Is it DNS? Is DNS again, isn’t it?

The point of placing a container data center cooled with sea water at the shore is that, they are still readily available for maintenance. In the deep ocean, maintenance becomes a headache. Either someone lives there and does the maintenance. Or you fly people there regularly to do the maintenance. Like how they do it with ocean platform oil rigs. Cooling with seawater requires more maintenance, descaling, valve replacements, animal growth removal, divers, helicopters, camera drones, etc. Oil rigs can justify the cost with the extremely high profit margins that oil generates. I don’t think data centers can justify such a expense. Specially now the bubble is starting to deflate and trillions of dollars have already been drained.

Failing upwards. Everyone rises to their optimal point of incompetence.

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.

Just use your brain. Nintendo has roughly 8600 employees, 3000 in Japan alone. Salaries are the vast majority of indirect operating costs in any company. If Iwata halving his salary pays to avoid layoffs, then his salary had to be a huge percentage of Nintendo’s operating costs and the WiiU failure would’ve been the least of their problems.

Nintendo regularly reports operating costs in the order of several billions of dollars quarter over quarter, a majority of them would be salaries or manufacturing. Even if Iwata was paid a single billion dollars a year, and halved that, it would barely amount to a rounding error on the accounting. It was just a PR movement, and most Japanese salary men recognize it as such. It is something done for media clout because “we will just pay you with the piggy bank money” doesn’t add any drama worth a headline.

And Nintendo working conditions have always been controversial. While they are by far not the worst of Japanese corporate employers. They are not exactly saints either, falling into the same patterns that plague the Japanese office culture. Specially the abuse of employees qualified as independent contractors and unpaid overwork. It triggered a labor complaint in the US in 2022. They have become a bit better very recently, apparently. But it is still one of the oldest and most traditional fucking companies in the planet, they carry some troubling organizational culture sometimes.

That one is always misleading. It’s a known Japanese corporate move. As the article says, called “hansei”. Culturally regarded as an empty public gesture done exclusively to save the company’s public image. It works as a PR move, and it obviously did here, since it happened in 2013 and people still talk about it.

But, it actually does nothing financially, and usually none of the money saved goes anywhere. Nintendo avoided layoffs because they hoard liquidity. Have done so since the 80’s. Their revenue could collapse and they could lose money for a decade and still not reach bankruptcy. That is far more unique to tech corporations than halving executive’s pay. It is what actually has been protecting Nintendo from their failures. They still exploit and abuse employees just like every other Japanese corporation.

The only thing stopping bad people with AI is good people with AI.

Am I doing apologia correctly?

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