Today, professional software development is best done by AI with skilled human guidance and review.

Madman!

Well, if it makes you happy, and your wife doesn't mind (I'd worry about that one), I guess... enjoy?

I'm still making a note though... "Ol Olsoc = madman!"

The use-case for Concorde on trans-Atlantic passage was cemented for me when my uncle explained that every time he flew from NYC to London to talk to investors about his company, the stock price went up far more than the cost of his trip on the Concorde, and he could be back in time to sleep in his own bed the same day.

Seems like a no-brainer to me.

I recently hooked up a battery to my fridge because I got tired of not being able to open it when the grid power went out. Now I use maybe 10% more power because even though it passes AC straight through when the grid is working, the electronics still need to suck up a few watts to keep it working.

I suspect a lot of these battery purchases were made for similar reasons: we no longer live in First World countries where you can rely on the power to stay on and now we have to adopt Third World practises like having generators and batteries for when the power is out. I now have enough batteries to run lights, the Internet, the TV, my work computers and a few other things that we don't want to be without when the power goes away again.

I save a bit of gasoline on the 15 or so days I'm without power. I already had solar, so it seemed a little silly sitting in the dark with nothing to run my water pump to flush the toilet. I was also in a situation where the inverter on my solar system had died and the original manufacturer was out of business. There was not a huge cost difference in getting an refurbished identical replacement versus something fancier that switches between house battery, EV battery, generator, solar, and grid tied. Pays for itself in 60 years, if I go by time of use billing, but I arranged to keep net metering so it's more like a 27 year break-even for me in part because my battery system is oversized and expensive.

For rural living, it's worth it, makes a huge difference for us. As an investment that saves you money, it depends, answer is often "no". But it is insured and warrantied. So not really so much of a gamble, most scenarios are covered.

Also it was loud as fuck.

I used to work under the flight path in darkest south west London. Work regularly stopped at 11 and everyone went to watch the Concorde because there was absolutely no chance of getting anything done with the kind of mind buggering noise it put out on the climb.

Hockey and offroading aren't crazy, they're perfectly normal. Especially if you live somewhere both cold and rural. What you're talking about doing on a motorcycle would give Eval Knievel pause!

How would you cool a processor without atmosphere? Would you have to create an atmosphere to absorb the dissipated heat, then somehow get rid of that heat?

So you're a top-level executive type are you? And you creep around on Slashdot too?