Ironic daisies, data centers in space are planned as part of the nuclear Golden Dome. Google is working for the US military.

Data centers in space are a thing to help support the Golden Dome. Gotta be able to recognize a missile launch. Google is working for the US military.

Amazingly better than the one output by the LLM.

Other companies have launched data centers, and definitely are thinking of cooling. You can see the size of the solar panels and heat sink.

Hopefully not, since Starfield has already launched data centers with arguably a better design.

The reason for having data centers in space is because Golden Dome requires AI in space, presumably for target recognition. Google is working for the US military.

If there were something better than Cisco, then Cisco would buy them.

Damn the numbers in that list make me want to start a hardware company.

There's no substitute for wasted time, but posting angrily on Slashdot comes close; so I admire your effort..

lol hopefully you can spend the time you saved watching movies.

The only projects you listed were all busy work. You moved things to Docker, great. You have a librechat environment and grafana dashboards, great. But none of that is actually having built anything.

Cisco is known for having low-quality programmers in house. When they want something serious done, they often use contractors (or wait until another company does it and then buy that company). A profitable approach has been to figure out what CISCO wants, then build it and wait for them to buy you.

Apple has become average, mediocre even, but calling it slop is too harsh. They aren't that bad. I don't even think it's accurate to call them bad.

Basically I agree with you.

Calling it "slop" is too harsh. It's an era of mediocrity, or an era of "coasting on past achievements." They've been better in the past, but Apple will get the hardware fixed, and return to their expected trajectory. Apple still supports really good engineers, especially in hardware.

The company that seems to be entering the slop era is Google. They've turned directly towards the revenue as the only metric that matters which means content slop is coming. Google search is barely usable: if it weren't the default search engine in my browser toolbar, I probably wouldn't use it at all (in fact, I'm going to change my UI right now to test that hypothesis). Worse, they don't recognize and support engineering excellence inside the company: they've been taking over by the management class.

So Apple will cruise for a while but Google shows signs of rot.

It had a ton of potential, but it wasn't easily programmable. Wish they had given me more access.