’t need.

Also, a briefing is just a summary. I know because I do them all the time. Guess what is it a summary of? A summary of goals to achieve, for a mission, a project or a task someone else or myself have to achieve. God protects whoever you end up managing. You’re the definition of the clueless manager who doesn’t even have any idea of what basic words mean.

People need a metric shitton of things to do their job well. When you’re told what to do, that’s a goal. If you’re told a deadline to fulfill, that’s a metric.

I understand that people have taken the words in an exclusively derogatory mode. But you need minimum those two things to do any job. Else you’re just a nepo dickhead who gets paid for parading around an office and you’re the piece of shit interfering with the people who actually do have jobs to do.

Everyone needs metrics and targets, otherwise it is just dicking around and nothing useful gets done.

The problem it that tech bros only half listened in social sciences class and choose the dumbest metrics and targets. Agile completely killed waterfall and specification development. In turn, using the equivalent of ignorance of the masses ticket systems on Jira. The worst of all worlds with commits, PRs and lines of code as metrics and a vacuous tick mark on user stories as goals. No wonder software development has been hell for decades.

Software developers need to stop designing in the code and go back to designing on paper against specifications and unit tests. Thinking has always been the main work of a software developer, not just writing code. As for the AI side of the problem, the purpose of code is not just to be written, but to be read and understood by humans. AI coding trashes the ontological purpose for the existence of code.

I use tuta for mail and private internet access for VPN. Since it is well priced with port forwarding included.

Anyone trying to ditch Google for principled reasons, not just annoyance or fashion, skipped proton. Since their inception they stink of corporate BS. It was apparent from the beginning that the privacy push was just a coat of paint. They still belong to the oppressor class and will defend their own, despite of what the marketing says. Always look at actions, not pretty marketing and fancy manifestos.

I’ve always thought that reverse engineering should have a counterpart. Reverse specification.

Or taking a working system and figuring out what it was designed to do and how. Then writing tests to that so that real world testing is not mandatory.

This is horrendously difficult, since I’ve never knew anyone achieving a successful codebase rewrite.

I don’t know if this is regional, since I grew up in a semi turisty country. But here hotels with complete suites have always been a thing. Family suites have full or partial kitchens and multiple rooms, a main room with a queen bed and one or several extra rooms with singles or bunkbeds, but it is still just a hotel or inn. And it is not a luxury option, it is just a possible option. Some vacation spots offer suites that can accommodate anything up to dozens of people in a single party.

Maybe it’s because families used to be larger here or something. But it strikes me as weird this is not an option anywhere else that airbnb was viable.

Yeah, you just said the same the same thing I said with different words.

Java was also based heavily on Pascal at first.

A Java Application Servers Report (2010) opens with a brief history of Java that says:

It all started back in 1991 at Sun Microsystems Corporation, […] Patrick Naugthon, […] proposed a project to his friend and CEO Scott McNealy for the development of a small, simple, portable computer environment that could control all types of electronic components.

The language must use the principle of a virtual machine […] It must also be based on the current object-oriented language, C++, […] The project went ahead under the name “green” and the language was based on an old model of USCD Pascal, which makes it possible to generate interpretive code.

The Java development team has white papers dissecting Delphi Object Pascal for the discussion and development of Java features. This one is funny in that it discusses and discards a feature of Microsoft’s J++, on which Hejlsberg worked too.

C# is a bad example. I’m happy it became its own thing over time and has since evolved in a different direction. But it was most definitely and unabashedly Microsoft’s Java clone at the start.

He’s gone on record himself to say that he walked away from coding over a decade ago. He only returned to coding when AI models surged, but he doesn’t touch the company major projects. There’s probably nothing left on the unreal engine of his authorship.

Who cares anyway. They will eat all of their fortnite money on tokens before next year is over.

It is a fallacious argument. Both 2D games and C are still used and have actually continued to evolve and progress in new creative directions. As for the third argument, it is pure hypocrisy. Tim doesnt contribute shit to the FOSS movement and actually has spoken against its core values from time to time.

And C is also still used because a lot of low level infra still only supports that. Like, the drivers for his precious GPUs that run coding LLM still use some level of C code. So does some compilers. Those use cases are not replaced by C++. Because C++ is not a C replacement. Dumb ass argument.