Ask HN: What do you use excess computer and storage for?
I am always on the look out for new hobbyist or power usages of computers. I know some people are interested in financial models and run their own smart trading algorithms.
I am interested in database design and internals so I write reference implementations of data structures and I have a toy SQL and Cypher database which I plan to change to be multi model.
I find the idea of processing trillions of records efficiently interesting.
I want to see how fast multiplying a trillion numbers by another trillion numbers is and maybe use the GPU to do so.
At one point I used OpenGrok to store sourcecode of large projects to try understand how they worked but I didn't do enough studying.
Storing sourcecode is one use of storage capacity for building in parallel with distcc.
I don't store music I use Spotify and I don't store video since I use Amazon Video.
The question becomes, what's a power usage of computers when you have all the processing power and storage space you need but nothing to process or store.
I tried to understand Gentoo but I didn't enjoy any of the instructions.
I can only read so much code a day.
I've looked at Kaggle and I didn't find any interesting data sets.
I am designing a Postgres synchronization solution for sharded postgres which I find interesting.
The truly interesting data is kept secret. This means I cannot store it or process it for insights. So what do I do instead?