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If I ever become filthy rich, I would like to start companies around nonsensical products. Just to see how long you can make it last until potential customers a
by jtwaleson 2y ago
If I ever become filthy rich, I would like to start companies around nonsensical products. Just to see how long you can make it last until potential customers and applicants are like "but this doesn't make any sense". This project is a perfect fit! Other ideas I had were things like wifi for servers.
- emchammer 2y agoSkiFree as a Service
- xattt 2y agoMonetization opportunities include: pay-per-jump and Abominable Snow Monster rescue fee.
- navbaker 2y agoEnterprise tier adds the ability to disable users being devoured by the yeti?
- doubled112 2y agoBeing devoured could be considered not safe for work.
- rzzzt 2y agoJust the SSO login, sorry.
- passivegains 2y ago> wifi for servers I urge you to reconsider. Potential customers and applicants will immediately go all in and the "but this doesn't make any sense" step will never happen. We'll be reading blog posts like "I'm hooked on PCP (the Post-Cabling Paradigm)" from Google SRE's with comments praising the downfall of "Big Ethernet" while the emissions from datacenters vaporize flocks of migrating birds.
- jtwaleson 2y agoYes! The servers will look lit without those ugly cables. Zero-downtime cross-rack migrations will become possible.
- spydum 2y agoWireless fiber is the way of the future
- LeifCarrotson 2y agoIt would take some downtime (or at least a really long extension cord and redundant power supplies for swapping one-by-one) because you'd still need to connect it to power. The solution is obvious: Qi inductive wireless charge coils on the outside of the server cases.
- jtwaleson 2y agoOr integrated miniature diesel generators.
- Aeolun 2y agoThe idea of having a miniscule diesel generator in the server chassis is almost worth doing it right now. Still have fond memories of our miniature steam engine, but I figure that would be a bit impractical.
- j16sdiz 2y agoOr nuclear reactor
- passivegains 2y agowhat I wouldn't give for a 1U RTG...
- all2 2y agoVW makes an excellent 2.0L TDI that would be a good fit. It would take up about half a rack. You could integrate a fuel cell (say 5 gallons) so that it can function when it is detached from the fuel delivery fans. If you don't want to worry about piping diesel around your server farm, we could go with compressed air and use air turbines with generators on them. Clean and efficient energy transmission without wires!
- buryat 2y agomschf is pretty close to what you're describing
- jayd16 2y agoI'm down but I'm going to need Power Over Wifi for all my security cameras too.
- throwway120385 2y agoI've been prototyping this but my neighbors are starting to complain about their canned foods coming out warm from the cupboard.
- freedomben 2y agoOne man's bug is another man's feature
- FuriouslyAdrift 2y agopower over fiber is also a thing (it has very narrow use cases) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power-over-fiber https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power-over-fiber
- ashoeafoot 2y agoIt has a point though. Anything using clichees to communicate ,using something everyone knows, can spread like wildfire. This is why some of user facing programable stuff pre node gives the users a interface like excel.
- eddythompson80 2y agoYou can apply to Urbit.
- stonogo 2y ago"Wifi for servers" has been a big part of the 5G pitch deck from the beginning.
- ironmanszombie 2y agoThat was very funny. You should start a blog. If you already do, give out the link.
- duckilicious 2y agoIf you could make it as fast and reliable as ethernet you will be even richer. Cabling and getting those right at the scale of big cloud providers is a costly matter. Not to talk about technician errors losing these providers a lot of money which you will be able to solve.