VikingCoder

I'd want an Android version...

Hi, I always loved watching Pixar movies, partly because I knew that what took them days to render (in their literal data center) would eventually be done in real-time on my desktop.

In the same way, seeing that something is possible gives hope to the people who are making those open models that you want.

Let's have a law that makes public companies that offer cloud services run benchmarks and have to publish their Power Utilization Effectiveness, annual waste, water usage, etc.

I mean, come on, let's drive some competition on something other than profit. If someone wants to buy the greenest compute they can, and they can afford a slightly higher price, let's empower them to do that!

A stable instruction set would be nice.

But hi, if I spent $10,000 on a piece of hardware, let me program the metal, thanks.

Remember when the common knowledge was that war was good for the economy?

I was very bullish on full self-driving.

Now I think "guard rails" is the thing I'm hoping for. Your car actively tries to prevent accidents.

Then, I think once that's seen as working really well, I think what's next is that it will become prohibitively expensive to insure your car without keeping the guard rails on all the time.

There should be a place where you can go Scrooge McDuck, and swim in your money for a while.

I got my catalytic converter stolen twice.

I hear Flock cameras have even more valuable materials inside them.

I wish ATMs had distress PINs, too.

The money comes out, but the cops show up.

Where can I have a discussion with other developers about storage?

Is here okay?

I want to have physical storage over here, and logical storage over there, and I want to control the mapping from one to the other. I want to talk about encryption, replication, latency. Make "time machine" available on this logical storage. And then I buy some new physical storage, and it joins the story. This physical storage is over at my friend's house for backup. This physical storage is slow and archival. This is a device for writing archival media, and there's a brand new media in it, go ahead and write to it. Show me the health report on all of the physical media, and show me what you've done to protect the logical storage. Graph my usage and make suggestions about when to add more physical storage.

Buying physical storage with power and wifi, and configuring it with a QR code that's on an e-ink display - seems like it should be the most obvious thing in the world, that we should all be really used to doing by now.

What am I missing?

My experience has always been that the more you're trying to do, the messier the codebase is.

But that to clean up a codebase requires even more people.

So, at first blush, it looks like "more people = more problems," but if you actually give yourself some breathing room, the code can get cleaner with effort.

"And we will streamline how we work across our tools, with a cleaner code base, shared services, and 50% reduced vendor spend."

How will they achieve cleaner code, with fewer workers? Seems like a well-intentioned platitude.

I don't want to use it, but I would laugh if someone made Visual Studio Code look like Winamp...